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SUMMARY:James McMullan reads from Leaving China
DESCRIPTION:James McMullan was born in Tsingtao\, North China\, in 1934\, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little boy\, Jim took for granted a privileged life of household servants\, rickshaw rides\, and picnics on the shore—until World War II erupted and life changed drastically. Jim’s father\, a British citizen fluent in several Chinese dialects\, joined the Allied forces. For the next several years\, Jim and his mother moved from one place to another—Shanghai\, San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Darjeeling—first escaping Japanese occupation then trying to find security\, with no clear destination except the unpredictable end of the war. For Jim\, those ever-changing years took on the quality of a dream\, sometimes a nightmare\, a feeling that persists in the stunning full-page\, full-color paintings that along with their accompanying text tell the story of Leaving China.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-mcmullan-reads-from-leaving-china/
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SUMMARY:Todd Purdum reads from his debut An Idea Whose Time Has Come
DESCRIPTION:  \nA top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the law that created modern America\, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage \n  \nIt was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins\, freedom rides\, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door—when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment\, education\, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because\, as one influential senator put it\, it was “an idea whose time has come.” In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail\, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson\, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen\, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed\, in just over a year\, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law\, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/todd-purdum-reads-from-his-debut-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
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SUMMARY:Walter Kirn reads from his latest Blood Will Out
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1998\, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar\, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller\, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish\, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor\, child kidnapper\, and brutal murderer.\nKirn’s one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend\, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman\, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why\, as a writer of fiction\, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes\, Kirn learns\, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/walter-kirn-reads-from-his-latest-blood-will-out/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140318T180000
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SUMMARY:Jean Hanff Korelitz reads from her latest You Should Have Known
DESCRIPTION:Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband\, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital\, their young son Henry\, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice\, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised\, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves\, Grace is also the author of a book You Already Know\, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death\, a missing husband\, and\, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew\, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster\, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice\, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jean-hanff-korelitz-reads-from-her-latest-you-should-have-known/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140311T180000
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SUMMARY:Wayne Gladstone reads from his debut Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:When the Internet suddenly stops working\, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement\, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act. For Gladstone\, the Net’s disappearance comes particularly hard\, following the loss of his wife\, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather’s fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment.　But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters “poke” each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club. With the help of his friends—-a blogger and a webcam girl\, both now out of work—-Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse? \n\nFor fans of David Wong\, Chad Kultgen\, Chuck Palahniuk\, and those of you wondering if you have WiFi right now\, Wayne Gladstone’s Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question “What is life without the Web?”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/wayne-gladstone-read-from-his-debut-notes-from-the-internet-apocalypse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140307T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 with Molly Peacock and a bonanza of Canadian Poets
DESCRIPTION:Continuing in a long-established tradition of poetry excellence\, the poems in this collection are culled from Canadian literary magazines and journals. The handpicked selections include the best and most current representations of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. This distinguished volume offers both a convenient introduction to contemporary poets in Canada and a collectible yearbook for seasoned poetry readers. \nReaders include: Leanne Averbach\, Ross Belot\, Louise Carson\, Michael Fraser\, Ben Ladouceur\, Dale Matthews\, Robin Richardson\, Ruth Roach Pierson\, and Moez Surani
