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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Graver reads from her new book The End of the Point
DESCRIPTION:A precisely observed\, superbly crafted novel\, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family\, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them. \nAshaunt Point\, Massachusetts\, has anchored life for generations of the Porter family\, who summer along its remote\, rocky shore. But in 1942\, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point\, bringing havoc and change. That summer\, the two older Porter girls—teenagers Helen and Dossie—run wild. The children’s Scottish nurse\, Bea\, falls in love. And youngest daughter\, Janie\, is entangled in an incident that cuts the season short and haunts the family for years to come. \nAn unforgettable portrait of one family’s journey through the second half of the twentieth century\, Elizabeth Graver’s The End of the Point artfully probes the hairline fractures hidden beneath the surface of our lives and traces the fragile and enduring bonds that connect us.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-graver-reads-from-her-new-book-the-end-of-the-point/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130304T180000
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SUMMARY:Dina Hampton reads from her debut Little Red
DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s\, a remarkable crop of students graduated from a small\, New York City school renowned for progressive pedagogy and left-wing politics: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. \nEntering college at the peak of the transformative era we now call The Sixties\, three of these “Little Redders” would go on to change the course of American history: Angela Davis\, African American intellectual activist and Communist Party member; SDS activist and filmmaker Tom Hurwitz; and Elliott Abrams\, who would play a key role in the Republican Neoconservative movement. \nBased on extensive original interviews and archival research\, Little Red follows these characters’ divergent\, occasionally intersecting\, public and private paths through the seminal events and political struggles of the second half of the twentieth century\, from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War; the Summer of Love to radical feminism; Iran-Contra to Occupy Wall Street.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dina-hampton-reads-from-her-debut-little-red/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T183000
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SUMMARY:Caela Carter reads from her debut Me\, Him\, Them\, and It
DESCRIPTION:When Evelyn decided to piss off her parents with a bad reputation\, she wasn’t planning to ruin her valedictorian status. She also wasn’t planning to fall for Todd—the guy she was just using for sex. And she definitely wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. When Todd turns his back on her\, Evelyn’s not sure where to go. Can a distant mother\, a cheating father\, an angry best friend\, and a (thankfully) loving aunt with adopted daughters of her own help Evelyn make the heart-wrenching decisions that follow?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caela-carter-reads-from-her-debut-me-him-them-and-it/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130225T180000
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DTSTAMP:20130109T213055Z
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SUMMARY:Poet Cynthia Zarin reads from her memoir An Enlarged Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Enlarged Heart\, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin\, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love\, work\, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond\, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene\, dialogue\, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales\, at first a bewildered young woman\, navigating the terrain of new jobs and borrowed apartments and the rapidly fading New York of people like Mr. Ferri\, the Upper East Side tailor (“a wren of a man with pins flashing in his teeth”). By the end\, whether Zarin is writing about vanished restaurants\, her decades-long love affair with her collection of coats\, a newlywed journey to Italy\, a child’s illness\, Mary McCarthy’s file cabinet\, or the inner life of the New Yorker staff she knew as a young woman\, this history of the heart shows us how persistent the past is in returning to us with entirely new lessons\, and that there are some truths not even a tailor can alter.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/poet-cynthia-zarin-reads-from-her-memoir-an-enlarged-heart/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130221T180000
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SUMMARY:Erica Obey reads from her debut novel Back to the Garden
