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SUMMARY:Caroline Sutton launches her new book Eyes in the Soles of My Feet
DESCRIPTION:With this fascinating and eye-opening collection of essays\, science writer Caroline Sutton provides an intriguing and unique perspective on our natural world\, and reveals secret and intimate connections between plant and animal life that we often overlook or malign\, be it the industrious mole tunnelling in our backyards to the ancient horseshoe crab scuttling on our shores. Certain to appeal to readers of science and ecology\, as well as those curious to look deeper into the seen and unseen intricacies of nature.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caroline-sutton-launches-her-new-book-eyes-in-the-soles-of-my-feet/
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SUMMARY:Eden Collinsworth presents her latest The Improbable Victoria Woodhull
DESCRIPTION:In 1894\, a remarkably self-possessed American woman\, with no formal education to speak of\, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop along the unpredictable route that was Victoria Woodhull’s life. Born dirt-poor in an obscure Ohio settlement\, Woodhull was the daughter of an illiterate mother entranced by the fad of Mesmerism—a therapeutic pseudoscience—and a swindler father whose cons exploited his two daughters. It was through her mother\, though\, that Woodhull familiarized herself with the supernatural realm\, earning a degree of fame as a clairvoyant and her first taste of financial success. Woodhull’s life would continue to turn on its axis and then turn again. Vividly written and exhaustively researched\, Collinsworth tells the story of a woman truly ahead of her time—a radical visionary who made defying mores a habit and brought to the fore societal and political issues still being addressed today. Neither a saint nor a villain\, Woodhull emerges as an iconic\, complex woman: an entrepreneur; lover of freedom; and a fiercely loyal family member whose political activism and suffragist legacy will cement her in history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eden-collinsworth-presents-her-latest-the-improbable-victoria-woodhull/
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SUMMARY:Alexia LaFata in conversation about her new book She Used To Be Nice
DESCRIPTION:One night in college changed the course of Avery’s entire life. Her rapist took everything from her—including the trust of her friends and long-term boyfriend\, who were convinced she cheated. A year later\, she still can’t bear to tell the truth about what happened and risk her friendship with Morgan\, the only friend she has left. \nInstead\, Avery finds her way under a man or into a bottle just to convince herself that she has power over her feelings and her autonomy—that her body still belongs to her. That is\, until she meets Pete\, a man so kind and good that he awakens a part of Avery that makes her want to try something new. \nBut somehow Avery’s rapist has resurfaced in her life as the best man in Morgan’s wedding. And as maid of honor\, there’s no way Avery can avoid him. His mere presence grates at Avery’s already raw emotional state\, and she begins to drive away the final few who care about her—including Pete. \nAs the wedding nears\, Avery must decide whether to finally let her walls down and tell her truth or risk spiraling toward a darkness she may never be able to recover from. \nAlexia will be in conversation with Ella Dawson\, author of But How Are You\, Really
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alexia-lafata-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-she-used-to-be-nice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T180000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stein Lubrano launches her debut Don't Talk About Politics
DESCRIPTION:This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics. \nDrawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science\, Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure\, she explores the actions that actually do change minds. \nIn a world where politics keeps getting more irrational\, dishonest\, violent and chaotic\, it’s getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life\, and a better world for us all? \n  \nDr. Lubrano will be in conversation with author Calvin Kalsuke. \n\nCalvin Kasulke is a writer\, podcast producer and transsexual menace living in Brooklyn. He is repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-stein-lubrano-launches-her-debut-dont-talk-politics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T180000
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SUMMARY:Amy Blumenfeld in conversation about her new book Such Good People
DESCRIPTION:It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college\, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend\, Rudy\, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room\, and in an instant\, lives and legacies are altered forever. \nWithin hours\, Rudy is arrested. Within days\, April is expelled. Within weeks\, he’s incarcerated. And within months\, she meets Peter\, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again. \nNearly fifteen years later\, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter\, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peter’s election for local office\, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April’s past\, jeopardizing Peter’s campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly\, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created\, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines\, divided loyalties\, and what it means to love purely\, steadfastly\, and interminably. \nAmy will be in conversation with author Alyson Richman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amy-blumenfeld-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-such-good-people/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250611T180000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Gluck launches his latest An Exercise in Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:At age