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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus read from their latest The First Affair
DESCRIPTION:Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job market\, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at Starbucks\, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White House. Although she doesn’t hit it off with the other interns—lockjaws who come from so much money that ten weeks without a paycheck doesn’t faze them—she is eager to work hard and make the best of the opportunity while it lasts. An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation\, but when he orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls\, their relationship quickly escalates. Jamie knows what she is doing is wrong: he’s married\, he has kids\, he’s the President. Yet each time she tries to extricate herself\, Greg pulls her back in. With the conflicted desires of the most powerful man in the world driving her to her breaking point\, Jamie can’t help but divulge intimate details to those closest to her. But she must have confided in the wrong person\, because she soon finds herself\, and everyone she cares about\, facing calculated public destruction at the hands of Greg’s political enemies\, and—perhaps no matter how much he cares about her—at the hands of Greg himself. \nEmma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus arethe New York Times bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries\, Citizen Girl\, Dedication\, Nanny Returns\, and their young adult novels\, The Real Real and Over You. They work together in New York City. For more information visit EmmaAndNicola.com.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/emma-mclaughlin-nicola-kraus-read-from-their-latest-the-first-affair/
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SUMMARY:Emily Liebert reads from her debut novel You Knew Me When
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Hill left her small New England hometown in pursuit of a dream. Now\, twelve years later\, she’s a high-powered cosmetics executive in Manhattan and a much glossier version of her former self\, unrecognizable to her family and old friends. Not that she would know—she hasn’t been home in over a decade. \nLaney Marten always swore she’d never get “stuck” in Manchester\, Vermont. No\, she was destined to live out her glamorous big-city dreams. Instead\, she wound up a young wife and mother. That was when her best friend ran out. \nWhen Katherine receives word of an inheritance from former neighbor Luella Hancock\, she reluctantly returns home to the people and places she left behind. Hoping for a second chance\, she’s met by an unforgiving Laney\, her former best friend. And there’s someone else who’s moved on without her—someone she once loved. \nTethered to their shared inheritance of Luella’s sprawling Victorian mansion\, Katherine and Laney are forced to address their long-standing grudges. Through this\, they come to understand that while life has taken them in different directions\, ultimately the bonds of friendship and sisterhood still bind them together. But are some wounds too old and deep to mend?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/emily-liebert-reads-from-her-debut-novel-you-knew-me-when/
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SUMMARY:Kate Manning reads from her new novel My Notorious Life
DESCRIPTION:This sweeping\, evocative\, and absolutely unforgettable novel about the charismatic and passionate Axie Muldoon who changed the lives of countless women was inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City. \nSet in gritty New York City in the last half of the nineteenth century\, My Notorious Life is a vibrant portrait of Axie Muldoon\, a plucky orphan who becomes one of the most successful—and controversial—midwives of her time. Told in a magnetic voice\, pulsing and vivid\, Axie recounts how she is separated from her mother and siblings\, apprenticed to a doctor and midwife\, and how she later parlays the sale of a few bottles of “lunar tonic for female complaints” into a thriving midwifery practice with her husband and fellow orphan friend\, Charles G. Jones. But Axie is on a collision course with one of the most zealous\, censorious characters of her era: Anthony Comstock\, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice\, and it will take all of Axie’s power to outwit him and save both herself and her family from ruin. \nA love story\, a family saga\, and a brilliant rendering of a historical time\, this is also a moving and nuanced commentary on an important topic: women’s control of their bodies. But ultimately\, it is the story of one woman making her indomitable way in a difficult world; with her fierce and vibrant spirit\, Axie Muldoon is an indelible heroine for the ages.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-manning-reads-from-her-new-novel-my-notorious-life/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Brendan Reilly reads from his debut One Doctor
