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SUMMARY:Kimberly McCreight reads from her debut novel Reconstructing Amelia
DESCRIPTION:Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope\, Brooklyn\, calls with disturbing information: her intelligent\, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter\, Amelia\, has been caught cheating. \nKate can’t believe that Amelia\, an ambitious\, levelheaded girl who loved school and has never been in trouble\, would risk college and her future with a suspension. But when Kate arrives at St. Grace’s she’s unprepared for far more devastating news. Amelia is dead. Seemingly unable to cope with what she’d done\, a despondent Amelia jumped from the school’s roof in an act of “spontaneous” suicide. \nAt least that’s the story St. Grace and the police tell Kate. Overwhelmed by her own guilt and shattered by grief\, it is the story Kate believes . . . until she gets the anonymous text. She didn’t jump. Now\, Kate is going to find the truth about her daughter\, no matter where it leads or what it takes. \nSifting through Amelia’s emails\, text messages\, social media postings\, and cell phone logs\, Kate will begin to reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life\, and the people in it\, to uncover why she was on St. Grace’s roof that day-and why she died. Told in alternating voices\, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies\, of love and betrayal\, of trusted friends and vicious enemies-of how much a parent really knows a child and how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kimberly-mccreight-reads-from-her-debut-novel-reconstructing-amelia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130409T180000
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SUMMARY:Meg Wolitzer reads from her new novel The Interestings
DESCRIPTION:From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling\, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent\, and the roles that art\, money\, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns\, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful\, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings\, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age\, as their talents\, fortunes\, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain\, in adulthood\, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson\, an aspiring comic actress\, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah\, a gifted musician\, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash\, Jules’s now-married best friends\, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams\, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper\, but also underscore the differences in their fates\, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. \nWide in scope\, ambitious\, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City\, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class\, art\, money\, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/358/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebration for Stephanie Stokes and the publication of Elegant Rooms that Work
DESCRIPTION:Known for her understated elegance\, Stephanie Stokes explains how to maintain fantasy and functionality in home decor by focusing on the planning of comfortable and multipurpose spaces that include attractive storage. New York-based interior designer Stephanie Stokes has dealt with demanding spaces in apartments and houses worldwide. With consummate skill\, she has delivered unparalleled efficiency of space without sacrificing style. This design primer is organized by room type—from living rooms and kitchens to bedrooms and entryways. Her ingenious solutions to the challenges of creating a livable environment—from clever and attractive storage units to libraries that convert gracefully to guest rooms and home offices—are inspirational to all homeowners. With exacting precision\, she plans every anticipated need and can turn the tiniest of spaces into a cornucopia of cabinetry and imaginative storage. Her secrets for using every cubic inch while creating atmospheric environments that work are illustrated in this attractive yet practical book. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebration-for-stephanie-stokes-and-the-publication-of-elegant-rooms-that-work/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Patty Volk reads from her new book Shocked
DESCRIPTION:From the best-selling author of Stuffed\, comes a richly illustrated memoir\, written with charm and panache\, that juxtaposes two lives—an iconoclastic Italian fashion designer and the author’s mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. \nAudrey Morgen Volk\, an upper-middle-class New Yorker\, was a great beauty and lover of fashion\, and the polished hostess at her family’s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—”Schiap”—the high-fashion designer whose creations shocked the world\, broke every rule\, blurred the line between fashion and art\, and believed that in both fashion and life\, everything\, even a button\, has the potential to delight. Audrey’s daughter Patricia read Schiap’s autobiography\, Shocking Life\, at a tender age\, and was transformed by it. These two very different women—volatile\, opinionated\, and brilliant\, each in her own way—offered Patricia lessons about womanhood and personal style that would stay with her throughout her life. Moving seamlessly between the Volks’ Manhattan and Florida homes and Schiap’s astonishing life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dalí\, Duchamp\, Picasso)\, Shocked weaves Audrey’s notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli’s often outrageous creations into a dazzling meditation on beauty\, then and now\, and on being a daughter\, sister\, and mother. It is funny\, wise\, and utterly delightful.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/patty-volk-reads-from-her-new-book-shocked/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130314T180000
