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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/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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SUMMARY:Sabeeha Rehman reads from her new book It's Not What You Think
DESCRIPTION:It’s Not What You Think is a wry\, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society\, what is so attractive to expatriates living there\, and what was contradictory or confining about it for a naturalized American who is a woman and a Muslim. A hospital executive in New Jersey\, Sabeeha relocated with her oncologist husband to Riyadh\, the most conservative city in the country\, intending to remain two years. They ended up staying for six. Her book takes the reader on a journey of discovery that mirrors her own.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sabeeha-rehman-reads-from-her-new-book-its-not-what-you-think/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
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SUMMARY:William Miller reads from his book Steel City
DESCRIPTION:*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS AND WILL HAPPEN OFFSITE AT WETHERBY-PEMBRIDGE SCHOOL 7 EAST 96th STREET* \nRSVP to: events@chneighbors.org \nSteel City is the story of the 1890’s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel\, food processing and electricity\, and the leaders of those industries – Carnegie\, Frick\, Heinz and Westinghouse -are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton\, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer\, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business\, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century\, the Johnstown Flood\, confirms his choice to be a journalist\, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans\, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era\, he is exposed to a very different world\, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately\, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/william-miller-reads-from-his-book-steel-city/
LOCATION:Wetherby-Pembrisge\, 7 East 96th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10128
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SUMMARY:Daniel Medwed reads from Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Of Prison
DESCRIPTION:Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. \nIn Barred\, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing punishment of the innocent. Those rules guarantee criminal defendants just one opportunity to appeal their convictions directly to a higher court. Afterward\, the wrongfully convicted can pursue only a few narrow remedies. Even when there is strong evidence of a miscarriage of justice\, rigid guidelines\, bias\, and deference toward lower courts all too often prevent exoneration. \nOffering clear explanations of legal procedures alongside heart-wrenching stories of their devastating impact\, Barred exposes how the system is stacked against the innocent and makes a powerful call for change.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-medwed-reads-from-his-debut-barred-why-the-innocent-cant-get-of-prison/
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SUMMARY:Brian McDonald reads from his new book Five Floors Up
DESCRIPTION:Seen through the eyes of four generations of a firefighter family\, Five Floors Up the story of the modern New York City Fire Department. From the days just after the horse-drawn firetruck\, to the devastation of the 1970s when the Bronx was Burning\, to the unspeakable tragedy of 9/11\, to the culture-busting department of today\, a Feehan has worn the shoulder patch of the FDNY. The tale shines the spotlight on the career of William M. Feehan. “Chief” Feehan is the only person to have held every rank in the FDNY including New York City’s 28th Fire Commissioner. He died in the September 11\, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. But Five Floors Up is at root an intimate look at a firefighter clan\, the selflessness and bravery of not only those who face the flames\, but the family members who stand by their sides. Alternately humorous and harrowing\, rich with anecdotes and meticulously researched and reported\, Five Floors Up takes us inside a world few truly understand\, documenting an era that is quickly passing us by.\n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brian-mcdonald-reads-from-his-new-book-five-floors-up/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220809T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220809T193000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Bomback reads from his debut Long Days\, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting
DESCRIPTION:When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent\, and so rife with the possibility of failure? \nIn Long Days\, Short Years\, Andrew Bomback—physician\, writer\, and father of three young children—looks at why it can be so much fun to be a parent but\, at the same time\, so frustrating and difficult to parent. It’s not a “how to” book (although Bomback has read plenty of these) but a “how come” book\, investigating the emergence of an immersive\, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive (and often not very enjoyable) sport. \nDrawing on parenting books\, mommy blogs\, and historical accounts of parental duties as well as novels\, films\, podcasts\, television shows\, and his own experiences as a parent\, Bomback charts the cultural history of parenting as a skill to be mastered\, from the laid-back Dr. Spock’s 1950s childcare bible—in some years outsold only by the actual Bible—to the more rigid training schedules of Babywise. Along the way\, he considers the high costs of commercialized parenting (from the babymoon on)\, the pressure on mothers to have it all (and do it all)\, scripted parenting as laid out in How to Talk So Kids Will Listen\, parenting during a pandemic\, and much more.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andrew-bomback-reads-from-his-debut-long-days-short-years-a-cultural-history-of-modern-parenting/
