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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of I Stand Corrected with Eden Collinsworth
DESCRIPTION:A fascinating fusion of memoir\, manners\, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China. \nDuring the course of a career that has\, quite literarily\, moved her around the world\, no country has fascinated Eden Collinsworth more than China\, where she has borne witness to its profound transformation. After numerous experiences there that might best be called “unusual” by Western standards\, she concluded that despite China’s growing status as a world economy\, businessmen in mainland China were fundamentally uncomfortable in the company of their Western counterparts. This realization spawned an idea to work collaboratively with a major Chinese publisher on a Western etiquette guide\, which went on to became a bestseller and prompted a branch of China’s Ministry of Education to suggest that she create a curriculum for the school system. In I Stand Corrected\, Collinsworth tells the entertaining and insightful story of the year she spent living among the Chinese while writing a book featuring advice on such topics as the non-negotiable issue of personal hygiene\, the rules of the handshake\, and making sense of foreigners. Scrutinizing the kind of etiquette that has guided her own business career\, one which has unfolded in predominately male company\, Collinsworth creates a counterpart that explains Chinese practices and reveals much about our own Western culture. At the same time\, I Stand Corrected is a wry but self-effacing reflection on the peripatetic career she led while single-handedly raising her son\, and here she details the often madcap attempts to strike a balance that was right for them both.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/nyc-launch-of-i-stand-corrected-with-eden-collinsworth/
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SUMMARY:Geralyn Lucas discusses her new book Then Came Life with Delia Ephron
DESCRIPTION:  \nOne mastectomy\, two C-sections\, three pant’s sizes\, and lots of red lipstick later\, Geralyn Lucas is dealing with the same issues as other women her age. Her miracle babies have grown into a typical tween with a fierce eye-roll for her mom’s failings and a tornado of a little boy who won’t play by his preschool’s rules. Her storybook romance with her husband has spiraled into couples therapy and her perfect-if-demanding corporate job as a TV producer has abandoned her for L.A. When she looks in the mirror at her hard-won wrinkles\, all she wants is . . . Botox.  Celebrating her sweet sixteen cancerversary she’s thankful for her second chance and ready to be daring—but can she survive life’s new ups and downs with the same courage she’s always had? With an infectiously hilarious voice and a true sense of empowerment\, Geralyn harnesses her fighting spirit to live life loudly and lustily\, and to grab on to all the moments that might never have happened. Knowing she can only pedal forward\, she mines every day for boldness\, joy\, and gratitude\, and eventually falls in love with life again. Then Came Life is not just for cancer survivors; it’s for life survivors—a call to rediscover the resilience and optimism it takes to reinvent yourself at any age.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/geralyn-lucas-discusses-her-new-book-then-came-life-with-delia-ephron/
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of Landslide with author Jonathan Darman
DESCRIPTION:In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction\, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics\, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan\, and shows how\, from 1963 to 1966\, these two men—the same age\, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever. The liberal and the conservative. The deal-making arm twister and the cool communicator. The Texas rancher and the Hollywood star. Opposites in politics and style\, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America\, a story in which he could be the hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination\, Johnson and Reagan each\, in turn\, seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Bringing to life their vivid personalities and the anxious mood of America in a radically transformative time\, Darman shows how\, in promising the impossible\, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the long American tradition of consensus politics and ushered in a new era of fracture. History comes to life in Darman’s vivid\, fly-on-the wall storytelling. Even as Johnson publicly revels in his triumphs\, we see him grow obsessed with dark forces he believes are out to destroy him\, while his wife\, Lady Bird\, urges her husband to put aside his paranoia and see the world as it really is. And as the war in Vietnam threatens to overtake his presidency\, we witness Johnson desperately struggling to compensate with ever more extravagant promises for his Great Society. On the other side of the country\, Ronald Reagan\, a fading actor years removed from his Hollywood glory\, gradually turns toward a new career in California politics. We watch him delivering speeches to crowds who are desperate for a new leader. And we see him wielding his well-honed instinct for timing\, waiting for Johnson’s majestic promises to prove empty before he steps back into the spotlight\, on his long journey toward the presidency. From Johnson’s election in 1964\, the greatest popular-vote landslide in American history\, to the pivotal 1966 midterms\, when Reagan burst forth onto the national stage\, Landslide brings alive a country transformed—by riots\, protests\, the rise of television\, the shattering of consensus—and the two towering personalities whose choices in those moments would reverberate through the country for decades to come. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/nyc-launch-of-landslide-with-author-jonathan-darman/
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SUMMARY:Sande Boritz Berger reads from her debut The Sweetness