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SUMMARY:Thea Goodman reads from her debut novel The Sunshine When She's Gone
DESCRIPTION:When Veronica Reed wakes up one frigid January morning\, two things are “off.” First of all\, she has had a good night’s sleep\, which hasn’t happened in months\, and second\, both her husband and her baby are gone. This is a fresh\, funny\, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage\, and about the love\, longing\, and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes a baby on a highly unusual outing.  \nThea Goodman’s short stories have appeared in New England Review\, Other Voices\, Columbia\, Confrontation and The Brooklyn Review among other journals. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize Special Mention\, the Columbia Fiction Award and residency fellowships at The Ragdale Foundation and The Corporation of Yaddo. Thea holds an MFA from Brooklyn College\, CUNY and has taught writing at New York University\, The New School University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/thea-goodman-reads-from-her-debut-novel-sunshine-when-shes-gone/
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SUMMARY:Yuri Feynberg reads from his debut memoir The Child of Gulag
DESCRIPTION:This story is based on the life of author Yuri C. Feynberg\, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet Penal System\, known to the world as the Gulag\, Although not a prisoner\, Yuri spent his childhood behind the barbed wire fence in a remote Siberian hard labor camp\, where his mother worked as a medical doctor. This extraordinary childhood created an unusual personality and unbendable character\, which made it possible for Yuri to excel in the Soviet Special Forces\, survive persecution\, and overcome unfathomable personal tragedies without losing his humanity.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/yuri-feynberg-reads-from-his-debut-memoir-the-child-of-gulag/
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Cody Epstein reads from her new novel The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
DESCRIPTION:A lush\, exquisitely rendered meditation on war\, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families\, American and Japanese\, their loves and infidelities\, their dreams and losses\, and how they are all connected by one of the most devastating acts of war in human history. \n\nIn this evocative and thrilling epic novel\, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi\, child of Japan’s New Empire\, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past\, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm—an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins. In the days that follow\, Yoshi’s old life will blur beyond recognition\, leading her to a new world marked by destruction and shaped by those considered the enemy: Cam\, a downed bomber pilot taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army; Anton\, a gifted architect who helped modernize Tokyo’s prewar skyline but is now charged with destroying it; and Billy\, an Occupation soldier who arrives in the blackened city with a dark secret of his own. Directly or indirectly\, each will shape Yoshi’s journey as she seeks safety\, love\, and redemption.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jennifer-cody-epstein-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-gods-of-heavenly-punishment/
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SUMMARY:Tom Folsom reads from his new biography Hopper
DESCRIPTION:As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man\, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. \nThe chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean\, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. \nDennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream\, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit\, complemented with iconic photographs\, and packed with insights from his fellow actors\, artists\, and friends\, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/tom-folsom-reads-from-his-new-biography-hopper/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T180000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Graver reads from her new book The End of the Point
DESCRIPTION:A precisely observed\, superbly crafted novel\, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family\, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them. \nAshaunt Point\, Massachusetts\, has anchored life for generations of the Porter family\, who summer along its remote\, rocky shore. But in 1942\, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point\, bringing havoc and change. That summer\, the two older Porter girls—teenagers Helen and Dossie—run wild. The children’s Scottish nurse\, Bea\, falls in love. And youngest daughter\, Janie\, is entangled in an incident that cuts the season short and haunts the family for years to come. \nAn unforgettable portrait of one family’s journey through the second half of the twentieth century\, Elizabeth Graver’s The End of the Point artfully probes the hairline fractures hidden beneath the surface of our lives and traces the fragile and enduring bonds that connect us.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-graver-reads-from-her-new-book-the-end-of-the-point/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130304T180000
