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SUMMARY:Kathleen Hill reads from her latest novel She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Into the life of the author\, a novel appears\, as if by chance\, and changes everything. As a child in a music class where a remarkable teacher watches over a classmate marked for tragedy\, the author comes across Willa Cather’s novel\, Lucy Gayheart\, and is prepared by fiction for an actual death by drowning of someone near her. Later\, recently married and living in a newly independent Nigeria\, a teacher now herself\, she assigns Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to her students and is instructed by them in the violent legacy of colonialism\, and visits an old slave port where she is made aware of her own benighted American innocence. In Nigeria\, too\, she is given A Portrait of a Lady and deeply ponders her own new marriage through the lens of Isabel Archer’s cautionary fate\, remembers her adolescent fear that reading might be a way of avoiding experience. Afterward\, spending a year in northern France\, she puts Madame Bovary resolutely aside to discover in Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest a detailed guide to the town where she is living\, the poverty and suffering hidden within its walls. The memoir closes with a tender account of the author’s friendship with the writer Diana Trilling\, whose failing sight inspires a plan to read aloud Proust’s masterwork\, an undertaking that requires six years to complete. Faced with Diana’s approaching death and the mysteries of her own life\, the author wonders whether reading\, after all\, may not be experience at its most ardent\, its most transforming.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kathleen-hill-reads-from-her-latest-novel-she-read-to-us-in-the-late-afternoons/
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of The Shattered Lens with author Jonathan Alpeyrie
DESCRIPTION:Discover a gripping and harrowing tale of war and torture from the man who lived it in this powerful memoir by the celebrated war journalist who not only documented over a dozen conflict zones worldwide but was also captured and held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013.\nCapturing history was Jonathan Alpeyrie’s job but he never expected to become a news story himself. For a decade\, the French‑American photojournalist had weaved in and out of over a dozen conflict zones. He photographed civilians being chased out of their homes\, military trucks roving over bullet‑torn battlefields\, and too many bodies to count. But on April 29\, 2013\, during his third assignment to Syria\, Alpeyrie was betrayed by his fixer and handed over to a band of Syrian rebels.\nFor eighty‑one days he was bound\, blindfolded\, and beaten. Not too far away\, President Bashar al‑Assad’s forces and those in opposition continued their bitter and bloody civil war. Over the course of his captivity\, Alpeyrie kept his spirits up and strived to see\, without his camera lenses\, the humanity in his captors. He took part in their activities\, taught them how to swim\, prayed with them\, and tried learning their language and culture. He also discovered a dormant faith within himself\, one that strengthened him throughout the ordeal. \nJonathan Alpeyrie will be in conversation with co-author Stash Luczkiw
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-shattered-lens-with-author-jonathan-alpeyrie/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Jenny Fran Davis' debut Everything Must Go
DESCRIPTION:Flora Goldwasser has fallen in love. She won’t admit it to anyone\, but something about Elijah Huck has pulled her under. When he tells her about the hippie Quaker school he attended in the Hudson Valley called Quare Academy\, where he’ll be teaching next year\, Flora gives up her tony upper east side prep school for a life on a farm\, hoping to woo him. A fish out of water\, Flora stands out like a sore thumb in her vintage suits among the tattered tunics and ripped jeans of the rest of the student body. When Elijah doesn’t show up\, Flora must make the most of the situation and will ultimately learn more about herself than she ever thought possible. \nTold in a series of letters\, emails\, journal entries and various ephemera\, Jenny Fran Davis’ Everything Must Go lays out Flora’s dramatic first year for all to see\, embarrassing moments and all.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-jenny-fran-davis-debut-everything-must-go/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T193000
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SUMMARY:Annalena McAfee in conversation with Christopher Buckley about her new novel Hame
DESCRIPTION:Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island’s celebrated poet and chronicler\, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by the complicated life she is uncovering and writing about–the Bard of Fascaray–as she finds herself being transformed\, awakened by the ferocity and power of the island.Who was the celebrated poet\, Grigor McWatt\, The Bard of Fascaray? What was his past? Details of his life are elusive. As Mhairi struggles to adapt to her island life and put her disappointment and troubles behind her\, she begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet\, regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray’s–and Scotland’s–soul.In McAfee’s rich novel of invented island life\, she interweaves extracts from Mhairi’s journal entries\, her discoveries and writings of McWatt\, and tales of Fascaray itself into a resonant\, compelling\, dimensional narrative that at its heart explores identity\, love\, belonging and the universal quest for home.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/annalena-mcafee-in-conversation-with-christopher-buckley-about-her-new-novel-hame/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T193000
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SUMMARY:A.F. Brady launches her debut novel The Blind
