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SUMMARY:Trey Sager launches his new book Pretend I'm Not Here
DESCRIPTION:Pretend I’m Not Here features characters struggling with sex\, identity and meaning in a world collapsing around them. Everyone is longing for something—the beloved\, a newborn child\, even annihilation. Cities burn\, protests rage\, isolation intensifies. A motif of masks and costumes runs throughout as characters experiment with who they are and struggle for connection in an absurd world. Though bleak\, many of the stories end with a moment of dark optimism.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/trey-sager-launches-his-new-book-pretend-im-not-here/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T160000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Greenwald and Goldy Moldavsky celebrate the publication of their new Middle-Grade Books
DESCRIPTION:Sadie and Olive have never been part of their class’s popular friend group. Those girls—Pella\, Annabelle\, Cleo\, and The Other Sadie—seem like creatures from another planet. They wear the trendiest clothes\, have the best hair\, flirt with the cutest boys\, and speak their own language. By comparison\, Sadie and Olive are invisible . . . until Sadie is accidentally added to the popular girls’ group chat. Armed with an inside perspective\, Sadie sets out to join the friend group—IRL—before they figure out that they’ve got the wrong Sadie. \n  \nGigi and her older sister\, Yasmin\, are spending the summer at a Jewish bungalow colony in upstate New York\, thanks to their dad\, who will be the handyman there. Sure\, there will be day camp to go to\, and the forest to explore\, and maybe new friends to make. But Gigi doesn’t feel she fits in. Despite the fact that she’s Jewish too\, she can’t help but feel that her Judaism is totally different from the other kids’. It doesn’t help that Mom isn’t around to talk to—she’s back in Brooklyn working. Yasmin has her own friends\, and even though her dad speaks five languages\, he and Gigi never seem to be speaking the same one. \nThere’s only one thing Gigi can do—escape. So\, she hatches a plan to run away. But unexpected surprises keep drawing her back. Like\, why do the boys at the camp keep doing flips? What kind of lake has fish with mustaches? Can Gigi sneakily use her dad’s tools to build a secret treehouse? \nTry as she might\, Gigi can’t figure out why everyone else loves this place so much. Will she eventually find her way back home\, or will she—just maybe—discover something special hidden within the colony?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lisa-greenwald-launches-her-new-book-friend-group/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T193000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Andrews reads from her new book The Fine Art of Lying
DESCRIPTION:In the beginning\, there was art. \nIt was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak\, predictable life in upstate New York\, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she met Jed\, her doting\, affluent husband. \nDespite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD\, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an imposter in Jed’s one-percent\, Park-Avenue life. \nWhen the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces her to influential friends—a curator here\, a gallerist there\, an aficionado abroad—Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer\, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time\, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her. \nSuddenly\, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What\, exactly\, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself\, and her family\, out?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alexandra-andrews-reads-from-her-new-book-the-fine-art-of-lying/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T193000
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SUMMARY:Jeanette Settembre launches her debut Little Red Flags
DESCRIPTION:Mia De Luce is a successful\, twenty-five-year-old food writer with zest and appetite. She’s built her dream life in Manhattan while working at her family’s red sauce restaurant. But she’s missing one thing—love. \nThen\, one thrilling weekend away in the Hamptons\, she is seduced by a charismatic and attractive stranger named Ben Cohen. Caught up in the whirlwind romance\, Mia ignores the little red flags she and others see—like Ben’s adrenaline-seeking tendencies and reckless attitude. She turns a blind eye because\, for the first time\, she feels truly seen by someone. \nBut a single event shatters their all-consuming chemistry and forces Mia to live a double life. One as a food writer\, savoring caviar bumps and champagne at the world’s best restaurants…and one in secret\, filled with shame and deception. \nCan Mia confront the truth about herself\, Ben\, and their relationship? Or\, will she lose herself forever to Ben’s world and his toxic manipulation\, destroying the enviable life she built for herself in New York City?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jeanette-settembre-launches-her-debut-little-red-flags/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T193000