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2013-with-molly-peacock-and-a-bonanza-of-canadian-poets/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Sally Cook's latest book How to Speak Baseball
DESCRIPTION:This handsome guide to the language of baseball decodes the amusing\, clever phrases that pepper commentary about the sport. Packed with witty explanations of everything from “duster” and “rubber arm” to “up the elevator\,” this ballpark lexicon plays on a nostalgic love for the national pastime while covering ground from baseball’s beginnings to today. This humorous mix of definitions and anecdotes is the perfect gift for both lifelong baseball fans and rookies working up the ranks. \n\nJames Charlton is the author or editor of more than three dozen books. He splits his time between New York City and Connecticut.\n\nSally Cook is a New York Times bestselling author of sports-related titles. She lives in New York City.\nRoss MacDonald is an illustrator whose work has appeared in international publications. He lives in Connecticut.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-sally-cooks-latest-book-how-to-speak-baseball/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140304T180000
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SUMMARY:Carol Weston reads from Ava and Pip\, the First in a New Series
DESCRIPTION:An endearing tween story about friendship\, family\, identity\, and inspiration \nOutgoing Ava loves her older sister\, Pip\, but can’t understand why Pip is so reserved and never seems to make friends with others. When Ava uses her writing talents to help her sister overcome her shyness\, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/carol-weston-reads-from-her-latest-ava-and-pip/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T180000
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SUMMARY:Diane Jacobs reads from her latest Dear Abigail
DESCRIPTION:Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife\, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters\, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody\, accomplished women in their own right. Now acclaimed biographer Diane Jacobs reveals their moving story\, which unfolds against the stunning backdrop of America in its transformative colonial years. \nAbigail\, Mary\, and Elizabeth grew up in Weymouth\, Massachusetts\, the close-knit daughters of a minister and his wife. When the sisters moved away from one another\, they relied on near-constant letters—from what John Adams called their “elegant pen”—to buoy them through pregnancies\, illnesses\, grief\, political upheaval\, and\, for Abigail\, life in the White House. Infusing her writing with rich historical perspective and detail\, Jacobs offers fascinating insight into these progressive women’s lives: oldest sister Mary\, who became de facto mayor of her small village; youngest sister Betsy\, an aspiring writer who\, along with her husband\, founded the second coeducational school in the United States; and middle child Abigail\, who years before becoming First Lady ran the family farm while her husband served in the Continental Congress\, first in Philadelphia\, and was then sent to France and England\, where she joined him at last. \nThis engaging narrative traces the sisters’ lives from their childhood sibling rivalries to their eyewitness roles during the American Revolution and their adulthood as outspoken wives and mothers. They were women ahead of their time who believed in intellectual and educational equality between the sexes. Drawing from newly discovered correspondence\, never-before-published diaries\, and archival research\, Dear Abigail is a fascinating front-row seat to history—and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation’s democracy was just taking hold.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-jacobs-reads-from-her-latest-dear-abigail/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140225T180000
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SUMMARY:Camilla Crespi reads from her latest The Breakfast Club Murder
DESCRIPTION:In Hawthorne Park\, Connecticut\, Lori Corvino\, a suburban\, recently divorced mother\, doesn’t waste time licking her wounds after her ex\, Robert Staunton\, Esq. quickly marries their rich and beautiful Manhattan dentist. She has an unhappy thirteen-year-old daughter to deal with\, an invasive vegan mother to keep at bay\, and a catering career to bring back to life. \nThat’s hard enough\, but then Valerie Fenwick\, DDS\, is murdered not far from where Lori lives just days after a nasty confrontation between the two women. Lori is the prime suspect until the two detectives on the case discover that Rob is in financial trouble and has inherited Valerie’s money. Lori is convinced that her lily-livered\, two-timing ex is not capable of murder. She’d be perfectly happy to let him rot in jail\, but for the sake of her daughter Jessica\, she resolves to find the real murderer with the help of her breakfast club friends. Along the way\, Lori deals with loneliness\, anger\, sexual hunger and the hope of finding a new love\, but she is tenacious and with the help of her friends\, family and good food\, the murderer doesn’t have a chance.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/camilla-crespi-reads-from-her-latest-the-breakfast-club-murder/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T180000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rose Stanton celebrates the publication of her debut Henny
