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SUMMARY:Ali Gordon presents her debut We Have Reached the End of Our Show
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to an unrelenting cycle of cancer treatments\, thirty-two-year-old Gabe is too weak to dance gracefully on stage or through NYC’s sparkling social scene like he once did. And although he and Josie have been in love for six years\, lately Gabe’s been feeling more like Josie’s patient than his boyfriend. So one day\, Gabe makes a choice: he’ll forgo treatment and live out his remaining days on his own terms.​ \nThen a harrowing announcement blasts over the news—TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT—and as the world falls into chaos around him\, something sparks inside Gabe for the first time in a long time: the chance for adventure. When his cousin\, Lisi\, shows up with a car and a plan\, the three begin a journey none of them ever expected­—a road trip through the end of the world. \nProfound\, moving\, and delicate\, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a crystalline depiction of the best of humanity and the love we’re all capable of\, even in the bleakest of times. Gabe\, Josie\, and Lisi take turns at the wheel of this novel\, steering readers along hauntingly empty highways and through the adventure that happens when we’re forced to put down the carefully drawn map of our lives and look around at what really matters: each other. \n  \nWith performances by Christi Somers (Dead Moms Club) and Michael Cruz Kayne (Sorry For Your Loss).
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ali-gordon-presents-her-debut-we-have-reached-the-end-of-our-show/
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SUMMARY:Alyson Richman in conversation about her new book The Missing Pages
DESCRIPTION:Harry Widener boards the Titanic holding tight to a priceless book–and his last known words are that he must return to his cabin for his treasure. Neither the young man nor the book will ever be seen again. In his honor\, his mother builds the Harry Widener Memorial Library at Harvard to memorialize her son and house his extensive book collection.\n​Decades later\, Violet Hutchins\, a Harvard sophomore recovering from her own great loss\, is working as a page at the Widener Library. When strange things begin happening at the library\, Violet wonders if Harry Widener’s ghost is trying to communicate the missing pieces of his story from beyond the grave. \n  \nAlyson Richman will be in conversation with author Lauren Belfer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alyson-richman-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-missing-pages/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T180000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill launches her new book Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in the Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler\, born to wealth and privilege in New York’s Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century\, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America’s insurrection against Great Britain—and rebelled themselves\, in ways as different as each was from the other\, against the destiny mapped out for them. \nGlamorous Angelica\, who sought fulfillment through attachments to powerful men\, eloped at twenty with a war profiteer and led a luxurious life\, first in Paris\, then in London\, charming Benjamin Franklin\, Thomas Jefferson\, and the Prince of Wales. Eliza\, one year her junior\, too candid for flirtation and uninterested in influence or intrigue\, married a penniless illegitimate outsider\, Alexander Hamilton\, and devoted herself to his career. But after his appointment as America’s first Treasury Secretary\, she was challenged by the controversies in which he became involved\, not the least of which was the attraction that grew between him and her adored sister. \nWhen tragedy followed\, everything changed for both women: one deprived of her animating spirit\, the other improbably gaining a new\, self-determined life. “You would not have suffered if you had married into a family less near the sun\,” wrote Angelica to Eliza\, “but then [you would have missed] the pride\, the pleasure\, the nameless satisfactions.” \nDrawing on deep archival research\, including never-published records and letters\, Amanda Vaill interweaves this family drama with its historical context\, creating a narrative with the sweep and intimacy of a nineteenth-century novel. Full of battles and dinner parties\, murky politics and transparent frocks\, fierce loyalty and betrayals both public and personal\, Pride and Pleasure brings two extraordinary American heroines to life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-launches-her-new-book-pride-and-pleasure-the-schuyler-sisters-in-the-age-of-revolution/
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SUMMARY:Susan Cheever in conversation with Ben Cheever about her latest When All the Men Wore Hats
DESCRIPTION:The Stories of John Cheever\, published in 1978\, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and it would go on to sell millions of copies and to define the American short story and shape generations of writers. Cheever’s chronicles of modern life both emerged from a distinctly American culture and also created it—inspiring everything from Mad Men to a Raymond Carver story\, from rock songs to a Seinfeld episode.\nGrowing up\, Susan Cheever\, John Cheever’s eldest child and only daughter\, read what he read\, heard what he heard\, bantered and gossiped with him and her brothers and mother at the dinner table\, and later watched her father type on the cheap yellow paper he favored. A daughter much like Susan appears in many of Cheever’s stories and a family much like theirs is at the center of his writing. \nIn When All the Men Wore Hats\, Susan Cheever looks back on her father’s work and seeks to understand the connections between art and life. How did a bit of local gossip\, a slice of Greek myth\, and a new translation of Madame Bovary somehow become a brilliant gem like “The Country Husband” or “The Swimmer”? In her 1984 book Home Before Dark\, published two years after her father’s death\, Cheever wrote movingly about her father and the secrets he kept\, but here\, years later\, she tells the story of the remarkable stories themselves\, six of which appear in full in the book’s appendix. \n  \nSusan Cheever will be in conversation with her brother Ben Cheever author of The Plagiarist & Selling Ben Cheever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susan-cheever-reads-from-her-latest-when-all-the-men-wore-hats/
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SUMMARY:Brigitte Dale in conversation about her new book The Good Daughters