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SUMMARY:Priya Parmar in conversation about her new novel The Original
DESCRIPTION:When young Katharine Hepburn loses her beloved brother\, she makes two decisions: She will become famous\, and she will never let anyone hurt her again. Leaving home at twenty-one to pursue a career on Broadway\, Kate is talent-spotted\, screen-tested\, and lured to Los Angeles\, accompanied by her lover\, Laura. Hollywood in the early 1930s is a town full of secrets. Everyone comes with a story. When Kate arrives in California to launch her film career\, she leaves behind her East Coast marriage and icy patrician family to live and love on her own terms. Soon she is scooped into the studio system and launched as a star—but stars must play by the rules and Kate\, brilliant\, bisexual\, and strong-willed\, refuses to conform. \nSurrounded by a legendary circle of intimates\, including the powerful David and Irene Selznick\, charming and romantically conflicted actor Cary Grant\, ambitious director John Ford\, and millionaire tycoon Howard Hughes\, Kate navigates a web of sex\, rivalry\, and betrayal. As Kate’s career ascends\, she faces an agonizing choice: be the star everyone wants her to be\, or risk everything to become the woman she always was. \n  \nPriya will be in conversation with author Christina Baker-Kline
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/priya-parmar-in-conversation-about-her-new-novel-the-original/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T193000
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SUMMARY:Connor Martin launches his debut The Silver Fish: A Thriller
DESCRIPTION:Journalist Danielle “Dani” Moreau has spent a lifetime trying to outrun the privilege she was born into. Fresh off a personal tragedy\, she lands in Ghana to uncover corruption in the local oil industry. But when she crosses paths with James Aidoo\, an idealistic young Ghanaian whose father is a local populist politician\, Dani remembers what drew her to journalism in the first place: you go looking for a story\, but when the real story appears\, it’s never the one you expected. \nDani soon finds herself chasing a scoop that involves an American operative with a violent past\, a Ghanaian double agent\, and a fight between the United States and China over one of the world’s most dangerous and least-known technologies: fiber optic cables. Underwater tubes as thick as a garden hose\, the cables snake along the seafloor carrying the world’s information at the speed of light from one continent to another\, and the fight to control them is increasingly visible on the world’s front pages. Amidst this world-changing struggle\, Dani and her new associates will be forced to make deadly choices that impact each other and their own lives in ways nobody expects. \nA twisty double-cross narrative\, The Silver Fish opens with a spy operation going horrifically off course and takes the reader sprinting through crowded markets\, darkened bars\, bustling ports\, and steaming jungle on the way to a startling conclusion. It will leave the reader shocked\, moved\, better-informed—and eagerly awaiting the next chapter in the story.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/connor-martin-launches-his-debut-the-silver-fish-a-thriller/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T193000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the launch of About Above Around with author Mark Mayer and painted Jason Stopa
DESCRIPTION:“We ought to say a feeling of and\, a feeling of if\, a feeling of but\, and a feeling of by\,” William James writes. In About\, Above\, Around\, fifty prepositions reveal the subtle syntax of our inner lives\, offering a new yet ancient vocabulary for charting how feeling moves within and between and around us. Kaveh Akbar\, selecting the collection for the George Garrett Prize\, says: “About\, Above\, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable\, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped\, and how we’re held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous\, impressive books I’ve read in ages.” \nWinner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize\, selected by Kaveh Akbar
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-launch-of-about-above-around-with-author-mark-mayer-and-painted-jason-stopa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
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SUMMARY:Jimmy Lebenthal launches How to Ride the Subway: Getting Around on Wall Street and in Life
DESCRIPTION:Jimmy Lebenthal grew up in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s\, a hardscrabble time for Gotham. As a youth\, the city’s extensive subway system drew his attention to a degree that can only be described as passionate. It was in those years that Jimmy first started investing in public equities. From the perspective of a seasoned subway rider\, Jimmy shares his hard-fought wisdom in investing and building successful business relationships. Part how-to guide and part memoir\, the whimsy\, charm\, and intelligence of Jimmy Lebenthal makes this book a must-read for any investor.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jimmy-lebenthal-launches-how-to-ride-the-subway-getting-around-on-wall-street-and-in-life/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T193000
