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SUMMARY:Ellen Feldman in conversation about her novel The Trouble with You
DESCRIPTION:Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home\, the women were exhaling in relief\, and everyone was having babies\, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. A vivid evocation of a world that seems at once light years away and strangely immediate.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-in-conversation-about-her-novel-the-trouble-with-you/
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SUMMARY:Roxana Robinson reads from her upcoming novel Leaving
DESCRIPTION:Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. In her boldest and most powerful work to date\, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her “trademark gifts as an intelligent\, sensitive analyst of family life” (Wendy Smith\, Chicago Tribune) in an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another\, the tensile relationships between parents and their children\, and what we owe to others and ourselves.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/roxana-robinson-reads-from-her-upcoming-novel-leaving/
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SUMMARY:E.L. Shen in conversation about her new book Maybe It's a Sign
DESCRIPTION:Seventh-grader Freya June Sun has always believed in the Chinese superstitions spoon-fed to her since birth. Ever since her dad’s death a year ago\, she’s become obsessed with them\, and believes that her father is sending her messages from beyond. Like how\, on her way to an orchestra concert where she’s dreading her viola solo\, a pair of lucky red birds appear–a sure indication that Dad wants Freya to stick with the instrument and make him proud. \nThen Freya is partnered with Gus Choi\, a goofy and super annoying classmate\, for a home economics project. To her surprise\, as they experiment with recipes and get to know each other\, Freya finds that she may love baking more than music. It could be time for a big change in her life\, even though her dad hasn’t sent a single sign. But with the help of her family\, Gus (who might not be so annoying after all)\, and two maybe-magical birds\, Freya learns that to be her own person\, she might just have to make her own luck. \n  \nE.L Shen will be in conversation with Christina Li. CHRISTINA LI is the author of children’s and YA books Clues to the Universe\, which was a Washington Post summer book club pick\, Ruby Lost and Found\, which was an NPR\, Kirkus\, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year\, and the forthcoming True Love and Other Impossible Odds (from HarperCollins / Quill Tree Books). She grew up in the Midwest and California but now calls New York home
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/e-l-shen-reads-from-her-new-book-maybe-its-a-sign/
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SUMMARY:Julian Tepper reads from his latest novel Cooler Heads
DESCRIPTION:Julian Tepper’s fourth novel\, Cooler Heads\, is a story about modern love. With a triangulation of lovers and spouses\, young children and careers struggling to get off the ground\, in Celia and Paul we encounter two people in that pocket of life when the fight to figure out who we are and what we want burns brightest. A meditation on the limits of what we can and cannot have\, set in a city–New York–that would have us think that we can have it all\, Cooler Heads is a tour de force and impossible to put down\, a literary triumph.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/julian-tepper-reads-from-his-latest-novel-cooler-heads/
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SUMMARY:Jody Gelb reads from her debut Micro-Memoir She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy
DESCRIPTION:Everything was going right in the delivery room until\, suddenly\, it wasn’t. The baby’s brain was damaged; the new mother\, unprepared for the life she and her family would now be living. \nIn dense\, lyrical prose\, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter’s short life. She May Be lying Down but She May Be Very Happy is a marvel of compression and potency. Gelb lays her experience bare in the full range of its emotional complexity\, from profound suffering to ecstatic joy. It is a mother-daughter memoir scrubbed of sentiment. She May Be lying Down but She May Be Very Happy isn’t so much a book as the naked truth of being human in this imperfect world.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jody-gelb-reads-from-her-micro-memoir-she-may-be-lying-down-but-she-may-be-very-happy/
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SUMMARY:Maggie Jackson reads from her new book Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure
DESCRIPTION:In an era of terrifying unpredictability\, we race to address complex crises with neat algorithms\, bullet points\, or hurried tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the unsung triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure tale set on the front lines of a volatile era\, this paradigm-shifting book by award-winning author Maggie Jackson shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and the unknown\, and how to harness not-knowing in the service of wisdom\, invention\, mutual understanding\, and even resilience. Long neglected as a topic of study\, the newly discovered gifts of uncertainty now fascinate the greatest cognitive scientists – and offer a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day. In laboratories\, operating rooms\, boardrooms\, and on the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence\, Uncertain unlocks the secrets to a state of mind that is critical to human achievement yet treated as a shameful flaw.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maggie-jackson-reads-from-her-new-book-uncertain-the-wisdom-of-being-unsure/