DESCRIPTION:Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos\, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can’t save herself\, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons\, though it leads Sam down some dark paths and opens her eyes to her own mental turmoil. \nWhen Richard\, a mysterious patient no other therapist wants to treat\, is admitted to Typhlos\, Sam is determined to unlock his secrets and his psyche. But she can’t figure out why Richard appears to be so normal in a hospital filled with madness. As Sam gets pulled into Richard’s twisted past\, she can’t help but analyze her own life\, and what she discovers terrifies her. And so the mind games begin. But who is the savior and who is the saved? \nIn this unexpected and addictive psychological debut\, A.F. Brady takes readers into the psyche of a deeply disturbed woman desperately trying to keep her head above water\, showing that sometimes what’s most terrifying is what exists in your mind.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-f-brady-launches-her-debut-novel-the-blind/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T193000
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SUMMARY:Lily Tuck in conversation with the editor of her new novel Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Lily Tuck’s critically lauded\, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one couple’s marriage.” In her singular new novel Sisters\, Tuck gives a very different portrait of marital life\, exposing the intricacies and scandals of a new marriage sprung from betrayal. Tuck’s unnamed narrator lives with her new husband\, his two teenagers\, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife—known only as she. Obsessed with her\, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage\, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal she intellectually\, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and she\, from which the narrator is excluded? The daring and precise buildup to an eerily wonderful conclusion is a triumph of subtlety and surprise. \n  \nLily Tuck will be in conversation with her editor\, Elisabeth Schmitz
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lily-tuck-in-conversation-with-the-editor-of-her-new-novel-sisters/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T193000
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SUMMARY:Cherise Wolas reads from her debut The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
DESCRIPTION:I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount\, absolutely no children—and now love seems to me quite marvelous. \nThese words are spoken to a rapturous audience by Joan Ashby\, a brilliant and intense literary sensation acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. \nWhen Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant\, she is stunned by Martin’s delight\, his instant betrayal of their pact. She makes a fateful\, selfless decision then\, to embrace her unintentional family. Challenged by raising two precocious sons\, it is decades before she finally completes her masterpiece novel. Poised to reclaim the spotlight\, to resume the intended life she gave up for love\, a betrayal of Shakespearean proportion forces her to question every choice she has made. \nEpic\, propulsive\, incredibly ambitious\, and dazzlingly written\, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is a story about sacrifice and motherhood\, the burdens of expectation and genius. Cherise Wolas’s gorgeous debut introduces an indelible heroine candid about her struggles and unapologetic in her ambition.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cherise-wolas-reads-from-her-debut-the-resurrection-of-joan-ashby/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170911T190000
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SUMMARY:Brooke Kroeger reads from her new book The Suffragents
DESCRIPTION:The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York’s most powerful men formed the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage\, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign\, what they did at the behest of the movement’s female leadership\, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers\, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard\, John Dewey\, Max Eastman\, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise\, and George Foster Peabody\, members of the League worked the streets\, the stage\, the press\, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process\, they helped convince waffling politicians\, a dismissive public\, and a largely hostile press to support the women’s demand. Together\, they swayed the course of history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brooke-kroeger-reads-from-her-new-book-suffragents/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170830T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170830T193000
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SUMMARY:Govind Ramakrishnan launches his debut collection of poetry My World in Fifty Words
DESCRIPTION:My World In Fifty Words is written with the hope that it takes you for a ride around the world as seen through my eyes\, where you get to enjoy the multicultural immersions that come with it. It chronicles a personal journey from childhood to today\, and serves as a canvas to express my thoughts\, emotions and observations. \nGovind is a sophomore at Trinity School in New York. He is also the founder of a non-profit organization: Youth Against Sexual Assault (YASA) . Govind has attended Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the summers of 2014 and 2015 studying Economics and Computer Science. He is deeply interested in studying the classics and is focused on Latin and Sanskrit. Govind is learning classical Indian Carnatic music and Shaolin Kung Fu. He is also a contributing writer to Opus Media\, one of UK’s leading publishing and media companies. In his spare time\, he writes spiritual poetry and works on Carnatic/jazz fusion music.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/govind-ramakrishnan-launches-his-debut-collection-of-poetry-my-world-in-fifty-words/
