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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Ellen Feldman reads from her new novel Paris Never Leaves You
DESCRIPTION:Living through WWII with her young daughter Vivi\, working in a Paris bookstore\, and fighting for her life\, Charlotte is no victim\, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? \nAlternating between wartime Paris and New York’s 1950s publishing world\, Paris Never Leaves You is a story of resilience\, love\, and impossible choices\, exploring how survival never comes without a cost.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-new-novel-paris-never-leaves-you/
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Benjamin Taylor reads from his new book Here We Are
DESCRIPTION:A deeply felt\, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking\, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend. \n\n\nHere We Are is an ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today\, and this new memoir pays tribute to his friend\, in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged him to write this book\, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Unvarnished and affectionately true to life\, Taylor’s memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/benjamin-taylor-reads-from-his-new-book-here-we-are/
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Chris Beha reads from his new novel The Index of Self-Destuctive Acts
DESCRIPTION:The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer\, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity—he correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election—Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But when projection meets reality\, things turn complicated. Sam’s assigned a profile of disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle\, a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq-war apologist and author of the great works of baseball lore that first sparked Sam’s love of the game (books he now views as childish mythmaking to be crushed with his empirical hammer). But Doyle is convincing in person\, charming and intelligent. Sam takes a liking to him\, and to his daughter\, Margo\, with whom Sam becomes involved—just as his wife\, Lucy\, arrives from Wisconsin.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/chris-beha-reads-from-his-new-novel-the-index-of-self-destuctive-acts/
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SUMMARY:***IN STORE CANCELLED*** Jamie Brenner reads from her new book Summer Longing on Instagram.com/jamiebrennerwrites
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement\, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life’s compromises\, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep\, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community. As summer unfolds and friends and family care for the infant\, alliances are made\, relationships are tested\, and secrets are uncovered. But the unconditional love for a child in need just might bring Ruth and the women of Provincetown exactly what they have been longing for themselves. \n  \nPlease note: Jamie will be hosting this event live on her Instagram account: Instagram.com/jamiebrennerwrites. \nWe hope to have signed copies available for purchase\, so please check with us.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jamie-brenner-reads-from-her-new-book-summer-longing/
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** John Loughery & Blythe Randolph present their new book Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century
DESCRIPTION:After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a Communist sympathizer\, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for almost fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic\, political radical\, and a rebel who courted controversy\, she attracted three generations of admirers. Day went to jail challenging the draft and the war in Vietnam. She was critical of capitalism and foreign policy\, and as skeptical of modern liberalism as political conservatism. \nHer protests began in 1917\, leading to her arrest during the suffrage demonstration outside President Wilson’s White House. In 1940 she spoke in Congress against the draft and urged young men not to register. She frequented jail throughout the 1950s protesting the nuclear arms race. She told audiences in 1962 that President Kennedy was as much to blame for the Cuban missile crisis. She refused to hear any criticism of the pope\, though she sparred with American bishops and priests who lived in well-appointed rectories and tolerated racial segregation in their parishes. \nDorothy Day is the exceptional biography of a dedicated modern-day pacifist\, the most outspoken advocate for the poor\, and a lifelong anarchist. This definitive and insightful account explores the influence this controversial and yet “sainted” woman still has today.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/john-loughery-reads-from-his-new-book-dorothy-day-dissenting-voice-of-the-american-century/
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Bill Keenan reads from his new book Discussion Materials