DESCRIPTION:When she heads to Woodstock to ghost-write a memoir for Bliss Falco\, a name-dropping psychic who claims to have slept with everyone from Casanova to Hubert Humphrey in her past lives\, failed romance writer Laura Converse never expects to be mistaken for a long-vanished singer. But she quickly finds herself trying to convince everyone in this New Age Mecca that she has not been sent by supernatural forces in order to solve a twenty-five-year-old murder. Making matters worse\, the story immediately proves irresistible to her ex-husband\, Rimes\, a tabloid reporter – especially if Laura will grant him an exclusive. But tabloid fantasy turns quickly to Woodstock reality when a sleepwalking record producer discovers the singer’s remains and turns to Bliss to help him recover his memories about the long ago night the singer vanished. When murder – perhaps by supernatural means – results\, Laura is forced to join forces with her ex-husband to investigate – a task considerably complicated by a distractingly attractive gardener\, who just might be a warlock… or a murderer… or the love of Laura’s life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/erica-obey-reads-from-her-debut-novel-back-to-the-garden/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T180000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Meister reads from her new novel Farewell\, Dorothy Parker
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to movie reviews\, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that’s only because she’s learned to channel her literary hero\, Dorothy Parker\, the most celebrated and scathing wit of the 20th century.  If only Violet could summon that kind of courage in her personal life. Determined to defeat her social anxiety\, Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel to pull strength from the hallowed dining room\, where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs. But she gets more than she bargained for when Dorothy Parker’s feisty spirit rematerializes from an ancient guestbook and hitches a ride onto her life. Violet is shocked and thrilled to be face-to-face with her idol\, but when the gin-swilling writer takes up residence in her home and grows pricklier and more outspoken by the day\, the timid movie critic is pushed to her limit. With her job threatened\, her new relationship in tatters\, and the custody fight for her orphaned niece in jeopardy\, Violet is forced to face her fears …and she makes sure Mrs. Parker does the same. \nWickedly funny and surprisingly poignant\, Farewell\, Dorothy Parker perfectly re-imagines one of America’s most iconic voices in a captivating and unforgettable tale. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-mesiter-reads-from-her-new-novel-farewell-dorothy-parker/
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SUMMARY:Betsy Prioleau reads from her new book Swoon
DESCRIPTION:Swoon is a glittering pageant of charismatic ladies’ men from Casanova to Lord Byron to Camus to Ashton Kutcher. It challenges every preconceived idea about great lovers and answers one of history’s most vexing questions: what do women want? Contrary to popular myth and dogma\, the men who consistently beguile women belie the familiar stereotypes: satanic rake\, alpha stud\, slick player\, Mr. Nice\, or big-money mogul. As Betsy Prioleau\, author of Seductress\, points out in this surprising\, insightful study\, legendary ladies’ men are a different\, complex species altogether\, often without looks or money. They fit no known template and possess a cache of powerful erotic secrets. With wit and erudition\, Prioleau cuts through the cultural lore and reveals who these master lovers really are and the arts they practice to enswoon women. What she discovers is revolutionary. Using evidence from science\, popular culture\, fiction\, anthropology\, and history\, and from interviews with colorful real-world ladykillers\, Prioleau finds that great seducers share a constellation of unusual traits. Finally\, Prioleau takes stock of the contemporary culture and asks: where are the Casanovas of today? After a critique of the twenty-first-century sexual malaise—the gulf between the sexes and women’s record discontent—she compellingly argues that society needs ladies’ men more than ever. Groundbreaking and provocative\, Swoon is underpinned with sharp analysis\, brilliant research\, and served up with seductive verve.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/betsy-prioleau-reads-from-her-new-book-swoon/
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SUMMARY:Amy Wilentz reads from Farewell\, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
DESCRIPTION:The Rainy Season\, Amy Wilentz’s award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier\, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as “a remarkable account of a journalist’s transformation by her subject.” In her relationship with the country since then\, Wilentz has witnessed more than one magical transformation. Now\, with Farewell\, Fred Voodoo\, she gives us a vivid portrayal of the extraordinary people living in this stark place. \nWilentz traces the country’s history from its slave plantations through its turbulent revolutionary history\, its kick-up-the-dirt guerrilla movements\, its totalitarian dynasty that ruled for decades\, and its long and always troubled relationship with the United States. Yet through a history of hardship shines Haiti’s creative culture—its African traditions\, its French inheritance\, and its uncanny resilience\, a strength that is often confused with resignation. \nAmy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier\, of Martyrs’ Crossing\, (a novel) and of I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She has won the Whiting Writers Award\, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award; in 1990\, she was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes for The New Yorker and The Nation and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at U.C. Irvine.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amy-wilentz-reads-from-farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130124T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130124T200000