LOCATION:The Corner Bookstore\, 1313 Madison Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T180000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Taylor reads from his new book The Hue and the Cry At Our House
DESCRIPTION:After John F. Kennedy’s speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22\, 1963\, he was greeted by\, among others\, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later\, Taylor’s teacher called the class in from recess and\, through tears\, told them of the president’s assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months\, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family\, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn’t\, his memories of summer camp and family trips\, he reflects upon the outsized impact our larger American story had on his own.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/benjamin-taylor-reads-from-his-new-book-the-hue-and-the-cry-at-our-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170516T193000
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SUMMARY:Peter Van Buren reads from his new book Hooper's War
DESCRIPTION:A historical novel with strong contemporary resonance\, Hooper’s War is set in WWII Japan. Protagonist Lieutenant Nate Hooper is a composite of too many men and women who have experienced the horror of war; he isn’t sure he’ll survive\, and if he does make it home\, he isn’t sure he can survive the peace. He’s done a terrible thing\, and struggles to resolve the mistake he made alongside a Japanese soldier\, and a Japanese woman who failed to save both men. At stake? Their souls. \nVan Buren writes about the experiences of those who have lived through wartimes with insight and empathy. He is a 24-year veteran of the State Department\, and in researching this book came to know a number of veterans through an anonymous group and\, under the same conditions\, spoke more intimately with men and women he lived alongside during a year he was in Iraq as an embed which is chronicled in his first book We Meant Well.  Fluent in Japanese\, Van Buren also interviewed elderly Japanese citizens who lived through WWII as civilians. He found that a lot of their pain festers not just out of what they saw and did\, but the realization that what they saw and did really didn’t matter in the bigger picture. It should’ve had a justification. Some explained they came to think of moral injury like taking apart a jigsaw puzzle. They thought and thought and while they couldn’t say exactly when\, at some point they couldn’t see the whole picture anymore.  
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-van-buren-reads-from-his-new-book-hoopers-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T180000
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SUMMARY:Ed Rucker reads from his debut The Inevitable Witness
DESCRIPTION:The Inevitable Witness is the first in a new series of legal thrillers that are smart\, funny\, and authentic by one of the most lionized defense attorneys in Los Angeles\, Ed Rucker. \nMeet defense attorney Bobby Earl\, who bears a remarkable resemblance to the author\, although Rucker claims that his main character is an amalgam of the characteristics of many defense lawyers he has known\, who is thrust into a politically-charged\, near indefensible murder case involving the most talented safe cracker in the business\, Sydney Seabrooke. More than coincidence led this esteemed criminal craftsman\, known in the trade as “The Professor\,” to a Chinese restaurant that contained an impenetrable 1950s Schwab safe with a Sargent and Greenleaf combination lock. Seconds away from the last tumbler falling into place\, Seabrooke is interrupted by gunshots. Officer Terrance Michael Horgan\, who inexplicably had a key to the Looh Fung Restaurant and had an interest in the same safe\, lay bleeding to death in the next room. \nEarl realizes that his client is a criminal but not a killer\, which takes him into a world of drug trafficking\, corrupt cops\, corrupt lawyers\, corrupt politicians\, and\, in almost every case\, judges with political ambitions. All the elements of the most high profile TV trials are present including a young\, attractive prosecutor\, an older greyed prosecutor with a closet full of the same grey suits\, an annoying gaggle of media types led by an obnoxious TV personality nicknamed “The Thumb\,” and a lowdown\, dirty jailhouse snitch. \n  \nEd Rucker has been a criminal defense lawyer his entire career. He has represented over 200 defendants\, including John Orr\, a Glendale Fire Department arson investigator who was reputed to be the greatest serial arsonist in American history\, a trial memorialized in Fire Lover\, by Joseph Wambaugh; Laurianne Sconce\, the matriarch of the family-owned Lamb Funeral Home\, who was charged with having secretly harvested body parts from the deceased over several years\, a trial that was the subject of the book Ashes\, by James Joseph; Eddie Nash\, a prominent nightclub owner\, who was charged in a death penalty case\, and who was portrayed in the film\, Boogie Nights; and William Harris\, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army\, who was involved in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ed-rucker-reads-from-his-debut-the-inevitable-witness/
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SUMMARY:Adam Kirsch discusses his new book The Global Novel
DESCRIPTION:What will 21st-century fiction look like? \nAcclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers\, including Haruki Murakami\, Elena Ferrante\, Roberto Bolaño\, and Margaret Atwood\, to better understand literature in the age of globalization. \nThe global novel\, he finds\, is not so much a genre as a way of imagining the world\, one that allows the novel to address both urgent contemporary concerns—climate change\, genetic engineering\, and immigration—along with timeless themes\, such as morality\, society\, and human relationships. Whether its stories take place on the scale of the species or the small town\, the global novel situates its characters against the widest background of the imagination. The way we live now demands nothing less than the global perspective our best novelists have to offer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adam-kirsch-discusses-his-new-book-the-global-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the NYC launch of Great with Child with author Sonia Taitz