DESCRIPTION:Discussion Materials gives the reader an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School\, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank’s investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You’ll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned\, but whatever you do\, don’t ask him what any of it means. Leaning heavily on his fellow junior bankers and the countless outsourcing resources the bank employs\, he slowly develops proficiency at the job\, eventually gaining traction and respect\, one deal at a time\, over a two-year span\, ultimately cementing his legacy in the group by attaining the unattainable—placing a dinner order on Seamless one Sunday night at work from Hwa Yuan Szechuan amounting to $25.00 (tax and tip included)\, the bank’s maximum allowance for meals—the perfect order.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bill-keenan-reads-from-his-new-book-discussion-materials/
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SUMMARY:***CANCELLED*** Julian Tepper in conversation with Hannah Assadi about his new book Between the Records
DESCRIPTION:Jules and Adam Newman’s complex\, often hostile\, relationship has long fueled their music careers as they followed in their father’s footsteps. After the release of their debut record\, and while struggling to write tracks for the followup\, the brothers begin to clash. Jules\, the younger brother\, feels cast aside and ignored by Adam\, who has long been accustomed to having things his own way. From the studio to the stage and across the countless miles in between\, Julian Tepper’s third novel is a moody and heady work of autofiction based on his days in the Natural History\, which he and his brother formed in 2001. Between the Records examines brothers\, fathers\, rock and roll\, and the personal demons therein—both musical and familial.\nJulian Tepper is the author of two novels\, Balls (Rare Bird) and Ark (Dzanc). As the member of the band The Natural History\, he recorded two albums and co-wrote the hit song\, “Don’t You Evah” for the legendary indie-group\, Spoon.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/julien-tepper-reads-from-his-new-book-between-the-records/
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SUMMARY:Katherine Swett reads from her new collection of poetry Voice Message
DESCRIPTION:In this beautiful book of poems\, which gives voice to unspeakable loss\, Katherine Barrett Swett enlivens and animates old forms and makes them sing anew.  Hers is a dazzling contemporary poetics\, in which\, in a wry\, adroit crown of sonnets\, based on paintings by Vermeer\, “a grace note struck…shimmers like a pearl.” These poems bring to mind Mona Van Duyn’s stately\, syncopated verses\, tempered with flashes of humor and verbal derring-do and delineate not only dark places but also the pleasures of a long marriage\, sitting out on a summer evening\, watching the firefly’s “disco frenzy…impossible to trace with just the eye.”  A marvelous collection. \n—Cynthia Zarin
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/katherine-swett-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-voice-message/
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SUMMARY:Honor Moore reads from her new book Our Revolution
DESCRIPTION:With the sweep of an epic novel\, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore\, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in the great twentieth-century movements for peace and social justice. Born into Boston society in 1923 and the first woman in her family to go to college\, she set aside writing ambitions to marry Paul Moore\, a decorated war hero who became Bishop Paul Moore. Together they had nine children—”a baseball team\,” Jenny said\, “a small orchestra.” \nRejecting a conventional path\, the Moores moved to an inner-city parish in Jersey City and began their family while collaborating on a socially radical\, multiracial ministry. In 1968\, Jenny published her first book. “Everything was just starting\,” she protested—meaning an independent life inspired in part by the new feminist movement—when she was diagnosed with cancer at fifty. \nJenny bequeathed to her eldest daughter\, Honor\, then a twenty-seven-year-old poet\, her unfinished writing. As Honor pursued her own writing\, she was haunted by her mother’s bequest. Decades later\, she delves into Jenny’s pages and forges a new relationship with the passionate seeker and truth teller she finds there. Our Revolution is a vivid\, absorbing account of two women navigating the twentieth century and a daughter’s story of the mother who shaped her life as an artist and a woman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/honor-moore-reads-from-her-new-book-our-revolution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T180000
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SUMMARY:Zack O'Malley Greenberg reads from his new book A-List Angels