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SUMMARY:Madeline Hart launches Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III
DESCRIPTION:America is in an undeclared state of emergency. Not since the Cold War has the US faced such powerful enemies—and our military isn’t ready. Shyam Sankar\, Chief Technology Officer of Palantir\, issues an urgent call to action: Mobilize. \nThe American industrial base once underwrote American victory. Builders and workers rallied to win World War II. For most of the twentieth century\, great American companies from General Mills to Chrysler had defense businesses that sent mankind into space and won the Cold War. But the forges fell silent and the furnaces went dark. America’s innovators and warfighters were ripped apart. Now China\, not America\, leads the world in manufacturing. America is the underdog. The good news is\, we’ve been here before. \nMobilize tells the remarkable true stories of the Americans who moved heaven and earth to produce for our troops and help our country win the twentieth century. And it exposes the shocking blunders that broke the Pentagon and weakened our military. \nThere’s a war for America’s future\, stymied between the forces of complacency and change. If we empower exceptional individuals and harness the power of capitalism and competition\, America can unleash the brains and brawn we need to resurrect our industrial base\, stop World War III\, and help our country build—and win.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/madeline-hart-shyam-sankar-launch-mobilize-how-to-reboot-the-american-industrial-base-and-stop-world-war-iii/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T180000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Shorr reads from her latest Fatherland
DESCRIPTION:Martin and Lora Brier\, with three young children\, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning\, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town. \nSet in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s\, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora\, a housewife\, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children\, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter\, Josie\, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event\, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous\, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin—and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-shorr-reads-from-her-latest-fatherland/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T193000
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SUMMARY:Linda Stasi reads from her latest The Descendant
DESCRIPTION:This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn’t begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead\, The Descendant begins with a big\, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula\, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds\, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters. \nMariano Barbera was a strong\, powerfully built man who saw tiny fourteen-year-old Maria Ragusa at her family’s store and was struck dumb. He had to have her\, and she wanted him just as badly. Their life together leads the couple and their children from earthquake-ravaged Sicily to bondage in the mines of Colorado\, to cattle ranching in Pueblo\, to Mafia life on the mean streets of Red Hook\, Brooklyn. \nThis sweeping family saga centers around the Barberas’ ten children from their three cowboy gangster sons\, Peter\, Joe\, and Austin to their seven wildly different cowgirl daughters. First there’s little Flo—born on the night of the wolves and whose own alpha wolf never left her side—as she navigates life alongside her best pal and younger sister\, Clara. Then there’s Flo’s many older sisters: Callie\, who loved and lost; Angie\, who loved and left; gorgeous Laura\, who loved the wrong man; grouchy but brilliant Helen\, who loved many times; and tough-as-nails wrangler Michelina\, who loved a woman more than the husband she was forced to marry.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/11749/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T193000
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SUMMARY:Andy Beta launches his debut Cosmic Music: The Life\, Art\, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
DESCRIPTION:Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life—and even in the decades since her passing—she was primarily known as the widow of the late John Coltrane. John Coltrane is widely seen as being one of the greatest tenor saxophonists and composers of the 20th century\, with a fervor and devotion approaching sainthood. Yet ever so slowly\, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon pianist\, organist\, harpist\, and composer Alice Coltrane. \nCosmic Music: The Life\, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane is the first full biography of this remarkable\, groundbreaking artist\, and is an elegant\, deeply researched corrective to the historical—and critical—record. It elevates Alice Coltrane to her proper place\, both alongside her husband as one of the greatest musical visionaries of the 20th century\, and also as a singular artist in Western music\, one who became a spiritual leader in her lifetime.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andy-beta-launches-his-debut-cosmic-music-the-life-art-and-transcendence-of-alice-coltrane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the launch of Emily Saw a Door with author Mel Rosenberg and illustrator Orit Magia
