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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig launches her latest novel The Girl from Greenwich Street
DESCRIPTION:At the start of a new century\, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan\, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. \nJust before Christmas 1799\, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. \nHer family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. \nBut privately\, quietly\, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor…. \nAaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. \nAlexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks\, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near\, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other. \nPart murder mystery\, part thriller\, part true crime\, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history—with a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-launches-her-latest-novel-the-girl-from-greenwich-street/
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SUMMARY:Emma Otheguy launches her latest book Cousins in the Time of Magic
DESCRIPTION:History is alive with magic. That’s what zany Tía Xia is always telling cousins Jorge\, Camila\, and Siggy. Daredevil Jorge couldn’t be more different than his cousins: Camila is a dreamer who adores animals and Siggy is an aspiring influencer who has an exclusive party to attend. And their aunt has many secrets\, including a mysterious diamond-encrusted sword that Jorge definitely wasn’t supposed to see. \nBut when the three stumble upon a time portal in their aunt’s yard\, they are transported back to 1862\, a past filled with wonders—and dangers. To return to the present\, they must race to deliver the sword to General Ignacio Zaragoza in time for the historic Battle of Puebla in Mexico: the foundation of the holiday Cinco de Mayo. \nAs their journey to Mexico takes them through the Civil War–era United States\, the cousins see just how much US history has been shaped by Latin communities. They must find the power within themselves to make sure things happen as they’re supposed to\, without altering the past.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/emma-otheguy-launches-her-latest-book-cousins-in-the-time-of-magic/
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SUMMARY:Laura Robson launches her debut A Curse for the Homesick
DESCRIPTION:On Stenland\, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day\, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead\, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning\, and while each window of time lasts only three months\, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead. \nThat’s how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone\, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld\, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland\, to run from the windswept island\, from her family and friends. She is unwilling to bear the responsibility of one day killing anyone\, let alone someone she loves. Soren has been determined to stay\, to live out his life in the place he knows as home\, even if that life could be cut short during the latest skeld season. They cannot see eye to eye—and yet they cannot stay apart. She tries to come back for him. He tries to leave for her. But can your love for one person outweigh everything else combined? And how do you decide how much you’re willing to risk\, if it might mean destroying someone else in the process?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/laura-robson-launches-her-debut-a-curse-for-the-homesick/
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SUMMARY:Diane Kiesel launches her latest book When Charlie Met Joan
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Chaplin\, the silent screen’s “Little Tramp\,” was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a series of salacious\, real-life federal courtroom dramas. The 1944 trial was described by ace New York Daily News reporter Florabel Muir as “the best show in town.” The leading lady was a woman under contract to his studio—red-haired ingénue Joan Barry\, Chaplin’s protégée and former mistress. Although he beat the federal criminal trial\, Chaplin lost a paternity case and had to pay child support despite blood type evidence that proved he was not the child’s father. \nA decade later during the Cold War\, the U.S. government used the Barry trials as an excuse to bar the left-leaning\, sexually adventurous\, British-born comic from the country he had called home for forty years. Not only did these trials have a lasting impact on law; they also raise concerns about the power of celebrity\, Cold War politics\, the media frenzy surrounding high-profile court proceedings\, and the sorry history of the casting couch. When Charlie Met Joan examines these trials from the perspective of both parties\, asking whether Chaplin was unfairly persecuted by the government because of his left-leaning political beliefs\, or if he should have been held more accountable for his cavalier treatment of Barry and other women in his life. \nDiane Kiesel is a retired judge of the New York Supreme Court. Her other books include She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee\, Civil Rights Pioneer\, and Domestic Violence: Law\, Policy\, and Practice.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-kiesel-launches-her-latest-book-when-charlie-met-joan/
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SUMMARY:Todd Almond launches his debut Slow Train Coming