DESCRIPTION:Henny is a chick who’s just a little different from everyone else in the barn—and who learns to embrace her special gift in this whimsical and charming picture book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton. \nHenny doesn’t look like any other chicken she knows. Instead of wings\, she has arms! \n  \nSometimes Henny likes being different—she enjoys the way her arms flutter like ribbons when she runs—but other times…not so much. She just can’t do things the same way as the other chickens.But doing things the same as everyone else is overrated\, as Henny comes to realize in this warmhearted story\, sweetly told and illustrated with fresh\, expressive artwork that celebrates the individual in everyone. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-rose-stanton-celebrates-the-publication-of-her-debut-henny/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140211T180000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Max Feldman reads from his debut The Book of Jonah
DESCRIPTION:A major literary debut\, an epic tale of love\, failure\, and unexpected faith set in New York\, Amsterdam\, and Las Vegas \n\n\nThe modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman’s brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He’s a lucky man: healthy and handsome\, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He’s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre\, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw\, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness\, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah’s life\, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook\, an intense\, breathtakingly intelligent woman who’s no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas\, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you’re chosen?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joshua-max-feldman-reads-from-his-debut-the-book-of-jonah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140210T180000
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SUMMARY:Artis Henderson reads from her debut Unremarried Widow
DESCRIPTION:Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan\, but when she met Miles\, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty southern towns\, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love\, she was ready to embrace it. But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone\, her feelings of isolation and anxiety competed with the warmth and unconditional acceptance she’d found with Miles. She made few friends among the other Army wives. In some ways these were the only women who could truly empathize with her lonely\, often fearful existence— yet they kept their distance\, perhaps sensing the great potential for heartbreak among their number. It did not take long for a wife’s worst fears to come true. On November 6\, 2006\, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq\, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artis—in official military terms—an “unremarried widow.” A role\, she later realized\, that her mother had been preparing her for for most of her life. In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death— from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love—but also reveals how Miles’s death mirrored her father’s death in a plane crash\, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/artis-henderson-reads-from-her-debut-unremarried-widow/
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SUMMARY:Joan Breton Connelly will read from her latest book The Parthenon Enigma
DESCRIPTION:In this revolutionary book\, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations\, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular\, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders\, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which\, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy\, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures)\, Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning\, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual\, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers\, rationalists\, and rhetoricians\, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joan-breton-connelly-will-read-from-her-latest-book-the-parthenon-enigma/
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SUMMARY:David Stuart MacLean reads from his debut The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
DESCRIPTION:On October 17\, 2002\, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police\, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics\, but not his family\, his friends\, or the woman he was told he loved. All of these symptoms\, it turned out\, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he had been taking. Upon his return to the States\, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing\, absurd\, and unforgettable journey back to himself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-stuart-maclean-reads-from-his-debut-the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140116T180000
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SUMMARY:Eric Jaffe reads from his latest A Curious Madness