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SUMMARY:Dina Hampton reads from her debut Little Red
DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s\, a remarkable crop of students graduated from a small\, New York City school renowned for progressive pedagogy and left-wing politics: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. \nEntering college at the peak of the transformative era we now call The Sixties\, three of these “Little Redders” would go on to change the course of American history: Angela Davis\, African American intellectual activist and Communist Party member; SDS activist and filmmaker Tom Hurwitz; and Elliott Abrams\, who would play a key role in the Republican Neoconservative movement. \nBased on extensive original interviews and archival research\, Little Red follows these characters’ divergent\, occasionally intersecting\, public and private paths through the seminal events and political struggles of the second half of the twentieth century\, from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War; the Summer of Love to radical feminism; Iran-Contra to Occupy Wall Street.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dina-hampton-reads-from-her-debut-little-red/
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SUMMARY:Caela Carter reads from her debut Me\, Him\, Them\, and It
DESCRIPTION:When Evelyn decided to piss off her parents with a bad reputation\, she wasn’t planning to ruin her valedictorian status. She also wasn’t planning to fall for Todd—the guy she was just using for sex. And she definitely wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. When Todd turns his back on her\, Evelyn’s not sure where to go. Can a distant mother\, a cheating father\, an angry best friend\, and a (thankfully) loving aunt with adopted daughters of her own help Evelyn make the heart-wrenching decisions that follow?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caela-carter-reads-from-her-debut-me-him-them-and-it/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130225T180000
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SUMMARY:Poet Cynthia Zarin reads from her memoir An Enlarged Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Enlarged Heart\, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin\, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love\, work\, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond\, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene\, dialogue\, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales\, at first a bewildered young woman\, navigating the terrain of new jobs and borrowed apartments and the rapidly fading New York of people like Mr. Ferri\, the Upper East Side tailor (“a wren of a man with pins flashing in his teeth”). By the end\, whether Zarin is writing about vanished restaurants\, her decades-long love affair with her collection of coats\, a newlywed journey to Italy\, a child’s illness\, Mary McCarthy’s file cabinet\, or the inner life of the New Yorker staff she knew as a young woman\, this history of the heart shows us how persistent the past is in returning to us with entirely new lessons\, and that there are some truths not even a tailor can alter.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/poet-cynthia-zarin-reads-from-her-memoir-an-enlarged-heart/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130221T180000
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SUMMARY:Erica Obey reads from her debut novel Back to the Garden
DESCRIPTION:When she heads to Woodstock to ghost-write a memoir for Bliss Falco\, a name-dropping psychic who claims to have slept with everyone from Casanova to Hubert Humphrey in her past lives\, failed romance writer Laura Converse never expects to be mistaken for a long-vanished singer. But she quickly finds herself trying to convince everyone in this New Age Mecca that she has not been sent by supernatural forces in order to solve a twenty-five-year-old murder. Making matters worse\, the story immediately proves irresistible to her ex-husband\, Rimes\, a tabloid reporter – especially if Laura will grant him an exclusive. But tabloid fantasy turns quickly to Woodstock reality when a sleepwalking record producer discovers the singer’s remains and turns to Bliss to help him recover his memories about the long ago night the singer vanished. When murder – perhaps by supernatural means – results\, Laura is forced to join forces with her ex-husband to investigate – a task considerably complicated by a distractingly attractive gardener\, who just might be a warlock… or a murderer… or the love of Laura’s life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/erica-obey-reads-from-her-debut-novel-back-to-the-garden/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T180000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Meister reads from her new novel Farewell\, Dorothy Parker