thirty-eight\, Jonathan Gluck\, a new father with a promising journalism career\, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma\, a rare\, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. \nThat was more than twenty years ago. \nGluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances\, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years. While doctors continue to look for “magic bullet” cures\, they can now extend patients’ lives by slowing the progression of their diseases one treatment at a time. The result is a strange\, new no-man’s-land between being sick and being well where Gluck and millions of others reside. \nIn An Exercise in Uncertainty\, Gluck maps this previously uncharted territory. Among the many vexing side effects of chronic illness he explores is uncertainty—never knowing from one day to the next how one’s illness might change them physically\, emotionally\, spiritually. When you have an incurable disease\, how do you cope with knowing that even when you’re in remission\, it will eventually return? How do you live with the anxiety\, the fear\, the near-constant awareness of your mortality? For Gluck\, one surprising answer is fly-fishing. If you’re looking for peace in your own sea of uncertainty\, it might be something else. \nAs Gluck will be the first to say\, cancer has absolutely nothing good to offer\, but almost dying has taught him valuable lessons about how to live.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jonathan-gluck-launches-his-latest-an-exercise-in-uncertainty/
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SUMMARY:Wally Lamb launches his latest book The River is Waiting
DESCRIPTION:Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood\, the loss of his job\, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison\, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside\, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders\, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him\, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement\, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/wally-lamb-launches-his-latest-book-the-river-is-waiting/
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SUMMARY:Jill Bialosky in conversation about her new book  The End is the Beginning
DESCRIPTION:When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29\, 2020\, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter\, Jill Bialosky. Grief\, of course\, but also guilt\, confusion\, and doubt\, all of which were compounded by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic which made it impossible for Jill to be with her mother as she was dying and to attend her mother’s funeral. \nNow\, with a poet’s eye for detail and a novelist’s flair for storytelling\, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. Starting with her mother’s end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home\, The End Is the Beginning explores Iris’s battle with depression\, the tragedy of a daughter’s suicide\, a failed second marriage\, the death of her beloved first husband only five years into their young marriage\, her joyful teenage years\, and the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner\, Iris’s life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention\, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness. \n  \nJill Bialosky will be in conversation with Roxana Robinson\, author–most recently– of Leaving
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jill-bialosky-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-end-is-the-beginning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T180000
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SUMMARY:Susan Shapiro Barash in conversation about her new book  Estranged
DESCRIPTION:When life gets hard\, we turn to our female friends. Husbands\, partners\, and jobs come and go\, but close friendships are our bedrock. Until they’re not. \nWhat happens when these bonds sabotage instead of support? Who among us has the courage to walk away? And how can we protect ourselves from further heartbreak? \nIn her provocative new book\, Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships are Mended or Ended (Meridian Editions; April 1\, 2025)\, Susan Shapiro Barash takes a deep dive into the complexities of female friendships. By peeling back the societal narrative that our friendships are meant to last forever\, she uncovers a more nuanced reality: the closest bonds do falter. Through groundbreaking research and 150 interviews with women ranging in age from 20-80\, Barash reveals an emerging trend — estrangement among female friends. \nEstranged is an eye-opening investigation/practical guide for women navigating murky waters of suboptimal friendships. The book sheds light on unspoken pain of estrangement—both for the “estranger” who walks away and the “estrangee” who is left behind. Amid candid confessions of betrayal and grief\, Barash challenges women to reimagine their friendships and take the bold step of letting go when necessary. \nSusan will be in conversation with Meryl Moss\, President of Meryl Moss Media Group and Founder of BookTrib.com
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susan-shapiro-barash-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-estranged/
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SUMMARY:Colum McCann reads from his new novel Twist
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Fennell\, an Irish journalist and playwright\, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words\, images\, transactions\, memes\, voices\, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break\, at an unfathomable depth. \nFennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa\, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman\, John Conway\, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress\, Zanele\, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London. \nWhen the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks\, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea\, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life\, love\, absence\, belonging\, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we\, in our fractured world\, reweave ourselves out of the thin\, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/colum-mccann-reads-from-his-new-novel-twist/