DESCRIPTION:Knock\, knock.\nWho’s there?\nIt’s me\, Emily. May I come in? \nAnd so begins Emily’s search for a door that will open. The first door is blue\, and the voice behind the door tells Emily that she doesn’t sound very bluish. The second door says it only opens for tigers\, crocodiles\, and snakes. But she is a girl named Emily– and the animals are hungry–and so she moves on. The third is only for people who speak very quietly\, and the door can hear Emily. \nFinally\, Emily comes to a place without a door. She gets out her chalk and draws one\, then adds a doorknob\, and goes right in. And when someone knocks on her door\, she says\, “The door is open!” \nHere is a wonderful book about inclusion\, acceptance\, and opening doors for others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-launch-of-emily-saw-a-door-with-author-mel-rosenberg-and-illustrator-orit-magia/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T193000
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SUMMARY:Gayle Feldman reads from her new book Nothing Random
DESCRIPTION:At midcentury\, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty\, beloved\, middle-aged panelist on What’s My Line? whom TV brought into America’s homes each week. But they didn’t know that the handsome\, driven\, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and\, a decade later\, was. By then\, he’d signed Eugene O’Neill\, Gertrude Stein\, and William Faulkner\, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce’s Ulysses. \nWith his best friend and lifelong business partner Donald Klopfer\, and other young Jewish entrepreneurs like the Knopfs and Simon & Schuster\, Cerf remade the book business: what was published\, and how. In 1925\, he and Klopfer bought the Modern Library and turned it into an institution\, then founded Random House\, which eventually became a home to Truman Capote\, Ralph Ellison\, Ayn Rand\, Dr. Seuss\, Toni Morrison\, James Michener\, and many more. \nEven before TV\, Cerf was a bestselling author and columnist as well as publisher; the show super-charged his celebrity\, bringing fame—but also criticism. A brilliant social networker and major influencer before such terms existed\, he connected books to Broadway\, TV\, Hollywood\, and politics. A fervent democratizer\, he published “high\,” “low\,” and wide\, and from the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties collected an incredible array of friends\, from George Gershwin to Frank Sinatra\, having a fabulous time along the way. \nUsing interviews with more than two hundred individuals\, deeply researched archival material\, and letters from private collections not previously available\, this book brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/gayle-feldman-reads-from-her-new-book-nothing-random/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T193000
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SUMMARY:Devin Kelly in conversation about his debut Pilgrims
DESCRIPTION:A monk leaves the monastery to search for his teenage brother\, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each brother’s perspective\, Pilgrims follows its protagonists as they encounter Appalachian Trail thru-hikers\, greyhound rescuers\, eccentric communists\, and tiny cemetery-keepers. A rumination on abandonment and the intimacies we’ve lost to a world obsessed with progress and material success\, Pilgrims announces the arrival of a striking new voice in American fiction. \nDevin Kelly is a high school teacher in New York City. He writes the newsletter Ordinary Plots\, and his work has appeared in The Guardian\, Longreads\, LitHub\, The Year’s Best Sportswriting\, and more. Pilgrims is his first novel. \n\nDevin Kelly will be in conversation with poet Maya Popa.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/devin-kelly-in-conversation-about-his-debut-pilgrims/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T193000
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CREATED:20251008T183927Z
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SUMMARY:Brigitte Dale in conversation about her new book The Good Daughters