DESCRIPTION:An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine\, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. \nIn riveting first-person prose\, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations\, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges simultaneously: the extraordinary patients under his care on the teeming wards of a renowned teaching hospital; the life-threatening illnesses of both of his ninety-year-old parents; and the tragic memory of a cold case from long ago that haunts him still. As Reilly’s patients and their families survive close calls\, struggle with heartrending decisions\, and confront the limits of medicine’s power to cure\, One Doctor lays bare a fragmented\, depersonalized\, business-driven health-care system where real caring is hard to find. Every day\, Reilly sees patients who fall through the cracks and suffer harm because they lack one doctor who knows them well and relentlessly advocates for their best interests. \nFilled with fascinating characters in New York City and rural New England—people with dark secrets\, mysterious illnesses\, impossible dreams\, and many kinds of courage—One Doctor tells their stories with sensitivity and empathy\, reminding us of professional values once held dear by all physicians. But medicine has changed enormously during Reilly’s career\, for both better and worse\, and One Doctor is a cautionary tale about those changes. It is also a hopeful\, inspiring account of medicine’s potential to improve people’s lives\, Reilly’s quest to understand the “truth” about doctoring\, and a moving testament to the difference one doctor can make.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dr-brendan-reilly-reads-from-his-debut-one-doctor/
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SUMMARY:Samuel G. Freedman reads from his latest Breaking the Line
DESCRIPTION:1967. TWO RIVAL FOOTBALL TEAMS. TWO LEGENDARY COACHES. TWO STAR QUARTERBACKS. TOGETHER THEY BROKE THE COLOR L INE\, REVOLUTIONIZED COLLEGE SPORTS\, AND TRANSFORMED THE NFL. \nIn September 1967\, after three years of landmark civil rights laws and three months of devastating urban riots\, the football season began at Louisiana’s Grambling College and Florida A&M. The teams were led by two extraordinary coaches\, Eddie Robinson and Jake Gaither\, and they featured the best quarterbacks ever at each school\, James Harris and Ken Riley. \nBreaking the Line brings to life the historic saga of the battle for the 1967 black college championship\, culminating in a riveting\, excruciatingly close contest. Samuel G. Freedman traces the rise of these four leaders and their teammates as they storm through the season. Together they helped compel the segre­gated colleges of the South to integrate their teams and redefined who could play quarterback in the NFL\, who could be a head coach\, and who could run a franchise as general manager. \nIn Breaking the Line\, Freedman brilliantly tells this suspenseful story of character and talent as he takes us from locker room to state capitol\, from embattled campus to packed stadium. He captures a pivotal time in American sport and society\, filling a missing and crucial chapter in the movement for civil rights.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/samuel-g-freedman-reads-from-his-latest-breaking-the-line/
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SUMMARY:Brenda Wineapple reads from her new book Ecstatic Nation
DESCRIPTION:Dazzling in scope\, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America’s past\, when the country dreamed big\, craved new lands and new freedom\, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. \nWith a canvas of extraordinary characters\, such as P. T. Barnum\, Walt Whitman\, Frederick Douglass\, and L. C. Q. Lamar\, Ecstatic Nation brilliantly balances cultural and political history: It’s a riveting account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War\, and it astutely chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction\, including the promise that women would share in a new  definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills\, and it signals the painful\, thrilling birth of modern America. \nAn epic tale by award-winning author Brenda Wineapple\, Ecstatic Nation lyrically and with true originality captures the optimism\, the failures\, and the tragic exuberance of a renewed Republic.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brenda-wineapple-reads-from-her-new-book-ecstatic-nation/
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SUMMARY:James Corbett David reads from his debut Dunmore's New World
DESCRIPTION:Dunmore’s New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore\, the last royal governor of Virginia\, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley\, now known as Dunmore’s War\, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography\, James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809. \n\n\nDunmore was a Scots aristocrat who\, even with a family history of treason\, managed to obtain a commission in the British army\, a seat in the House of Lords\, and three executive appointments in the American colonies. He was an unusual figure\, deeply invested in the imperial system but quick to break with convention. Despite his 1775 proclamation promising freedom to slaves of Virginia rebels\, Dunmore was himself a slaveholder at a time when the African slave trade was facing tremendous popular opposition in Great Britain. He also supported his daughter throughout the scandal that followed her secret\, illegal marriage to the youngest son of George III—a relationship that produced two illegitimate children\, both first cousins of Queen Victoria. \nWithin this single narrative\, Dunmore interacts with Jacobites\, slaves\, land speculators\, frontiersmen\, Scots merchants\, poor white fishermen\, the French\, the Spanish\, Shawnees\, Creeks\, patriots\, loyalists\, princes\, kings\, and a host of others. This history captures the vibrant diversity of the political universe that Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist\, Dunmore had an astounding career that charts the boundaries of what was possible in the Atlantic world in the Age of Revolution.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-corbett-david-reads-from-his-debut-dunmores-new-world/