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SUMMARY:Debbie Babitt reads from her new novel First Victim
DESCRIPTION:The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme\, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something about this trial—a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman—that affects her as no other case ever has. Her chaotic\, stressful home life only adds to her mounting feelings of panic and fear. She’s also harboring a secret that if exposed could have far-reaching ramifications both personally and professionally. And now\, unbeknownst to Alice\, her daughter has begun a search for her biological father. \nAs the trial progresses\, Alice’s life starts to unravel. Nightmares she suffered as a girl return with a vengeance. Phantom sightings torment her. Is she being paranoid? Or are the specters real? Almost at the breaking point\, she begins to doubt her own sanity. Then she makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a collision course with her past and a terror-filled night in the woods in Upstate New York. Confronted with the unspeakable\, she must face a decades-buried truth as she fights for her survival against a cunning adversary that forces her to question everything she ever believed about herself . . . and tests her limits as a woman\, a judge\, and a mother.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/debbie-babitt-reads-from-her-new-novel-first-victim/
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SUMMARY:Caitlin Macy reads from her new story collection A Blind Corner
DESCRIPTION:In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations\, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In Macy’s world\, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient\, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. \nTime and again\, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad\, Macy’s women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife\, attempting to be a good host to a friend’s strange ex-boyfriend\, finds herself in a compromised situation. And\, in the title story\, a newlywed fancies herself a Euro-sophisticate until an accident reminds her just how truly foreign she really is.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caitlin-macy-reads-from-her-new-story-collection-a-blind-corner/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T193000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Belfer reads from her new novel Ashton Hall
DESCRIPTION:When a close relative falls ill\, Hannah Larson and her young son\, Nicky\, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall\, a historic manor house outside Cambridge\, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child\, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City\, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. \nSoon after their arrival\, ever-curious Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor\, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers\, Nicky close by her side. Working from clues in centuries-old ledgers showing what the woman’s household spent on everything from music to medicine; lists of books checked out of the library; and the troubling personal papers of the long-departed family\, Hannah begins to recreate the Ashton Hall of the Elizabethan era in all its color and conflict. As the multilayered secrets of her own life begin to unravel\, Hannah comes to realize that Ashton Hall’s women before her had lives not so different from her own\, and she confronts what mothers throughout history have had to do to secure their independence and protect their children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-belfer-reads-from-her-new-novel-ashton-hall/
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SUMMARY:Victoria Shorr reads from her new book Mid-Air
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Shorr’s remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family\, ambition\, class\, and status. \nIn “Great Uncle Edward\,” a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three\, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy. “Cleveland Auto Wrecking” introduces Sam White\, an immigrant from eastern Europe. He cannot read but has a gift for math and an instinct for the value of junk. We follow his clan through the Depression to the postwar boom in the West\, where their fortunes soar\, creating new tests of loyalty. \nTaken together\, these two novellas might be the reverse images of the American dream in the twentieth century. They ask to what degree\, in the face of such powerful forces as love\, death\, and social constraints\, do any of us have control over our own lives.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-shorr-reads-from-her-new-book-mid-air/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T193000
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SUMMARY:Paul Batista reads from his new thriller Accusation
DESCRIPTION:World renowned\, revered actor Aaron Julian is awakened at two a.m. by his agent who informs him that he has been accused of sexual harassment. Young actresses will break the story on prime-time TV that morning—with their lawyer\, the attorney who led the charge in the priests’ sexual abuse cases. \nAaron and his celebrity pop-singer wife\, Veda\, vehemently deny the charges\, and hire powerful defense lawyer Raquel Rematti. But when the plaintiffs’ lawyer is murdered in Central Park\, the stakes skyrocket and the conspiracies spiral out of control. \nDespite revelation after revelation\, Aaron continues to proclaim his innocence. And in his defense\, Rematti uses every tool in the legal system to produce courtroom drama that is unparalleled.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paul-batista-reads-from-his-new-thriller-accusation/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T193000