DESCRIPTION:In 1912\, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future. \nCharlotte\, disappointed to discover that college isn’t the key to the freedom she longed for\, shocks her family when she moves to London and joins a group of suffragettes willing to upend social norms for the vote. Aristocratic Beatrice\, with a law degree she legally can’t put into practice and a fiancé she’s not particularly excited to marry\, escapes to London to spend her last months of unmarried life with the suffragettes\, and falls deeply—and dangerously—into forbidden love. Emily\, the daughter of the warden of the infamous Holloway Jail\, grieves her mother and saves her wages for a better life outside the prison’s walls. Her best chance at escaping the drudgery of her life is to stay out of trouble\, but when the suffragettes land in her father’s cells\, she must consider risking not only her family’s livelihood\, but her own future. \nWith the dangerous stakes of the suffrage campaign becoming a fight for the women’s bodies and lives\, they enter a treacherous world where the laws and justice system are stacked against them. They face violent protests\, hunger strikes\, and brutal forced feedings\, and the women must decide how much they are willing to risk for their freedom and for each other. \nBrigitte will be in conversation with author Olivia Muenter
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brigitte-dale-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-good-daughters/
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SUMMARY:Devin Kelly in conversation about his debut Pilgrims
DESCRIPTION:A monk leaves the monastery to search for his teenage brother\, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each brother’s perspective\, Pilgrims follows its protagonists as they encounter Appalachian Trail thru-hikers\, greyhound rescuers\, eccentric communists\, and tiny cemetery-keepers. A rumination on abandonment and the intimacies we’ve lost to a world obsessed with progress and material success\, Pilgrims announces the arrival of a striking new voice in American fiction. \nDevin Kelly is a high school teacher in New York City. He writes the newsletter Ordinary Plots\, and his work has appeared in The Guardian\, Longreads\, LitHub\, The Year’s Best Sportswriting\, and more. Pilgrims is his first novel. \n\nDevin Kelly will be in conversation with poet Maya Popa.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/devin-kelly-in-conversation-about-his-debut-pilgrims/
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SUMMARY:Andy Beta launches his debut Cosmic Music: The Life\, Art\, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
DESCRIPTION:Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life—and even in the decades since her passing—she was primarily known as the widow of the late John Coltrane. John Coltrane is widely seen as being one of the greatest tenor saxophonists and composers of the 20th century\, with a fervor and devotion approaching sainthood. Yet ever so slowly\, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon pianist\, organist\, harpist\, and composer Alice Coltrane. \nCosmic Music: The Life\, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane is the first full biography of this remarkable\, groundbreaking artist\, and is an elegant\, deeply researched corrective to the historical—and critical—record. It elevates Alice Coltrane to her proper place\, both alongside her husband as one of the greatest musical visionaries of the 20th century\, and also as a singular artist in Western music\, one who became a spiritual leader in her lifetime.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andy-beta-launches-his-debut-cosmic-music-the-life-art-and-transcendence-of-alice-coltrane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T180000
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SUMMARY:Linda Stasi reads from her latest The Descendant
DESCRIPTION:This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn’t begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead\, The Descendant begins with a big\, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula\, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds\, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters. \nMariano Barbera was a strong\, powerfully built man who saw tiny fourteen-year-old Maria Ragusa at her family’s store and was struck dumb. He had to have her\, and she wanted him just as badly. Their life together leads the couple and their children from earthquake-ravaged Sicily to bondage in the mines of Colorado\, to cattle ranching in Pueblo\, to Mafia life on the mean streets of Red Hook\, Brooklyn. \nThis sweeping family saga centers around the Barberas’ ten children from their three cowboy gangster sons\, Peter\, Joe\, and Austin to their seven wildly different cowgirl daughters. First there’s little Flo—born on the night of the wolves and whose own alpha wolf never left her side—as she navigates life alongside her best pal and younger sister\, Clara. Then there’s Flo’s many older sisters: Callie\, who loved and lost; Angie\, who loved and left; gorgeous Laura\, who loved the wrong man; grouchy but brilliant Helen\, who loved many times; and tough-as-nails wrangler Michelina\, who loved a woman more than the husband she was forced to marry.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/11749/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T180000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Shorr reads from her latest Fatherland
DESCRIPTION:Martin and Lora Brier\, with three young children\, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning\, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town. \nSet in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s\, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora\, a housewife\, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children\, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter\, Josie\, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event\, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous\, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin—and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-shorr-reads-from-her-latest-fatherland/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the launch of About Above Around with author Mark Mayer and painted Jason Stopa
DESCRIPTION:“We ought to say a feeling of and\, a feeling of if\, a feeling of but\, and a feeling of by\,” William James writes. In About\, Above\, Around\, fifty prepositions reveal the subtle syntax of our inner lives\, offering a new yet ancient vocabulary for charting how feeling moves within and between and around us. Kaveh Akbar\, selecting the collection for the George Garrett Prize\, says: “About\, Above\, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable\, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped\, and how we’re held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous\, impressive books I’ve read in ages.” \nWinner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize\, selected by Kaveh Akbar