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SUMMARY:Ben Downing reads from his debut Queen Bee of Tuscany
DESCRIPTION:Ben Downing’s Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray\, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There\, for the next six years\, she wrote for the London Times\, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal\, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence\, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors\, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson\, at Poggio Gherardo\, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony\, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist\, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them\, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests.\nSpirited\, erudite\, and supremely well-connected\, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times\, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ben-downing-reads-from-his-debut-queen-bee-of-tuscany/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T180000
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SUMMARY:David Gilbert reads from his latest novel "& Sons"
DESCRIPTION:“& Sons is that novel you’ve been waiting for without knowing you were waiting.”—Jess Walter \n“David Gilbert is smart\, funny\, and empathetic\, but most important\, possessed of a true literary sensibility that is seasoned\, not seasonal.”—Fran Lebowitz \n“The writing is gorgeous—not only the prose but the power of Gilbert’s observations.”- —John Irving \nA literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding\, The Emperor’s Children\, and Wonder Boys—the panoramic\, deeply affecting story of two interconnected families\, an iconic novelist\, and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-gilbert-reads-from-his-latest-novel-sons/
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UID:430-1374170400-1374177600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Valerie Sayers reads from her new novel The Powers
DESCRIPTION:1941 is a year of drama and spectacle for Americans. Joe DiMaggio’s record-breaking hitting streak enlivens the summer\, and winter begins with the shock and horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The news from Eu­rope is bleak\, especially for the Jewish population. Joltin’ Joe\, possessing a sweet swing and range in center\, also has another gift: he can see the future. And he sees dark times ahead. In her inventive novel The Powers\, Valerie Sayers\, in both realistic and fantastic chapters\, transports the reader to an age filled with giants: Dorothy Day and Walker Ev­ans appear beside DiMaggio. The problems they face\, from Catholic antisemitism to the challenge of pacifism in the face of overwhelming evil\, play out in very public media\, among them the photography of Evans and the baseball of DiMaggio. At once magical and familiar\, The Powers is a story of witness and moral responsibility that will\, like Joe DiMaggio\, find some unlikely fans. \n“She’s smart and irreverent\, but she’s also kind and compas­sionate; she gives us imperfect people and makes us like and care about them\, an essential task for any novelist but one accomplished by surprisingly few.” —Jonathan Yardley\, Washington Post
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/valerie-sayers-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-powers/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130717T180000
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SUMMARY:David Cleveland reads from his new novel Love's Attraction
DESCRIPTION:From literary Concord to the backwater canals of Venice\, Love’s Attraction takes readers on a tantalizing and thought-provoking journey as Michael Collins\, a Washington political fixer facing an impending bribery scandal\, is suddenly confronted with a past he never knew and a legacy of heartbreak and deception from which he failed to escape. \nMichael Collins is returning to Lowell\, the derelict mill city of his childhood\, and the funeral of his estranged brother. Driving route 128\, he finds himself compelled to stop in nearby Concord and at Emerson Academy\, where his precocious youth as a talented pianist and dreams of a rowing scholarship to Harvard ended in devastating scandal. In his senior year\, he—the “Lowell-boy”—fell deeply in love with the winsome Sandra Palmer\, a blueblood Yankee from an illustrious Concord family\, who inexplicably betrayed him—a bitter expulsion that led him down a path he finds himself regretting each day. As Michael revisits scenes of their love affair twenty years later\, Sandra’s forthright integrity—the passionate and