DESCRIPTION:How much is celebrity really worth? In a growing trend\, Hollywood’s biggest stars from Ashton Kutcher to Beyoncé have set out to turn their fame into bankable capital by tossing out traditional endorsement deals in favor of strategic partnerships that grant them a stake in today’s top companies. Ushered in by 50 Cent’s deal with Vitamin Water — in which the rapper took equity instead of cash\, eventually walking away with a nine-figure haul — celebrities of all different colors\, genders\, and talents have learned to capitalize on the invaluable benefits of their platform and visibility.\n\nThe ever-evolving\, mutually beneficial relationship between Hollywood and Silicon Valley has led to everything from laughable flops and billion-dollar profits to rock star CEOs and paparazzi-worthy boards of directors. Through extensive reporting and exclusive interviews with stars like Shaq\, Nas\, Sophia Bush\, and Steve Aoki\, Forbes senior editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg takes an up-close-and-personal look at the rise of celebrity investors and their impact on companies including AirBnB\, Spotify\, and Uber.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/zack-omalley-greenberg-reads-from-his-new-book-a-list-angels/
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SUMMARY:Jan Eliasberg reads from her debut Hannah's War
DESCRIPTION:Berlin\, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon’s creation will secure an end to future wars\, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich\, her research is belittled\, overlooked\, and eventually stolen by her German colleagues. Faced with an impossible choice\, Hannah must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in pursuit of science’s greatest achievement.\n \nNew Mexico\, 1945. Returning wounded and battered from the liberation of Paris\, Major Jack Delaney arrives in the New Mexican desert with a mission: to catch a spy. Someone in the top-secret nuclear lab at Los Alamos has been leaking encoded equations to Hitler’s scientists. Chief among Jack’s suspects is the brilliant and mysterious Hannah Weiss\, an exiled physicist lending her talent to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s mission. All signs point to Hannah as the traitor\, but over three days of interrogation that separate her lies from the truth\, Jack will realize they have more in common than either one bargained for.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jan-eliasberg-reads-from-her-debut-hannahs-war/
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SUMMARY:Sarah-Jane Stratford in conversation with Fiona Davis about Red Letter Days
DESCRIPTION:Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York\, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communists. Desperate to work\, she escapes to London\, determined to keep her dream alive and clear her good name.There\, Phoebe befriends fellow American exile Hannah Wolfson\, who has defied the odds to build a career as a successful television producer in England. Hannah is a woman who has it all\, and is now gambling everything in a very dangerous game—the game of hiring blacklisted writers. \nNeither woman suspects that danger still looms . . . and their fight is only just beginning. \n\n\n\nSarah-Jane Stratford will be in conversation with Fiona Davis\, author of The Chelsea Girls
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-jane-stratford-in-conversation-with-fiona-davis-about-red-letter-days/
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SUMMARY:Christin Brecher launches her new book Murder Makes Scents
DESCRIPTION:Stella Wright loves creating candles at her Nantucket store—and she also has a burning passion for justice. Now\, after visiting a perfume conference\, she must solve a vial crime . . . \nStella and her globe-trotting mom\, Millie\, have come home from a perfume industry conference in Paris\, where their trip was marred by witnessing the stabbing death of a young man. It’s a relief for Stella to be back on her picturesque island\, with the comforting company of her cat\, Tinker. But lingering danger may have followed them back across the ocean. After someone breaks into her candle store\, the Wick & Flame\, Stella starts feeling spooked. And just as things threaten to ignite\, Millie suffers a blow to the head. Stella receives an anonymous note claiming that her mother smuggled a secret formula out of France—and threatening her life if it isn’t returned. Now Stella’s picked up the scent of a cold-hearted criminal and an intriguing puzzle\, and things are about to get wicked . . .
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christin-brecher-launches-her-new-book-murder-makes-scents/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Paul Wolfe reads from his debut novel The Lost Diary of M
DESCRIPTION:She was a longtime lover of JFK. \nShe was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. \nShe was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee. \nShe believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. \nShe was a painter\, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War. \nAnd she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK’s assassination. \nThe diary she kept was never found. \nUntil now. . . .