DESCRIPTION:In 1912\, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future. \nCharlotte\, disappointed to discover that college isn’t the key to the freedom she longed for\, shocks her family when she moves to London and joins a group of suffragettes willing to upend social norms for the vote. Aristocratic Beatrice\, with a law degree she legally can’t put into practice and a fiancé she’s not particularly excited to marry\, escapes to London to spend her last months of unmarried life with the suffragettes\, and falls deeply—and dangerously—into forbidden love. Emily\, the daughter of the warden of the infamous Holloway Jail\, grieves her mother and saves her wages for a better life outside the prison’s walls. Her best chance at escaping the drudgery of her life is to stay out of trouble\, but when the suffragettes land in her father’s cells\, she must consider risking not only her family’s livelihood\, but her own future. \nWith the dangerous stakes of the suffrage campaign becoming a fight for the women’s bodies and lives\, they enter a treacherous world where the laws and justice system are stacked against them. They face violent protests\, hunger strikes\, and brutal forced feedings\, and the women must decide how much they are willing to risk for their freedom and for each other. \nBrigitte will be in conversation with author Olivia Muenter
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brigitte-dale-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-good-daughters/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T174005
CREATED:20250826T192236Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cheever in conversation with Ben Cheever about her latest When All the Men Wore Hats
DESCRIPTION:The Stories of John Cheever\, published in 1978\, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and it would go on to sell millions of copies and to define the American short story and shape generations of writers. Cheever’s chronicles of modern life both emerged from a distinctly American culture and also created it—inspiring everything from Mad Men to a Raymond Carver story\, from rock songs to a Seinfeld episode.\nGrowing up\, Susan Cheever\, John Cheever’s eldest child and only daughter\, read what he read\, heard what he heard\, bantered and gossiped with him and her brothers and mother at the dinner table\, and later watched her father type on the cheap yellow paper he favored. A daughter much like Susan appears in many of Cheever’s stories and a family much like theirs is at the center of his writing. \nIn When All the Men Wore Hats\, Susan Cheever looks back on her father’s work and seeks to understand the connections between art and life. How did a bit of local gossip\, a slice of Greek myth\, and a new translation of Madame Bovary somehow become a brilliant gem like “The Country Husband” or “The Swimmer”? In her 1984 book Home Before Dark\, published two years after her father’s death\, Cheever wrote movingly about her father and the secrets he kept\, but here\, years later\, she tells the story of the remarkable stories themselves\, six of which appear in full in the book’s appendix. \n  \nSusan Cheever will be in conversation with her brother Ben Cheever author of The Plagiarist & Selling Ben Cheever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susan-cheever-reads-from-her-latest-when-all-the-men-wore-hats/
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UID:11539-1761242400-1761247800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill launches her new book Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in the Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler\, born to wealth and privilege in New York’s Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century\, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America’s insurrection against Great Britain—and rebelled themselves\, in ways as different as each was from the other\, against the destiny mapped out for them. \nGlamorous Angelica\, who sought fulfillment through attachments to powerful men\, eloped at twenty with a war profiteer and led a luxurious life\, first in Paris\, then in London\, charming Benjamin Franklin\, Thomas Jefferson\, and the Prince of Wales. Eliza\, one year her junior\, too candid for flirtation and uninterested in influence or intrigue\, married a penniless illegitimate outsider\, Alexander Hamilton\, and devoted herself to his career. But after his appointment as America’s first Treasury Secretary\, she was challenged by the controversies in which he became involved\, not the least of which was the attraction that grew between him and her adored sister. \nWhen tragedy followed\, everything changed for both women: one deprived of her animating spirit\, the other improbably gaining a new\, self-determined life. “You would not have suffered if you had married into a family less near the sun\,” wrote Angelica to Eliza\, “but then [you would have missed] the pride\, the pleasure\, the nameless satisfactions.” \nDrawing on deep archival research\, including never-published records and letters\, Amanda Vaill interweaves this family drama with its historical context\, creating a narrative with the sweep and intimacy of a nineteenth-century novel. Full of battles and dinner parties\, murky politics and transparent frocks\, fierce loyalty and betrayals both public and personal\, Pride and Pleasure brings two extraordinary American heroines to life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-launches-her-new-book-pride-and-pleasure-the-schuyler-sisters-in-the-age-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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UID:11568-1760637600-1760643000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Alyson Richman in conversation about her new book The Missing Pages