DESCRIPTION:Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson’s musical Girl from the North Country weaves two dozen songs from the legendary catalog of Bob Dylan into a story of Duluth during the Great Depression\, to create a future American classic. Despite historic\, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of four openings\, the musical was hailed as an experience “as close as mortals come to heaven on earth\,” by The New York Times.Opening on Broadway in the middle of an unprecedented moment\, Slow Train Coming is a book about pressing on in the face of extreme adversity. Todd Almond’s behind-the-scenes oral history weaves his personal first-hand account of starring in the show with exclusive interviews and reflections from fellow cast members and the creative team.Told through personal stories\, anecdotes from the cast\, production shots\, behind-the-scenes photos\, and insights from the creators\, this book is both an inside look at a perilous moment of one of America’s proudest institutions\, Broadway\, and a true story of American grit and determination lived by the company of this quirky musical-that-could.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/todd-almond-launches-his-debut-slow-train-coming/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Weiner discusses her new book A Gorgeous Excitement with editor Amy Einhorn
DESCRIPTION:There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages\, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible—when her mother isn’t lying in bed for days\, she’s lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong\, Nina is the talk of Flanagan’s\, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn’t help that she’s Jewish\, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in\, kind of\, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents’ medicine cabinet. \nFlanagan’s is where she pines for the handsome\, preppy\, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After she’s introduced to cocaine\, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner\, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness\, and Nina and Gardner grow closer\, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost? \nAmy Einhorn is SVP\, Publisher of Fiction at Crown Publishing Group
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cynthia-weiner-launches-her-new-book-a-gorgeous-excitement/
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SUMMARY:Henry Alford launches his new book I Dream of Joni
DESCRIPTION:Joni Mitchell’s life\, psyche\, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor—from her childhood in Saskatoon\, Canada\, to her arrival in Laurel Canyon that turned her into\, as Alford puts it\, “the bard of heartbreak and longing.” Each period of Mitchell’s life is observed via the artists\, friends\, family\, and lovers she encountered along the way\, including James Taylor\, Leonard Cohen\, Georgia O’Keefe\, Prince\, and\, most significantly\, Kilauren\, the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption at birth but then reconnected with decades later.\nPresented in the impressionistic vein of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret\, I Dream of Joni explores in fifty-three essays\, with the author’s trademark wit and verve\, the life of the legendary singer-songwriter.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/henry-alford-launches-his-new-book-i-dream-of-joni/
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SUMMARY:Michael Cannell reads from his new book Blood and the Badge
DESCRIPTION:No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa\, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn. \nFor more than ten years\, Eppolito and Caracappa moonlighted as the mob’s early warning alert system\, leaking names of mobsters secretly cooperating with the government and crippling investigations by sharing details of surveillance\, phone taps and impending arrests. The Lucchese boss called the two detectives his crystal ball: Whatever detectives knew\, the mafia soon learned. Most grievously\, Eppolito and Caracappa earned bonuses by staging eight mob hits\, pulling the trigger themselves at least once. \nIncredibly\, when evidence of their wrongdoing arose in 1994\, FBI officials failed to muster an indictment. The allegations lay dormant for a decade and were only revisited due to relentless follow up by Tommy Dades\, a cop determined to break the cold case before his retirement. Eppolito and Caracappa were finally tried and then sentenced to life in prison in 2009\, nearly thirty years after their crimes took place. \nCannell’s Blood and the Badge is based on entirely new research and never-before-released interviews with mobsters themselves\, including Sammy “the Bull” Gravano. Eppolito and Caracappa’s story is more relevant than ever as police conduct comes under ever-increasing scrutiny.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-cannell-reads-from-his-new-book-blood-the-badge/
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SUMMARY:Andy Corren discusses his debut memoir Dirtbag Queen with actor Ryan Eggold
DESCRIPTION:“Because she was my mother\, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me\, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for\, well\, nothing. A more disrespectful\, trash talking woman was not to be found.” \nSo began Andy Corren’s unforgettable obituary for his mother\, Renay Mandel Corren\, a tribute that went on to touch the hearts of millions around the globe. In his brief telling of the life and legend that was Renay\, a “loud\, filthy‑minded (and filthy‑mouthed) Jewish lady redneck who birthed six kids\,” Andy captured only a slice of his loving and fabulously unconventional mother. \nIn this uproariously funny\, deeply moving family portrait\, readers meet the rest of his absurd clan: his brothers\, affectionately nicknamed Asshole\, Twin\, and Rabbi; his one-eyed pirate queen of a sister\, Cathy Sue; and then there’s Bonus\, who Andy isn’t aware of until later in life since this mysterious oldest brother grew up at the Green Valley School for Emotionally Disturbed and Delinquent Children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andy-corren-discusses-his-debut-memoir-dirtbag-queen/