sensitive artist he remembers—shines forth and their wrenching breakup makes less and less sense. \nLeaving the Lowell cemetery on the following day\, Michael is almost run down by a red pickup truck\, perhaps a warning to keep his mouth shut in an upcoming grand jury investigation. Michael decides to disappear by disguising himself as a Thoreau scholar\, hiding out in plain sight at the historic Concord Inn. From this oddly liberating vantage point—the life he never had—he discovers the shocking news of Sandra Palmer’s recent suicide at Harvard. Made even more troubling when he learns that Sandra had a twin sister\, “helter-skelter” Angela Palmer\, seventies radical and eighties porn star and internet entrepreneur\, who seemingly disappeared around the same time as her sister’s senseless suicide. \nWith the FBI closing in\, Michael’s investigation into Sandra Palmer’s untimely death transforms into an odyssey of discovery about her family’s glittering if troubled past: A search for love and redemption that will finally draw him back to his own family roots in Venice. And to the Venice of 1914 as limned in the diary of Sandra’s grandfather\, the once famous painter\, friend to Singer Sargent and Whistler\, Joseph Palmer … where yet another tale of deceit and obsession unfolds about the artist’s pianist wife and model—Sandra Palmer’s namesake\, who befriended a poor Venetian stonecutter in the months before World War One. The tragedy of this talented woman’s death—she played Boston’s Symphony Hall at sixteen—created the world that the young Michael and Sandra unwittingly inherited. \nLove’s Attraction is a mysterious\, romantic novel that explores universal themes of identity: how memory (or its lack)\, talent and intemperate desires—embodied in art as well as in our genes—are passed down through families to influence our hidden selves. The novel speaks to the role of metamorphosis in our lives and how the transforming elixir of love’s attraction makes us most fully human.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-cleveland-reads-from-his-new-novel-loves-attraction/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130716T180000
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UID:415-1373997600-1374004800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Peter Wolf reads from his debut My New Orleans\, Gone Away
DESCRIPTION:“A heartfelt\, intimate\, and painfully honest account of the coming of age of one shy boy and of the exotic city he left behind\, but will never forget. A story of the courage of breaking away and the “you are there” descriptions of places and people that make the reader part of this narrative of struggle and triumph.”\n– Barbara Goldsmith\, author of the bestselling Little Gloria\, Happy at Last \n“My New Orleans\, Gone Away is the triumph of a memoirist with the eye of an architect and the heart of a poet. With admiration\, and occasionally\, awe\, I shared the development of his feelings and taste. This may very well be a modest classic of that enchanted city’s art\, culture\, lifestyle and vanishing monuments.”\n– Sidney Offit\, Memoir of the Bookie’s Son
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-wolf-reads-from-his-debut-my-new-orleans-gone-away/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130613T180000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Kwan reads from his debut novel Crazy Rich Asians
DESCRIPTION:Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich\, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip\, backbiting\, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend\, Nicholas Young\, she envisions a humble family home\, long drives to explore the island\, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home happens to look like a palace\, that she’ll ride in more private planes than cars\, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible bachelors on her arm\, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination\, Rachel meets Astrid\, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie\, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor\, Nick’s formidable mother\, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should—and should not—marry. Uproarious\, addictive\, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence\, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider’s look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young\, in love\, and gloriously\, crazily rich.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kevin-kwan-reads-from-his-debut-novel-crazy-rich-asians/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop reads from her new novel The Why of Things