DESCRIPTION:Great With Child tells the story of ambitious\, driven Abigail Thomas. Up for partnership at a prestigious law firm\, she is thrown by an accidental pregnancy that threatens to upend her life. Witty\, warm\, and wise\, this novel confronts the true meanings of love\, morality\, and duty.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-nyc-launch-of-great-with-child-with-author-sonia-taitz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170417T193000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro reads from her latest book Hourglass
DESCRIPTION:Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time–abraded\, strengthened\, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty\, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house\, her marriage\, and her heart\, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning–a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made\, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.  What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting\, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected\, in the face of disappointment and compromise–how do we wrest beauty from imperfection\, find grace in the ordinary\, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature\, poetry\, philosophy\, and theology\, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life\, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful\, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dani-shapiro-reads-from-her-latest-book-hourglass/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T193000
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SUMMARY:Beatrix Ost reads from her latest memoir More Than Everything
DESCRIPTION:Beatrix Ost’s memoir of her artistic awakening and early marriage opens on the heels of Germany’s recovery from the self-imposed disasters of World War II. She is part of the new generation that dances disobediently in the bombed-out villas and underground jazz caverns of Munich. Beatrix rides the dynamic decade up through the world of art\, fashion\, and cinema into the revolution of politics and consciousness. \nMarriage to the self-made prodigy and archaeologist\, Ferdinand\, impresario of the Hot Club\, draws her into the mystical realm of the ancient Mexican gods. Soon\, two sons are born. They make an odyssey through Mexico where\, under the wing of the artistic elite\, their homes full of Riveras and Kahlos\, the initial impression is intoxicating. But the further they press inland\, the more Ferdinand loses himself in his obsession and addictions. \nOst draws us into the vortex of human craving to portray the complexities of her early marriage to a man scarred by the war\, climbing the magical mountain of his own desires. \n  \nStyle icon Beatrix Ost arrived in New York in 1975 and was swiftly discovered by the New York Times as one of the city’s most elegant fusions of art and fashion. She is featured in two volumes of the book Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/beatrix-ost-reads-from-her-latest-memoir-more-than-everything/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T193000
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SUMMARY:Bethany Ball launches her debut novel What To Do About the Solomons
DESCRIPTION:Short\, elegant\, sexy\, and provocative\, Bethany Ball’s debut What to Do About the Solomons weaves contemporary Jewish history through a distinctly modern\, propulsive\, and savvy tale of family life. \nMeet Marc Solomon\, an Israeli ex-navy commando now living in L.A.\, who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons’ Santa Monica home is raided\, Marc’s American wife\, Carolyn—concealing her own dark past—makes hopeless attempts to hold their family of five together. But news of the scandal makes its way from America to the rest of the Solomon clan on the kibbutz in the Jordan River Valley. There we encounter various members of the family and the community—from Marc’s self-absorbed movie actress sister\, Shira\, and her forgotten son\, Joseph; to his rich and powerful construction magnate father\, Yakov; to his former star-crossed love\, Maya; and his brother-in-law\, Guy Gever\, a local ranger turned “artist.” As the secrets and rumors of the kibbutz are revealed through various memories and tales\, we witness the things that keep the Solomons together and those that tear them apart.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bethany-ball-launches-her-debut-novel-what-to-do-about-the-solomons/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T193000
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SUMMARY:Frances Fitzgerald discusses her latest book The Evangelicals
DESCRIPTION:This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize­–winning historian Frances Fitzgerald is the first to tell the powerful\, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America—from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election. \nThe evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches\, it became the dominant religious force in the country.  During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart dramatically\, first North versus South\, and then at the end of the century\, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II\, Billy Graham\, the revivalist preacher\, attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent\, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists\, such as Pat Robertson\, had formed the Christian right. Protesting abortion and gay rights\, they led the South into the Republican Party\, and for thirty-five years they were the sole voice of evangelicals to be heard nationally. Eventually a younger generation of leaders protested the Christian right’s close ties with the Republican Party and proposed a broader agenda of issues\, such as climate change\, gender equality\, and immigration reform. \nEvangelicals have in many ways defined the nation. They have shaped our culture and our politics. Frances Fitzgerald’s narrative of this distinctively American movement is a major work of history\, piecing together the centuries-long story for the first time. Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent of the American population\, but they are no longer monolithic in their politics. They range from Tea Party supporters to social reformers. Still\, with the decline of religious faith generally\, Fitzgerald suggests that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they are to survive.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/frances-fitzgerald-discusses-her-latest-book-the-evangelicals/