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SUMMARY:Adam Van Doren presents In the Founders Footsteps
DESCRIPTION:A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America’s founding. Obscure\, well-known\, off-the-beaten path\, and on busy city streets\, here are taverns\, meeting houses\, battlefields\, forts\, monuments\, homes which all combine to define our country–the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America’s past that also brings greater clarity to our present and the future we choose to make as a nation. Author-artist Adam Van Doren traveled from Maine to Georgia in that spirit. There are thirty-seven landmarks included\, with fifteen additional locations noted in brief.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adam-van-doren-presents-in-the-founders-footsteps/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200623T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200623T193000
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Erin Geiger Smith reads from her debut Thank You for Voting
DESCRIPTION:Voting is a prized American right and a topic of debate from the earliest days of the country. Yet in the 2016 presidential election\, about 40 percent of Americans—and half of the country’s young adults—didn’t vote. Why do so many Americans choose not to vote\, and what can we do about it? \nThe problem\, Erin Geiger Smith contends\, is a lack of understanding about our electoral system and a need to make voting more accessible. Thank You for Voting is her eye-opening look at the voting process\, starting with the Framers’ perspective\, through the Equal Protection amendment and the Voting Rights Act\, to the present and simple actions individuals can take to increase civic participation in local\, state\, and national elections. \nGeiger Smith expands our knowledge about our democracy—including women’s long fight to win the vote\, attempts to suppress newly enfranchised voters’ impact\, state prohibitions against felons voting\, charges of voter fraud and voter suppression\, and other vital issues. In a conversational tone\, she explains topics that can confuse even the most informed voters: polling\, news literacy\, gerrymandering and the Electoral College. She also explores how age\, race\, and socioeconomic factors influence turnout.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/erin-geiger-smith-reads-from-her-debut/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T193000
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CREATED:20200303T194259Z
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Ellen Feldman reads from her new novel Paris Never Leaves You
DESCRIPTION:Living through WWII with her young daughter Vivi\, working in a Paris bookstore\, and fighting for her life\, Charlotte is no victim\, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? \nAlternating between wartime Paris and New York’s 1950s publishing world\, Paris Never Leaves You is a story of resilience\, love\, and impossible choices\, exploring how survival never comes without a cost.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-new-novel-paris-never-leaves-you/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T193000
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Benjamin Taylor reads from his new book Here We Are
DESCRIPTION:A deeply felt\, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking\, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend. \n\n\nHere We Are is an ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today\, and this new memoir pays tribute to his friend\, in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged him to write this book\, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Unvarnished and affectionately true to life\, Taylor’s memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/benjamin-taylor-reads-from-his-new-book-here-we-are/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T193000
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CREATED:20200303T193715Z
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Chris Beha reads from his new novel The Index of Self-Destuctive Acts
DESCRIPTION:The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer\, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity—he correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election—Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But when projection meets reality\, things turn complicated. Sam’s assigned a profile of disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle\, a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq-war apologist and author of the great works of baseball lore that first sparked Sam’s love of the game (books he now views as childish mythmaking to be crushed with his empirical hammer). But Doyle is convincing in person\, charming and intelligent. Sam takes a liking to him\, and to his daughter\, Margo\, with whom Sam becomes involved—just as his wife\, Lucy\, arrives from Wisconsin.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/chris-beha-reads-from-his-new-novel-the-index-of-self-destuctive-acts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T193000
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SUMMARY:***IN STORE CANCELLED*** Jamie Brenner reads from her new book Summer Longing on Instagram.com/jamiebrennerwrites
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement\, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life’s compromises\, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep\, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community. As summer unfolds and friends and family care for the infant\, alliances are made\, relationships are tested\, and secrets are uncovered. But the unconditional love for a child in need just might bring Ruth and the women of Provincetown exactly what they have been longing for themselves. \n  \nPlease note: Jamie will be hosting this event live on her Instagram account: Instagram.com/jamiebrennerwrites. \nWe hope to have signed copies available for purchase\, so please check with us.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jamie-brenner-reads-from-her-new-book-summer-longing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200401T180000