DESCRIPTION:From the critically acclaimed and “bitingly intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) author of December comes a buoyant and beautiful new novel about a family struggling in the aftermath of a suicide. \nSince her seventeen-year-old daughter’s suicide less than a year ago\, Joan Jacobs has been working to keep her once tight-knit family from coming apart. Now\, arriving one June evening at their summer home in Massachusetts\, she and her husband\, Anders\, and their two younger daughters stumble across another tragedy: a pickup truck has\, inexplicably\, driven straight into a quarry in their backyard. Within hours\, divers drag up the body of a young local man\, James Favazza. \nAs the Jacobs learn more about the events that led up to that fateful evening\, each member of the family becomes increasingly tangled in the emotional threads of James’s life and death: fifteen-year-old Eve grows obsessed with proving that James’s death wasn’t an accident\, though the police refuse to consider this; Anders finds himself forced to face his own deepest fears; and seven-year-old Eloise unwittingly adopts James’s orphaned dog\, all while Joan herself becomes increasingly fixated on James’s mother\, a stranger whose loss so closely mirrors her own.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-hartley-winthrop-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-why-of-things/
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SUMMARY:Reba White WIlliams reads from her debut mystery Restrike
DESCRIPTION:“There’s a major new presence on the crime scene…Reba White Williams. Restrike will strike a big hit with sophisticated readers who love culture\, uncommon criminals and terrific writing. You won’t be able to put this book down!” \n–Alexandra Penney\, bestselling author of How to Make Love to a Man\, former editor-in-chief of SELF magazine \nReba White Williams has written articles for American Artist\, Art and Auction\, Print Quarterly\, and Journal of the Print World. She served on the Print Committees of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The Metropolitan Museum\, and The Whitney Museum. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Print Quarterly\, and an Honorary Keeper of American Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum\, Cambridge University. She currently lives in New York City and has recently founded the Willie Morris Award for best southern writing. She divides her time between New York and Palm Springs.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/reba-white-williams-reads-from-her-debut-mystery-restrike/
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SUMMARY:Launch Event for Joan Strasbaugh and her book The List Lover's Guide to Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:The ultimate guide to Jane Austen; that sassy\, ahead-of-her-time literary genius that we know and love. Discover her likes and dislikes\, her haves and have-nots\, where she traveled\, how she lived\, what she ate\, and who she loved. With fun illustrations and an incredible wealth of little-known facts\, it’s Jane Austen like you’ve never seen. \nFind out about…\n•Her friends and beaux\n•Every place she lived and visited\n•Books in her library\n•Her pet peeves\n•Last lines of everything she wrote \n…and more!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/launch-event-for-joan-strasbaugh-and-her-book-the-list-lovers-guide-to-jane-austen/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130605T180000
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Lyon Rodman reads from her debut novel The Anglo Brambles
DESCRIPTION:“The work of Sylvia Lyon Rodman defies categories. These interconnected stories (illuminated with the author’s illustrations) display far more than the trappings of magic realism. Her saga of a South American family\, simultaneously privileged and haunted\, professional and impractical\, touches on Catholic rites\, secular myths\, masculine roles\, feminine strategies–as well as the collision of cultures\, languages and traditions…Readers searching for something new in style and substance need look no farther. This is truly breakthrough fiction.”                                         ~Stefan Kanter
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sylvia-rodman-reads-from-her-debut-novel-the-anglo-brambles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130604T183000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Grosz author of The Examined Life in conversation with Andrew Solomon
DESCRIPTION:We are all storytellers – we make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. \nIn his work as a practicing psychoanalyst\, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behavior. The Examined Life distils over 50\,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight\, without the jargon. \nThis extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking\, listening and understanding. Its aphoristic and elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness. They also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the analyst at work\, and show how lessons learned in the consulting room can reveal as much to him as to the patient. \nThese are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear\, and the grief. Ultimately\, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/stephen-grosz-author-of-the-examined-life-in-conversation-with-andrew-solomon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130603T180000
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SUMMARY:Beatriz Williams reads from her latest novel A Hundred Summers
