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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T180000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250123T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T180000
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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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SUMMARY:Please join us for the NYC launch of Melanie Hamrick's new book The Unraveling
DESCRIPTION:Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana\, taught to scrap and hustle for the life she wanted. And ever since Jocelyn found ballet\, she has been able to take her life into her own hands. After years of success at the North American Ballet\, she is now on a hiatus to enjoy life in London.But in an instant\, Jocelyn’s world is turned upside down and she’s forced find a way back into the ballet world. But the ballet scene in London is completely different from the one in America. It’s not just talent and drive that will move you forward; if you don’t secure a sponsor to pay your salary\, you will go nowhere. Jocelyn manages to score a donor\, which is crucial at the Royal National Ballet—but the hardest part is yet to come.Jocelyn is unable to break through her emotions\, afraid that if she does\, she’ll be flooded with feelings she can’t afford to have. But something about her sponsor\, the charismatic Alastair Cavendish\, sets a fire in her. What she feels when she’s with him is raw and real. If she goes down this precarious path\, she knows she’s doomed to fall into an intoxicating spiral of self-sabotage. But the lust and magnetizing lure of power and prestige keep clawing at her\, ultimately forcing her to choose between desire and duty.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-nyc-launch-of-melanie-hamricks-new-book-the-unraveling/
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SUMMARY:Phillip Lopate launches his latest book My Affair with Art House Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist\, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century\, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating\, tantalizing\, and beguiling–and sometimes disappointing or frustrating–through his keen eyes. \nIn an essayist’s sinuous prose style\, Lopate captures the formal mastery\, artistic imagination\, and emotional intensity of art house essentials like Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring\, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive\, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris\, as well as works by contemporary filmmakers such as Maren Ade\, Hong Sang-soo\, Hou Hsiao-hsien\, Christian Petzold\, Paolo Sorrentino\, and Jafar Panahi. Essays explore Chantal Akerman’s rigorous honesty\, Ingmar Bergman’s intimacy\, Abbas Kiarostami’s playfulness\, Kenji Mizoguchi’s visual style\, and Frederick Wiseman’s vision of the human condition. Lopate also reflects on the work of fellow critics\, including Roger Ebert\, Pauline Kael\, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. His considered\, at times contrarian critiques and celebrations will inspire readers to watch or rewatch these films. Above all\, this book showcases Lopate’s passionate advocacy for not only particular films and directors but also the joys and value of a filmgoing culture.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/phillip-lopate-launches-his-latest-book-my-affair-with-art-house-cinema/
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SUMMARY:Allison Pugh in conversation about her new book  The Last Human Job
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians\, teachers\, and coaches to chaplains\, therapists\, caregivers\, and hairdressers—Allison Pugh develops the concept of “connective labor\,” a kind of work that relies on empathy\, the spontaneity of human contact\, and a mutual recognition of each other’s humanity. The threats to connective labor are not only those posed by advances in AI or apps; Pugh demonstrates how profit-driven campaigns imposing industrial logic shrink the time for workers to connect\, enforce new priorities of data and metrics\, and introduce standardized practices that hinder our ability to truly see each other. She concludes with profiles of organizations where connective labor thrives\, offering practical steps for building a social architecture that works. \nVividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together\, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize\, value\, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world. \n  \nAllison Pugh will be in conversation with Deborah Copaken. \n  \nDeborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books\, including Shutterbabe\, The Red Book\, Between Here and April\, and Ladyparts– her most recent memoir of bodily destruction and resurrection during marital rupture (Random House\, 2021). A contributing writer at The Atlantic\, she was also a writer on the Emmy/Golden-Globe nominated Netflix hit\, Emily in Paris a performer (The Moth\, etc.)\, and an Emmy Award–winning news producer and photojournalist. Her photographs have appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Financial Times\, Observer\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Nation\, Slate\, O\, the Oprah Magazine\, Daily Beast\, Air Mail\, and Paris Match\, among others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/allison-pugh-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-last-human-job/
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SUMMARY:Teddy Wayne reads from his latest novel The Winner
DESCRIPTION:Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck\, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: free lodging in a guest cottage in exchange for tennis lessons\, luxuriously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother. In this oceanfront paradise\, however\, new clients prove hard to come by\, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears\, offering him double his usual rate. Soon he realizes Catherine is expecting additional\, off-the-court services for her money\, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before. Despite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age\, he simultaneously finds himself falling for the artsy\, outspoken girl he met on the beach. Conor somehow finds a way to manage this tangled web–until he makes one final\, irreversible mistake. \nA dark\, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite\, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic\, shocking\, and a psychological masterpiece.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/teddy-wayne-reads-from-his-latest-novel-the-winner/