DESCRIPTION:Vilna\, 1941. When her family is forced from their ghetto by the invading Nazis\, Rosha Kaninsky\, a curious child\, asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of lemons and water. “Something to remind me of the sweetness\,” the wise woman tells her. Brooklyn\, 1941. Rosha’s cousin\, Miran Kane\, a gifted teen with dreams of escaping to Hollywood to become a designer\, finds her plans abruptly thwarted when her father–traumatized by the fate of his Vilna relatives–becomes intent on safeguarding those he loves from a brutal world. Meanwhile\, unbeknownst to her American family\, Rosha is alive\, saved when her father thrusts her into the arms of a Polish Catholic candle maker. Inspired by true events\, The Sweetness is a tale of heartbreak and hope at a most tragic time in history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sande-boritz-berger-reads-from-her-debut-the-sweetness/
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SUMMARY:Deborah Halber discusses her debut The Skeleton Crew
DESCRIPTION:Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room…The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement—and one another—at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today\, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder\, suicide\, and accident victims\, separated from their names\, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. \nIt’s DIY CSI. \nThe web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal scorecards of dead bodies. The Skeleton Crew delves into the macabre underside of the Internet\, the fleeting nature of identity\, and how even the most ordinary citizen with a laptop and a knack for puzzles can reinvent herself as a web sleuth. \n\nJoin author Deborah Halber and former NYPD detective Joe Giacalone http://joegiacalone.net/ at a conversation about how amateur sleuths using the Internet are solving cold cases involving unidentified remains at the official NYC launch of THE SKELETON CREW: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/deborah-halber-reads-from-her-debut-the-skeleton-crew/
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SUMMARY:Chris Beha reads from his latest Arts and Entertainments
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously witty\, and ultimately tender\, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and Jess Walter. \nA sharp-edged satire with heart\, Arts & Entertainments is the story of Handsome Eddie Hartley who\, at thirty-three\, has forgone dreams of an acting career for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife\, Susan\, discover they cannot have children\, it is one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt\, his wife’s mounting unhappiness\, and his own deepening sense of failure\, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend\, now a wildly popular television star. Overcoming his initial moral qualms\, Eddie figures that in an era when any publicity is good publicity\, the tape won’t cause any harm—a decision that will have disastrous consequences and propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved. A hilariously biting and incisive take-down of our culture’s monstrous obsession with fame\, Arts & Entertainments is also a poignant and humane portrait of a young man’s belated coming-of-age\, the complications of love\, and the surprising ways in which the most meaningful lives often turn out to be the ones we least expected to lead.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/chris-beha-reads-from-his-latest-arts-and-entertainments/
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Dorson reads from his debut Octopus Summer
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URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/malcolm-dorson-reads-from-his-debut-octopus-summer/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Moses reads from her debut The Appetites of Girls
DESCRIPTION:Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother\, who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and\, to provoke her\, consumes everything in sight. Lonely Opal longs to be included in her glamorous mother’s dinner dates—until a disturbing encounter forever changes her desires. Finally\, Setsu\, a promising violinist\, staves off conflict with her jealous brother by allowing him to take the choicest morsels from her plate—and from her future. College brings the four young women together as suitemates\, where their stories and appetites collide. Here they make a pact to maintain their friendships into adulthood\, but each must first find strength and her own way in the world.\n \nPamela Moses received a B.A. in comparative literature from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Georgetown University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young children. The Appetites of Girls is her first novel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/pamela-moses-reads-from-her-debut-the-appetites-of-girls/
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SUMMARY:Kate White reads from Eyes on You
DESCRIPTION:From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a riveting psychological suspense in which a media star must battle a malevolent enemy who may be disturbingly close to her. After losing her on-air job two years ago\, television host Robin Trainer has fought her way back and now she’s hotter than ever. With her new show climbing in the ratings and her first book a bestseller\, she’s being dubbed a media double threat. But suddenly\, things begin to go wrong. Small incidents at first: a nasty note left in her purse; her photo shredded. But the obnoxious quickly becomes threatening when the foundation the makeup artist uses burns Robin’s face. It wasn’t an accident—someone had deliberately doctored with the product. An adversary with a dark agenda wants to hurt Robin\, and the clues point to someone she works with every day. While she frantically tries to put the pieces together and unmask this hidden foe\, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the person responsible isn’t going to stop until Robin loses everything that matters to her . . . including her life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-white-reads-from-eyes-on-you/