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to movie reviews\, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that’s only because she’s learned to channel her literary hero\, Dorothy Parker\, the most celebrated and scathing wit of the 20th century.  If only Violet could summon that kind of courage in her personal life. Determined to defeat her social anxiety\, Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel to pull strength from the hallowed dining room\, where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs. But she gets more than she bargained for when Dorothy Parker’s feisty spirit rematerializes from an ancient guestbook and hitches a ride onto her life. Violet is shocked and thrilled to be face-to-face with her idol\, but when the gin-swilling writer takes up residence in her home and grows pricklier and more outspoken by the day\, the timid movie critic is pushed to her limit. With her job threatened\, her new relationship in tatters\, and the custody fight for her orphaned niece in jeopardy\, Violet is forced to face her fears …and she makes sure Mrs. Parker does the same. \nWickedly funny and surprisingly poignant\, Farewell\, Dorothy Parker perfectly re-imagines one of America’s most iconic voices in a captivating and unforgettable tale. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-mesiter-reads-from-her-new-novel-farewell-dorothy-parker/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130212T180000
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SUMMARY:Betsy Prioleau reads from her new book Swoon
DESCRIPTION:Swoon is a glittering pageant of charismatic ladies’ men from Casanova to Lord Byron to Camus to Ashton Kutcher. It challenges every preconceived idea about great lovers and answers one of history’s most vexing questions: what do women want? Contrary to popular myth and dogma\, the men who consistently beguile women belie the familiar stereotypes: satanic rake\, alpha stud\, slick player\, Mr. Nice\, or big-money mogul. As Betsy Prioleau\, author of Seductress\, points out in this surprising\, insightful study\, legendary ladies’ men are a different\, complex species altogether\, often without looks or money. They fit no known template and possess a cache of powerful erotic secrets. With wit and erudition\, Prioleau cuts through the cultural lore and reveals who these master lovers really are and the arts they practice to enswoon women. What she discovers is revolutionary. Using evidence from science\, popular culture\, fiction\, anthropology\, and history\, and from interviews with colorful real-world ladykillers\, Prioleau finds that great seducers share a constellation of unusual traits. Finally\, Prioleau takes stock of the contemporary culture and asks: where are the Casanovas of today? After a critique of the twenty-first-century sexual malaise—the gulf between the sexes and women’s record discontent—she compellingly argues that society needs ladies’ men more than ever. Groundbreaking and provocative\, Swoon is underpinned with sharp analysis\, brilliant research\, and served up with seductive verve.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/betsy-prioleau-reads-from-her-new-book-swoon/
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SUMMARY:Amy Wilentz reads from Farewell\, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
DESCRIPTION:The Rainy Season\, Amy Wilentz’s award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier\, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as “a remarkable account of a journalist’s transformation by her subject.” In her relationship with the country since then\, Wilentz has witnessed more than one magical transformation. Now\, with Farewell\, Fred Voodoo\, she gives us a vivid portrayal of the extraordinary people living in this stark place. \nWilentz traces the country’s history from its slave plantations through its turbulent revolutionary history\, its kick-up-the-dirt guerrilla movements\, its totalitarian dynasty that ruled for decades\, and its long and always troubled relationship with the United States. Yet through a history of hardship shines Haiti’s creative culture—its African traditions\, its French inheritance\, and its uncanny resilience\, a strength that is often confused with resignation. \nAmy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier\, of Martyrs’ Crossing\, (a novel) and of I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She has won the Whiting Writers Award\, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award; in 1990\, she was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes for The New Yorker and The Nation and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at U.C. Irvine.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amy-wilentz-reads-from-farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti/
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SUMMARY:Jane Grossman reads from her debut novel Dying to Live in Palm Beach
DESCRIPTION:For a group of eight close-knit widows living in Palm Beach\, life is for celebrating. Spending their time on lavish shopping trips\, playing bridge\, and exchanging witty barbs over glasses of wine about who might be looking for a new husband\, these friends enjoy the good life. That is\, until one of them takes the celebration a bit too far. It all started innocently enough: picking up someone else’s credit card by mistake\, making a few charges\, and hoping Bunny Boardman wouldn’t notice. And then doing it again the next week\, reasoning away any lingering moral concerns. But when Bunny does notice\, things turn grave fast. The police chalk up the ensuing deaths to natural causes\, but the inimitable Flossy Kane suspects it’s not that simple—and that they’re all in danger. Oxygen tank in tow and with the help of her home health aide\, Frances\, Flossy is determined to prove the police wrong (and save her own life) in this lighthearted whodunit. \nJane Grossman divides her time between homes in Boston and Aspen. Before moving to Massachusetts\, she and her husband lived in New York City\, where she worked here at The Corner Bookstore from 1979-1982 before co-founding the famous Traveller’s Bookstore in Rockefeller Center. She has a B.A. from Barnard College and is the coauthor of Boston Foot Notes: A Walking Guide.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jane-grossman-reads-from-her-debut-novel-dying-to-live-in-palm-beach/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130122T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130122T200000