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SUMMARY:Lily Tuck signs copy of her new novel The Rest is Memory
DESCRIPTION:First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle\, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck\, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings\, shorn\, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz\, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later\, she is dead. \nHow did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel\, which frames Czeslawa’s story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles who perished during the German occupation. A decade prior to writing The Rest Is Memory\, Tuck read an obituary of the photographer Wilhelm Brasse\, who took more than 40\,000 pictures of the Auschwitz prisoners. Included were three of Czeslawa Kwoka\, a Catholic girl from rural southeastern Poland. Tuck cut out the photos and kept them\, determined to learn more about Czeslawa\, but she was only able to glean the barest facts: the village she came from\, the transport she was on\, that she was accompanied by her mother and her neighbors\, her tattoo number\, and the date of her death. From this scant evidence\, Tuck’s novel becomes a remarkable kaleidoscopic feat of imagination\, something only our greatest novelists can do.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lily-tucks-signs-copy-of-her-new-novel-the-rest-is-memory/
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SUMMARY:Peter Wortsman and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman present Odd Birds & Fat Cats
DESCRIPTION:Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary) is an illustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspired by the tradition of the medieval bestiary\, bestiarum vocabulum\, a 12th-century bestselling genre that chronicled animals and beings both real and fantastical\, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animals that delight\, confound\, and edify\, written by Peter Wortsman\, coupled with detailed naturalist artwork by his daughter\, Aurélie Bernard Wortsman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-wortsman-and-aurelie-bernard-wortsman-present-odd-birds-fat-cats/
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new collection of poetry The Widow's Crayon Box
DESCRIPTION:After her husband’s death\, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems—joyful\, furious\, mournful\, bewildered\, sexy\, devastated\, whimsical and above all\, moving—composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms\, designed in four movements (After\, Before\, When\, and Afterglow)—illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the crystalline emotions one can experience after the death of a cherished partner. With her characteristic virtuosity\, her fearless willingness to confront even the most difficult emotions\, and always with buoyancy and zest\, Peacock charts widowhood in the twenty-first century.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-the-widows-crayon-box/
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SUMMARY:Richard Panek discusses his new book Pillars of Creation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION:Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization\, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Award-winning science writer Richard Panek stands us shoulder to shoulder with senior scientists as they conceive the mission\, meet decades-long challenges to bring it to fruition\, and\, now\, use its unprecedented technology to yield new discoveries about the origins of our solar system\, to search for life on planets around other suns\, and to trace the growth of hundreds of billions of galaxies all the way back to the birth of the first stars. The Webb telescope has captured the world’s imagination\, and Pillars of Creation shows how and why—including through sixteen pages of awe-inspiring\, full-color photos.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/richard-panek-discusses-his-new-book-pillars-of-creation-with-adam-gopnik/
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Swett launches his new book The Picture Not Taken
DESCRIPTION:In an age when most of us carry a device seemingly capable of freeze-framing the world\, Benjamin Swett writes with refreshing clarity on the way of the true photographer. The Picture Not Taken combines cultural criticism with personal revelation to examine how the lived experience of photography can endow the mundane with meaning while bringing attention to the beauty of both the natural world and the world we build. \nHaving photographed trees of Manhattan\, Shaker dwellings\, and the landscapes of upstate New York\, award-winning photographer and writer Swett brings an ecological sensitivity to these expansive and profound meditations on how to document the world around us. Accompanied by nearly three dozen black-and-white photographs and illustrations\, the essays in The Picture Not Taken take us from the meatpacking plants of Chicago at the turn of the last century to Coney Island to early 1980s Madrid. By turns literary criticism\, art history\, and memoir\, they draw from writers such as Eric Sanderson\, Max Frisch\, and John Berger to uncover truths about a life spent in pursuit of art. \nIn essays such as “The Picture Not Taken\,” “The Beauty of the Camera\,” and “My Father’s Green Album” Swett gives us a picture of photography over generations and how we can or should relate to the mechanical devices so often fetishized by those interested in the subject. In “What I wanted to Tell You About the Wind” we understand photography’s importance in understanding our place in larger environmental and social systems; and in “VR” and “Some Observations in the Galapagos” Swett challenges us to think through problems of perception and knowing central to the experience of photography\, looking to the past and into our future for answers. \nPoignant and deftly crafted\, The Picture Not Taken brings to mind the fearless ambition of Annie Dillard and the grand scope of Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost. Swett’s writing will appeal to readers who have enjoyed Geoff Dyer’s work\, and Susan Sontag’s writing on photography.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/11014/