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SUMMARY:Jillian Berman presents her debut Sunk Cost: Who's to Blame for the Nation's Broken Student Loan System and How to Fix It
DESCRIPTION:Student-loan horror stories are a dime a dozen. But students today are faced with a seemingly insurmountable paradox: Research consistently shows that the clearest viable option to financial stability is a college degree. But if and when Americans decide to pursue diplomas\, student loan payments quickly follow\, and even after securing full-time employment\, many borrowers struggle to make ends meet for years. In Sunk Cost\, journalist Jillian Berman explores how the nation’s student loan program went from a well-intentioned initiative aimed at helping low- and middle-income students afford college to one that traps borrowers in long-term debt.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jillian-berman-presents-her-debut-sunk-cost-whos-to-blame-for-the-nations-broken-student-loan-system-and-how-to-fix-it/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T180000
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SUMMARY:Angela Denker in conversation about her new book Disciples of White Jesus
DESCRIPTION:Disciples of White Jesus is a comprehensive look at the rise in radicalization among young white men in America\, especially focused on the role of right-wing Christianity in the increase of religious-based hatred and violence. Denker goes deep into the online rabbit holes of right-wing Christian influencers and conservative Christian ideology to understand how the preaching of “traditional gender roles” and “submission of women” has led to anger\, outrage\, loneliness\, depression\, and limiting identities for young white Christian men across America. \nCasting her journalist’s eye across the US\, Denker retraces the steps of a racist South Carolina mass shooter and a Phoenix skinhead turned Evangelical pastor\, interviews middle school teachers and coaches in the Midwest\, and introduces us to young men across the country who will both confirm and confound our ideas about American boyhood–stories about boys and men who are forging new identities grounded in kindness\, grace\, respect\, and even joy. A must-read for parents\, grandparents\, educators\, coaches\, faith leaders\, researchers\, and all who care about the state of American families\, boys themselves\, and the safety of American society at large. \n\nAngela Denker will be in conversation with Anne Nelson.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/angela-denker-reads-from-her-new-book-disciples-of-white-jesus/
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SUMMARY:Joshua Hammer discusses his latest The Mesopotamian Riddle
DESCRIPTION:It was one of history’s great vanishing acts. \nAround 3\,400 BCE—as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements—a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For three millennia\, wedge shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests\, scientific discoveries\, and epic literature of the great Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer\, Assyria\, and Babylon and of Persia’s mighty Achaemenid Empire\, along with precious minutiae about everyday life in the cradle of civilization. And then…the meaning of the characters was lost. \nLondon\, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress\, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands had captured the Victorian public’s imagination. Yet Europe’s best philologists struggled to decipher the bizarre inscriptions excavators were digging up. \nEnter a swashbuckling archaeologist\, a suave British military officer turned diplomat\, and a cloistered Irish rector\, all vying for glory in a race to decipher this script that would enable them to peek farther back into human history than ever before. \nFrom the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire\, The Mesopotamian Riddle whisks you on a wild adventure through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand our past.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/josh-hammer-discusses-his-latest-the-mesopotamian-riddle/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig launches her latest novel The Girl from Greenwich Street
DESCRIPTION:At the start of a new century\, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan\, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. \nJust before Christmas 1799\, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. \nHer family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. \nBut privately\, quietly\, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor…. \nAaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. \nAlexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks\, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near\, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other. \nPart murder mystery\, part thriller\, part true crime\, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history—with a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-launches-her-latest-novel-the-girl-from-greenwich-street/
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SUMMARY:Emma Otheguy launches her latest book Cousins in the Time of Magic
DESCRIPTION:History is alive with magic. That’s what zany Tía Xia is always telling cousins Jorge\, Camila\, and Siggy. Daredevil Jorge couldn’t be more different than his cousins: Camila is a dreamer who adores animals and Siggy is an aspiring influencer who has an exclusive party to attend. And their aunt has many secrets\, including a mysterious diamond-encrusted sword that Jorge definitely wasn’t supposed to see. \nBut when the three stumble upon a time portal in their aunt’s yard\, they are transported back to 1862\, a past filled with wonders—and dangers. To return to the present\, they must race to deliver the sword to General Ignacio Zaragoza in time for the historic Battle of Puebla in Mexico: the foundation of the holiday Cinco de Mayo. \nAs their journey to Mexico takes them through the Civil War–era United States\, the cousins see just how much US history has been shaped by Latin communities. They must find the power within themselves to make sure things happen as they’re supposed to\, without altering the past.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/emma-otheguy-launches-her-latest-book-cousins-in-the-time-of-magic/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T180000