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of World War II\, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948\, five of these defendants were hanged while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. \nAmong all the political and military leaders on trial\, Okawa was the lone civilian. In the years leading up to World War II\, he had outlined a divine mission for Japan to lead Asia against the West\, prophesized a great clash with the United States\, planned coups d’etat with military rebels\, and financed the assassination of Japan’s prime minister. Beyond “all vestiges of doubt\,” concluded a classified American intelligence report\, “Okawa moved in the best circles of nationalist intrigue.”\n\n\nOkawa’s guilt as a conspirator appeared straightforward. But on the first day of the Tokyo trial\, he made headlines around the world by slapping star defendant and wartime prime minister Tojo Hideki on the head. Had Okawa lost his sanity? Or was he faking madness to avoid a grim punishment? A U.S. Army psychiatrist stationed in occupied Japan\, Major Daniel Jaffe—the author’s grandfather—was assigned to determine Okawa’s ability to stand trial\, and thus his fate.\n\n\nMeticulously researched\, A Curious Madness is both expansive in scope and vivid in detail. As the story pushes both Jaffe and Okawa toward their postwar confrontation\, it explores such diverse topics as the roots of belligerent Japanese nationalism\, the development of combat psychiatry during World War II\, and the complex nature of postwar justice. Eric Jaffe is at his best in this suspenseful and engrossing historical narrative of the fateful intertwining of two men on different sides of the war and the world and the question of insanity.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eric-jaffe-reads-from-his-latest-a-curious-madness/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140114T180000
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SUMMARY:Jane Isay reads from her latest Secrets and Lies
DESCRIPTION:By the author of Walking on Eggshells\, a compellingly readable journey into the realm of family secrets\, offering lessons and insights for those who are hiding the truth and those who discover what has long been hidden. \nSecrets\, large and small\, are a fact of human life. This book explores the impact of keeping secrets and the power of truth. Secrets can damage our sense of self and our relationships. Even so\, Jane Isay has found\, people survive learning the most disturbing facts that have been hidden from them. And secret keepers are relieved when they finally reveal themselves—even the things they are ashamed of—to the people they care about. Much depends\, Isay writes\, on the way of telling and the way of hearing. \nPowered by detailed stories and Isay’s compassionate analysis\, Secrets and Lies reveals how universal secrets are in families. The big ones—affairs\, homosexuality\, parentage\, suicide\, abuse\, hidden siblings—can be ruinous at first\, but the effects need not last forever\, and Isay shows us what makes the difference. With specific guidelines for those who keep secrets and those who find them out\, Isay’s book reveals the art of surviving a secret.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jane-isay-reads-from-her-latest-secrets-and-lies/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140109T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140109T200000
DTSTAMP:20131223T205308Z
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SUMMARY:Mitch Horowitz reads from his latest One Simple Idea
DESCRIPTION:From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes\, to the motivational bestsellers and New Age seminars to the twelve-step programs and support groups of the recovery movement and to the rise of positive psychology and stress-reduction therapies\, this idea–to think positively–is metaphysics morphed into mass belief. This is the biography of that belief. \nNo one has written a serious and broad-ranging treatment and history of the positive-thinking movement. Until now. For all its influence across popular culture\, religion\, politics\, and medicine\, this psycho-spiritual movement remains a maligned and misunderstood force in modern life. Its roots are unseen and its long-range impact is unacknowledged. It is often considered a cotton-candy theology for New Agers and self-help junkies. In response\, One Simple Idea corrects several historical misconceptions about the positive-thinking movement and introduces us to a number of colorful and dramatic personalities\, including Napoleon Hill and Norman Vincent Peale\, whose books and influence have touched the lives of tens of millions across the world.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/mitch-horowitz-reads-from-his-latest-one-simple-idea/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140108T200000
DTSTAMP:20131112T191824Z
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SUMMARY:Lynn Darling reads from Out of the Woods
DESCRIPTION:When her college-bound daughter leaves home\, Lynn Darling\, widowed over a decade earlier\, finds herself alone—and utterly lost\, with no idea of what she wants or even who she is. Searching for answers\, she leaves New York for the solitary woods of Vermont. Removed from the familiar\, cocooned in the natural world\, her only companions a new dog and a compass\, she hopes to develop a sense of direction—both in the woods and in her life. \nHiking unmapped trails\, Darling meditates on the milestones of her past; as she adapts to her new surroundings\, she uses the knowledge she’s gained to chart her future. And when an unexpected setback nearly derails her newfound balance\, she is able to draw upon her newfound skills to find her bearings and stay the course. \nIn revealing how one woman learned to navigate—literally and metaphorically—the uneven course of life\, Out of the Woods is\, in the words of Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks\,  “a marvelous book . . . both a compass and a manifesto for navigating the often-treacherous switchbacks of the second half of life.”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lynn-darling-reads-from-out-of-the-woods/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140107T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140107T200000