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SUMMARY:Kate Greathead reads from her new book The Book of George
DESCRIPTION:If you haven’t had the misfortune of dating a George\, you know someone who has. He’s a young man brimming with potential but incapable of following through; sweet yet noncommittal to his long-suffering girlfriend; distant from but still reliant on his mother; charmingly funny one minute\, sullenly brooding the next. Here\, Kate Greathead paints one particular\, unforgettable George in a series of droll and surprisingly poignant snapshots of his life over two decades. \nDespite his failings\, it’s hard not to root for George at least a little. Beneath his cynicism is a reservoir of fondness for his girlfriend\, Jenny\, and her valiant willingness to put up with him. Each demonstration of his flaws is paired with a self-eviscerating comment. No one is more disappointed in him than himself (except maybe Jenny and his mother). As hilarious as it is resonant and as singular as it is universal\, The Book of George is a deft\, unexpectedly moving portrait of one man—but also countless others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-greathead-reads-from-her-new-book-the-book-of-george/
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SUMMARY:Sadek Wahba launches his debut\, Build: Investing in America's Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:America’s infrastructure—its essential roads\, bridges\, ports\, airports\, power grids\, and telecommunications systems—were once the pride of the nation and an example for the world. But now\, after years of neglect and oversight\, this infrastructure is crumbling and causing catastrophic changes in the US quality of life. Build seeks to explain how American infrastructure collapsed and what can be done to repair it. \nIn a series of colorful\, rarely told cases\, Build takes readers on a revealing tour behind the scenes of the successes and debacles of key infrastructure projects to show what works\, why the United States has failed in recent decades to invest in infrastructure\, and how the private sector can help revitalize the sector\, spur job growth\, and contribute to climate resilience. \nSadek Wahba examines the private origins of US infrastructure and the federally funded megaprojects that came after the New Deal\, investigating the role the private sector can and should play in building infrastructure. By drawing comparisons with systems in the United Kingdom\, France\, India\, and China\, Wahba shows that while privatization and public-private partnerships cannot solve all infrastructure challenges\, they are essential for closing funding gaps\, overcoming political paralysis\, and driving major infrastructure advances. \nBuild will appeal to readers interested in public finance\, domestic policy\, the role of the federal government\, tax policy\, and urban affairs.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sadek-wahba-launches-his-debut-build-investing-in-americas-infrastructure/
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SUMMARY:Stephen Bruno reads from his debut Building Material
DESCRIPTION:As an academically gifted Latino kid growing up in the Bronx\, Stephen Bruno’s family had high aspirations for his future. He attended magnet schools and selective academic programs and was on track to realize his potential. But those dreams were derailed when\, much to his Mami’s dismay\, he followed a girlfriend to Minnesota and a dead-end job. Languishing and unable to get it together\, Stephen eventually moved back home. Broke and eager to make a way for himself–and away from the oppressively religious father wreaking havoc on his love life–the affable\, easy going\, and quick-witted Stephen lands a much-coveted job as a doorman at a high-end building on Park Avenue. \nHilarity and drama soon abound as Stephen learns the dos and don’ts of being a doorman for the rich and famous and witnesses the antics going on behind the front entrance of this swanky building. In Building Material\, he shares those entertaining tales and introduces an unforgettable cast of characters–from Puerto Rican and Albanian doormen battling it out for turf to quirky one percenters to slimy sugar daddies to his peers\, both friends and frenemies. Throughout\, Stephen offers a glimpse into the unfathomable lives of the residents and a sharp portrait of an everyday man wanting more for himself. \nBoth poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, Building Material is a captivating true tale of class\, failure\, and redemption–and how to come back swinging–from a gifted young talent.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/stephen-bruno-reads-from-his-debut-building-material/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Gronningsater in conversation about her new book The Rising Generation