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SUMMARY:Laura Robson launches her debut A Curse for the Homesick
DESCRIPTION:On Stenland\, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day\, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead\, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning\, and while each window of time lasts only three months\, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead. \nThat’s how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone\, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld\, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland\, to run from the windswept island\, from her family and friends. She is unwilling to bear the responsibility of one day killing anyone\, let alone someone she loves. Soren has been determined to stay\, to live out his life in the place he knows as home\, even if that life could be cut short during the latest skeld season. They cannot see eye to eye—and yet they cannot stay apart. She tries to come back for him. He tries to leave for her. But can your love for one person outweigh everything else combined? And how do you decide how much you’re willing to risk\, if it might mean destroying someone else in the process?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/laura-robson-launches-her-debut-a-curse-for-the-homesick/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T180000
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SUMMARY:Diane Kiesel launches her latest book When Charlie Met Joan
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Chaplin\, the silent screen’s “Little Tramp\,” was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a series of salacious\, real-life federal courtroom dramas. The 1944 trial was described by ace New York Daily News reporter Florabel Muir as “the best show in town.” The leading lady was a woman under contract to his studio—red-haired ingénue Joan Barry\, Chaplin’s protégée and former mistress. Although he beat the federal criminal trial\, Chaplin lost a paternity case and had to pay child support despite blood type evidence that proved he was not the child’s father. \nA decade later during the Cold War\, the U.S. government used the Barry trials as an excuse to bar the left-leaning\, sexually adventurous\, British-born comic from the country he had called home for forty years. Not only did these trials have a lasting impact on law; they also raise concerns about the power of celebrity\, Cold War politics\, the media frenzy surrounding high-profile court proceedings\, and the sorry history of the casting couch. When Charlie Met Joan examines these trials from the perspective of both parties\, asking whether Chaplin was unfairly persecuted by the government because of his left-leaning political beliefs\, or if he should have been held more accountable for his cavalier treatment of Barry and other women in his life. \nDiane Kiesel is a retired judge of the New York Supreme Court. Her other books include She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee\, Civil Rights Pioneer\, and Domestic Violence: Law\, Policy\, and Practice.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-kiesel-launches-her-latest-book-when-charlie-met-joan/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Weiner discusses her new book A Gorgeous Excitement with editor Amy Einhorn
DESCRIPTION:There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages\, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible—when her mother isn’t lying in bed for days\, she’s lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong\, Nina is the talk of Flanagan’s\, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn’t help that she’s Jewish\, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in\, kind of\, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents’ medicine cabinet. \nFlanagan’s is where she pines for the handsome\, preppy\, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After she’s introduced to cocaine\, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner\, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness\, and Nina and Gardner grow closer\, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost? \nAmy Einhorn is SVP\, Publisher of Fiction at Crown Publishing Group
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cynthia-weiner-launches-her-new-book-a-gorgeous-excitement/
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SUMMARY:Henry Alford launches his new book I Dream of Joni
DESCRIPTION:Joni Mitchell’s life\, psyche\, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor—from her childhood in Saskatoon\, Canada\, to her arrival in Laurel Canyon that turned her into\, as Alford puts it\, “the bard of heartbreak and longing.” Each period of Mitchell’s life is observed via the artists\, friends\, family\, and lovers she encountered along the way\, including James Taylor\, Leonard Cohen\, Georgia O’Keefe\, Prince\, and\, most significantly\, Kilauren\, the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption at birth but then reconnected with decades later.\nPresented in the impressionistic vein of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret\, I Dream of Joni explores in fifty-three essays\, with the author’s trademark wit and verve\, the life of the legendary singer-songwriter.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/henry-alford-launches-his-new-book-i-dream-of-joni/
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SUMMARY:Michael Cannell reads from his new book Blood and the Badge