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SUMMARY:Jane Grossman reads from her debut novel Dying to Live in Palm Beach
DESCRIPTION:For a group of eight close-knit widows living in Palm Beach\, life is for celebrating. Spending their time on lavish shopping trips\, playing bridge\, and exchanging witty barbs over glasses of wine about who might be looking for a new husband\, these friends enjoy the good life. That is\, until one of them takes the celebration a bit too far. It all started innocently enough: picking up someone else’s credit card by mistake\, making a few charges\, and hoping Bunny Boardman wouldn’t notice. And then doing it again the next week\, reasoning away any lingering moral concerns. But when Bunny does notice\, things turn grave fast. The police chalk up the ensuing deaths to natural causes\, but the inimitable Flossy Kane suspects it’s not that simple—and that they’re all in danger. Oxygen tank in tow and with the help of her home health aide\, Frances\, Flossy is determined to prove the police wrong (and save her own life) in this lighthearted whodunit. \nJane Grossman divides her time between homes in Boston and Aspen. Before moving to Massachusetts\, she and her husband lived in New York City\, where she worked here at The Corner Bookstore from 1979-1982 before co-founding the famous Traveller’s Bookstore in Rockefeller Center. She has a B.A. from Barnard College and is the coauthor of Boston Foot Notes: A Walking Guide.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jane-grossman-reads-from-her-debut-novel-dying-to-live-in-palm-beach/
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his debut Inside Passage
DESCRIPTION:Corey Logan was set up. She knows Nick Season’s terrible secret. Coming home from prison\, all Corey wants is to be with her son. To get him back\, she needs to make a good impression on the psychiatrist evaluating her. But Dr. Abe Stein doesn’t believe she was framed—until his well-heeled mother falls for the charming state attorney general candidate\, Nick Season. \nAs the dogs of war are unleashed\, Corey and her son run for their lives—taking her boat up the Pacific Northwest’s remote Inside Passage. Inside Passage is the first in Weissbourd’s haunting\, heart-stirring Corey Logan trilogy. \nBurt Weissbourd is the producer of many notable films\, including Ghost Story\, starring Fred Astaire\, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.\, and Patricia Neal\, Raggedy Man\, starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard\, which The New York Times called “a movie of sweet\, low-keyed charm.” Weissbourd also worked with crime fiction legend Ross Macdonald on his only screenplay. He lives in New York.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-debut-inside-passage/
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SUMMARY:Sean Pidgeon reads from his debut Finding Camlann
DESCRIPTION:A dramatic find at Stonehenge and another\, quieter discovery in the Bodleian Library set in motion a riveting scholarly detective story and a romance\, unfolding across a rich historical landscape evoked by the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside. \nArchaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that King Arthur ever existed. And yet medieval tales of this legendary warrior must have found their inspiration somewhere\, and Donald is determined to discover their true source. A chance encounter with the beguiling Julia Llewellyn\, a gifted linguist working at the Oxford English Dictionary\, sets them both on the trail of elusive clues embedded in an old Welsh battle poem. Their quest will intersect in unforeseen ways with their own troubled lives and will lead them at last to a deeper understanding of the origins of Arthur. \nSean Pidgeon is a reference publisher at John Wiley & Sons. Born and raised in the UK\, he now lives in New Jersey with his American wife and children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sean-pidgeon-reads-from-his-debut-finding-camlann/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130107T180000
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SUMMARY:Juliann Garey reads from her debut Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