DESCRIPTION:The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of black New Yorkers. Born into precarious freedom after the American Revolution and reaching adulthood in the lead-up to the Civil War\, this remarkable generation ultimately played an outsized role in political and legal conflicts over slavery’s future\, influencing both the nation’s path to the Civil War and changes to the US Constitution. \nSarah will be in conversation with author Matt McCarthy. Matt is the author of The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly & Odd Man Out
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-gronnigstater-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-rising-generation/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T180000
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UID:11035-1726682400-1726687800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Paulina Bren launches her new book She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the “smart cookies” who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads\, who\, despite their hard-earned diplomas\, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of the 1980s in power suits and commuter sneakers. In She-Wolves\, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of the first generations of women who fought their way into the bad-boy culture and lavish opulence of the finance world. If the wolves of Wall Street made a show of their ferocity\, the she-wolves did so with tough-as-nails persistence. Starting at a time when “No Ladies” signs hung across the doors of Wall Street’s clubs and unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm at top firms\, Bren chronicles the remarkable women who demanded a seat at the table. She-Wolves is an engaging and enraging look at the collision of women\, finance\, and New York from the go-go years to ground zero.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paulina-bren-launches-her-new-book-she-wolves-the-untold-history-of-women-on-wall-street/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T180000
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UID:11011-1726596000-1726601400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Carolyn Jack launches hew debut novel The Changing of Keys
DESCRIPTION:With his father dead\, a gifted\, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will\, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend he’s never met. His first angry\, frightened step away from the controlling mother he’s never been able to reach becomes a sharp break with her expectations: he leaps into the dramatic and cutthroat world of opera. In this high-stakes milieu\, his fierce desire to be a star fires both his brilliance and the dark distrust of women and of love that is the legacy of his childhood\, a legacy that threatens his career\, his impulsive marriage\, and the young daughter he never wanted.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/carolyn-jack-launches-hew-debut-novel-the-changing-of-keys/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T193000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth L. Block launches her new book Beyond Vanity
DESCRIPTION:In the nineteenth century\, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant\, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War\, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local\, national\, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity\, Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry operated\, Block argues that the importance of hair has been overlooked due to its ephemerality as well as its misguided association with frivolity and triviality. As Block clarifies\, hairdressing was anything but frivolous. \nUsing methods of visual and material culture studies informed by concepts of cultural geography\, Block identifies multiple substantive categories of place and space within which hair acted. These include the preparatory places of the bedroom\, hair salon\, and enslaved peoples’ quarters\, as well as the presentation places of parties\, fairs\, stages\, and workplaces. Here are also the untold stories of business owners\, many of whom were women of color\, and the creators of trendsetting styles like the pompadour and Gibson Girl bouffant. Block’s ground-breaking study examines how race and racism affected who participated in the presentation and business of hair\, and according to which standards. The result of looking closely at the places and spaces of hair is a reconfiguration that allows a new understanding of the cultural power of hair in the period.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-block-launches-her-new-book-beyond-vanity/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T193000
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UID:11008-1725559200-1725564600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Cynthia Zarin launches her new poetry collection Next Day: New and Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker\, among other publications\, this volume is a tour through Zarin’s five exquisitely made collections\, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth\, published in 1989. Zarin\, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop\, allows the reader to experience human truths through a poem’s shape and music\, bodied forth through intimate images–the turn in the stair\, a snow globe\, naked birch branches\, a vase of flowers–and a propulsive syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce\, from her own consciousness–shaping landscapes of New York\, Cape Cod\, and Rome\, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation\, her subject matter encompasses all of a woman’s life\, with passion–its risks\, satisfactions\, and shattering immediacy–her first and truest subject.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cynthia-zarin-reads-from-her-new-poetry-collection-next-day/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240820T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the NYC launch of Melanie Hamrick's new book The Unraveling