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SUMMARY:Melissa Newman presents her book Head Over Heels
DESCRIPTION:Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors\, but also artistic collaborators\, political activists\, and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly modern. \nThese striking images–many rare and some never before published–are accompanied by snapshots\, letters\, handwritten notes\, and family treasures. Together they beautifully illuminate the connection between two complex\, passionate artists who opened their hearts and minds to each other for over half a century. This book is an homage to the possibility and power of love.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/melissa-newman-presents-her-book-head-over-heels/
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SUMMARY:James Shulman discusses his new book The Synthetic University
DESCRIPTION:US colleges and universities have long been the envy of the world. Institutional autonomy has fostered creativity among faculty\, students\, and staff. But this autonomy means that colleges tend to create their own solutions for every need. As a result\, higher education suffers from costly redundancies that drive tuitions ever upward\, putting higher education\, essential to the fabric of the country\, at risk. Instead of wishful thinking about collaboration or miraculous subsidies\, The Synthetic University describes intermediary organizations that can provide innovative\, cost-effective solutions. \nOffering answers to challenges jointly faced by thousands of institutions\, James Shulman lays out a compelling new vision of how to reduce spending while enabling schools to maintain their particular contributions. He explains why colleges are so resistant to change and presents illuminating case studies of mission-driven and market-supported entrepreneurial organizations–such as the student tracking infrastructure of the National Student Clearinghouse or the ambitious effort of classics professors to create a shared transinstitutional department. Mixing theory with lessons drawn from his own experience\, he demonstrates how to finance and implement the organizations that can synthesize much-needed solutions.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-shulman-discusses-his-new-book-the-synthetic-university/
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SUMMARY:Douglas Brunt in conversation about his new book The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
DESCRIPTION:September 29\, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world\, Rudolf Diesel\, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident\, suicide\, or murder. After rising from an impoverished European childhood\, Diesel had become a multi-millionaire with his powerful engine that does not require expensive petroleum-based fuel. In doing so\, he became not only an international celebrity but also the enemy of two extremely powerful men: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and John D. Rockefeller\, the founder of Standard Oil and the richest man in the world. The Kaiser wanted the engine to power a fleet of submarines that would finally allow him to challenge Great Britain’s Royal Navy. But Diesel had intended for his engine to be used for the betterment of mankind and refused to keep the technology out of the hands of the British or any other nation. For John D. Rockefeller\, the engine was nothing less than an existential threat to his vast and lucrative oil empire. As electric lighting began to replace kerosene lamps\, Rockefeller’s bottom line depended on the world’s growing thirst for gasoline to power its automobiles and industries. \nAt the outset of this new age of electricity and oil\, Europe stood on the precipice of war. Rudolf Diesel grew increasingly concerned about Germany’s rising nationalism and military spending. The inventor was on his way to London to establish a new company that would help Britain improve its failing submarine program when he disappeared. \nDouglas Brunt will be in conversation with Joseph Kanon\, author of The Berlin Exchange\, Istanbul Passage\, and Leaving Berlin\, amongst others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/douglas-brunt-reads-from-his-new-book-the-mysterious-case/
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SUMMARY:Nick McDonell reads from his new book Quiet Street: On American Privilege
DESCRIPTION:Nick McDonell grew up on New York City’s Upper East Side\, a neighborhood defined by its wealth and influence. As a child\, McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied world entailed–sailing lessons in the Hamptons\, school galas at the Met\, and holiday trips on private jets. But as an adult\, he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. \nIn Quiet Street\, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth\, exhuming with bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers. From Galápagos Island cruises and Tanzanian safaris to steely handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions to fox-hunting rituals and the courtship rites of sexually precocious tweens\, McDonell examines the rearing of the ruling class in scalpel-sharp detail\, documenting how wealth and power are hoarded\, encoded\, and passed down from one generation to the next. What’s more\, he demonstrates how outsiders–the poor\, the nonwhite\, the suburban–are kept out. \nSearing and precise yet ultimately full of compassion\, Quiet Street examines the problem of America’s one percent\, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people? How do they cling to power? What would it take for them to share it? Quiet Street looks for answers in a universal experience: coming to terms with the culture that made you. \nNick will be in conversation with his editor\, Lisa Lucas. \nLisa Lucas is the Senior Vice President & Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books at Penguin Random House. Previously\, Lucas was the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation for five years. Prior to joining the Foundation\, she served as the Publisher of Guernica\, a non-profit online magazine focusing on writing that explores the intersection of art and politics with an international and diverse focus.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/nick-mcdonell-reads-from-his-new-book-quiet-street-on-american-privilege/