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paul-wolfe-reads-from-his-debut-novel-the-lost-diary-of-m/
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SUMMARY:Alan A. Winter reads from his debut novel Wolf
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps no man on Earth is more controversial\, more hated\, or more studied than Adolf Hitler. His exploits and every move are well-documented\, from the time he first became chancellor and then dictator of Germany to starting World War II to the systematic killing of millions of Jews. But how did he achieve power\, and what was the makeup of the mind of a man who would deliberately inflict unimaginable horrors on millions of people? \nMeet Friedrich Richard\, an amnesiac soldier who\, in 1918\, encounters Hitler in the mental ward at Pasewalk Hospital. Hitler\, then a corporal\, diagnosed as a psychopath and helpless\, suffering from hysterical blindness\, introduces himself as Wolf to Friedrich and becomes dependent upon Friedrich for assistance\, forming an unbreakable bond between the two men. \nFollow Friedich—our protagonist—who interacts with real people\, places\, and events\, through the fifteen-year friendship that witnesses Hitler turn from a quiet painter into a megalomaniacal dictator. Using brand-new historical research to construct a realistic portrait of the evolving Hitler\, Wolf will satisfy\, by turns\, history buffs and fiction fans alike. And as this complex story is masterfully presented\, it answers the question of how a nondescript man became the world’s greatest monster.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/alan-a-winter-reads-from-his-debut-novel-wolf/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T180000
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SUMMARY:Gigi Levangie in conversation with Molly Jong-Fast about Been There\, Married That
DESCRIPTION:Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends\, the right clothes\, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer\, and from the outside it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect celebrity life\, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. \nBut the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn’t cover divorce\, which is the way Agnes’ life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh\, and there’s a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter…which she does. \nNeedless to say\, Agnes’ husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time\, but Agnes isn’t the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies\, personal psychics and “skinny” jello shots\, Agnes may be losing her husband\, but could that mean getting her own life back? \nBeen There\, Married That is a drop-dead hilarious battle of wills that will make you laugh out loud\, cringe\, and keep turning the pages to see what crazy disaster will happen to Agnes next…and how she’ll rise from the ashes.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/gigi-levangie-in-conversation-with-molly-jong-fast-about-been-there-married-that/
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SUMMARY:Adrienne Miller in conversation with Jenny Mollen about her new book In the Land of Men
DESCRIPTION:A naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest\, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis\, powerful male egos\, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three years later\, she forged her own path\, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire\, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway\, Mailer\, and Carver. Up against this old world\, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.” \nBut this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement\, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller\, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend\, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. \nThis memoir—a rich\, dazzling story of power\, ambition\, and identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence\, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a land of men.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adrienne-miller-in-conversation-with-jenny-mollen-about-her-new-book-in-the-land-of-men/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T193000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Hammer Reads from his new book The Falcon Thief
DESCRIPTION:On May 3\, 2010\, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a tale almost too bizarre to believe\, following the parallel lives of a globetrotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors for royals in the United Arab Emirates—where falcon races have multimillion-dollar purses and a champion bird might just be worth risking prison for—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit\, who’s determined to protect the world’s birds of prey from one of the most irrepressible predators of our time. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative\, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joshua-hammer-reads-from-his-new-book-the-falcon-thief/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T193000
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SUMMARY:Lily Tuck and Molly Haskell in conversation about Lily's new book Heathcliff Redux
DESCRIPTION:In the title novella\, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow\, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian café; a forgotten act of violence in New York’s Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult. \nSharp and unflinching\, the novella and stories together form an exquisitely crafted collection from one of our most treasured\, award-winning writers. \n  \nLily Tuck will be in conversation with author and critic\, Molly Haskell
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lily-tuck-and-molly-haskell-in-conversation-about-lilys-new-book-heathcliff-redux/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T180000
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UID:1915-1580407200-1580412600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Lydia Denworth and Randi Hutter discuss Lydia's new book Friendship