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SUMMARY:Ari Goldman reads from The Late Starters Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:If you thought a fiddler on a roof was in a precarious position\, imagine what happens when a middle-aged professor with a bad back takes up the cello. Ari Goldman hasn’t played in twenty-five years\, but he’s decided to give the cello one last chance. First he secures a seat in his eleven-year-old son’s youth orchestra\, and then he’s ready for the big time: the Late Starters Orchestra of New York City—a bona fide amateur string orchestra for beginning or recently returning adult players. \nWe accompany Goldman to LSO rehearsals (their motto is “If you think you can play\, you can”) and sit in on his son’s Suzuki lessons (where we find out that children do indeed learn differently from adults). And we wonder whether Goldman will be good enough to perform at his next birthday party. Coming to the rescue is the ghost of Goldman’s very first cello teacher\, Mr. J\, who continues to inspire and guide him—about music and more—through this enchanting midlife journey.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ari-goldman-reads-from-the-late-starters-orchestra/
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SUMMARY:Caela Carter reads from her latest My Best Friend\, Maybe
DESCRIPTION:Right before they started high school\, Colette’s best friend\, Sadie\, dumped her. Three years later\, Colette is still lonely. She tries to be perfect for everyone left in her life: her parents\, her younger brothers\, her church youth group\, even her boyfriend\, Mark. But Colette is restless. And she misses Sadie.  Then Sadie tells Colette that she needs her old friend to join her on a family vacation to the Greek Islands\, one that leaves in only a few days\, and Colette is shocked to hear their old magic word: need. And she finds herself agreeing. Colette tries to relax and enjoy her Grecian surroundings but it’s not easy to go on vacation with the person who hurt you most in the world. When the reason for the trip finally surfaces\, Colette finds out this is not just a fun vacation. Sadie has kept an enormous secret from Colette for years . . . forever. It’s a summer full of surprises\, but that just might be what Colette needs.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caela-carter-reads-from-her-latest-my-best-friend-maybe/
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SUMMARY:Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year
DESCRIPTION:At 23\, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet\, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent of J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush\, wood-paneled agency\, where Dictaphones and typewriters still prevail and old-time agents doze at their desks in the late afternoon\, and at night she goes home to the tiny\, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty\, surrounded by titanic personalities\, and struggling to trust her own artistic talent\, Joanna is tasked with responding to Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the deeply candid letters from his fans\, she finds herself abandoning the agency’s form letter and writing her own responses. Over the course of the year\, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s\, on her own dangerous and wonderful terms. \nJoanna Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright\, hungry young woman moving through a heady and much-longed for world\, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness\, the idea of a life with life itself. My Salinger Year is a graceful\, deeply moving literary fairytale and the coming-of-age story of a talented young writer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanna-rakoff-reads-from-my-salinger-year/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig reads from her latest That Summer
DESCRIPTION:2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt\, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six\, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting\, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe\, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open… \n1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man\, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter\, Evie\, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artifacts\, including Gavin Thorne\, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait\, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion. \nFrom modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement\, Lauren Willig’s That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house\, a hidden love affair\, and one woman’s search for the truth about her past—and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-reads-from-her-latest-that-summer/
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SUMMARY:Michael Craven reads from his latest novel The Detective & the Pipe Girl
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIn the vein of Harlan Coben\, Robert B. Parker\, and Carl Hiaasen comes a richly atmospheric\, wildly original\, and fast-paced mystery introducing the unforgettable P.I. John Darvelle—set against the magnetic allure of Los Angeles. Private detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design\, smart women\, cheap American beer. He’s a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember\, avoid brunch at all costs\, and don’t live in Brentwood. And he adheres to his own professional code\, an indelible blend of loyalty\, fierce commitment\, and performance under pressure. He also plays a lot of Ping-Pong. Arthur Vonz is one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles\, a filmmaker among the ranks of Spielberg\, Coppola\, and Kubrick. He hires Darvelle to find a young woman named Suzanne Neal\, an incandescent beauty who just might be hiding something. What starts as an easy assignment soon has Darvelle plunging deep into the hidden world of Hollywood’s elite. A twisting\, turning journey puts him face-to-face with the LAPD\, a ruthless underground crime operation\, and a cold-blooded killer. It’s the case of a lifetime . . . that could end his life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-craven-reads-from-his-latest-novel-the-detective-the-pipe-girl/
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SUMMARY:Meryl Gordon reads from The Phantom of Fifth Avenue