DTSTAMP:20121120T190113Z
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his debut Inside Passage
DESCRIPTION:Corey Logan was set up. She knows Nick Season’s terrible secret. Coming home from prison\, all Corey wants is to be with her son. To get him back\, she needs to make a good impression on the psychiatrist evaluating her. But Dr. Abe Stein doesn’t believe she was framed—until his well-heeled mother falls for the charming state attorney general candidate\, Nick Season. \nAs the dogs of war are unleashed\, Corey and her son run for their lives—taking her boat up the Pacific Northwest’s remote Inside Passage. Inside Passage is the first in Weissbourd’s haunting\, heart-stirring Corey Logan trilogy. \nBurt Weissbourd is the producer of many notable films\, including Ghost Story\, starring Fred Astaire\, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.\, and Patricia Neal\, Raggedy Man\, starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard\, which The New York Times called “a movie of sweet\, low-keyed charm.” Weissbourd also worked with crime fiction legend Ross Macdonald on his only screenplay. He lives in New York.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-debut-inside-passage/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130108T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130108T200000
DTSTAMP:20121120T185822Z
CREATED:20121120T185822Z
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SUMMARY:Sean Pidgeon reads from his debut Finding Camlann
DESCRIPTION:A dramatic find at Stonehenge and another\, quieter discovery in the Bodleian Library set in motion a riveting scholarly detective story and a romance\, unfolding across a rich historical landscape evoked by the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside. \nArchaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that King Arthur ever existed. And yet medieval tales of this legendary warrior must have found their inspiration somewhere\, and Donald is determined to discover their true source. A chance encounter with the beguiling Julia Llewellyn\, a gifted linguist working at the Oxford English Dictionary\, sets them both on the trail of elusive clues embedded in an old Welsh battle poem. Their quest will intersect in unforeseen ways with their own troubled lives and will lead them at last to a deeper understanding of the origins of Arthur. \nSean Pidgeon is a reference publisher at John Wiley & Sons. Born and raised in the UK\, he now lives in New Jersey with his American wife and children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sean-pidgeon-reads-from-his-debut-finding-camlann/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130107T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130107T200000
DTSTAMP:20121120T185601Z
CREATED:20121120T185601Z
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SUMMARY:Juliann Garey reads from her debut Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
DESCRIPTION:In her tour-de-force first novel\, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind\, ravaged heart\, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd\, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he’s been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson’s travels (Rome\, Israel\, Santiago\, Thailand\, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson’s eyes as a child; and the intimacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him to undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward. This is a literary page-turner of the first order\, and a brilliant inside look at mental illness. \nJuliann Garey has sold original screenplays and television pilots to Sony Pictures\, NBC\, CBS\, Columbia TriStar Television and Lifetime TV. As a journalist she has edited and written for publications including Marie Claire\, Glamour\, More\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, The Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post. She has received fellowships in fiction writing at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Vermont Studio Center. Garey is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See is her first novel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/juliann-garey-reads-from-her-debut-too-bright-to-hear-too-loud-to-see/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121224T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121224T193000
DTSTAMP:20121224T042727Z
CREATED:20121120T185133Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Christmas Eve Open House 6-8 pm.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual open house.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/annual-christmas-eve-open-house-6-8-pm/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121119T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121119T200000
DTSTAMP:20120912T180132Z
CREATED:20120912T180132Z
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Stern reads from her debut novel