DESCRIPTION:Harry Widener boards the Titanic holding tight to a priceless book–and his last known words are that he must return to his cabin for his treasure. Neither the young man nor the book will ever be seen again. In his honor\, his mother builds the Harry Widener Memorial Library at Harvard to memorialize her son and house his extensive book collection.\n​Decades later\, Violet Hutchins\, a Harvard sophomore recovering from her own great loss\, is working as a page at the Widener Library. When strange things begin happening at the library\, Violet wonders if Harry Widener’s ghost is trying to communicate the missing pieces of his story from beyond the grave. \n  \nAlyson Richman will be in conversation with author Lauren Belfer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alyson-richman-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-missing-pages/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T193000
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CREATED:20250826T191221Z
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UID:11537-1759773600-1759779000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Ali Gordon presents her debut We Have Reached the End of Our Show
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to an unrelenting cycle of cancer treatments\, thirty-two-year-old Gabe is too weak to dance gracefully on stage or through NYC’s sparkling social scene like he once did. And although he and Josie have been in love for six years\, lately Gabe’s been feeling more like Josie’s patient than his boyfriend. So one day\, Gabe makes a choice: he’ll forgo treatment and live out his remaining days on his own terms.​ \nThen a harrowing announcement blasts over the news—TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT—and as the world falls into chaos around him\, something sparks inside Gabe for the first time in a long time: the chance for adventure. When his cousin\, Lisi\, shows up with a car and a plan\, the three begin a journey none of them ever expected­—a road trip through the end of the world. \nProfound\, moving\, and delicate\, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a crystalline depiction of the best of humanity and the love we’re all capable of\, even in the bleakest of times. Gabe\, Josie\, and Lisi take turns at the wheel of this novel\, steering readers along hauntingly empty highways and through the adventure that happens when we’re forced to put down the carefully drawn map of our lives and look around at what really matters: each other. \n  \nWith performances by Christi Somers (Dead Moms Club) and Michael Cruz Kayne (Sorry For Your Loss).
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ali-gordon-presents-her-debut-we-have-reached-the-end-of-our-show/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T193000
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CREATED:20250902T161741Z
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UID:11553-1759341600-1759347000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Caroline Sutton launches her new book Eyes in the Soles of My Feet
DESCRIPTION:With this fascinating and eye-opening collection of essays\, science writer Caroline Sutton provides an intriguing and unique perspective on our natural world\, and reveals secret and intimate connections between plant and animal life that we often overlook or malign\, be it the industrious mole tunnelling in our backyards to the ancient horseshoe crab scuttling on our shores. Certain to appeal to readers of science and ecology\, as well as those curious to look deeper into the seen and unseen intricacies of nature.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caroline-sutton-launches-her-new-book-eyes-in-the-soles-of-my-feet/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T193000
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UID:11515-1759255200-1759260600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Rebecca Kelliher presents her debut Just Pills
DESCRIPTION:As women’s rights are increasingly depleted in the US\, journalist Rebecca Kelliher dives into the radical history of the abortion pills from invention to distribution to today \nSpanning decades and continents with a tenacious cast of doctors\, activists\, politicians\, drug suppliers\, and everyday women\, Just Pills tells the gripping\, little-known history of mifepristone and misoprostol\, better known as the abortion pills. \nThe abortion pills are a safe\, cheap\, clinic-less means of ending a pregnancy\, and these drugs have been quietly—yet steadily—spreading around the world. These pills are already changing the fight for abortion access as we understand it. Rebecca Kelliher dives into the history of the pills’ invention in the 1970s and 80s\, unpacks government battles around their approval in the 1990s\, and deftly weaves together several perspectives to move beyond the pills’ origin story. \nAs women’s rights are increasingly infringed upon in the US\, this history of radical invention and persistent distribution of a life-saving drug will remind us of the work we’ve already done and inspire us to continue to pursue a world where women are free.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/rebecca-kelliher-presents-her-debut-just-pills/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T180000