DESCRIPTION:Born in 1906\, Huguette Clark grew up in her family’s 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark\, was a copper magnate\, the second richest man in American\, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name\, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances\, Huguette began to withdraw from society–first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham\, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park\, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious\, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded\, copper cage?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/meryl-gordon-reads-from-the-phantom-of-fifth-avenue/
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SUMMARY:Marni Fechter reads from her debut Royal Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss\, she gets fired from her social services job\, and no one else in the field will touch her. Enter the fabulous Charles Ribbon\, premier party producer for New York’s rich and famous. Charles’s assistant is out of commission\, and he wants Melody to start working for him at Royal Entertainment right away. Melody accepts the offer\, and she is suddenly propelled from working with disabled children from low-income families to planning parties for New York’s wealthiest elite. She soon proves that she has a talent for saving the day in this new world—but can she save herself? \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/marni-fechter-reads-from-her-debut-royal-entertainment/
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his latest In Velvet
DESCRIPTION:The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management\, and Rachel\, a bear biologist\, is discovering some very startling animal behavior—grizzlies denning in June\, swans at their wintering grounds in summer\, what appear to be Irish Elk\, an extinct species\, with huge palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations in the young—elk calves with no front legs\, earless bear cubs\, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed? Who’s covering up these animal abnormalities in the Park? \nA non-stop thriller set in some of North America’s wildest country\, In Velvet takes you deep into the hearts of a hard case local detective and a Chicago cop as they take on a corrupt sheriff\, a pathalogical poacher\, and a lethal black ops manager to solve this ghastly mystery and restore the natural order in Yellowstone National Park.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-latest-in-velvet/
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SUMMARY:Ava Chin reads from her debut Eating Wildly
DESCRIPTION:In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City\, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much more. Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods\, and it’s all about eating better\, healthier\, and more sustainably\, no matter where you live. Time named foraging the “latest obsession of haute cuisine.” And while foraging may be the latest foodie trend\, the quest to connect with food and nature is timeless and universal. Ava Chin\, aka the “Urban Forager\,” is an experienced master of the quest. Raised in Queens\, New York\, by a single mother and loving grandparents\, Chin takes off on an emotional journey to make sense of her family ties and romantic failures when her beloved grandmother dies. She retreats into the urban wilds\, where parks and backyards provide not only rare and delicious edible plants\, but a wellspring of wisdom. As the seasons turn\, Chin begins to view her life with new “foraging eyes\,” experiencing the world as a place of plenty and variety\, where every element—from flora to fauna to fungi—is interconnected and interdependent. Her experiences in nature put her on a path to self-discovery\, leading to reconciliation with her family and finding true love. \nDivided into chapters devoted to a variety of edible/medicinal plants\, with recipes and culinary information\, Eating Wildly will stir your emotions and enliven your taste buds—a moving memoir about the importance of family\, relationships\, and food
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ava-chin-reads-from-her-debut-eating-wildly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T180000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Feldman reads from her latest The Unwitting
DESCRIPTION:In CIA parlance\, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was among the “unwitting.”  \nOn a bright November day in 1963\, President Kennedy is shot. That same day\, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband\, the influential young editor of a literary magazine. As the nation mourns its public loss\, Nell has her private grief to reckon with\, as well as a revelation about Charlie that turns her understanding of her marriage on its head\, along with the world she thought she knew. With the Cold War looming ominously over the lives of American citizens in a battle of the Free World against the Communist powers\, the blurry lines between what is true\, what is good\, and what is right tangle with issues of loyalty and love. As the truths Nell discovers about her beloved husband upend the narrative of her life\, she must question her own allegiance: to her career as a journalist\, to her country\, but most of all to the people she loves. Set in the literary Manhattan of the 1950s\, at a journal much like the Paris Review\, The Unwitting evokes a bygone era of burgeoning sexual awareness and intrigue and an exuberance of ideas that had the power to change the world. Resonant\, illuminating\, and utterly absorbing\, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell\, the secrets we keep\, and the power of love in the face of both.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-latest-the-unwitting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T200000
DTSTAMP:20140205T155423Z
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SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill reads from her latest Hotel Florida