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** John Loughery & Blythe Randolph present their new book Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century
DESCRIPTION:After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a Communist sympathizer\, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for almost fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic\, political radical\, and a rebel who courted controversy\, she attracted three generations of admirers. Day went to jail challenging the draft and the war in Vietnam. She was critical of capitalism and foreign policy\, and as skeptical of modern liberalism as political conservatism. \nHer protests began in 1917\, leading to her arrest during the suffrage demonstration outside President Wilson’s White House. In 1940 she spoke in Congress against the draft and urged young men not to register. She frequented jail throughout the 1950s protesting the nuclear arms race. She told audiences in 1962 that President Kennedy was as much to blame for the Cuban missile crisis. She refused to hear any criticism of the pope\, though she sparred with American bishops and priests who lived in well-appointed rectories and tolerated racial segregation in their parishes. \nDorothy Day is the exceptional biography of a dedicated modern-day pacifist\, the most outspoken advocate for the poor\, and a lifelong anarchist. This definitive and insightful account explores the influence this controversial and yet “sainted” woman still has today.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/john-loughery-reads-from-his-new-book-dorothy-day-dissenting-voice-of-the-american-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200331T180000
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Bill Keenan reads from his new book Discussion Materials
DESCRIPTION:Discussion Materials gives the reader an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School\, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank’s investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You’ll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned\, but whatever you do\, don’t ask him what any of it means. Leaning heavily on his fellow junior bankers and the countless outsourcing resources the bank employs\, he slowly develops proficiency at the job\, eventually gaining traction and respect\, one deal at a time\, over a two-year span\, ultimately cementing his legacy in the group by attaining the unattainable—placing a dinner order on Seamless one Sunday night at work from Hwa Yuan Szechuan amounting to $25.00 (tax and tip included)\, the bank’s maximum allowance for meals—the perfect order.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bill-keenan-reads-from-his-new-book-discussion-materials/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T193000
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Julian Tepper in conversation with Hannah Assadi about his new book Between the Records
DESCRIPTION:Jules and Adam Newman’s complex\, often hostile\, relationship has long fueled their music careers as they followed in their father’s footsteps. After the release of their debut record\, and while struggling to write tracks for the followup\, the brothers begin to clash. Jules\, the younger brother\, feels cast aside and ignored by Adam\, who has long been accustomed to having things his own way. From the studio to the stage and across the countless miles in between\, Julian Tepper’s third novel is a moody and heady work of autofiction based on his days in the Natural History\, which he and his brother formed in 2001. Between the Records examines brothers\, fathers\, rock and roll\, and the personal demons therein—both musical and familial.\nJulian Tepper is the author of two novels\, Balls (Rare Bird) and Ark (Dzanc). As the member of the band The Natural History\, he recorded two albums and co-wrote the hit song\, “Don’t You Evah” for the legendary indie-group\, Spoon.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/julien-tepper-reads-from-his-new-book-between-the-records/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T193000
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CREATED:20200107T161428Z
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SUMMARY:Honor Moore reads from her new book Our Revolution
DESCRIPTION:With the sweep of an epic novel\, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore\, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in the great twentieth-century movements for peace and social justice. Born into Boston society in 1923 and the first woman in her family to go to college\, she set aside writing ambitions to marry Paul Moore\, a decorated war hero who became Bishop Paul Moore. Together they had nine children—”a baseball team\,” Jenny said\, “a small orchestra.” \nRejecting a conventional path\, the Moores moved to an inner-city parish in Jersey City and began their family while collaborating on a socially radical\, multiracial ministry. In 1968\, Jenny published her first book. “Everything was just starting\,” she protested—meaning an independent life inspired in part by the new feminist movement—when she was diagnosed with cancer at fifty. \nJenny bequeathed to her eldest daughter\, Honor\, then a twenty-seven-year-old poet\, her unfinished writing. As Honor pursued her own writing\, she was haunted by her mother’s bequest. Decades later\, she delves into Jenny’s pages and forges a new relationship with the passionate seeker and truth teller she finds there. Our Revolution is a vivid\, absorbing account of two women navigating the twentieth century and a daughter’s story of the mother who shaped her life as an artist and a woman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/honor-moore-reads-from-her-new-book-our-revolution/
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