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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of The Mother Court with James D. Zirin
DESCRIPTION:This is the first book to chronicle the history of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York\, the most influential District court in the United States\, from the perspective of a practicing attorney who has argued many cases before some of its most esteemed judges. \nIt gives first-hand insight into the evolution of our justice system—where it has been\, where it is now and where it is going. It provides an anatomy of what a trial is all about in an American courtroom\, featuring the most famous trials of the period in the greatest court in the nation. It gives the reader a taste of what the storied judges of the period— Weinfeld\, Murphy\, Mansfield\, Tyler\, Motley and Palmieri\, to name a few—were all about\, how they thought\, how they judged\, and why they were the worthy keepers of our sacred right to justice\, as well as the historical traditions of the Court. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-the-mother-court-with-james-d-zirin/
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SUMMARY:Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year
DESCRIPTION:At 23\, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet\, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent of J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush\, wood-paneled agency\, where Dictaphones and typewriters still prevail and old-time agents doze at their desks in the late afternoon\, and at night she goes home to the tiny\, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty\, surrounded by titanic personalities\, and struggling to trust her own artistic talent\, Joanna is tasked with responding to Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the deeply candid letters from his fans\, she finds herself abandoning the agency’s form letter and writing her own responses. Over the course of the year\, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s\, on her own dangerous and wonderful terms. \nJoanna Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright\, hungry young woman moving through a heady and much-longed for world\, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness\, the idea of a life with life itself. My Salinger Year is a graceful\, deeply moving literary fairytale and the coming-of-age story of a talented young writer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanna-rakoff-reads-from-my-salinger-year/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig reads from her latest That Summer
DESCRIPTION:2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt\, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six\, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting\, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe\, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open… \n1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man\, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter\, Evie\, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artifacts\, including Gavin Thorne\, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait\, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion. \nFrom modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement\, Lauren Willig’s That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house\, a hidden love affair\, and one woman’s search for the truth about her past—and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-reads-from-her-latest-that-summer/
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SUMMARY:Michael Craven reads from his latest novel The Detective & the Pipe Girl
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIn the vein of Harlan Coben\, Robert B. Parker\, and Carl Hiaasen comes a richly atmospheric\, wildly original\, and fast-paced mystery introducing the unforgettable P.I. John Darvelle—set against the magnetic allure of Los Angeles. Private detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design\, smart women\, cheap American beer. He’s a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember\, avoid brunch at all costs\, and don’t live in Brentwood. And he adheres to his own professional code\, an indelible blend of loyalty\, fierce commitment\, and performance under pressure. He also plays a lot of Ping-Pong. Arthur Vonz is one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles\, a filmmaker among the ranks of Spielberg\, Coppola\, and Kubrick. He hires Darvelle to find a young woman named Suzanne Neal\, an incandescent beauty who just might be hiding something. What starts as an easy assignment soon has Darvelle plunging deep into the hidden world of Hollywood’s elite. A twisting\, turning journey puts him face-to-face with the LAPD\, a ruthless underground crime operation\, and a cold-blooded killer. It’s the case of a lifetime . . . that could end his life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-craven-reads-from-his-latest-novel-the-detective-the-pipe-girl/
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SUMMARY:Meryl Gordon reads from The Phantom of Fifth Avenue
DESCRIPTION:Born in 1906\, Huguette Clark grew up in her family’s 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark\, was a copper magnate\, the second richest man in American\, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name\, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances\, Huguette began to withdraw from society–first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham\, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park\, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious\, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded\, copper cage?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/meryl-gordon-reads-from-the-phantom-of-fifth-avenue/