DESCRIPTION:Madrid\, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway\, his career stalled\, his marriage sour\, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn\, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience\, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro\, idealistic young photographers based in Paris\, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea\, chief of Madrid’s loyalist foreign press office\, and Ilsa Kulcsar\, his Austrian deputy\, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause—a struggle that places both of them in peril. \nHotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it\, “You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world.” From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries\, official documents\, and recovered reels of film\, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is\, finally\, a story about truth: finding it out\, telling it\, and living it—whatever the cost.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-reads-from-her-latest-hotel-florida/
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SUMMARY:Leah Hager Cohen reads from her latest novel No Book But the World
DESCRIPTION:As children\, Ava and her brother Fred were raised in a “free” environment. Their parents\, progressive educators and followers of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, believed children developed best without formal instruction or societal contraints. This\, despite the fact that Fred was a child who clearly might have benefited from some kind of intervention. When the book opens\, Ava\, 32\, has learned that her brother\, 30\, is being held in a county jail in upstate New York\, alleged to have abducted a young boy and taken him into the woods. After several days’ search\, the boy is found dead. Fred has always been different. If he’d ever been clinically evaluated\, he might well have been given a diagnosis on the autism spectrum\, but his parents didn’t believe in labeling or pathologizing human behavior\, and never took him to a specialist. Now Ava feels impelled to try to piece together the story of what actually happened between the boy and Fred\, convinced that she\, and she alone\, will be able to explain her brother in a way that allows the rest of the world to regard him with sympathy. \nNo Book but the World is about fathoming the unfathomable. It asks what obligation we have to reach out to someone who is difficult to love\, or to try to understand the motivations behind another’s actions\, and what means we have for doing so. It asks whether freedom is always desirable. And it challenges the idea that facts are our best tools for comprehending one another\, proposing our emotions and imaginations might take us further.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leah-hager-cohen-reads-from-her-latest-novel-no-book-but-the-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140408T200000
DTSTAMP:20140120T181152Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Hirsch discusses his latest A Poet's Glossary
DESCRIPTION:A major addition to the literature of poetry\, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms\, devices\, groups\, movements\, isms\, aesthetics\, rhetorical terms\, and folklore—a book that all readers\, writers\, teachers\, and students of poetry will return to over and over. \nHirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world\, returning with an inclusive\, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America\, from small formal elements to large mysteries\, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary\, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. \nKnowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm\, authority\, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved\, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/edward-hirsch-discusses-his-latest-a-poets-glossary/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T204411Z
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SUMMARY:James McMullan reads from Leaving China
DESCRIPTION:James McMullan was born in Tsingtao\, North China\, in 1934\, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little boy\, Jim took for granted a privileged life of household servants\, rickshaw rides\, and picnics on the shore—until World War II erupted and life changed drastically. Jim’s father\, a British citizen fluent in several Chinese dialects\, joined the Allied forces. For the next several years\, Jim and his mother moved from one place to another—Shanghai\, San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Darjeeling—first escaping Japanese occupation then trying to find security\, with no clear destination except the unpredictable end of the war. For Jim\, those ever-changing years took on the quality of a dream\, sometimes a nightmare\, a feeling that persists in the stunning full-page\, full-color paintings that along with their accompanying text tell the story of Leaving China.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-mcmullan-reads-from-leaving-china/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140401T180000
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DTSTAMP:20140314T135531Z
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SUMMARY:Todd Purdum reads from his debut An Idea Whose Time Has Come
DESCRIPTION:  \nA top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the law that created modern America\, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage \n  \nIt was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins\, freedom rides\, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door—when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment\, education\, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because\, as one influential senator put it\, it was “an idea whose time has come.” In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail\, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson\, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen\, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed\, in just over a year\, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law\, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/todd-purdum-reads-from-his-debut-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
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SUMMARY:Walter Kirn reads from his latest Blood Will Out
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1998\, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar\, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller\, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish\, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor\, child kidnapper\, and brutal murderer.\nKirn’s one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend\, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman\, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why\, as a writer of fiction\, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes\, Kirn learns\, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/walter-kirn-reads-from-his-latest-blood-will-out/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140318T180000