DESCRIPTION:In her tour-de-force first novel\, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind\, ravaged heart\, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd\, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he’s been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson’s travels (Rome\, Israel\, Santiago\, Thailand\, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson’s eyes as a child; and the intimacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him to undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward. This is a literary page-turner of the first order\, and a brilliant inside look at mental illness. \nJuliann Garey has sold original screenplays and television pilots to Sony Pictures\, NBC\, CBS\, Columbia TriStar Television and Lifetime TV. As a journalist she has edited and written for publications including Marie Claire\, Glamour\, More\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, The Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post. She has received fellowships in fiction writing at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Vermont Studio Center. Garey is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See is her first novel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/juliann-garey-reads-from-her-debut-too-bright-to-hear-too-loud-to-see/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121224T180000
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SUMMARY:Annual Christmas Eve Open House 6-8 pm.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual open house.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/annual-christmas-eve-open-house-6-8-pm/
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Stern reads from her debut novel
DESCRIPTION:“Town of Shadows is deeply moving\, darkly imaginative and delightfully weird.  It’s Thornton Wilder crossed with Tim Burton and David Lynch. Stern’s passion for language is infectious; she’s in love with words\, and by the end of this brilliant novella\, you’ll be in love too. A remarkable debut.” \n— Patricia Morrisroe\, author of Mapplethorpe: A Biography\, and Wide Awake: A Memoir of  Insomnia \n“Enter the Town of Shadows\, where noise is ‘the color of rain\,’ and the self is a ‘hidden crowd.’ Indeed like shadows\, the town’s inhabitants are elusive—slipping in and out of mirrors\, wandering down secret corridors of the mind\, hiding in the spines of houses—and perpetually at risk of disappearing or being ‘deleted.’ Lindsay Stern’s brilliant\, urgent vignettes depict a people struggling to make sense of the limits of language and time. A dark and fascinating debut.” \n— Hanna Andrews\, American Poet
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lindsay-stern-reads-from-her-debut-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121115T180000
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SUMMARY:Jim Sterba reads from his new book Nature Wars
DESCRIPTION:This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals\, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.  For nature lovers\, this should be wonderful news — unless\, perhaps\, you are one of more than 4\,000 drivers who will hit a deer today\, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings\, coyotes are killing your pets\, the neighbor’s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet\, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn\, beavers have flooded your driveway\, or bears are looting your garbage cans. \nNature Wars offers an eye-opening look at how  Americans lost touch with the natural landscape\, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television\, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets.  All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control\, causing damage costing billions\, degrading ecosystems\, and touching off disputes that polarized communities\, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched\, eloquently written\, counterintuitive and often humorous Nature Wars will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-sterba-reads-from-his-new-book-nature-wars/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121113T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121113T200000
DTSTAMP:20120912T175141Z
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SUMMARY:A Book signing for Alison Pace and her new book You Tell Your Dog First
DESCRIPTION:You Tell Your Dog First…About the date you just had…about the questionable results of a medical test…about the good and the bad…about everything. \nFor years\, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then\, she got Carlie—a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terrier. She could weed out bad boyfriends with a sniff of her button-black nose and win the hearts of lifelong friends with an adoring gaze. Suddenly\, Alison had a constant companion and confidante\, who went with her on long morning rambles in Central Park\, on trips to the country and the beach\, and on her search for inner peace\, love\, and happiness. Through Carlie\, Alison found herself connected to the world as never before. \n\nWith her trademark warmth\, wit and humor\, Alison shares her stories…the tales of a dog person who found her dog.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-book-signing-for-alison-pace-and-her-new-book-you-tell-your-dog-first/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121112T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121112T200000
DTSTAMP:20121009T192612Z