DESCRIPTION:“Town of Shadows is deeply moving\, darkly imaginative and delightfully weird.  It’s Thornton Wilder crossed with Tim Burton and David Lynch. Stern’s passion for language is infectious; she’s in love with words\, and by the end of this brilliant novella\, you’ll be in love too. A remarkable debut.” \n— Patricia Morrisroe\, author of Mapplethorpe: A Biography\, and Wide Awake: A Memoir of  Insomnia \n“Enter the Town of Shadows\, where noise is ‘the color of rain\,’ and the self is a ‘hidden crowd.’ Indeed like shadows\, the town’s inhabitants are elusive—slipping in and out of mirrors\, wandering down secret corridors of the mind\, hiding in the spines of houses—and perpetually at risk of disappearing or being ‘deleted.’ Lindsay Stern’s brilliant\, urgent vignettes depict a people struggling to make sense of the limits of language and time. A dark and fascinating debut.” \n— Hanna Andrews\, American Poet
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lindsay-stern-reads-from-her-debut-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121115T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121115T200000
DTSTAMP:20120912T175559Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Sterba reads from his new book Nature Wars
DESCRIPTION:This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals\, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.  For nature lovers\, this should be wonderful news — unless\, perhaps\, you are one of more than 4\,000 drivers who will hit a deer today\, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings\, coyotes are killing your pets\, the neighbor’s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet\, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn\, beavers have flooded your driveway\, or bears are looting your garbage cans. \nNature Wars offers an eye-opening look at how  Americans lost touch with the natural landscape\, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television\, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets.  All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control\, causing damage costing billions\, degrading ecosystems\, and touching off disputes that polarized communities\, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched\, eloquently written\, counterintuitive and often humorous Nature Wars will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-sterba-reads-from-his-new-book-nature-wars/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121113T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121113T200000
DTSTAMP:20120912T175141Z
CREATED:20120912T175141Z
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UID:288-1352829600-1352836800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:A Book signing for Alison Pace and her new book You Tell Your Dog First
DESCRIPTION:You Tell Your Dog First…About the date you just had…about the questionable results of a medical test…about the good and the bad…about everything. \nFor years\, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then\, she got Carlie—a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terrier. She could weed out bad boyfriends with a sniff of her button-black nose and win the hearts of lifelong friends with an adoring gaze. Suddenly\, Alison had a constant companion and confidante\, who went with her on long morning rambles in Central Park\, on trips to the country and the beach\, and on her search for inner peace\, love\, and happiness. Through Carlie\, Alison found herself connected to the world as never before. \n\nWith her trademark warmth\, wit and humor\, Alison shares her stories…the tales of a dog person who found her dog.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-book-signing-for-alison-pace-and-her-new-book-you-tell-your-dog-first/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121112T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121112T200000
DTSTAMP:20121009T192612Z
CREATED:20121009T192612Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig read from Twentysomething\, Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be young today? \nIn the summer of 2010\, Robin Marantz Henig wrote a provocative article for the New York Times Magazine called “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” It generated enormous reader response and started a conversation that included both millennials and baby boomers. Now\, working with her millennial daughter Samantha\, she expands the project to give us a full portrait of what it means to be in your twenties today.\nLooking through many lenses\, the Henigs ask whether emerging adulthood has truly become a new rite of passage. They examine the latest neuroscience and psychological research\, the financial pressures young people face now\, changing cultural expectations\, the aftereffects of helicopter parenting\, and the changes that have arisen from social media and all things Internet. Most important\, they have surveyed more than 120 millennials and baby boomers to give voice to both viewpoints of a conversation that is usually one-sided.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/robin-marantz-henig-and-samantha-henig-read-from-twentysomething-why-do-young-adults-seem-stuck/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121109T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121109T200000
DTSTAMP:20121025T172746Z
CREATED:20121019T151411Z
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SUMMARY:Kathy Kriger reads from Rick's Cafe