DESCRIPTION:Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana\, taught to scrap and hustle for the life she wanted. And ever since Jocelyn found ballet\, she has been able to take her life into her own hands. After years of success at the North American Ballet\, she is now on a hiatus to enjoy life in London.But in an instant\, Jocelyn’s world is turned upside down and she’s forced find a way back into the ballet world. But the ballet scene in London is completely different from the one in America. It’s not just talent and drive that will move you forward; if you don’t secure a sponsor to pay your salary\, you will go nowhere. Jocelyn manages to score a donor\, which is crucial at the Royal National Ballet—but the hardest part is yet to come.Jocelyn is unable to break through her emotions\, afraid that if she does\, she’ll be flooded with feelings she can’t afford to have. But something about her sponsor\, the charismatic Alastair Cavendish\, sets a fire in her. What she feels when she’s with him is raw and real. If she goes down this precarious path\, she knows she’s doomed to fall into an intoxicating spiral of self-sabotage. But the lust and magnetizing lure of power and prestige keep clawing at her\, ultimately forcing her to choose between desire and duty.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-nyc-launch-of-melanie-hamricks-new-book-the-unraveling/
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SUMMARY:Phillip Lopate launches his latest book My Affair with Art House Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist\, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century\, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating\, tantalizing\, and beguiling–and sometimes disappointing or frustrating–through his keen eyes. \nIn an essayist’s sinuous prose style\, Lopate captures the formal mastery\, artistic imagination\, and emotional intensity of art house essentials like Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring\, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive\, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris\, as well as works by contemporary filmmakers such as Maren Ade\, Hong Sang-soo\, Hou Hsiao-hsien\, Christian Petzold\, Paolo Sorrentino\, and Jafar Panahi. Essays explore Chantal Akerman’s rigorous honesty\, Ingmar Bergman’s intimacy\, Abbas Kiarostami’s playfulness\, Kenji Mizoguchi’s visual style\, and Frederick Wiseman’s vision of the human condition. Lopate also reflects on the work of fellow critics\, including Roger Ebert\, Pauline Kael\, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. His considered\, at times contrarian critiques and celebrations will inspire readers to watch or rewatch these films. Above all\, this book showcases Lopate’s passionate advocacy for not only particular films and directors but also the joys and value of a filmgoing culture.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/phillip-lopate-launches-his-latest-book-my-affair-with-art-house-cinema/
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UID:10757-1720548000-1720553400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Derek V. Schuster launches his first book Youth in Jeopardy
DESCRIPTION:In this complex world of today\, with so many “at risk” tweens and teens grappling with issues\, problems and crises\, can a fresh perspective on their trials and tribulations help to turn them around? \nShelves and shelves of books have been written about children who are at risk of violent and criminal behavior\, but their authors are writing from their academic perches – rather than addressing real experiences in the streets and in the homes of at-risk families. \nYouth in Jeopardy offers a practical alternative. Instead of presenting dry academic studies about the “at risk” population\, it draws on the author’s 20+ years of experience in violence prevention work in the Bronx and East Harlem. Filled with gut-wrenching anecdotes\, it delivers what parents\, therapists\, and teachers nationwide desperately seek: fresh\, practical approaches to violence prevention for rebellious tweens and teens.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/derek-v-schuster-launches-his-first-book-youth-in-jeopardy/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T193000
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UID:10670-1718128800-1718134200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Elyssa Friedland launches her latest novel  Jackpot Summer
DESCRIPTION:The four Jacobson children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet\, now that they’re adults\, their financial lives are in disarray. \nThe siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy\, especially when there’s other drama brewing. Matthew is miserable at his corporate law job and wishes he had more time with his son; Laura’s marriage is imploding in spectacular fashion; Sophie’s art career is stalled while her boyfriend’s is on the rise; and Noah’s total failure to launch has him doing tech repair for pennies. \nWhen Noah sees an ad for a Powerball drawing\, he and his sisters go in on tickets while their brother Matthew passes.  All hell breaks loose when one of the tickets is a winner and three of the four Jacobsons become overnight millionaires. Without their mother’s guidance\, and with their father busy playing pickleball in a Florida retirement village\, the once close-knit siblings search for comfort in shiny new toys instead of each other. \nIt’s not long before the Jacobsons start to realize that they’ll never feel rich unless they can pull their family back together.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elyssa-friedland-launches-her-latest-novel-jackpot-summer/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T193000