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SUMMARY:John Darnton in conversation about his new book Burning Sky
DESCRIPTION:In Burning Sky\, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first\, a cantankerous climatologist\, raises the alarm. The second\, a brilliant scientist with a lust for power that spawns a dictatorship\, constructs “the Cocoon\,” a stratospheric shield to deflect sunlight. When it cuts the Earth off from the blue sky and majestic stars and plunges our planet into an eternal miasmic fog\, it is up to the third generation—the very son and daughter of the scientist—to try to overthrow him and dismantle his pernicious works.\nIn aiming to undo the damage of their ancestors\, perhaps the younger generation can set humanity on a wiser course. \nJohn Darnton will be in conversation with author David Grann. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/john-darnton-in-conversation-about-his-new-book-burning-sky/
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SUMMARY:Editor Andrew Blauner presents his latest anthology On the Couch with contributors Adam Gopnik & Phillip Lopate
DESCRIPTION:W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) as “a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing lives.” The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis\, Freud charted the human unconscious\, brought us the talking cure\, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch\, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today’s great writers and thinkers\, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much\, if not more\, than anyone else\, ever. The result is a fresh\, multifaceted reassessment of Freud’s continuing relevance and influence on ideas\, literature\, culture\, science\, and more. \n  \nWe are pleased to welcome contributors Adam Gopnik and Phillip Lopate.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/editor-andrew-blauner-presents-his-latest-anthology-on-the-couch/
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SUMMARY:Debbie Babitt reads from her new thriller  The Man on the Train
DESCRIPTION:Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Linda Haley is awakened early one morning by two police officers at the door. She has no idea that her husband has been living a secret life during his daily commute from Scarsdale into the city. Now Guy is the prime suspect in a brutal murder that could derail Linda’s high-powered career and may be connected to a cold case. \nAnd Guy has disappeared. \nWith a warrant out for her husband’s arrest\, Linda sets out to prove his innocence accompanied by an ex-cop who harbors a secret affection for her. Together\, they travel to the scene of a forty-year-old unsolved murder and a night of violence that shattered the serenity of a small fishing hamlet just past the Hamptons.\nBut as the manhunt intensifies and she begins to uncover the shocking truth–and the past Guy has buried deep–Linda must decide if the stranger she married is innocent or guilty. And if he truly deserves to be saved.\nFeaturing tense\, atmospheric suspense that moves at breakneck speed\, this Hitchcockian thriller careens from a bedroom community just north of New York City to the picturesque beaches of eastern Long Island to a suburban train station\, where a killer hiding in plain sight waits to exact a final revenge.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/debbie-babitt-reads-from-her-new-thriller-the-man-on-the-train/
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SUMMARY:Kate Feiffer in conversation about her new book  Morning Pages
DESCRIPTION:Elise Hellman was once heralded by audiences and critics as a “playwright to watch.” Then they forgot all about her. When a prestigious theater company unexpectedly offers her a generous commission to write a new play\, she has an opportunity to turn her career around. With sixty-five days left until her deadline\, Elise starts scribbling a few pages of stream-of-consciousness first thing every morning as a way to get over her writer’s block–a technique called Morning Pages\, popularized in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. What emerges is a witty confessional in which Elise chronicles her life with her teenage stoner son and her overbearing and eccentric mother\, who is losing her memory but not her profanity. She writes about her lingering feelings for her ex-husband\, her best friend who is acting oddly\, and the confusing encounters she has with a handsome stranger in an elevator. As she writes\, the marked-up scenes from her play\, Deja New\, are revealed\, as a story within the story. Morning Pages is about what life throws at you when you’re trying to write. It is both a humorous exploration of the creative process and a relatable coming-of-age tale for the generation sandwiched between caring for their parents and caring for their kids. \nKate Feiffer will be in conversation with Gretchen Young\, founder and publisher of Regalo Press.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-feiffer-reads-from-her-new-book-morning-pages/
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SUMMARY:Clare McHugh reads from her latest novel\, The Romanov Brides
DESCRIPTION:From the author of A Most English Princess comes The Romanov Brides\, a moving and fascinating portrait of two bold and spirited royal sisters\, bringing imperial Russia to vivid life—a dazzling\, decadent world on the brink of disappearing forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/clare-mchugh-reads-from-her-latest-novel-the-romanov-brides/
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SUMMARY:Josie Cox reads from her new book\, Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
DESCRIPTION:From an experienced financial journalist\, Women Money Power is the story of how women have fought for financial freedom\, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. Cox delves deep into the challenges women face today and the culture and systems that hold them back. A fascinating narrative account of progress\, women’s lives\, and the work still to be done.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/josie-cox-reads-from-her-new-book-women-money-power-the-rise-and-fall-of-economic-equality/
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