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SUMMARY:Janet Wallach reads from her new book Flirting with Danger
DESCRIPTION:Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age\, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions\, married the man she loved\, was widowed at thirty-seven\, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter\, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. \nShe arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy\, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Sent to Moscow\, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy. Terrified when told her only way out was to spy for the Cheka\, she became a double agent\, aiming to convince the Russian rulers she was working for them while striving to stay loyal to her country. \nIn Germany and Russia\, Harrison saw the future–a second war with Germany\, a cold war with the Soviets–but her reports were ignored by many back home. Over a decade\, Harrison’s mysterious adventures took her to Europe\, Baghdad\, and the Far East\, as a socialite\, secret agent\, and documentary filmmaker. Janet Wallach captures Harrison’s daring and glamour in this stranger-than-fiction history of a woman drawn to the impossible.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/janet-wallach-reads-from-her-new-book-flirting-with-danger/
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SUMMARY:Sam Freedman presents his new book Into the Bright Sunshine
DESCRIPTION:During one sweltering week in July 1948\, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president -the incumbent\, Harry Truman\, was the presumptive candidate -but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. Even under Franklin Roosevelt\, the party had dodged the issue in order to keep a bloc of Southern segregationists-the so-called Dixiecrats-in the New Deal coalition. \nOn the convention’s final day\, Hubert Humphrey\, just 37 and the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis\, ascended the podium. Defying Truman’s own desire to occupy the middle ground\, Humphrey urged the delegates to “get out of the shadow of state’s rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” Humphrey’s speech put everything on the line\, rhetorically and politically\, to move the party\, and the country\, forward. \nTo the surprise of many\, including Humphrey himself\, the delegates voted to adopt a meaningful civil-rights plank. With no choice but to run on it\, Truman seized the opportunity it offered\, desegregating the armed forces and in November upsetting the frontrunner Thomas Dewey\, a victory due in part to an unprecedented surge of Black voters. \nThe outcome of that week in July 1948-which marks its 75th anniversary as this book is published-shapes American politics to this day. And it was in turned shaped by Humphrey. His journey to that pivotal speech runs from a remote\, all-white hamlet in South Dakota to the mayoralty of Minneapolis as he tackles its notorious racism and anti-Semitism to his role as a national champion of multiracial democracy. His allies in that struggle include a Black newspaper publisher\, a Jewish attorney\, and a professor who had fled Nazi Germany. And his adversaries are the white supremacists\, Christian Nationalists\, and America Firsters of mid-century America – one of whom tries to assassinate him. \nHere is a book that celebrates one of the overlooked landmarks of civil rights history\, and illuminates the early life and enduring legacy of the man who helped bring it about.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sam-freedman-presents-his-new-book-into-the-bright-sunshine/
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SUMMARY:Susannah Marren in conversation about her new book Maribelle's Shadow
DESCRIPTION:Maribelle\, the eldest of the three Barrows sisters\, deserves to be envied. Not only for her plum position as editorial director of Palm Beach Confidential\, but for her impressive husband\, Samuel\, and his involvement in the family business. Together\, they present themselves as the “it” couple of Palm Beach. She might have even aced her two stunning younger sisters. \nBut things aren’t always what they seem. When Samuel unexpectedly dies\, suspicion around the Barrows family swirls. Suddenly the authenticity of their socially ambitious mother\, Lucinda\, and their lavish existence of mansions\, prestige\, privilege\, and couture wardrobe are in question. \nAs their carefully constructed image unravels\, their tidily placed aspirations are challenged. Each sister realizes she must fend for herself and fight for not only what she longs for\, but believes in. For Maribelle\, it is the will to rise above the discovery that her husband was not who he seemed. For Caroline\, the middle sister\, it is facing the fact that she is suffocating from the life she built to please her family. For Raleigh\, the youngest\, her double life surfaces\, threatening her status of wife and young mother. \nAs each of the Barrows sisters searches for a pathway out\, an unexpected power play emerges. Until the price of escape is too dear and worth any risk. Until the winner takes all. \nSusannah Marren will be in conversation with Kara Feifer\, producer of the podcast She Wants More