DESCRIPTION:Memorial Day\, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview\, Rhode Island\, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak. That is\, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview. Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé\, now recently married—an event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview\, who have summered together for generations. Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene\, and she insinuates herself back into Lily’s friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction…and an alluring acquaintance from their college days\, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore\, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams\, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations. Under the scorching summer sun\, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface\, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England\, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own\, which will change their worlds forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/beatriz-williams-reads-from-her-latest-novel-a-hundred-summers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130530T180000
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SUMMARY:Lori Carson reads from her debut novel The Original 1982
DESCRIPTION:What if you could go back to a moment in time and change one crucial thing? How would your life be changed? In what ways would it be the same? \nIt’s 1982\, and Lisa is twenty-four years old\, a waitress\, an aspiring singer-songwriter\, and girlfriend to a famous Latin musician. That year\, she makes a decision\, almost without thinking about it. \nBut what if her decision had been a different one? \nIn the new 1982\, Lisa chooses differently. Her career takes another direction. She becomes a mother. She loves differently\, yet some things remain the same. \nAlternating between two very different possibilities\, THE ORIGINAL 1982 is a novel about how the choices we make affect the people we become-and about how the people we are affect the choices we make. \nBio: Lori Carson is a singer/songwriter whose albums include: Shelter\, Where it Goes\, Everything I Touch Runs Wild and Another Year. A former member of the seminal band The Golden Palominos\, she has contributed to the soundtracks of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty\, Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days\, Keith Gordon’s Waking the Dead\, and others. THE ORIGINAL 1982 is her first novel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lori-carson-reads-from-her-debut-novel-the-original-1982/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130522T180000
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SUMMARY:Launch event for Tori Corn and her debut picture book What Will It Be\, Penelope?
DESCRIPTION:Penelope is an indecisive little girl. She likes everything she sees and has trouble when faced with having to choose what she wants. Which outfit should she wear? Which flavor of ice cream does she want to eat? Which color balloon should she choose? Everyone wants to know\, “What will it be\, Penelope?” \n  \nTori Corn\, a former textile designer\, spent many years designing fabrics and home furnishing products. She is really happy that she switched careers and decided to become a writer and illustrator. The best decision she has ever made was having her three children. This is her first picture book. Please visit her at www.toricorn.com.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/launch-event-for-tori-corn-and-her-debut-picture-book-what-will-it-be-penelope/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130516T180000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Fishel reads from her latest book When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up?
DESCRIPTION:It’s the parenting guide for parents who thought they no longer needed one—for parents who worry as their 20-something kids struggle to grow up; who are saving for retirement but now have to reopen the bank of Mom and Dad; who look forward to downsizing but have a boomerang child living at home again. \n\nAnd it’s the parenting guide that says it’s all going to be OK—just step back but stay connected\, and don’t forget to take care of yourself. Kids may be taking longer to graduate from college\, start a career\, marry\, have children\, but it’s natural. Just as scientists a century ago discovered a new phase in life called adolescence\, there’s now another developmental stage\, emerging adulthood. According to Dr. Jeffrey Arnett\, the world’s leading authority on emerging adults\, and his coauthor\, Elizabeth Fishel\, author of Sisters and mother of two 20-something sons\, the time spent in emerging adulthood actually helps kids become happier\, healthier grown-ups. \nWhen Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up? covers every aspect of life for an 18- to 29-year-old\, from that first taste of independence at college to that time at the end of the 20s\, when the majority of kids are settling down. It explains what grown children are going through—intense self-focus\, instability\, a feeling of being “in-between” mixed with a breathtaking sense of possibilities—and how parents should deal with these changes\, from six ways to listen more than you talk\, to money 101 (and why never to use money to control your child’s life)\, to troubleshooting their failure to launch\, to\, finally\, the dos and don’ts of promoting a successful transition to adulthood. \nBecause yes\, they really will grow up.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elizabeth-fishel-reads-from-her-latest-book-when-will-my-grown-up-kid-grow-up/
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