CREATED:20121009T192612Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig read from Twentysomething\, Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be young today? \nIn the summer of 2010\, Robin Marantz Henig wrote a provocative article for the New York Times Magazine called “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” It generated enormous reader response and started a conversation that included both millennials and baby boomers. Now\, working with her millennial daughter Samantha\, she expands the project to give us a full portrait of what it means to be in your twenties today.\nLooking through many lenses\, the Henigs ask whether emerging adulthood has truly become a new rite of passage. They examine the latest neuroscience and psychological research\, the financial pressures young people face now\, changing cultural expectations\, the aftereffects of helicopter parenting\, and the changes that have arisen from social media and all things Internet. Most important\, they have surveyed more than 120 millennials and baby boomers to give voice to both viewpoints of a conversation that is usually one-sided.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/robin-marantz-henig-and-samantha-henig-read-from-twentysomething-why-do-young-adults-seem-stuck/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121109T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20121109T200000
DTSTAMP:20121025T172746Z
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SUMMARY:Kathy Kriger reads from Rick's Cafe
DESCRIPTION:For more than 60 years\, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along\, that is\, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint to life. In Rick’s Cafe\, she takes us through souk back alleys\, the Marché Central’s overflowing food stalls\, and the shadowy Moroccan business world\, all while producing\, directing\, casting\, and playing lead actress in her own story. Instead of letters of transit\, she begged for letters of credit; the governor of Casablanca watched her back instead of Captain Renault; and at the piano\, playing “As Time Goes By\,” sits not Sam but Issam. She encountered paper pushers\, absent architects\, dedicated craftsmen\, mad chefs\, and surprising allies. It took over two years\, but Rick’s Café opened in 2004 to rave reviews. Now\, as Captain Renault says to Major Strasser\, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Here is how she brought to life the screen legend that has captured the imagination of generations. \nCheck out the trailer: http://youtu.be/iQ4D0uKecfA
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kathy-kriger-reads-from-ricks-cafe/
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SUMMARY:Christine Schutt reads from her new book Prosperous Friends
DESCRIPTION:Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich\, dense\, fevered\, exactly right and even eerily beautiful\,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel\, Schutt delivers a pitch-perfect\, timeless and original work on the spectacle of love. \nProsperous Friends follows the evolution of a young couple’s marriage as it is challenged by the quandaries of longing and sexual self-discovery. The glamorous and gifted Ned Bourne and his pretty wife\, Isabel\, travel to London\, New York\, and Maine in hopes of realizing their artistic promise\, but their quest for sexual fulfillment is less assured. Past lovers and new infatuations\, doubt and indifference threaten to bankrupt the marriage. The Bournes’ fantasies for their future finally give way to a deepened and mature perspective in the company of an older\, celebrated artist\, Clive Harris\, and his wife\, Dinah\, a poet. With compassionate insight\, Schutt explores the divide between those like Clive and Dinah who seem to prosper in love and those like Ned and Isabel who feel themselves condemned to yearn for it.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christine-schutt-reads-from-her-new-book-prosperous-friends/
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SUMMARY:Anka Muhlstein reads from her new book Monsieur Proust's Library
DESCRIPTION:Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters\, children and parents\, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.\nIn this wonderfully entertaining book\, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein\, the author of Balzac’s Omelette\, draws out these themes in Proust’s work and life\, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time\, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/anka-muhlstein-reads-from-her-new-book-monsieur-prousts-library/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock and a bonanza of poets read from The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012
DESCRIPTION:Continuing in a long-established tradition of poetry excellence\, the 50 poems in this collection are culled from Canadian literary magazines and journals. The handpicked selections include the best\, and most current\, representations of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. This distinguished volume offers both a convenient introduction to contemporary poets in Canada and a collectible yearbook for seasoned poetry readers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-and-a-bonanza-of-poets-read-from-the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2012/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Jayne Amelia Larson reads from Her Debut Driving the Saudis