DTSTAMP:20140226T204203Z
CREATED:20140107T222316Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Hanff Korelitz reads from her latest You Should Have Known
DESCRIPTION:Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband\, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital\, their young son Henry\, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice\, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised\, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves\, Grace is also the author of a book You Already Know\, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death\, a missing husband\, and\, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew\, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster\, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice\, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jean-hanff-korelitz-reads-from-her-latest-you-should-have-known/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140311T200000
DTSTAMP:20140218T212433Z
CREATED:20140107T221534Z
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SUMMARY:Wayne Gladstone reads from his debut Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:When the Internet suddenly stops working\, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement\, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act. For Gladstone\, the Net’s disappearance comes particularly hard\, following the loss of his wife\, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather’s fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment.　But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters “poke” each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club. With the help of his friends—-a blogger and a webcam girl\, both now out of work—-Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse? \n\nFor fans of David Wong\, Chad Kultgen\, Chuck Palahniuk\, and those of you wondering if you have WiFi right now\, Wayne Gladstone’s Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question “What is life without the Web?”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/wayne-gladstone-read-from-his-debut-notes-from-the-internet-apocalypse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140307T200000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 with Molly Peacock and a bonanza of Canadian Poets
DESCRIPTION:Continuing in a long-established tradition of poetry excellence\, the poems in this collection are culled from Canadian literary magazines and journals. The handpicked selections include the best and most current representations of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. This distinguished volume offers both a convenient introduction to contemporary poets in Canada and a collectible yearbook for seasoned poetry readers. \nReaders include: Leanne Averbach\, Ross Belot\, Louise Carson\, Michael Fraser\, Ben Ladouceur\, Dale Matthews\, Robin Richardson\, Ruth Roach Pierson\, and Moez Surani
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2013-with-molly-peacock-and-a-bonanza-of-canadian-poets/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140304T200000
DTSTAMP:20140127T180553Z
CREATED:20131219T230711Z
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SUMMARY:Carol Weston reads from Ava and Pip\, the First in a New Series
DESCRIPTION:An endearing tween story about friendship\, family\, identity\, and inspiration \nOutgoing Ava loves her older sister\, Pip\, but can’t understand why Pip is so reserved and never seems to make friends with others. When Ava uses her writing talents to help her sister overcome her shyness\, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/carol-weston-reads-from-her-latest-ava-and-pip/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T180000
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DTSTAMP:20131219T214127Z
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SUMMARY:Diane Jacobs reads from her latest Dear Abigail
DESCRIPTION:Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife\, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters\, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody\, accomplished women in their own right. Now acclaimed biographer Diane Jacobs reveals their moving story\, which unfolds against the stunning backdrop of America in its transformative colonial years. \nAbigail\, Mary\, and Elizabeth grew up in Weymouth\, Massachusetts\, the close-knit daughters of a minister and his wife. When the sisters moved away from one another\, they relied on near-constant letters—from what John Adams called their “elegant pen”—to buoy them through pregnancies\, illnesses\, grief\, political upheaval\, and\, for Abigail\, life in the White House. Infusing her writing with rich historical perspective and detail\, Jacobs offers fascinating insight into these progressive women’s lives: oldest sister Mary\, who became de facto mayor of her small village; youngest sister Betsy\, an aspiring writer who\, along with her husband\, founded the second coeducational school in the United States; and middle child Abigail\, who years before becoming First Lady ran the family farm while her husband served in the Continental Congress\, first in Philadelphia\, and was then sent to France and England\, where she joined him at last. \nThis engaging narrative traces the sisters’ lives from their childhood sibling rivalries to their eyewitness roles during the American Revolution and their adulthood as outspoken wives and mothers. They were women ahead of their time who believed in intellectual and educational equality between the sexes. Drawing from newly discovered correspondence\, never-before-published diaries\, and archival research\, Dear Abigail is a fascinating front-row seat to history—and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation’s democracy was just taking hold.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-jacobs-reads-from-her-latest-dear-abigail/
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