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-launch-of-about-above-around-with-author-mark-mayer-and-painted-jason-stopa/
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SUMMARY:Priya Parmar in conversation about her new novel The Original
DESCRIPTION:When young Katharine Hepburn loses her beloved brother\, she makes two decisions: She will become famous\, and she will never let anyone hurt her again. Leaving home at twenty-one to pursue a career on Broadway\, Kate is talent-spotted\, screen-tested\, and lured to Los Angeles\, accompanied by her lover\, Laura. Hollywood in the early 1930s is a town full of secrets. Everyone comes with a story. When Kate arrives in California to launch her film career\, she leaves behind her East Coast marriage and icy patrician family to live and love on her own terms. Soon she is scooped into the studio system and launched as a star—but stars must play by the rules and Kate\, brilliant\, bisexual\, and strong-willed\, refuses to conform. \nSurrounded by a legendary circle of intimates\, including the powerful David and Irene Selznick\, charming and romantically conflicted actor Cary Grant\, ambitious director John Ford\, and millionaire tycoon Howard Hughes\, Kate navigates a web of sex\, rivalry\, and betrayal. As Kate’s career ascends\, she faces an agonizing choice: be the star everyone wants her to be\, or risk everything to become the woman she always was. \n  \nPriya will be in conversation with author Christina Baker-Kline
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/priya-parmar-in-conversation-about-her-new-novel-the-original/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
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SUMMARY:Jeanette Settembre launches her debut Little Red Flags
DESCRIPTION:Mia De Luce is a successful\, twenty-five-year-old food writer with zest and appetite. She’s built her dream life in Manhattan while working at her family’s red sauce restaurant. But she’s missing one thing—love. \nThen\, one thrilling weekend away in the Hamptons\, she is seduced by a charismatic and attractive stranger named Ben Cohen. Caught up in the whirlwind romance\, Mia ignores the little red flags she and others see—like Ben’s adrenaline-seeking tendencies and reckless attitude. She turns a blind eye because\, for the first time\, she feels truly seen by someone. \nBut a single event shatters their all-consuming chemistry and forces Mia to live a double life. One as a food writer\, savoring caviar bumps and champagne at the world’s best restaurants…and one in secret\, filled with shame and deception. \nCan Mia confront the truth about herself\, Ben\, and their relationship? Or\, will she lose herself forever to Ben’s world and his toxic manipulation\, destroying the enviable life she built for herself in New York City?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jeanette-settembre-launches-her-debut-little-red-flags/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T193000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Andrews reads from her new book The Fine Art of Lying
DESCRIPTION:In the beginning\, there was art. \nIt was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak\, predictable life in upstate New York\, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she met Jed\, her doting\, affluent husband. \nDespite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD\, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an imposter in Jed’s one-percent\, Park-Avenue life. \nWhen the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces her to influential friends—a curator here\, a gallerist there\, an aficionado abroad—Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer\, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time\, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her. \nSuddenly\, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What\, exactly\, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself\, and her family\, out?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alexandra-andrews-reads-from-her-new-book-the-fine-art-of-lying/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T193000
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SUMMARY:Teddy Wayne reads from his latest The Au Pair
DESCRIPTION:Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now\, his career is floundering\, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling\, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid\, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children—and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous. \nAs a headline-grabbing trial captivates the world with a salacious story of sex\, power\, and betrayal\, Steven must confront the wreckage he’s created—and the deeper insecurities that fueled it. Is Astrid an innocent young woman caught up in a case beyond her control\, or a calculating femme fatale? And how far will he go\, driven by desperation and obsession\, for her professed love? \nWith inexorable momentum and sly\, lucid prose\, Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about desire\, deception\, and the unraveling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance—when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/teddy-wayne-reads-from-his-latest-the-au-pair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
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SUMMARY:Maya C. Popa reads from her latest If You Love That Lady: Poems
DESCRIPTION:If You Love That Lady is a hymn to the pursuit of the unattainable. The title sequence dramatizes the paradox of correspondence: The private worlds shaped by the act of writing\, and the expectant silences that charge our lives. Drawing from nineteenth-century courtship letters\, the collection lingers in the rush of love and the resurrection that follows: “Happiness was no small thing\, / but neither was its cost.” Delivered with piercing elegance and signature wit—“What a formidable excuse he was. / What a pair of borrowed eyes / with a side of Keats”—these poems teach us that desire\, like poetry\, depends on revelation and restraint alike. \nPart elegy to the passing of impossible things\, part ars poetica to the possibility of remaking\, If You Love That Lady explores the inventiveness of longing and its relentless drive\, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maya-c-popa-reads-from-her-latest-if-you-love-that-lady-poems/
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