DTSTAMP:20131223T205240Z
CREATED:20131031T172856Z
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SUMMARY:Ranya Tabari Idliby reads from her solo debut\, Burqas\, Baseball\, and Apple Pie
DESCRIPTION:For many Americans\, the words “American” and “Muslim”  simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema\, a contradiction in values\, loyalties\, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family—the  story of how\, through their lives\, their schools\, their friends\, and their neighbors\, they end up living the challenges\, myths\, fears\, hopes\, and dreams of all Americans. They are challenged by both Muslims  who speak for them and by Americans who reject them. In this moving memoir\, Idliby discusses not only coming to terms with what it means to be Muslim today\, but how to raise and teach her children about their heritage and religious legacy. She explores life as a Muslim  in a world where hostility towards Muslims runs rampant\, where there is an entire industry financed and supported by think tanks\, authors\, film makers\, and individual  vigilantes whose sole purpose is to vilify and spread fear about all things Muslim. Her story is quintessentially American\, a story of the struggles of assimilation and acceptance in a climate of confusion and prejudice—a story for anyone who has experienced being an “outsider” inside their own home country.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ranya-tabari-idliby-reads-from-her-solo-debut-burqas-baseball-and-apple-pie/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140106T200000
DTSTAMP:20131112T191802Z
CREATED:20131112T184012Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lamb-Shapiro reads from her debut Promise Land
DESCRIPTION:A funny\, poignant\, and intelligent history of a uniquely American industry\, Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture also reveals itself to be an intensely personal account of one woman’s reckoning with the great tragedy of her life—her mother’s early death and the years of complicit silence on which she and her father subsequently built their lives. \nIn the name of research\, Lamb-Shapiro took a class on how to find a husband\, walked on hot coals\, ate breakfast with over a hundred grieving children\, attempted to cure herself of a debilitating fear of flying\, helped a friend make a vision board and attended a conference how to best write a best-selling self-help book. But the more she delved into the history and practice of self-help\, the harder it became to convince herself that her work was purely academic. As she writes\, “Of all those things\, talking to my father about my mother was by far the hardest.” \nAt the end of her journey\, forced to confront her grief\, Lamb-Shapiro realized that sometimes we convince ourselves we know everything about a subject—only to hide the fact that we know nothing at all.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jessica-lamb-shapiro-reads-from-her-debut-promise-land/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131120T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131120T200000
DTSTAMP:20131023T204435Z
CREATED:20131010T144557Z
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SUMMARY:Editor Andrew Blauner presents an evening to celebrate the publication of Our Boston
DESCRIPTION:What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be: Who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane\, Boston has been beloved by many of America’s greatest writers\, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston\, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and reprinted essays from Boston area writers past and present\, all celebrating the city they love. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing\, they responded to his call to celebrate this great city by providing almost all brand-new works\, and forgoing royalties in order to support the survivors and their families. For every copy of Our Boston sold\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will donate $5 to the One Fund Boston.Andre Aciman\, James Atlas\, and David Michaelis will be reading from their entries.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/editor-andrew-blauner-presents-an-evening-to-celebrate-the-publication-of-our-boston/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131029T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131029T200000
DTSTAMP:20131008T171749Z
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SUMMARY:Joanne Lipman reads from her new book Strings Attached
DESCRIPTION:Everybody has that one person who changes his or her life forever. For award-winning journalist Joanne Lipman and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist\, it was Jerry Kupchynsky\, known as Mr. K—a public school music teacher (and Melanie’s father). Mr. K’s subject was music\, but the lessons he taught were universal: about perseverance\, about the power of never saying “can’t\,” and about excellence in both music and life. Everybody has that one person who changes his or her life forever. For award-winning journalist Joanne Lipman and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist\, it was Jerry Kupchynsky\, known as Mr. K—a public school music teacher (and Melanie’s father). Mr. K’s subject was music\, but the lessons he taught were universal: about perseverance\, about the power of never saying “can’t\,” and about excellence in both music and life. Mr. K. was notorious for his diatribes\, calling students “deaf idiots\,” and rehearsing them until their fingers were calloused and bleeding and their bows broken. He pushed them