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SUMMARY:Marni Fechter reads from her debut Royal Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss\, she gets fired from her social services job\, and no one else in the field will touch her. Enter the fabulous Charles Ribbon\, premier party producer for New York’s rich and famous. Charles’s assistant is out of commission\, and he wants Melody to start working for him at Royal Entertainment right away. Melody accepts the offer\, and she is suddenly propelled from working with disabled children from low-income families to planning parties for New York’s wealthiest elite. She soon proves that she has a talent for saving the day in this new world—but can she save herself? \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/marni-fechter-reads-from-her-debut-royal-entertainment/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140513T180000
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his latest In Velvet
DESCRIPTION:The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management\, and Rachel\, a bear biologist\, is discovering some very startling animal behavior—grizzlies denning in June\, swans at their wintering grounds in summer\, what appear to be Irish Elk\, an extinct species\, with huge palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations in the young—elk calves with no front legs\, earless bear cubs\, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed? Who’s covering up these animal abnormalities in the Park? \nA non-stop thriller set in some of North America’s wildest country\, In Velvet takes you deep into the hearts of a hard case local detective and a Chicago cop as they take on a corrupt sheriff\, a pathalogical poacher\, and a lethal black ops manager to solve this ghastly mystery and restore the natural order in Yellowstone National Park.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-latest-in-velvet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140512T180000
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SUMMARY:Ava Chin reads from her debut Eating Wildly
DESCRIPTION:In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City\, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much more. Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods\, and it’s all about eating better\, healthier\, and more sustainably\, no matter where you live. Time named foraging the “latest obsession of haute cuisine.” And while foraging may be the latest foodie trend\, the quest to connect with food and nature is timeless and universal. Ava Chin\, aka the “Urban Forager\,” is an experienced master of the quest. Raised in Queens\, New York\, by a single mother and loving grandparents\, Chin takes off on an emotional journey to make sense of her family ties and romantic failures when her beloved grandmother dies. She retreats into the urban wilds\, where parks and backyards provide not only rare and delicious edible plants\, but a wellspring of wisdom. As the seasons turn\, Chin begins to view her life with new “foraging eyes\,” experiencing the world as a place of plenty and variety\, where every element—from flora to fauna to fungi—is interconnected and interdependent. Her experiences in nature put her on a path to self-discovery\, leading to reconciliation with her family and finding true love. \nDivided into chapters devoted to a variety of edible/medicinal plants\, with recipes and culinary information\, Eating Wildly will stir your emotions and enliven your taste buds—a moving memoir about the importance of family\, relationships\, and food
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ava-chin-reads-from-her-debut-eating-wildly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T180000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Feldman reads from her latest The Unwitting
DESCRIPTION:In CIA parlance\, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was among the “unwitting.”  \nOn a bright November day in 1963\, President Kennedy is shot. That same day\, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband\, the influential young editor of a literary magazine. As the nation mourns its public loss\, Nell has her private grief to reckon with\, as well as a revelation about Charlie that turns her understanding of her marriage on its head\, along with the world she thought she knew. With the Cold War looming ominously over the lives of American citizens in a battle of the Free World against the Communist powers\, the blurry lines between what is true\, what is good\, and what is right tangle with issues of loyalty and love. As the truths Nell discovers about her beloved husband upend the narrative of her life\, she must question her own allegiance: to her career as a journalist\, to her country\, but most of all to the people she loves. Set in the literary Manhattan of the 1950s\, at a journal much like the Paris Review\, The Unwitting evokes a bygone era of burgeoning sexual awareness and intrigue and an exuberance of ideas that had the power to change the world. Resonant\, illuminating\, and utterly absorbing\, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell\, the secrets we keep\, and the power of love in the face of both.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-latest-the-unwitting/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Bill Doyle's new early reader Invasion of the Junkyard Hog
DESCRIPTION:Following Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie and Stampede of the Supermarket Slugs is Bill Doyle’s third tale of monsters and magic.\nMr. Cigam has a new job for Keats and Henry—a job working for his mixed-up stepsisters\, Lillian and Beatrice. The sisters have lost a magical compass at the Tophat Junkyard\, and ever since then\, they’ve lost their sense of direction as well. Now they need pleh! (That’s help spelled backward.) But for Keats and Henry\, finding the compass isn’t going to be easy. Something else is searching for it\, too—a magic-sniffing junkyard hog with wings\, long sharp tusks\, and an appetite for destruction!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-bill-doyles-new-early-reader-invasion-of-the-junkyard-hog/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Wendy Aronsson's debut Refeathering the Empty Nest