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SUMMARY:Eden Collinsworth reads from her latest book Behaving Badly
DESCRIPTION:What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous\, the infamous\, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.\n\nTo call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business\, cheating\, lying\, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life\, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow\, this hasn’t quite led to a complete free-for-all—people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why. In her intrepid quest\, she squares off  with a prime minister\, the editor of London’s Financial Times\, a holocaust survivor\, a pop star\, and a former commander of the U.S. Air Force to grapple with the impracticality of applying morals to foreign policy; precisely when morality gets lost in the making of money; what happens to morality without free will; whether “immoral” women are just those having a better time; why celebrities have become the new moral standard-bearers; and if testosterone is morality’s enemy or its hero. \n\nSEE LESS
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eden-collinsworth-reads-from-her-latest-book-behaving-badly/
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UID:1057-1490119200-1490124600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of The Secrets You Keep with Kate White
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control. \nWhat would you do if you realized that your new husband\, a man you adore\, is keeping secrets from you—secrets with terrifying consequences? \nBryn Harper\, an accomplished self-help author\, already has plenty to deal with. She’s still recovering from a devastating car accident that has left her haunted by recurring\, smoke-filled nightmares. Worse still\, she can’t shake the ominous feeling her dreams contain a warning. In the beginning\, Bryn’s husband Guy couldn’t have been more supportive. But after moving into a new house together\, disturbing incidents occur and Guy grows evasive\, secretive. What the hell is going on\, she wonders? Then\, a woman hired to cater their dinner party is brutally murdered. As Bryn’s world unravels—and yet another woman in town is slain —she must summon her old strength to find answers and protect her own life. Her nightmares may in fact hold the key to unlocking the truth and unmasking the murderer. With unexpected\, riveting twists\, The Secrets You Keep is an utterly compelling psychological thriller that once again showcases Kate White’s extraordinary storytelling talent.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-secrets-you-keep-with-kate-white/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T180000
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SUMMARY:John Freely on Tuesday\, March 14th: CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER MOVED TO WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 15th
DESCRIPTION:An engaging\, funny\, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory\, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit \nJohn Freely’s voice is still astonishingly youthful\, full of wonder\, humor\, and gratitude\, as he remembers his fully lived life. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants\, he went to Ireland with his mother when he was five\, where he spent his young childhood on his grandfather’s farm. Western Ireland was impoverished by the times\, but rich in beauty and intriguing people\, and it opened in him a lifelong desire to see the world and its inhabitants. When he was seven\, he returned to Brooklyn\, and the antics of a coming-of-age boy played out on streets filled with character and characters. He took whatever jobs he could when times got tough\, always shaking off his losses and moving on\, hungry to see and experience what was next. He joined the U.S. Navy at seventeen to “see the world\,” and did just that. In wartime\, while bringing supplies and ammunition over the Stilwell-Burma Road to Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese guerrilla forces\, Freely served alongside them during the last weeks of World War II in the Tibetan borderlands of China\, a Shangri-la that war had turned into hell on earth.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-as-john-freely-reads-from-his-new-book-the-house-of-memory/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T180000
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UID:1054-1489082400-1489087800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Orbit\, a new collection of poems by Cynthia Zarin
DESCRIPTION:With Orbit\, prize-winning author Cynthia Zarin confirms her place as an indispensable American poet of our time. \nIn this\, her fifth collection\, Zarin turns her lyric lens on the worlds within worlds we inhabit and how we navigate our shared predicament—the tables of our lives on which the news of the day is strewn: the president speaking to parishioners in Charleston\, the ricochet of violence\, near and far. Whether writing about hairpin turns in the stair of childhood\, the cat’s claw of anxiety\, on the impending loss of a young friend\, or how “love endures\, give or take\,” here is the poet who\, in the title poem\, “bartered forty summers for black pearls” and whose work is full of such wagers\, embodied in playing cards\, treble notes\, snow globes\, and balancing acts. Zarin reminds us that the atmosphere created by our experiences shapes and defines the orbit we move through. Along the way\, she is both witness and\, often indirectly\, subject—“I do not know how to hold the beauty and sorrow of my life\,” she writes. This book is an attempt at an answer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-orbit-a-new-collection-of-poems-by-cynthia-zarin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T180000