DESCRIPTION:After more than a decade of working in Hollywood\, actress Jayne Amelia Larson found herself out of luck\, out of work\, and out of prospects. Without telling her friends or family\, she took a job as a limousine driver\, thinking that the work might be a good way to dig out of debt while meeting A-list celebrities and important movie moguls. \nWhen she got hired to drive for the Saudi royal family vacationing in Beverly Hills\, Larson thought she’d been handed the golden ticket. She’d heard stories of the Saudis giving $20\,000 tips and Rolex watches to their drivers. But when the family arrived at LAX with millions of dollars in cash—money that they planned to spend over the next couple of weeks—Larson realized that she might be in for the ride of her life. With awestruck humor and deep compassion\, she describes her eye-opening adventures as the only female in a detail of over forty assigned to drive a beautiful Saudi princess\, her family\, and their extensive entourage.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jayne-amelia-larson-reads-from-her-debut-driving-the-saudis/
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SUMMARY:Bronwen Hruska reads from her debut novel Accelerated
DESCRIPTION:Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son\, Toby\, on the marble steps that lead into the prestigious Bradley School. Everything at Bradley is accelerated—3rd graders read at the 6th grade level\, they have labs and facilities to rival most universities\, and the chess champions are the bullies. A single dad and struggling artist\, Sean sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the power-soccer-mom cliques and ladies-who-lunch that congregate on the steps every afternoon. But at least Toby is thriving and getting the best education money can buy. Or is he?\nWhen Sean starts getting pressure from the school to put Toby on medication for ADD\, something smells fishy\, and it isn’t the caviar that was served at last week’s PTA meeting. Toby’s “issues” in school seem\, to Sean\, to be nothing more than normal behavior for an eight-year-old boy. But maybe Sean just isn’t seeing things clearly\, which has been harder and harder to do since Toby’s new teacher\, Jess\, started at Bradley. And the school has Toby’s best interests at heart\, right? But what happens when the pressure to not just keep up\, but to exceed\, takes hold? When things take a tragic turn\, Sean realizes that the price of this  accelerated life is higher than he could have ever imagined. \n  \nBronwen Hruska\, the publisher of Soho Press\, has worked as a journalist and screenwriter for twenty years.\nHer articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, More Magazine\, Entertainment\n Weekly\, Cosmopolitan\, the Village Voice\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bronwen-hruska-reads-from-her-debut-novel-accelerated/
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SUMMARY:Erec Stebbins reads from his debut The Ragnarok Conspiracy
DESCRIPTION:The world’s most dangerous terrorist organization may well be located in our own backyard.\n\nAn American bin Laden. An FBI agent. Connected by a terrible loss on 9/11\, they now confront each other over acts of vengeance so horrific\, the world is brought to the brink of war.\n\nAs Muslims around the world are being targeted in a series of devastating attacks\, Agent John Savas is drawn into a web of international intrigue. He must put aside his personal pain and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to prevent a plot so terrible that it could shatter civilization itself. \nIn a thriller that spans the globe in an ever-widening arc of intrigue\, violence\, and personal conflict\, the stability of the world hangs in the balance. Only by transcending his own devastating loss can Savas hope to prevent the ultimate calamity unleashed by the Ragnarök conspiracy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/erec-stebbins-reads-from-his-debut-the-ragnarok-conspiracy/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Andrew McCarthy reads from his debut The Longest Way Home
DESCRIPTION:WITH AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE for adventure\, candor\, and a vivid sense of place\, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid some of the world’s most evocative locales.  \nHobbling up the treacherous slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro\, dodging gregarious passengers aboard an Amazonian riverboat\, and trudging through dense Costa Rican rain forests—Andrew takes us on exotic trips to some of the world’s most beautiful places\, but his real journey is one of the spirit. On his soul-searching voyages\, Andrew traces the path from his New Jersey roots\, where acting saved his life—and early fame almost took it away—to his transformation into a leading travel writer. He faces the real costs of his early success and lays bare the evolving nature of his relationships with women. He explores a strained bond with his father\, and how this complex dynamic shapes his own identity as a parent. Andrew charts his journey from ambivalence to confidence\, from infidelity and recklessness to acceptance and a deeper understanding of the internal conflicts of his life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andrew-mccarthy-reads-from-his-debut-the-longest-way-home/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Ray Negron and Sally Cook read from Yankee Miracles\, Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers
DESCRIPTION:“You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.”—Yogi Berra \nIf it was not all so true\, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image\, the Boss—driven by a compassionate inner voice—reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories\, one in which Ray Negron is transformed from street kid to batboy and beyond. Befriending many of major league baseball’s greatest stars—Billy Martin\, Reggie Jackson\, Munson\, Mantle\, Catfish\, A-Rod\, Jeter\, even Mrs. Lou Gehrig—Negron ultimately emerges as a dynamic community leader\, dedicating his own life to helping the sick and rescuing generations of city kids from unfulfilled lives. Yankee Miracles is a book about the power of baseball to transform lives\, about all those miracles on 161st Street we never knew were there. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sally-cook-and-yankee-miracles-life-with-the-boss-and-the-bronx-bombers/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:6 PM: Janet Wallach reads from her new book The Richest Woman in America
DESCRIPTION:A captivating biography of America’s first female tycoon\, Hetty Green\, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.\n \nNo woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916\, she was worth at least 100 million dollars\, equal to more than 2 billion dollars today. A strong believer in women being financially independent\, she offered valuable lessons for the present times. Abandoned at birth by her neurotic mother\, scorned by her misogynist father\, Hetty set out as a child to prove her value. Following the simple rules of her wealthy Quaker father\, she successfully invested her money and along the way proved to herself that she was wealthy and therefore worthy. \nSet during a period of financial crisis strikingly similar to our current one\, acclaimed author Janet Wallach’s engrossing exploration of a fascinating life revives a rarely-mentioned queen of American finance.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/janet-wallach-reads-from-her-new-book-the-richest-woman-in-america/
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SUMMARY:8 AM: A reception for Amanda Nisbet and her new book Dazzling Design
DESCRIPTION:As one of today’s most sought-after designers\, Amanda Nisbet brings a fresh\, energetic approach to the traditional sense of luxury. Color\, texture\, and form blend to create her trademark comfortable elegance\, and her work seamlessly balances function and style\, classicism and modernism\, in beautifully unexpected ways. With over 250 spectacular photographs of New York City apartments\, country houses\, and Hamptons beach homes\, this extraordinary volume will show readers how to bring punch and color to classic rooms. \nAmanda Nisbet founded her high-end design firm in 1998 and has residential projects in the United States\, Canada\, and Europe. She has a textile line available through Holland & Sherry showrooms and Travis & Company in Atlanta\, a lighting line with Urban Electric\, and a linens line with Sferra. Her work is constantly featured in Elle Décor\, House Beautiful\, Traditional Home\, and O magazine. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-reception-for-amanda-nisbet-and-her-new-book-dazzling-design/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Tom Reiss reads from his new book The Black Count
DESCRIPTION:By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist\, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar.  His swashbuckling exploits appear in The Three Musketeers\, and his triumphs and ultimate tragic fate inspired The Count of Monte Cristo. His name is Alex Dumas.  Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas\, Alex has become\, through his son’s books\, the model for a captivating modern protagonist: the wronged man in search of justice. \nThe Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story\, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France\, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.  Drawing on hitherto unknown documents\, letters\, battlefield reports and Dumas’ handwritten prison diary\, The Black Count is a groundbreaking masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/tom-reiss-reads-from-his-new-book-the-black-count/
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SUMMARY:A Reception for Andrea Pomerantz Lustig for her debut How to Look Expensive
DESCRIPTION:Glamour‘s “Beauty Sleuth” reveals tricks of the trade to help you look fabulously high-end—in any economy.\nAndrea Pomerantz Lustig has spent twenty years as a beauty editor\, and her contact list is packed with the names of the most exclusive stylists in the business. In How to Look Expensive\, she combines her own experience with highly coveted secrets she’s learned from the experts to help readers achieve buttery highlights\, luminous skin\, flawless makeup\, and more\, all on a budget. Delivering red-carpet looks without putting readers in the red\, tips include:\n•How to get expensive-looking hair color at an inexpensive salon\n• Superluxe DIY skincare cocktails for less than $20\n• The cheap cosmetic secrets of expensive makeup artists\n• Tips for princess-perfect skin on a pauper’s budget\n• “Work Your Beauty Budget” sections that help you make the most of every dollar.\nWith How to Look Expensive\, every woman can afford to get gold-card gorgeous\, and reap the self-confidence that comes with it.\n\n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-reception-for-andrea-pomerantz-lustig-for-her-debut-how-to-look-expensive/
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