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This event was moved from April 16 to April 30. \nMany parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books\, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educational lives of their children\, and focus like lasers on their childrens’ well-being. Many have made an enormous emotional and financial investment in raising their children. But children grow up\, they move out\, they create their own lives and their own homes. The role of the parent changes\, diminishes\, and evolves. \n\nThe life phase that begins in preparation for an “empty nest” and continues until parents re-feather the nest has no official name\, yet it represents a profound shift from the rigors of daily parenting to a period of self-reflection and reorientation. Here\, Wendy Aronsson centers on that experience\, capturing the realities of the emotions and life changes that come on gradually\, and sometimes proceed in fits and starts. \nRefeathering the Empty Nest is for any parent preparing for the departure from of home of their youngest child. It is for those who wish to move forward productively\, both in their new parenting role and in their roles as spouse\, employee\, friend\, neighbor\, and self. Using real stories throughout\, Aronsson shows how people have managed these changes\, how they’ve reignited the passion in their marriages or moved on from bad matches\, how they’ve rediscovered old interests and talents\, and how they’ve reinvented their relationships with their children as well. These stories provide hope and guidance to anyone whose nest is about to empty as well as those whose nests already are.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-wendy-aronssons-debut-refeathering-the-empty-nest/
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SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill reads from her latest Hotel Florida
DESCRIPTION:Madrid\, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway\, his career stalled\, his marriage sour\, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn\, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience\, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro\, idealistic young photographers based in Paris\, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea\, chief of Madrid’s loyalist foreign press office\, and Ilsa Kulcsar\, his Austrian deputy\, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause—a struggle that places both of them in peril. \nHotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it\, “You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world.” From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries\, official documents\, and recovered reels of film\, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is\, finally\, a story about truth: finding it out\, telling it\, and living it—whatever the cost.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-reads-from-her-latest-hotel-florida/
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SUMMARY:Leah Hager Cohen reads from her latest novel No Book But the World
DESCRIPTION:As children\, Ava and her brother Fred were raised in a “free” environment. Their parents\, progressive educators and followers of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, believed children developed best without formal instruction or societal contraints. This\, despite the fact that Fred was a child who clearly might have benefited from some kind of intervention. When the book opens\, Ava\, 32\, has learned that her brother\, 30\, is being held in a county jail in upstate New York\, alleged to have abducted a young boy and taken him into the woods. After several days’ search\, the boy is found dead. Fred has always been different. If he’d ever been clinically evaluated\, he might well have been given a diagnosis on the autism spectrum\, but his parents didn’t believe in labeling or pathologizing human behavior\, and never took him to a specialist. Now Ava feels impelled to try to piece together the story of what actually happened between the boy and Fred\, convinced that she\, and she alone\, will be able to explain her brother in a way that allows the rest of the world to regard him with sympathy. \nNo Book but the World is about fathoming the unfathomable. It asks what obligation we have to reach out to someone who is difficult to love\, or to try to understand the motivations behind another’s actions\, and what means we have for doing so. It asks whether freedom is always desirable. And it challenges the idea that facts are our best tools for comprehending one another\, proposing our emotions and imaginations might take us further.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leah-hager-cohen-reads-from-her-latest-novel-no-book-but-the-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Tori Corn's latest children's picture book Dixie Wants an Allergy
DESCRIPTION:It’s Dixie’s first day of school\, and some of her classmates are sharing details about their various allergies. Bridget tells of her wheat allergy and how she gets to order a special meal from restaurants. Dixie thinks that must be a really special meal! And Charlie had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance once due to his dairy allergy. Dixie thinks that must have been thrilling! Even Hannah gets to wear a fashionable bracelet due to her peanut allergy. Dixie races home and begins to eagerly search for the slightest sign of an allergy. After many failed attempts\, Dixie discovers that she is allergic to something after all. But is getting what you wish for actually as exciting as it once appeared? \nDixie Wants an Allergy provides a comical and engaging approach for children who are beginning to learn about and who are coping with allergies—and who also have trouble finding what makes them unique. Corn’s playful text and Cote’s inviting illustrations encourage children to accept those with differences while learning that wanting what others have is not always a good idea. \nPlease note that illustrator Nancy Cote will be raffling off an original piece of art from the book\,matted  and framed!  \nFor every purchased copy of Dixie\, the customer can have their name entered in a raffle which will be drawn at the end of the night. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-tori-corns-latest-childrens-picture-book-dixie-wants-an-allergy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140408T180000