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UID:1097-1488909600-1488915000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Daniel Barbarisi reads from his first book Dueling with Kings
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Barbarisi quits his job as the New York Yankees beat writer for The Wall Street Journal and begins a quest: to join the top one percent of Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) players\, the so-called “sharks\,” and figure out whether DFS is on the level—while maybe cashing in along the way. \nDFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It’s the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings\, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. \nYet as Barbarisi quickly realized\, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks\, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms\, drafting hundreds of lineups\, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur “fish.” Barbarisi embeds himself inside the world of DFS\, befriending and joining its rogue’s gallery as he tries to beat them at their own game. \nIn a work equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation\, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the very moment its existence is threatened by lawmakers sick of its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. All their money made FanDuel and DraftKings seem invincible; but\, as Barbarisi reports\, they made plenty of dubious—perhaps even scandalous—moves as they vied for market supremacy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-barbarisi-reads-from-his-first-book-dueling-with-kings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T180000
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UID:1051-1487700000-1487705400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of The Trade Off \, the debut novel by Nader Hossain Salehi
DESCRIPTION:Reza Shirvani is a talented\, young associate on the cusp of promotion to partnership at a top corporate law firm in Washington\, D.C. \nBut the biggest challenge in his life is far more complicated—his mother and sister have fled Iran and are now stuck in western Afghanistan. Their last and best hope for safe passage to America lies in the hands of a tribal warlord\, but only if Reza can quickly come up with a small fortune to pay him. \nWhen Clara\, Reza’s beautiful\, former lover unexpectedly reappears in his life\, Reza seems to have stumbled on a solution to all of his problems. \nVery soon\, though\, it becomes clear that Clara’s reappearance is not completely coincidental\, and Reza finds himself confronting an insider trading mastermind\, a Saudi financier of terror\, cyber espionage\, and\, along the way\, his own greatest doubts and fears. \nFast-paced and gripping\, readers are taken from high-powered offices in D.C.\, London\, and New York\, to streets and compounds in Kabul and beyond. \nA timeless and yet modern journey of self-discovery\, Trade Off illuminates just how ambiguous morality can be when innocent lives are at stake. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-trade-off-the-debut-novel-by-nader-hossain-salehi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T180000
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UID:1046-1487268000-1487273400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new collection of poetry The Analyst
DESCRIPTION:When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke\, her longtime patient\, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock\, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new\, visceral\, twenty-first century “in memoriam” of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images\, from a red enameled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a painting\, create the backdrop for her quest to define identity. \nFrom “In Our Unexpected Future”: \n…for frocks outlast pillars. But feelings\noutlive frocks. The immaterial storms through\,\na force beyond years (a mere four since you\nwere nearly felled). It isn’t what happened that lasts.\nNot art\, either\, but the savory core. What’s felt.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-the-analyst/
LOCATION:The Corner Bookstore\, 1313 Madison Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Organized Enough with Amanda Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:This is not a book that tells you to throw everything out and live austerely. You don’t need a sock drawer that brings you joy or a kitchen from a design magazine; what you do need is to be organized enough to feel in control and serene. Organized Enough offers a ground-breaking\, science-driven method for maintaining organization: it addresses not just the steps of decluttering but also of developing the habits to stay clutter-free. Amanda Sullivan shares the method that has brought great success to her clients-from celebrities to hoarders. With seven concepts to help you define your goals and seven essential habits to keep chaos and clutter at bay\, you will learn to reframe how you think about your space\, your stuff\, and your life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-organized-enough-with-amanda-sullivan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T180000
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UID:1035-1486490400-1486495800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Patricia Bosworth reads from The Men in My Life