DESCRIPTION:In Friendship\, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in search of friendship’s biological\, psychological\, and evolutionary foundations. She finds friendship to be as old as early life on the African savannas—when tribes of people grew large enough for individuals to seek fulfillment of their social needs outside their immediate families. Denworth sees this urge to connect reflected in primates\, too\, taking us to a monkey sanctuary in Puerto Rico and a baboon colony in Kenya to examine social bonds that offer insight into our own. She meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves\, our genomes\, and our cardiovascular and immune systems; its opposite\, loneliness\, can kill. At long last\, social connection is recognized as critical to wellness and longevity.With insight and warmth\, Denworth weaves past and present\, field biology and neuroscience\, to show how our bodies and minds are designed for friendship across life stages\, the processes by which healthy social bonds are developed and maintained\, and how friendship is changing in the age of social media. Blending compelling science\, storytelling\, and a grand evolutionary perspective\, Denworth delineates the essential role that cooperation and companionship play in creating human (and nonhuman) societies. \n  \nLydia Denworth will be in conversation with Randi Hutter Epstein\, author Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lydia-denworth-and-randi-hutter-discuss-lydias-new-book-friendship/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200114T193000
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UID:1890-1579024800-1579030200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:James L. May reads from his debut novel The Body Outside the Kremlin
DESCRIPTION:Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here\, hundreds of miles from civilization\, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge\, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching\, Tolya Bogomolov\, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence\, hopes an acquaintance he’s been cultivating will lead to a less brutal work assignment\, maybe even a little more bread in his ration. Knowing Gennady Antonov holds a privileged position restoring the monks’ seized collection of icons ought to improve Tolya’s odds of reassignment. But when Antonov’s body is discovered floating frozen in the bay\, their connection turns dangerous. At first the authorities question Tolya\, but then he’s mystified when they assign him to assist the elderly detective investigating the case—but better to find the real killer than have the murder pinned on him. Digging into Antonov’s secrets turns up strange expropriations of the museum’s icons\, rumors of an escape conspiracy among White Army officers\, and an illicit affair with a female prisoner who won’t tell all she knows. To avoid becoming the murderer’s next victim\, Tolya must defy Solovetsky’s unforgiving regime and make ruthless use of his fellow prisoners. Putting his story to paper at last means reckoning the true cost of his survival.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-l-may-reads-from-his-debut-novel-the-body-outside-the-kremlin/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110744
CREATED:20191016T141554Z
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UID:1870-1574186400-1574191800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Celebrate the re-publication of Wally the Wordworm with Anne Fadiman and illustrator Arnold Roth
DESCRIPTION:A worm who lives on words\, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration . . . until the day he slithers into a magical book: the dictionary. From this moment\, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of epic proportions\, munching on the likes of “eft” and “escalator\,” “ptarmigan” and “sesquipedalian.” From Wally the Wordworm’s first publication in 1964\, children and adults alike have been delighted by Wally’s wriggling through rhymes and words of increasing difficulty and complexity\, his acrobatics whimsically illustrated by The New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth. \nGenuinely fun to read aloud\, and complete with an afterword by Clifton Fadiman’s daughter\, Anne Fadiman\, Wally the Wordworm instills in young readers a love of words and language and an early appreciation for their vast possibilities.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-wally-the-word-worm-with-anne-fadiman-and-illustrator-arnold-roth/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T193000
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CREATED:20190923T145857Z
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UID:1840-1573149600-1573155000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Maya C. Popa reads from her debut collection of poems American Faith
DESCRIPTION:“Maya C. Popa’s poems move with a confident\, quick-as-dread sweep toward an alarmingly clear articulation of what it is to be an American ‘under/ duress by a language\, its failure to imagine the present world or next…’ Her lyrics address our huge unknowns\, when ‘The government is cancelled/ but not the body\,’ tides of unsorted information threaten to sink us\, and in the poisoned sea ‘the shame is that the parrotfish/cannot be remade from scratch.’ American Faith marries a richly detailed music to this careening hour.” —Mark Doty\, author of Deep Lane \nMaya Catherine Popa is a Romanian-American poet and author of two chapbooks\, The Bees Have Been Cancelled  and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave\, published in 2018 (DIAGRAM chapbook series). She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation and the Hippocrates Society\, and her writing has appeared in Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, Poetry London\, and Tin House among others. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly\, and she directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches English literature at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maya-c-popa-reads-from-her-debut-collection-of-poems-american-faith/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T193000
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CREATED:20191002T173215Z
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UID:1851-1573063200-1573068600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Sydney Stern Launches Her Latest Book The Brothers Mankiewicz
DESCRIPTION:Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote\, produced\, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles\, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve\, which also won Best Picture. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls\, the witty\, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have–a career in New York theater. For this first dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers\, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews\, letters\, diaries\, and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives\, loves\, work\, and relationship between these complex men.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sydney-stern-launches-her-latest-book-the-brothers-mankiewicz/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110744
CREATED:20190826T172838Z