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SUMMARY:Edward Hirsch discusses his latest A Poet's Glossary
DESCRIPTION:A major addition to the literature of poetry\, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms\, devices\, groups\, movements\, isms\, aesthetics\, rhetorical terms\, and folklore—a book that all readers\, writers\, teachers\, and students of poetry will return to over and over. \nHirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world\, returning with an inclusive\, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America\, from small formal elements to large mysteries\, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary\, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. \nKnowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm\, authority\, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved\, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/edward-hirsch-discusses-his-latest-a-poets-glossary/
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SUMMARY:James McMullan reads from Leaving China
DESCRIPTION:James McMullan was born in Tsingtao\, North China\, in 1934\, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little boy\, Jim took for granted a privileged life of household servants\, rickshaw rides\, and picnics on the shore—until World War II erupted and life changed drastically. Jim’s father\, a British citizen fluent in several Chinese dialects\, joined the Allied forces. For the next several years\, Jim and his mother moved from one place to another—Shanghai\, San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Darjeeling—first escaping Japanese occupation then trying to find security\, with no clear destination except the unpredictable end of the war. For Jim\, those ever-changing years took on the quality of a dream\, sometimes a nightmare\, a feeling that persists in the stunning full-page\, full-color paintings that along with their accompanying text tell the story of Leaving China.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-mcmullan-reads-from-leaving-china/
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SUMMARY:Todd Purdum reads from his debut An Idea Whose Time Has Come
DESCRIPTION:  \nA top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the law that created modern America\, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage \n  \nIt was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins\, freedom rides\, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door—when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment\, education\, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because\, as one influential senator put it\, it was “an idea whose time has come.” In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail\, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson\, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen\, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed\, in just over a year\, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law\, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/todd-purdum-reads-from-his-debut-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
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SUMMARY:Walter Kirn reads from his latest Blood Will Out
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1998\, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar\, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller\, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish\, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor\, child kidnapper\, and brutal murderer.\nKirn’s one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend\, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman\, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why\, as a writer of fiction\, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes\, Kirn learns\, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/walter-kirn-reads-from-his-latest-blood-will-out/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140318T180000
DTSTAMP:20140226T204203Z
CREATED:20140107T222316Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Hanff Korelitz reads from her latest You Should Have Known
DESCRIPTION:Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband\, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital\, their young son Henry\, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice\, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised\, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves\, Grace is also the author of a book You Already Know\, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death\, a missing husband\, and\, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew\, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster\, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice\, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jean-hanff-korelitz-reads-from-her-latest-you-should-have-known/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140311T200000
DTSTAMP:20140218T212433Z
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SUMMARY:Wayne Gladstone reads from his debut Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:When the Internet suddenly stops working\, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement\, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act. For Gladstone\, the Net’s disappearance comes particularly hard\, following the loss of his wife\, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather’s fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment.　But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters “poke” each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club. With the help of his friends—-a blogger and a webcam girl\, both now out of work—-Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse? \n\nFor fans of David Wong\, Chad Kultgen\, Chuck Palahniuk\, and those of you wondering if you have WiFi right now\, Wayne Gladstone’s Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question “What is life without the Web?”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/wayne-gladstone-read-from-his-debut-notes-from-the-internet-apocalypse/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140307T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T204043Z