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CREATED:20250715T165526Z
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UID:11513-1758816000-1758823200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Emily Hurd & Michael Mitnick launch their debut Hello\, Broadway: A Young Person's Guide to the World of Musical Theater
DESCRIPTION:Visit New York City and take in your first Broadway show. This illustrated soundbook is your guide to the world-famous theater district!\n \nJoin Eleanor and Harry as they head to New York City for their first Broadway show. \nDiscover what it’s like to attend a show\, enjoy the performance and delight in the magic of musical theater. \nBeautifully illustrated scenes are accompanied by sound buttons that play iconic musical song clips performed by Broadway stars! \nIdeal for caregivers who want to share their love of Broadway with their children\, Hello\, Broadway! is the perfect introduction to the wonderful world of musical theater.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/emily-hurd-launches-her-debut-hello-broadway-a-young-persons-guide-to-the-world-of-musical-theater/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Joan Baker in conversation about her new book In the Swampyland
DESCRIPTION:B’rer Rabbit\, trickster of the Uncle Remus tales. A chicken’s head bobbing in a bowl of soup\, its dead eyes accusing the diner. Cockroaches\, venomous snakes\, biting frogs. These are among the lively characters in Joan Brooks Baker’s second book\, a collection of stories called In the Swampyland\, which spans the author’s life from her childhood in New York City to her eye-opening\, sometimes-risky world travels. In the Swampyland examines the world in which Baker grew up and aims equally intense scrutiny at the exotic cultures her innate curiosity has motivated her to visit\, from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of India and the attractions of the American South\, in her search for belonging. \n  \nJoan Baker will be in conversation with Laura Yorke\, editor\, publisher\, literary agent and author.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joan-baker-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-in-the-swampyland/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T153000
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UID:11511-1757604600-1757610000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Melissa Dassori signs copies of her latest middle grade novel Greta Ever After
DESCRIPTION:Greta Starr has one dream: to be a famous reporter. Unfortunately she’s been assigned to write for the paper’s most boring beat\, and she feels stuck. Then\, on her twelfth birthday\, Greta receives a mysterious cuckoo clock with a wooden dancer named Lulu inside. Every hour\, the doll twirls in time with the music—until one night she comes to life. Lulu is infused with magic and mischief. With Lulu’s sly encouragement\, Greta engineers a feel-good story to report\, setting in motion a series of remarkable\, if deceitful\, happy endings at school that help Greta gain popularity. But when the truth threatens Greta’s friendships\, she is confronted with very real consequences that Lulu’s magic can’t fix.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/melissa-dassori-signs-copies-of-her-latest-middle-grade-novel-greta-ever-after/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T173000
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SUMMARY:Leslie Cohen & Sean Avery launch Summer Skate
DESCRIPTION:Summer has begun on the East End of Long Island and bestselling author Jessica Riley finds herself unable to deliver on her highly anticipated second book. Her children are demanding. Her husband is preoccupied. With a deadline looming\, she fakes a mental breakdown to get away . . . only to find that the house next door is filled with rowdy hockey players. \nOne of those players is Carter Hughes\, a soon-to-be rookie on the New York Rangers\, and in Carter and his friends\, Jessica discovers a treasure trove of material for her next book. But she quickly finds herself in over her head\, as her connection with Carter spirals out of control and his behavior becomes more erratic. Meanwhile\, as Carter mixes with the power scene in the Hamptons\, one false move could turn what was supposed to be a summer of training and good times into a game he can’t afford to play. \nSexy and addictive\, Summer Skate is the sun on your skin in a string bikini. It’s the sound of skates cutting across the ice of a hockey rink\, chasing victory. It’s an answer to the question: How bad do you want it?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leslie-cohen-sean-avery-launch-summer-skate/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T193000
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SUMMARY:Eden Collinsworth presents her latest The Improbable Victoria Woodhull