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UID:1815-1571250600-1571254200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Michael Frank launches his debut novel What is Missing
DESCRIPTION:Costanza Ansaldo\, a half-Italian and half-American translator\, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband\, an eminent writer\, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth\, and there she meets\, first\, Andrew Weissman\, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old\, and\, soon afterward\, his father\, Henry Weissman\, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine.With three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child\, a parent\, a partner\, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza\, Andrew\, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York\, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father\, a son\, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-frank-launches-his-debut-novel-what-is-missing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T193000
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CREATED:20190917T160633Z
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UID:1833-1570125600-1570131000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill presents her new book on Jerome Robbins
DESCRIPTION:He was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical\, creating a vernacular American ballet\, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before\, integrating dance seamlessly with character\, story and music\, and as Associate Artistic Director\, Ballet Master\, and Co-Artistic Director\, with George Balanchine\, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet’s classical idiom. The titanic choreographer\, revealed in his own words—the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography—from his never-before-published letters\, journals\, and diaries. Amanda Vaill\, draws on the vast and closely held Robbins’ archives of his writings to give us a sense of hisrange as a thinker and artist\, as well as a revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant. \n  \nAmanda Vaill will be in conversation  \nwith author Molly Haskell
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-presents-her-new-book-on-jerome-robbins/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T193000
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CREATED:20190807T203628Z
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UID:1796-1569434400-1569439800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Shirley Mueller launches her debut Inside the Head of a Collector
DESCRIPTION:Collecting objects gives enormous pleasure to approximately one third of the population\, providing such benefits as intellectual stimulation\, the thrill of the chase\, and leaving a legacy. On the other hand\, the same pursuit can engender pain; for example\, paying too much for an object\, unknowingly buying a fake\, or dealing with the frustrations of collection dispersal. Until recently\, there was no objective way to enhance the positive (pleasure) aspects of collecting and minimize the negative (pain). Now\, for the first time\, scientific research in neuro- and behavioral economics gives us a way to turn this around. The contents of this book are cutting edge\, unique and sure to get attention. Mueller breaks new ground in an area not previously explored. Her information is relevant not only for collectors\, but also for colleges\, and universities which teach collection management\, plus museum staff who interact with collectors and dealers of objects desired by collectors. Heavily illustrated with ceramics from Mueller’s collection and packed with useful information\, this book will become a required vital resource.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/shirley-mueller-launches-her-debut-inside-the-head-of-a-collector/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T193000
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CREATED:20190807T202559Z
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UID:1793-1569348000-1569353400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Libby Babbott-Klein returns to launch Baby Feminists\, Too
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Parks\, Mia Hamm\, Nelson Mandela\, and Amelia Earhart were all once adorable babies–and you can meet them (and more) in this follow-up to runaway hit Baby Feminists! \nOn the heels of Baby Feminists\, here are ten more pioneering icons in a second board book for budding leaders of all ages. Lift the die-cut flaps to discover how cute these change-makers can be\, inspiring the next generation of artists\, athletes\, and activists to join the fight for equality and inclusion. In sturdy 7″ x 7″ board book format\, this is truly a perfect gift for babies and their grownups to share and enjoy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/libby-babbott-klein-returns-to-launch-baby-feminists-too/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110744
CREATED:20190826T153931Z
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UID:1812-1568829600-1568835000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Jim Tilley launches his debut novel Against the Wind
DESCRIPTION:A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished\nseparatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party’s Minister of Natural Resources\, a divorcée\, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-tilley-launches-his-debut-novel-against-the-wind/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190917T193000
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CREATED:20190807T201315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190807T202255Z
UID:1787-1568743200-1568748600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Kate & Jim McMullan celebrate the publication of their new picture book As Warm as the Sun
DESCRIPTION:Toby loves basking in the morning sun\, snuggling in a lap in the afternoon\, and toasting his tummy by the fireside at night\, but somehow his warm spots never last. What Toby wants more than anything is to find something as warm as the sun that never fades or fizzles.\nThen one day\, Pinkie comes along\, and she starts hogging all of Toby’s favorite places. Toby feels alone and forgotten\, and slinks away. . . but Pinkie follows him\, determined to prove that she is the something as warm as the sun Toby has been looking for all along.From the acclaimed duo of Kate and Jim McMullan\, creators of I Stink! and I’m Dirty!\, comes this story about two unforgettable French bulldogs–the perfect story for parents bringing home a new sibling.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-kate-mcmullan-celebrate-the-publication-of-their-new-picture-book-as-warm-as-the-sun/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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