CREATED:20140204T192608Z
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UID:533-1394215200-1394222400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Celebrate The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 with Molly Peacock and a bonanza of Canadian Poets
DESCRIPTION:Continuing in a long-established tradition of poetry excellence\, the 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. \nReaders include: Leanne Averbach\, Ross Belot\, Louise Carson\, Michael Fraser\, Ben Ladouceur\, Dale Matthews\, Robin Richardson\, Ruth Roach Pierson\, and Moez Surani
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2013-with-molly-peacock-and-a-bonanza-of-canadian-poets/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T203929Z
CREATED:20140107T213131Z
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UID:521-1394128800-1394136000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Sally Cook's latest book How to Speak Baseball
DESCRIPTION:This handsome guide to the language of baseball decodes the amusing\, clever phrases that pepper commentary about the sport. Packed with witty explanations of everything from “duster” and “rubber arm” to “up the elevator\,” this ballpark lexicon plays on a nostalgic love for the national pastime while covering ground from baseball’s beginnings to today. This humorous mix of definitions and anecdotes is the perfect gift for both lifelong baseball fans and rookies working up the ranks. \n\nJames Charlton is the author or editor of more than three dozen books. He splits his time between New York City and Connecticut.\n\nSally Cook is a New York Times bestselling author of sports-related titles. She lives in New York City.\nRoss MacDonald is an illustrator whose work has appeared in international publications. He lives in Connecticut.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-sally-cooks-latest-book-how-to-speak-baseball/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140304T200000
DTSTAMP:20140127T180553Z
CREATED:20131219T230711Z
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UID:519-1393956000-1393963200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Carol Weston reads from Ava and Pip\, the First in a New Series
DESCRIPTION:An endearing tween story about friendship\, family\, identity\, and inspiration \nOutgoing Ava loves her older sister\, Pip\, but can’t understand why Pip is so reserved and never seems to make friends with others. When Ava uses her writing talents to help her sister overcome her shyness\, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/carol-weston-reads-from-her-latest-ava-and-pip/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T200000
DTSTAMP:20131219T214127Z
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SUMMARY:Diane Jacobs reads from her latest Dear Abigail
DESCRIPTION:Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife\, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters\, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody\, accomplished women in their own right. Now acclaimed biographer Diane Jacobs reveals their moving story\, which unfolds against the stunning backdrop of America in its transformative colonial years. \nAbigail\, Mary\, and Elizabeth grew up in Weymouth\, Massachusetts\, the close-knit daughters of a minister and his wife. When the sisters moved away from one another\, they relied on near-constant letters—from what John Adams called their “elegant pen”—to buoy them through pregnancies\, illnesses\, grief\, political upheaval\, and\, for Abigail\, life in the White House. Infusing her writing with rich historical perspective and detail\, Jacobs offers fascinating insight into these progressive women’s lives: oldest sister Mary\, who became de facto mayor of her small village; youngest sister Betsy\, an aspiring writer who\, along with her husband\, founded the second coeducational school in the United States; and middle child Abigail\, who years before becoming First Lady ran the family farm while her husband served in the Continental Congress\, first in Philadelphia\, and was then sent to France and England\, where she joined him at last. \nThis engaging narrative traces the sisters’ lives from their childhood sibling rivalries to their eyewitness roles during the American Revolution and their adulthood as outspoken wives and mothers. They were women ahead of their time who believed in intellectual and educational equality between the sexes. Drawing from newly discovered correspondence\, never-before-published diaries\, and archival research\, Dear Abigail is a fascinating front-row seat to history—and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation’s democracy was just taking hold.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-jacobs-reads-from-her-latest-dear-abigail/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140225T180000
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DTSTAMP:20140129T182216Z
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SUMMARY:Camilla Crespi reads from her latest The Breakfast Club Murder
DESCRIPTION:In Hawthorne Park\, Connecticut\, Lori Corvino\, a suburban\, recently divorced mother\, doesn’t waste time licking her wounds after her ex\, Robert Staunton\, Esq. quickly marries their rich and beautiful Manhattan dentist. She has an unhappy thirteen-year-old daughter to deal with\, an invasive vegan mother to keep at bay\, and a catering career to bring back to life. \nThat’s hard enough\, but then Valerie Fenwick\, DDS\, is murdered not far from where Lori lives just days after a nasty confrontation between the two women. Lori is the prime suspect until the two detectives on the case discover that Rob is in financial trouble and has inherited Valerie’s money. Lori is convinced that her lily-livered\, two-timing ex is not capable of murder. She’d be perfectly happy to let him rot in jail\, but for the sake of her daughter Jessica\, she resolves to find the real murderer with the help of her breakfast club friends. Along the way\, Lori deals with loneliness\, anger\, sexual hunger and the hope of finding a new love\, but she is tenacious and with the help of her friends\, family and good food\, the murderer doesn’t have a chance.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/camilla-crespi-reads-from-her-latest-the-breakfast-club-murder/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T200000