DESCRIPTION:No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa\, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn. \nFor more than ten years\, Eppolito and Caracappa moonlighted as the mob’s early warning alert system\, leaking names of mobsters secretly cooperating with the government and crippling investigations by sharing details of surveillance\, phone taps and impending arrests. The Lucchese boss called the two detectives his crystal ball: Whatever detectives knew\, the mafia soon learned. Most grievously\, Eppolito and Caracappa earned bonuses by staging eight mob hits\, pulling the trigger themselves at least once. \nIncredibly\, when evidence of their wrongdoing arose in 1994\, FBI officials failed to muster an indictment. The allegations lay dormant for a decade and were only revisited due to relentless follow up by Tommy Dades\, a cop determined to break the cold case before his retirement. Eppolito and Caracappa were finally tried and then sentenced to life in prison in 2009\, nearly thirty years after their crimes took place. \nCannell’s Blood and the Badge is based on entirely new research and never-before-released interviews with mobsters themselves\, including Sammy “the Bull” Gravano. Eppolito and Caracappa’s story is more relevant than ever as police conduct comes under ever-increasing scrutiny.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-cannell-reads-from-his-new-book-blood-the-badge/
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SUMMARY:Andy Corren discusses his debut memoir Dirtbag Queen with actor Ryan Eggold
DESCRIPTION:“Because she was my mother\, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me\, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for\, well\, nothing. A more disrespectful\, trash talking woman was not to be found.” \nSo began Andy Corren’s unforgettable obituary for his mother\, Renay Mandel Corren\, a tribute that went on to touch the hearts of millions around the globe. In his brief telling of the life and legend that was Renay\, a “loud\, filthy‑minded (and filthy‑mouthed) Jewish lady redneck who birthed six kids\,” Andy captured only a slice of his loving and fabulously unconventional mother. \nIn this uproariously funny\, deeply moving family portrait\, readers meet the rest of his absurd clan: his brothers\, affectionately nicknamed Asshole\, Twin\, and Rabbi; his one-eyed pirate queen of a sister\, Cathy Sue; and then there’s Bonus\, who Andy isn’t aware of until later in life since this mysterious oldest brother grew up at the Green Valley School for Emotionally Disturbed and Delinquent Children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andy-corren-discusses-his-debut-memoir-dirtbag-queen/
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SUMMARY:Peter Wortsman and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman present Odd Birds & Fat Cats
DESCRIPTION:Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary) is an illustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspired by the tradition of the medieval bestiary\, bestiarum vocabulum\, a 12th-century bestselling genre that chronicled animals and beings both real and fantastical\, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animals that delight\, confound\, and edify\, written by Peter Wortsman\, coupled with detailed naturalist artwork by his daughter\, Aurélie Bernard Wortsman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-wortsman-and-aurelie-bernard-wortsman-present-odd-birds-fat-cats/
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new collection of poetry The Widow's Crayon Box
DESCRIPTION:After her husband’s death\, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems—joyful\, furious\, mournful\, bewildered\, sexy\, devastated\, whimsical and above all\, moving—composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms\, designed in four movements (After\, Before\, When\, and Afterglow)—illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the crystalline emotions one can experience after the death of a cherished partner. With her characteristic virtuosity\, her fearless willingness to confront even the most difficult emotions\, and always with buoyancy and zest\, Peacock charts widowhood in the twenty-first century.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-the-widows-crayon-box/
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SUMMARY:Richard Panek discusses his new book Pillars of Creation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION:Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization\, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Award-winning science writer Richard Panek stands us shoulder to shoulder with senior scientists as they conceive the mission\, meet decades-long challenges to bring it to fruition\, and\, now\, use its unprecedented technology to yield new discoveries about the origins of our solar system\, to search for life on planets around other suns\, and to trace the growth of hundreds of billions of galaxies all the way back to the birth of the first stars. The Webb telescope has captured the world’s imagination\, and Pillars of Creation shows how and why—including through sixteen pages of awe-inspiring\, full-color photos.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/richard-panek-discusses-his-new-book-pillars-of-creation-with-adam-gopnik/
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SUMMARY:Kate Greathead reads from her new book The Book of George
DESCRIPTION:If you haven’t had the misfortune of dating a George\, you know someone who has. He’s a young man brimming with potential but incapable of following through; sweet yet noncommittal to his long-suffering girlfriend; distant from but still reliant on his mother; charmingly funny one minute\, sullenly brooding the next. Here\, Kate Greathead paints one particular\, unforgettable George in a series of droll and surprisingly poignant snapshots of his life over two decades. \nDespite his failings\, it’s hard not to root for George at least a little. Beneath his cynicism is a reservoir of fondness for his girlfriend\, Jenny\, and her valiant willingness to put up with him. Each demonstration of his flaws is paired with a self-eviscerating comment. No one is more disappointed in him than himself (except maybe Jenny and his mother). As hilarious as it is resonant and as singular as it is universal\, The Book of George is a deft\, unexpectedly moving portrait of one man—but also countless others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-greathead-reads-from-her-new-book-the-book-of-george/