harder than their parents and their teachers\, and through sheer force of will made them better than they had any right to be. Joanne’s New York Times op-ed piece\, “And the Orchestra Played On”—which described Mr. K’s memorial service\, when two generations of students flew in from all over the country to play a concert in his memory—shot to the upper reaches of the paper’s most e-mailed list. Joanne and Melanie were initially surprised at the response\, but then it hit them: everyone needs a Mr. K. Those who have endured a Mr. K can handle just about anything. They are more resilient\, they laugh a bit more. They can handle whatever life throws at them. \nSTRINGS ATTACHED tells Mr. K’s story—a narrative that is itself as absorbing as fiction—allowing readers to experience the world’s toughest teacher for themselves. Joanne and Melanie tell the story together and they are no strangers to collaboration—as musicians who spent their childhoods rehearsing together constantly\, they learned to trade melodies seamlessly from one to the other and back again.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanne-lipman-reads-from-her-new-book-strings-attached/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131017T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131017T200000
DTSTAMP:20130806T171013Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Miscione reads from her debut Auxiliary Skins
DESCRIPTION:Existing somewhere in that chasm between bodily function and souledness\, Christine Miscione’s debut collection Auxiliary Skins illumines all that’s perilous\, beautiful and raw about being human. From the surgically gutted\, to the racially transformed\, to a story of self-excision that won Miscione the Exile/Vanderbilt (Carter V. Cooper) Award for short fiction – this collection is chock-full of razor blades masquerading as lemon tarts and everything in between. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christine-miscione-reads-from-her-debut-auxiliary-skins/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131016T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131016T200000
DTSTAMP:20130806T170340Z
CREATED:20130729T163830Z
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SUMMARY:Victoria Redel reads from her latest collection of stories Make Me Do Things
DESCRIPTION:In eleven original\, surprising and deliciously dark stories\, Victoria Redel moves effortlessly between men’s and women’s perspectives in stories that explore marriage\, divorce and parenthood. A newly divorced mother stumbles her way back into single life. A young man and his girlfriend clean out his dead mother’s overstuffed home. A woman struggles to hide her affair from a doting husband and inquisitive daughter. A man descends into a drug-fueled dream as he imagines losing his pregnant wife to a historical\, nineteenth century figure. Redel indelibly captures the ways we love\, the ways we yearn and the ways we sabotage each. Throughout the collection\, children struggle to make sense of the adult world’s uncertainties as husbands and wives\, mothers and fathers\, find themselves pressed up against their own limits\, “the exaltations and treasons of one’s own mothy heart.” Redel has again done what Grace Paley said of Redel’s first collection\, “Only a poet could have written this prose. Only a storyteller could keep a reader turning these pages so greedily.”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-redel-reads-from-her-latest-collection-of-stories-make-me-do-things/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131009T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131009T200000
DTSTAMP:20130913T142720Z
CREATED:20130910T204852Z
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SUMMARY:Jacob Appel reads from his U.S. debut The Biology of Luck
DESCRIPTION:Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At twenty-nine\, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of the last underground members of the Weathermen\, and the dilettante heir to a lawn chair magnate. Both men have staked their romantic future on her. Her only respite is her impending dinner with the non-threatening but unattractive tour guide Larry Bloom. But Larry\, too\, has a stake in her future. He has written a book about their impending dinner in which he fantasizes about Starshine’s life on the day he wins her heart. \nThe Biology of Luck juxtaposes moments from Larry’s guided tour of New York City on the June day of his “dream date\,” with excerpts from the novel in which he imagines Starshine’s concurrent escapades. This inventive novel-within-a-novel structure weaves a highly imaginative love story across New York’s five boroughs. Provocative\, funny and keenly observed\, Appel’s imagined pilgrimage through the underbelly of Gotham will establish him as a bold new voice in contemporary American fiction.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jacob-appel-reads-from-his-debut-the-biology-of-luck/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131008T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131008T200000
DTSTAMP:20130913T143003Z
CREATED:20130806T170743Z
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SUMMARY:Steven G. Mandis\, author of What Happened to Goldman Sachs\, in conversation with Justin Fox