DTSTAMP:20140129T182256Z
CREATED:20131219T213505Z
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UID:512-1392919200-1392926400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rose Stanton celebrates the publication of her debut Henny
DESCRIPTION:Henny is a chick who’s just a little different from everyone else in the barn—and who learns to embrace her special gift in this whimsical and charming picture book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton. \nHenny doesn’t look like any other chicken she knows. Instead of wings\, she has arms! \n  \nSometimes Henny likes being different—she enjoys the way her arms flutter like ribbons when she runs—but other times…not so much. She just can’t do things the same way as the other chickens.But doing things the same as everyone else is overrated\, as Henny comes to realize in this warmhearted story\, sweetly told and illustrated with fresh\, expressive artwork that celebrates the individual in everyone. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-rose-stanton-celebrates-the-publication-of-her-debut-henny/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140211T200000
DTSTAMP:20131031T180700Z
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UID:496-1392141600-1392148800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Joshua Max Feldman reads from his debut The Book of Jonah
DESCRIPTION:A major literary debut\, an epic tale of love\, failure\, and unexpected faith set in New York\, Amsterdam\, and Las Vegas \n\n\nThe modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman’s brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He’s a lucky man: healthy and handsome\, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He’s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre\, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw\, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness\, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah’s life\, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook\, an intense\, breathtakingly intelligent woman who’s no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas\, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you’re chosen?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joshua-max-feldman-reads-from-his-debut-the-book-of-jonah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140210T180000
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SUMMARY:Artis Henderson reads from her debut Unremarried Widow
DESCRIPTION:Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan\, but when she met Miles\, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty southern towns\, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love\, she was ready to embrace it. But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone\, her feelings of isolation and anxiety competed with the warmth and unconditional acceptance she’d found with Miles. She made few friends among the other Army wives. In some ways these were the only women who could truly empathize with her lonely\, often fearful existence— yet they kept their distance\, perhaps sensing the great potential for heartbreak among their number. It did not take long for a wife’s worst fears to come true. On November 6\, 2006\, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq\, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artis—in official military terms—an “unremarried widow.” A role\, she later realized\, that her mother had been preparing her for for most of her life. In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death— from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love—but also reveals how Miles’s death mirrored her father’s death in a plane crash\, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/artis-henderson-reads-from-her-debut-unremarried-widow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T200000
DTSTAMP:20131221T141123Z
CREATED:20131219T212320Z
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UID:506-1390933800-1390939200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Joan Breton Connelly will read from her latest book The Parthenon Enigma
DESCRIPTION:In this revolutionary book\, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations\, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular\, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders\, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which\, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy\, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures)\, Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning\, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual\, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers\, rationalists\, and rhetoricians\, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joan-breton-connelly-will-read-from-her-latest-book-the-parthenon-enigma/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T200000
DTSTAMP:20131121T214119Z
CREATED:20131121T214038Z
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SUMMARY:David Stuart MacLean reads from his debut The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
DESCRIPTION:On October 17\, 2002\, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police\, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics\, but not his family\, his friends\, or the woman he was told he loved. All of these symptoms\, it turned out\, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he had been taking. Upon his return to the States\, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing\, absurd\, and unforgettable journey back to himself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-stuart-maclean-reads-from-his-debut-the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me/
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