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SUMMARY:Stephen Bruno reads from his debut Building Material
DESCRIPTION:As an academically gifted Latino kid growing up in the Bronx\, Stephen Bruno’s family had high aspirations for his future. He attended magnet schools and selective academic programs and was on track to realize his potential. But those dreams were derailed when\, much to his Mami’s dismay\, he followed a girlfriend to Minnesota and a dead-end job. Languishing and unable to get it together\, Stephen eventually moved back home. Broke and eager to make a way for himself–and away from the oppressively religious father wreaking havoc on his love life–the affable\, easy going\, and quick-witted Stephen lands a much-coveted job as a doorman at a high-end building on Park Avenue. \nHilarity and drama soon abound as Stephen learns the dos and don’ts of being a doorman for the rich and famous and witnesses the antics going on behind the front entrance of this swanky building. In Building Material\, he shares those entertaining tales and introduces an unforgettable cast of characters–from Puerto Rican and Albanian doormen battling it out for turf to quirky one percenters to slimy sugar daddies to his peers\, both friends and frenemies. Throughout\, Stephen offers a glimpse into the unfathomable lives of the residents and a sharp portrait of an everyday man wanting more for himself. \nBoth poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, Building Material is a captivating true tale of class\, failure\, and redemption–and how to come back swinging–from a gifted young talent.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/stephen-bruno-reads-from-his-debut-building-material/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Gronningsater in conversation about her new book The Rising Generation
DESCRIPTION:The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of black New Yorkers. Born into precarious freedom after the American Revolution and reaching adulthood in the lead-up to the Civil War\, this remarkable generation ultimately played an outsized role in political and legal conflicts over slavery’s future\, influencing both the nation’s path to the Civil War and changes to the US Constitution. \nSarah will be in conversation with author Matt McCarthy. Matt is the author of The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly & Odd Man Out
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-gronnigstater-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-rising-generation/
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SUMMARY:Paulina Bren launches her new book She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the “smart cookies” who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads\, who\, despite their hard-earned diplomas\, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of the 1980s in power suits and commuter sneakers. In She-Wolves\, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of the first generations of women who fought their way into the bad-boy culture and lavish opulence of the finance world. If the wolves of Wall Street made a show of their ferocity\, the she-wolves did so with tough-as-nails persistence. Starting at a time when “No Ladies” signs hung across the doors of Wall Street’s clubs and unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm at top firms\, Bren chronicles the remarkable women who demanded a seat at the table. She-Wolves is an engaging and enraging look at the collision of women\, finance\, and New York from the go-go years to ground zero.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paulina-bren-launches-her-new-book-she-wolves-the-untold-history-of-women-on-wall-street/
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Jack launches hew debut novel The Changing of Keys
DESCRIPTION:With his father dead\, a gifted\, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will\, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend he’s never met. His first angry\, frightened step away from the controlling mother he’s never been able to reach becomes a sharp break with her expectations: he leaps into the dramatic and cutthroat world of opera. In this high-stakes milieu\, his fierce desire to be a star fires both his brilliance and the dark distrust of women and of love that is the legacy of his childhood\, a legacy that threatens his career\, his impulsive marriage\, and the young daughter he never wanted.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/carolyn-jack-launches-hew-debut-novel-the-changing-of-keys/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Zarin launches her new poetry collection Next Day: New and Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker\, among other publications\, this volume is a tour through Zarin’s five exquisitely made collections\, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth\, published in 1989. Zarin\, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop\, allows the reader to experience human truths through a poem’s shape and music\, bodied forth through intimate images–the turn in the stair\, a snow globe\, naked birch branches\, a vase of flowers–and a propulsive syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce\, from her own consciousness–shaping landscapes of New York\, Cape Cod\, and Rome\, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation\, her subject matter encompasses all of a woman’s life\, with passion–its risks\, satisfactions\, and shattering immediacy–her first and truest subject.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cynthia-zarin-reads-from-her-new-poetry-collection-next-day/
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