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this profound and powerful memoir\, a story of family\, marriage\, tragedy\, Broadway\, and art\, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period. \nBorn into privilege in San Francisco as the children of famous attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Gertrude\, Patricia and her brother Bart Jr. lead charmed lives until their father’s career is ruined when he defends the Hollywood Ten. The family moves to New York\, suffering greater tragedy when Bart Jr. kills himself. However\, his loving spirit continues to influence Patricia as she fights to succeed as an actress and writer. Married and divorced from an abusive husband before she’s twenty\, she joins the famed Actors Studio. She takes classes with Lee Strasberg alongside Marilyn Monroe\, Paul Newman\, and others; she works on Broadway opposite Paul Muni\, Helen Hayes\, and Elaine Stritch; Gore Vidal and Elia Kazan become her mentors. Her anecdotes of theatre’s Golden Age have never been told before. At the zenith of her career\, about to film The Nun’s Story with Audrey Hepburn\, Patricia faces a decision that changes her forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/patricia-bosworth-reads-from-the-men-in-my-life/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170131T180000
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UID:1030-1485885600-1485891000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Phillip Lopate reads from A Mother's Tale
DESCRIPTION:In 1984\, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother\, Frances\, to listen to her life story. A strong\, resilient\, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century\, she was orphaned in childhood\, ran away and married young\, and then reinvented herself as a mother\, war factory worker\, candy store owner\, community organizer\, clerk\, actress\, and singer. But paired with exciting anecdotes are the criticisms of the husband who couldn’t satisfy her\, the details of numerous affairs and sexual encounters\, and\, though she succeeded at many of her roles\, accounts of how she always felt mistreated\, taken advantage of. After the interviews\, at a loss for what to do with the tapes\, Lopate put them away. But thirty years later\, after his mother had passed away\, Lopate found himself drawn back to the recordings of this conversation. Thus begins a three-way conversation between a mother\, his younger self\, and the person he is today. \nTrying to break open the family myths\, rationalizations\, and self-deceptions\, A Mother’s Tale is about family members who love each other but who can’t seem to overcome their mutual mistrust. Though Phillip is sympathizing to a point\, he cannot join her in her operatic displays of self-pity and how she blames his father for everything that went wrong. His detached\, ironic character has been formed partly in response to her melodramatic one. The climax is an argument in which he tries to persuade her—using logic\, of all things—that he really does love her\, but is only partially successful\, of course. \nA Mother’s Tale is about something primal and universal: the relationship between a mother and her child\, the parent disappointed with the payback\, the child\, now fully grown\, judgmental. The humor is in the details.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/phillip-lopate-reads-from-a-mothers-tale/
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CREATED:20161205T215253Z
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UID:1027-1484848800-1484854200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Adelia Saunders reads from her debut novel Indelible
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin–names\, dates\, details both banal and profound–and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully\, her own skin is blank. \nWhen she meets Neil\, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He’s in Paris for the summer\, studying a medieval pilgrimage to the coast of Spain\, where the body of Saint Jacques is said to have washed ashore\, covered in scallop shells. Magdalena\, desperate to make things right after her best friend dies–a tragedy she might have prevented–embarks on her own pilgrimage\, but not before Neil falls for her\, captivated by her pale eyes\, charming Eastern European accent\, and aura of heartbreak. \nNeil’s father\, Richard\, is also in Paris\, searching for the truth about his late mother\, a famous expatriate American novelist who abandoned him at birth. All his life Richard has clung to a single memory of his mother–her red shoes–which her biographers agree he never could have seen. \nIn Adelia Saunders’ arresting debut\, secrets are revealed among forgotten texts in the old archives of Paris\, on a dusty cattle ranch in the American West\, along ancient pilgrim paths\, and in a run-down apartment in post-Soviet Lithuania. By chance\, or perhaps by fate\, the novel’s unforgettable characters converge\, and Magdalena’s uncanny ability may be the key to their happiness.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adelia-saunders-reads-from-her-debut-novel-indelible/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170117T180000
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CREATED:20161110T164723Z
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UID:947-1484676000-1484681400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Sheila Kohler reads from her memoir Once We Were Sisters
DESCRIPTION:“A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates \nWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven\, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine\, only two years older\, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg.  Stunned by the news\, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born\, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. \nIn her signature spare and incisive prose\, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate\, Crossways\, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls\, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother\, at turns distant and suffocating.  We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices.  Kohler  evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks\, even after death.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sheila-kohler-reads-from-her-memoir-once-we-were-sisters/
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