DESCRIPTION:For more than 60 years\, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along\, that is\, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint to life. In Rick’s Cafe\, she takes us through souk back alleys\, the Marché Central’s overflowing food stalls\, and the shadowy Moroccan business world\, all while producing\, directing\, casting\, and playing lead actress in her own story. Instead of letters of transit\, she begged for letters of credit; the governor of Casablanca watched her back instead of Captain Renault; and at the piano\, playing “As Time Goes By\,” sits not Sam but Issam. She encountered paper pushers\, absent architects\, dedicated craftsmen\, mad chefs\, and surprising allies. It took over two years\, but Rick’s Café opened in 2004 to rave reviews. Now\, as Captain Renault says to Major Strasser\, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Here is how she brought to life the screen legend that has captured the imagination of generations. \nCheck out the trailer: http://youtu.be/iQ4D0uKecfA
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kathy-kriger-reads-from-ricks-cafe/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121108T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121108T200000
DTSTAMP:20120830T182634Z
CREATED:20120830T182436Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Schutt reads from her new book Prosperous Friends
DESCRIPTION:Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich\, dense\, fevered\, exactly right and even eerily beautiful\,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel\, Schutt delivers a pitch-perfect\, timeless and original work on the spectacle of love. \nProsperous Friends follows the evolution of a young couple’s marriage as it is challenged by the quandaries of longing and sexual self-discovery. The glamorous and gifted Ned Bourne and his pretty wife\, Isabel\, travel to London\, New York\, and Maine in hopes of realizing their artistic promise\, but their quest for sexual fulfillment is less assured. Past lovers and new infatuations\, doubt and indifference threaten to bankrupt the marriage. The Bournes’ fantasies for their future finally give way to a deepened and mature perspective in the company of an older\, celebrated artist\, Clive Harris\, and his wife\, Dinah\, a poet. With compassionate insight\, Schutt explores the divide between those like Clive and Dinah who seem to prosper in love and those like Ned and Isabel who feel themselves condemned to yearn for it.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christine-schutt-reads-from-her-new-book-prosperous-friends/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121101T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121101T200000
DTSTAMP:20120830T160934Z
CREATED:20120830T160934Z
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SUMMARY:Anka Muhlstein reads from her new book Monsieur Proust's Library
DESCRIPTION:Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters\, children and parents\, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.\nIn this wonderfully entertaining book\, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein\, the author of Balzac’s Omelette\, draws out these themes in Proust’s work and life\, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time\, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/anka-muhlstein-reads-from-her-new-book-monsieur-prousts-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121026T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121026T200000
DTSTAMP:20120928T190304Z
CREATED:20120928T190304Z
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock and a bonanza of poets read from The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012
DESCRIPTION:Continuing in a long-established tradition of poetry excellence\, the 50 poems in this collection are culled from Canadian literary magazines and journals. The handpicked selections include the best\, and most current\, representations of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. This distinguished volume offers both a convenient introduction to contemporary poets in Canada and a collectible yearbook for seasoned poetry readers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-and-a-bonanza-of-poets-read-from-the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2012/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121025T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121025T200000
DTSTAMP:20120830T181835Z
CREATED:20120830T181835Z
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SUMMARY:Jayne Amelia Larson reads from Her Debut Driving the Saudis
DESCRIPTION:After more than a decade of working in Hollywood\, actress Jayne Amelia Larson found herself out of luck\, out of work\, and out of prospects. Without telling her friends or family\, she took a job as a limousine driver\, thinking that the work might be a good way to dig out of debt while meeting A-list celebrities and important movie moguls. \nWhen she got hired to drive for the Saudi royal family vacationing in Beverly Hills\, Larson thought she’d been handed the golden ticket. She’d heard stories of the Saudis giving $20\,000 tips and Rolex watches to their drivers. But when the family arrived at LAX with millions of dollars in cash—money that they planned to spend over the next couple of weeks—Larson realized that she might be in for the ride of her life. With awestruck humor and deep compassion\, she describes her eye-opening adventures as the only female in a detail of over forty assigned to drive a beautiful Saudi princess\, her family\, and their extensive entourage.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jayne-amelia-larson-reads-from-her-debut-driving-the-saudis/
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