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susannah-marren-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-maribelles-shadow/
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SUMMARY:Rose Styron in conversation about her new book Beyond This Harbor
DESCRIPTION:An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in\, summered\, traveled with\, played with\, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys\, the Bernsteins\, Alexander Calder\, John Hersey\, and Lillian Hellman. \nHere as well are the years of dedication and risk\, traveling the world\, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador\, Belfast\, and Sarajevo\, as Rose Styron\, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats\, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . . \n  \nStyron writes of her childhood\, born into a German Jewish\, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start\, studying poetry at Wellesley\, Harvard\, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time\, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage\, and their more than fifty years together–in bucolic Roxbury\, Connecticut\, and on Martha’s Vineyard. \nRose Styron will be in conversation with her editor\, Victoria Wilson. Ms. Wilson is a Vice President\, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf\, Publishers. She has served on the boards of PEN American Center\, the National Board Review of Motion Pictures\, the Writing Program of the New School for Social Research\, and Poets & Writers. Wilson is the author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907–1940\, Volume One and is at work on the concluding volume.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/rose-styron-reads-from-her-new-book-beyond-this-harbor/
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SUMMARY:Hannah Wunsch discusses her debut The Autumn Ghost
DESCRIPTION:Americans knew polio as the “summer plague.” In countries further North\, however\, the virus arrived later in the year\, slipping into the homes of healthy children as the summer waned and the equinox approached. It was described by one writer as “the autumn ghost.” \nIntensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them\, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost\, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together compelling testimony from doctors\, nurses\, medical students\, and patients\, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world. \nIn vivid\, captivating chapters\, Wunsch tells the dramatic true story of how insiders and iconoclasts came together in one overwhelmed hospital in Copenhagen to save the lives of many polio patients dying of respiratory failure. Their radical advances in care marked a turning point in the treatment of patients around the world–from the rise of life support and the creation of intensive care units to the evolution of rehabilitation medicine.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/hannah-wunsch-discusses-her-debut-the-autumn-ghost/
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SUMMARY:Brooke Kroeger reads from her new book Undaunted: How Women Changed Journalism
DESCRIPTION:Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly\, Ida Tarbell\, and Ida B. Wells\, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War\, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present\, including those of Martha Gellhorn\, Rachel Carson\, Janet Malcolm\, Joan Didion\, Cokie Roberts\, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium\, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women’s rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today’s racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brooke-kroeger-discusses-her-new-book-undaunted-how-women-changed-journalism/
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SUMMARY:Kate White reads from her latest Between Two Strangers
DESCRIPTION:Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she’s never met regarding a “private matter.” As soon as she arrives at the law firm’s office\, she learns she’s the recipient of a large inheritance\, a life-changing sum that will allow her to realize her long-held dream of becoming a mother. But who was her benefactor\, Christopher Whaley? The late man’s name means nothing to Skyler\, and she has no idea why he would leave her such an enormous bequest. \nLooking into his background\, Skyler finally realizes they met once at a hotel bar and shared a one-night stand. But they never exchanged numbers\, or even last names\, and that was over a decade ago. She wonders if the inheritance is meant to be a message of some kind\, but can’t imagine what it might be. \nChris’ family is confused and suspicious too\, and his widow accuses Skyler of having an affair with her late husband\, then threatens revenge. In order to protect herself\, Skyler has to understand the reason the money was left to her. But as she digs for the truth\, it becomes clear that Chris Whaley might have taken other secrets to the grave\, ones that could have terrifying consequences for her . . .
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-white-reads-from-her-latest-between-two-strangers/