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UID:10606-1717610400-1717615800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amanda Bellows launches her latest book The Explorers
DESCRIPTION:The archetype of the American explorer\, a rugged white man\, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century\, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. \nThe Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond\, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown. Many escaped from lives circumscribed by racism\, sexism\, poverty\, and discrimination as they took on great risk in unfamiliar territory. \nAcross two centuries and many thousands of miles of terrain\, Amanda Bellows offers an ode to our country’s most intrepid adventurers—and reveals the history of America in the process.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-bellows-launches-her-latest-book-the-explorers/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T193000
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SUMMARY:Allison Pugh in conversation about her new book  The Last Human Job
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians\, teachers\, and coaches to chaplains\, therapists\, caregivers\, and hairdressers—Allison Pugh develops the concept of “connective labor\,” a kind of work that relies on empathy\, the spontaneity of human contact\, and a mutual recognition of each other’s humanity. The threats to connective labor are not only those posed by advances in AI or apps; Pugh demonstrates how profit-driven campaigns imposing industrial logic shrink the time for workers to connect\, enforce new priorities of data and metrics\, and introduce standardized practices that hinder our ability to truly see each other. She concludes with profiles of organizations where connective labor thrives\, offering practical steps for building a social architecture that works. \nVividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together\, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize\, value\, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world. \n  \nAllison Pugh will be in conversation with Deborah Copaken. \n  \nDeborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books\, including Shutterbabe\, The Red Book\, Between Here and April\, and Ladyparts– her most recent memoir of bodily destruction and resurrection during marital rupture (Random House\, 2021). A contributing writer at The Atlantic\, she was also a writer on the Emmy/Golden-Globe nominated Netflix hit\, Emily in Paris a performer (The Moth\, etc.)\, and an Emmy Award–winning news producer and photojournalist. Her photographs have appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Financial Times\, Observer\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Nation\, Slate\, O\, the Oprah Magazine\, Daily Beast\, Air Mail\, and Paris Match\, among others.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/allison-pugh-in-conversation-about-her-new-book-the-last-human-job/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T193000
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CREATED:20240208T160258Z
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UID:10439-1717092000-1717097400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Teddy Wayne reads from his latest novel The Winner
DESCRIPTION:Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck\, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: free lodging in a guest cottage in exchange for tennis lessons\, luxuriously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother. In this oceanfront paradise\, however\, new clients prove hard to come by\, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears\, offering him double his usual rate. Soon he realizes Catherine is expecting additional\, off-the-court services for her money\, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before. Despite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age\, he simultaneously finds himself falling for the artsy\, outspoken girl he met on the beach. Conor somehow finds a way to manage this tangled web–until he makes one final\, irreversible mistake. \nA dark\, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite\, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic\, shocking\, and a psychological masterpiece.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/teddy-wayne-reads-from-his-latest-novel-the-winner/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240529T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240529T193000
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CREATED:20240514T183052Z
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UID:10716-1717005600-1717011000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:John Darnton in conversation about his new book Burning Sky
DESCRIPTION:In Burning Sky\, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first\, a cantankerous climatologist\, raises the alarm. The second\, a brilliant scientist with a lust for power that spawns a dictatorship\, constructs “the Cocoon\,” a stratospheric shield to deflect sunlight. When it cuts the Earth off from the blue sky and majestic stars and plunges our planet into an eternal miasmic fog\, it is up to the third generation—the very son and daughter of the scientist—to try to overthrow him and dismantle his pernicious works.\nIn aiming to undo the damage of their ancestors\, perhaps the younger generation can set humanity on a wiser course. \nJohn Darnton will be in conversation with author David Grann. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/john-darnton-in-conversation-about-his-new-book-burning-sky/
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