DESCRIPTION:In 1894\, a remarkably self-possessed American woman\, with no formal education to speak of\, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop along the unpredictable route that was Victoria Woodhull’s life. Born dirt-poor in an obscure Ohio settlement\, Woodhull was the daughter of an illiterate mother entranced by the fad of Mesmerism—a therapeutic pseudoscience—and a swindler father whose cons exploited his two daughters. It was through her mother\, though\, that Woodhull familiarized herself with the supernatural realm\, earning a degree of fame as a clairvoyant and her first taste of financial success. Woodhull’s life would continue to turn on its axis and then turn again. Vividly written and exhaustively researched\, Collinsworth tells the story of a woman truly ahead of her time—a radical visionary who made defying mores a habit and brought to the fore societal and political issues still being addressed today. Neither a saint nor a villain\, Woodhull emerges as an iconic\, complex woman: an entrepreneur; lover of freedom; and a fiercely loyal family member whose political activism and suffragist legacy will cement her in history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eden-collinsworth-presents-her-latest-the-improbable-victoria-woodhull/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T193000
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CREATED:20250522T185134Z
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UID:11466-1755021600-1755027000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Alexia LaFata in conversation about her new book She Used To Be Nice
DESCRIPTION:One night in college changed the course of Avery’s entire life. Her rapist took everything from her—including the trust of her friends and long-term boyfriend\, who were convinced she cheated. A year later\, she still can’t bear to tell the truth about what happened and risk her friendship with Morgan\, the only friend she has left. \nInstead\, Avery finds her way under a man or into a bottle just to convince herself that she has power over her feelings and her autonomy—that her body still belongs to her. That is\, until she meets Pete\, a man so kind and good that he awakens a part of Avery that makes her want to try something new. \nBut somehow Avery’s rapist has resurfaced in her life as the best man in Morgan’s wedding. And as maid of honor\, there’s no way Avery can avoid him. His mere presence grates at Avery’s already raw emotional state\, and she begins to drive away the final few who care about her—including Pete. \nAs the wedding nears\, Avery must decide whether to finally let her walls down and tell her truth or risk spiraling toward a darkness she may never be able to recover from. \nAlexia will be in conversation with Ella Dawson\, author of But How Are You\, Really
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alexia-lafata-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-she-used-to-be-nice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T193000
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CREATED:20250620T180045Z
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UID:11485-1753207200-1753212600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Sarah Stein Lubrano launches her debut Don't Talk About Politics
DESCRIPTION:This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics. \nDrawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science\, Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure\, she explores the actions that actually do change minds. \nIn a world where politics keeps getting more irrational\, dishonest\, violent and chaotic\, it’s getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life\, and a better world for us all? \n  \nDr. Lubrano will be in conversation with author Calvin Kalsuke. \n\nCalvin Kasulke is a writer\, podcast producer and transsexual menace living in Brooklyn. He is repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-stein-lubrano-launches-her-debut-dont-talk-politics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T193000
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UID:11463-1751997600-1752003000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amy Blumenfeld in conversation about her new book Such Good People
DESCRIPTION:It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college\, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend\, Rudy\, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room\, and in an instant\, lives and legacies are altered forever. \nWithin hours\, Rudy is arrested. Within days\, April is expelled. Within weeks\, he’s incarcerated. And within months\, she meets Peter\, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again. \nNearly fifteen years later\, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter\, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peter’s election for local office\, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April’s past\, jeopardizing Peter’s campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly\, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created\, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines\, divided loyalties\, and what it means to love purely\, steadfastly\, and interminably. \nAmy will be in conversation with author Alyson Richman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amy-blumenfeld-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-such-good-people/
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