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Cameron discusses her latest thriller No One Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative\, show-your-best-self platforms—an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan’s exclusive Upper East Side disclosed it all\, things they would never share with their friends or their spouses: secret bank accounts\, steamy affairs\, tidbits of juicy gossip. The same people who\, as parents\, go to astonishing lengths to ensure that their children gain admission to the most prestigious boarding schools and universities. So when a “hacktivist” group breaks into the forum and exposes the real identity of each poster\, the repercussions echo down Park Avenue with a force that none could have anticipated. \nAnd someone ends up dead. \nIs the murderer Heather\, the outsider who would do anything to get her daughter into the elite’s good graces and into their even better schools? Norah\, the high-powered executive failing to balance work with the emotional responsibilities of motherhood? Or Poppy\, whose perfect-on-the-outside façade conceals more than her share of secrets?\nEach of them has something to hide.\nEach of them will do anything to keep secrets hidden.\nAnd each of them just might kill to protect their own. \nLindsay Cameron will be in discussion with author Andrea Bartz\, author of The Herd\, The Lost Night and the forthcoming The Spare Room
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lindsay-cameron-discusses-hew-latest-thriller-no-one-needs-to-know/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T193000
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SUMMARY:Corie Adjmi launches her new book The Marriage Box
DESCRIPTION:Casey Cohen\, a Middle Eastern Jew\, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble–and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots\, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. \nIn this new and foreign world\, men pray daily\, thanking God they’re not women; parties are extravagant events at the Museum of Natural History; and the Marriage Box is a real place\, a pool deck designated for teenage girls to put themselves on display for potential husbands. Casey is at first appalled by this unfamiliar culture\, but after she meets Michael\, she’s enticed by it. Looking for love and a place to belong\, she marries him at eighteen\, believing she can adjust to Syrian ways. But she begins to question her decision when she discovers that Michael doesn’t want her to go to college–he wants her to have a baby instead. \nCan Casey integrate these two opposing worlds\, or will she have to leave one behind in order to find her way?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/corie-adjmi-launches-her-new-book-the-marriage-box/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T193000
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UID:9246-1682532000-1682537400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Madeline Lindvall Radman and Michael Lindvall present their debut Ashes to Ashes
DESCRIPTION:In a Manhattan brownstone that has long served as a manse for him and his predecessors\, the Rev. Seth Ludington discovers the bones of an infant…49 years dead. With his sidekick\, the acid-tonged Harriet van der Berg\, Ludington struggles to resolve the mystery of the bones long hidden in the ash pit of his home while trying to outrun a dark secret from his past. The answers he discovers set Ludington onto an ominous path from which he cannot return\, forcing him to explore haunting questions of forgiveness and time.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/madeline-lindvall-radman-and-michael-lindvall-present-their-debut-ashes-to-ashes/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T193000
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SUMMARY:Lucienne Bloch reads from Whistling in the Dark
DESCRIPTION:Lucienne S. Bloch’s beautifully written personal essays explore her world on the Upper West Side of New York City. Growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Europe who longed for their former lives and culture\, these essays explore her youth\, her mother’s Viennese upbringing\, her father’s work in the diamond business and long battle with Alzheimer’s\, her typewriter\, the landscapes of New York\, her ongoing sense of alienation\, and her development as a writer. \nReaders will be swept up in the graceful prose that distinguishes Lucienne S. Bloch’s award-winning work. The universal themes of memory\, belonging\, family\, identity\, survival\, and aging are artfully woven throughout the essays in Whistling in the Dark and will resonate with readers of all ages and backgrounds.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lucienne-bloch-reads-from-whistling-in-the-dark/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T193000
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CREATED:20230303T201300Z
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SUMMARY:Peter D. Kramer reads from his new book Death of the Great Man
DESCRIPTION:When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric patients in books like Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?\, Joyce Carol Oates said\, “To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked\, enthralled\, illuminated.” When Kramer switched to fiction\, Publishers Weekly wrote\, “The depth\, quality\, and ambition of Kramer’s prose will surprise those expecting a superficial crossover effort.” \nIn his new novel\, Death of the Great Man\, Kramer uses those literary skills to introduce readers to an unforgettable character\, Henry Farber\, a well-meaning psychiatrist forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow\, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader. What begins as comic mystery and political satire matures into a moving journey of self-exploration and a commentary on the fate of truth-telling in an era when lying has become a norm in public life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-d-kramer-reads-from-his-new-book-death-of-the-great-man/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T193000
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CREATED:20230302T200347Z
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SUMMARY:Joanne Lipman discusses her new book NEXT!