DESCRIPTION:This is the story of the slow evolution of Goldman Sachs—addressing why and how the firm changed from an ethical standard to a legal one as it grew to be a leading global corporation.  In What Happened to Goldman Sachs\, Steven G. Mandis uncovers the forces behind what he calls Goldman’s “organizational drift.” Drawing from his firsthand experience; sociological research; analysis of SEC\, congressional\, and other filings; and a wide array of interviews with former clients\, detractors\, and current and former partners\, Mandis uncovers the pressures that forced Goldman to slowly drift away from the very principles on which its reputation was built.  Mandis evaluates what made Goldman Sachs so successful in the first place\, how it responded to pressures to grow\, why it moved away from the values and partnership culture that sustained it for so many years\, what forces accelerated this drift\, and why insiders can’t—or won’t—recognize this crucial change. \nCombining insightful analysis with engaging storytelling\, Mandis has written an insider’s history that offers invaluable perspectives to business leaders interested in understanding and managing organizational drift in their own firms.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/steven-mandis-reads-from-his-debut-what-happened-to-goldman-sachs/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131003T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131003T200000
DTSTAMP:20130729T163608Z
CREATED:20130729T163608Z
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro reads from her latest Still Writing
DESCRIPTION:From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty\, heartfelt\, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir\, meditation on the artistic process\, and advice on craft\, Still Writing is an intimate and eloquent companion to living a creative life. \nThrough a blend of deeply personal stories about what formed her as a writer\, tales from other authors\, and a searching look at her own creative process\, Shapiro offers her gift to writers everywhere: an elegant guide of hard-won wisdom and advice for staying the course. “The writer’s life requires courage\, patience\, empathy\, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined\, and at the same time\, take risks.” Writers—and anyone with an artistic temperament—will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing\, Shapiro brings her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers. \nLike Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird\, Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary\, and Stephen King’s On Writing\, Dani Shapiro’s Still Writing is a lodestar for aspiring scribes and an eloquent memoir of the writing life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dani-shapiro-reads-from-her-latest-still-writing/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20131001T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20131001T190000
DTSTAMP:20130910T203626Z
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SUMMARY:Launch event for Marilyn Olin and her debut Mom\, Mac & Cheese\, Please!
DESCRIPTION:A little girl is delighted that her mother has stopped working\, but when her mom starts attending cooking school\, the girl soon realizes it may not be so great after all. The kitchen has been overtaken by outlandish smells and bizarre concoctions. Day after day\, horrendous dishes are presented for the poor child. Her mother’s Barbequed Brains of a Bee and French Fried Feet of a Frog are to be grotesquely expected on Mondays and Wednesdays. Each meal brings about a horrendous side effect for the girl\, who is just waiting for a normal meal again. \nSoon\, enough is enough! The little girl has no choice but to investigate where her mother has been learning to make such repulsive cuisine. Who\, or what\, could be behind these terrible recipes? When the truth is uncovered\, it may finally put an end to all of this! This playful tale\, with gross-out text and whimsical illustrations\, is sure to make kids and parents giggle during reading time\, while reinforcing reading skills with fun rhymes and repetitions.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/launch-event-for-marilyn-olin-and-her-debut-mom-mac-cheese-please/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130917T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130917T200000
DTSTAMP:20130729T163311Z
CREATED:20130729T163311Z
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SUMMARY:Ann Fensterstock reads from her debut Art on the Block
DESCRIPTION:A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City\, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art—with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Cindy Sherman\, and Jeff Koons \nStories of New York City’s fabled art scene conjure up artists’ lofts in SoHo\, studios in Brooklyn\, and block after block of galleries in Chelsea. But today\, no artist can afford a SoHo loft\, Brooklyn has long gentrified\, and even the galleries of Chelsea are beginning to move on. Art on the Block takes the reader on a journey through the neighborhoods that shape\, and are shaped by\, New York’s ever-evolving art world. Based on interviews with over 150 gallery directors\, as well as the artists themselves\, art historian and cultural commentator Ann Fensterstock explores the genesis\, expansion\, maturation and ultimate restless migration of the New York art world from one initially undiscovered neighborhood to the next. \nOpening with the colonization of the desolate South Houston Industrial District in the late 1960s\, the book follows the art world’s subsequent elopements to the East Village in the ‘80s\, Brooklyn in the mid-90s\, Chelsea at the beginning of the new millennium and\, most recently\, to the Lower East Side. With a look to the newest neighborhoods that artists are just now beginning to occupy\, this is a must-read for both art enthusiasts as well as anyone with a passion for New York City.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ann-fensterstock-reads-from-her-debut-art-on-the-block/
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