DESCRIPTION:The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives\, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot\, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth\, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life—and probably more often than that. Whatever the catalyst\, it prompts in us the urgent need to pivot\, to ask the question: \nWhat’s next—and how do I get there? \nIn Next!\, bestselling author and journalist Joanne Lipman distills hundreds of personal interviews along with the latest scientific research to answer just this question. Through irresistible storytelling\, she takes us inside successful career reinventions (ad executive to bestselling novelist; stay-at-home mom to CEO) and astonishing business transformations (wait until you hear what Play-Doh and Viagra have in common). From the laboratories of neuroscientists to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies\, to the frontlines of the social justice movement\, Lipman explores how and why these transformations succeed. \nJoanne Lipman will be in discussion with former Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanne-lipman-discusses-her-new-book-next/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T193000
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UID:8980-1678816800-1678822200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Leigh McMullan Abramson launches her debut novel A Likely Story
DESCRIPTION:Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother\, Claire\, and New York Times bestselling author father\, Ward\, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle\, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with magic and love. \nNow an adult\, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother\, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. \nWry\, wise\, and propulsive\, A Likely Story is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly\, who is the author?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leigh-mcmullan-abramson-launches-her-debut-novel-a-likely-story/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T193000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Turtel reads from his new book The Family Morfawitz
DESCRIPTION:From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel\, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel\, comes The Family Morfawitz\, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. \nWhen Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York\, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus–at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice–ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past–she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits\, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty\, even if it means abandoning their son\, Hezekial. \nDecades later\, through machinations worthy of his parents\, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family’s chronicler. As he sits with his aging father\, transcribing a litany of Zev’s sins–from serving as a kapo at Gusen\, to betraying the friends who helped him\, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children–the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty\, indifference\, and lust\, or repay his mother at last.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-turtel-reads-from-his-new-book-the-family-morfawitz/
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman reads from her latest novel Ms. Demeanor
DESCRIPTION:Ms. Demeanor\nA Novel \nElinor Lipman \nHardcover \nList Price: 27.99*\n* Individual store prices may vary.\n\nJane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm—or was\, until a prudish neighbor\, binoculars poised\, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building.  Police are summoned\, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless\, trapped at home\, life looks bleak. Yes\, her twin sister provides support and advice\, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane isn’t the only resident wearing an ankle monitor\, she strikes up a friendship with fellow white-collar felon Perry Salisbury. As she tries to adapt to life within her apartment walls\, she discovers she hasn’t heard the end of that tattletale neighbor—whose past isn’t as decorous as her 9-1-1 snitching would suggest. Why are police knocking on Jane’s door again? Can her house arrest have a silver lining? Can two wrongs make a right? In the hands of “an inspired alchemist who converts serious subject into humor” (New York Times Book Review)—yes\, delightfully.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elinor-lipman-reads-from-her-latest-ms-demeanor/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T193000
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CREATED:20221031T183724Z
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SUMMARY:Willie Mae Brown reads from her debut My Selma
DESCRIPTION:As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma\, Alabama\, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family’s home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one\, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to offer summer babysitting services to a glamorous single white mother—a secret she keeps from her parents that unravels with shocking results. In another\, Willie Mae reluctantly joins her mother at a church rally\, and is forever changed after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a defiant speech in spite of a court injunction. Infused with the vernacular of her Southern upbringing\, My Selma captures the voice and vision of a fascinating young person—perspicacious\, impetuous\, resourceful\, and even mystical in her ways of seeing the world around her—who gifts us with a loving portrayal of her hometown while also delivering a no-holds-barred indictment of the time and place.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/willie-mae-brown-reads-from-her-debut-my-selma/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T193000
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CREATED:20220811T183949Z
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SUMMARY:Maya Popa reads from her new collection of poems Wound is the Origin of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:“This book is an astonishment. In ravishing\, formally exploratory poems\, Maya C. Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel\, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure: ‘It’s plain we didn’t see / the future coming\,’ she announces. Searching for a spring that brings renewal\, lamenting ‘snow / that vanishes with touch\,’ her poems register a unique combination of imperilment and possibility\, with imagistic precision one can’t forget: ‘A faint hiss—that is / your own life now\, hurrying / from one light to another.’ Wound Is the Origin of Wonder reflects to us our own historical moment with unusual clarity\, even as its lyric exploration of psychic and social landscapes stand outside of time. This is a book I will return to.” —Meghan O’Rourke
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maya-popa-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poems-wound-is-the-origin-of-wonder/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T193000
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CREATED:20220901T153118Z
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UID:8290-1667498400-1667503800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new book A Friend Sails in on a Poem
DESCRIPTION:For the last forty-five years\, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they have written–an unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock collects her most important essays on poetic form and traces the development of her formalist aesthetic across their lifelong back-and-forth.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-book-a-friend-sails-in-on-a-poem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T193000
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CREATED:20220811T183404Z
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UID:8245-1667325600-1667331000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Kate Manning reads from her new book Gilded Mountain
DESCRIPTION:In a voice full of questions and sly humor\, Sylvie recounts the story of leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in the local manor house for the Padgetts\, owners of the marble mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her\, fascinated by her employer\, the charming “Countess” Inge\, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper\, the bookish heir to the family fortune. When she learns that a European King will soon arrive for a hunting party\, her fairy-tale ideas of glamour and romance take a dark turn\, as she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants\, the Gradys\, descendants of formerly enslaved people have long known this to be true—and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie. \nDrawn from true stories of Colorado history\, Gilded Mountain is an unforgettable saga of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants; a novel about resilience in the midst of hardship\, and a story infused with longing—for family and equality\, beauty and joy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-manning-reads-from-her-new-book-gilded-mountain/
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