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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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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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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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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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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/
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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Sarah Elizabeth Richards reads from her debut Motherhood Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:How would you live your life if you could stop your biological clock? If you could be free of the “baby panic” that has tormented an entire generation of women who postponed motherhood to pursue careers or find the right mate? Would you date better? Marry later? Relax more? In “Motherhood\, Rescheduled\, “journalist Sarah Elizabeth Richards tells the stories of four women–including herself–who attempt to turn back time by freezing their eggs and chart a new course through their thirties and forties. Their journeys are bumpy\, hilarious\, sometimes heartbreaking\, but always rewarding. \nJust a decade ago\, the idea of women freezing their eggs seemed futile or dangerous. But with new advances in medicine\, women who choose this route face no higher risk of birth defects in their babies than other women\, and pregnancy rates using frozen eggs are approaching those using fresh eggs. At a time when one in five American women between the ages of forty and forty-four is childless and half of those women say they wish they could have children\, Richards offers a hopeful message: women approaching the end of their babymaking days do not need to settle\, and even twentysomethings who want to prolong their dating years do not need to fret. \nRichards tells the history of this controversial science\, from its moments of premature enthusiasm to the exciting race that led to the big breakthroughs. She also explores the hard facts of egg freezing–from the cost and practical obstacles to the probabilities of success. Above all\, she shares the stories of these women\, and especially her own\, with emotional honesty and compassion\, and makes the journey for all ultimately redeeming.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-elizabeth-richards-reads-from-her-debut-motherhood-rescheduled/
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman celebrates the publication of 2 new books!
DESCRIPTION:From the beloved and acclaimed novelist\, a collection of witty\, moving essays In her two decades of writing\, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they’re old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us–her own–in essays that offer a candid\, charming take on modern life. Looking back and forging ahead\, she considers the subjects that matter most: childhood and condiments\, long marriage and solo living\, career and politics.\nHere you’ll find the lighthearted: a celebration of four decades of “All My Children\,” a reflection on being Jewish in heavily Irish-Catholic Lowell on St. Patrick’s Day\, a hilariously unflinching account of her tiptoe into online dating. But she also tackles the serious and profound in eloquent stories of unexpected widowhood and caring for elderly parents that use her struggles to illuminate ours. Whether for Lipman’s longtime readers or those who love the essays of Nora Ephron or Anna Quindlen\, “I Can’t Complain” is a diverting delight. \nTwo sisters recover from widowhood\, divorce\, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment\nUnexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband\, Edwin\, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot’s luxurious Village apartment. For Margot\, divorced amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor) and then made Ponzi-poor\, it’s a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make ends meet. To further this effort she enlists a third boarder\, the handsome\, cupcake-baking Anthony.\nAs the three swap money-making schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating world\, the arrival of Margot’s paroled ex in the efficiency apartment downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts of unexpected forgiveness. A sister story about love\, loneliness\, and new life in middle age\, this is a cracklingly witty\, deeply sweet novel from one of our finest comic writers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elinor-lipman-celebrates-the-publication-of-2-new-books/
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SUMMARY:Will Schutt reads from his debut collection of poetry Westerly
DESCRIPTION:A young soldier dons Napoleon’s hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin\, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to “hang his crown of laurels up.” Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzling collection of poems by Will Schutt\, the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets award. \nCoupled with Schutt’s own voice are the voices of some of Italy’s most prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets including Giacomo Leopardi\, Alda Merini\, Eugenio Montale\, and Edoardo Sanguineti. Subtle\, discerning\, restrained\, the poems in Westerly probe a vast emotional geography\, with its contingent pleasures and pains\, “where the door’s always dark\, the sky still blue.” \n                                …some narrow sickness buried you. \n                                Whatever boyhood I had \n                                fate hijacked too.  Old friend\, is this that \n                               world we stayed awake all night for? \n                                Truth dropped in.  Far off\, \n                                your cool hand points the way.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/will-schutt-reads-from-his-debut-collection-of-poetry-westerly/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig reads from her new book The Ashford Affair
DESCRIPTION:From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes a page-turning novel about two women in different eras\, and on different continents\, who are connected by one deeply buried secret. \nAs a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm\, just shy of making partner\, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she’s been working towards—but now she’s not sure it’s enough. Her long hours have led to a broken engagement and\, suddenly single at thirty-four\, she feels her messy life crumbling around her. But when the family gathers for her grandmother Addie’s ninety-ninth birthday\, a relative lets slip hints about a long-buried family secret\, leading Clemmie on a journey into the past that could change everything. . . . \nGrowing up at Ashford Park in the early twentieth century\, Addie has never quite belonged. When her parents passed away\, she was taken into the grand English house by her aristocratic aunt and uncle\, and raised side-by-side with her beautiful and outgoing cousin\, Bea. Though they are as different as night and day\, Addie and Bea are closer than sisters\, through relationships and challenges\, and a war that changes the face of Europe irrevocably. But what happens when something finally comes along that can’t be shared? When the love of sisterhood is tested by a bond that’s even stronger? \nFrom the inner circles of British society to the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the red-dirt hills of Kenya\, the never-told secrets of a woman and a family unfurl.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-reads-from-her-new-book-the-ashford-affair/
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SUMMARY:Kimberly McCreight reads from her debut novel Reconstructing Amelia
DESCRIPTION:Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope\, Brooklyn\, calls with disturbing information: her intelligent\, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter\, Amelia\, has been caught cheating. \nKate can’t believe that Amelia\, an ambitious\, levelheaded girl who loved school and has never been in trouble\, would risk college and her future with a suspension. But when Kate arrives at St. Grace’s she’s unprepared for far more devastating news. Amelia is dead. Seemingly unable to cope with what she’d done\, a despondent Amelia jumped from the school’s roof in an act of “spontaneous” suicide. \nAt least that’s the story St. Grace and the police tell Kate. Overwhelmed by her own guilt and shattered by grief\, it is the story Kate believes . . . until she gets the anonymous text. She didn’t jump. Now\, Kate is going to find the truth about her daughter\, no matter where it leads or what it takes. \nSifting through Amelia’s emails\, text messages\, social media postings\, and cell phone logs\, Kate will begin to reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life\, and the people in it\, to uncover why she was on St. Grace’s roof that day-and why she died. Told in alternating voices\, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies\, of love and betrayal\, of trusted friends and vicious enemies-of how much a parent really knows a child and how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kimberly-mccreight-reads-from-her-debut-novel-reconstructing-amelia/
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SUMMARY:Meg Wolitzer reads from her new novel The Interestings
DESCRIPTION:From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling\, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent\, and the roles that art\, money\, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns\, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful\, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings\, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age\, as their talents\, fortunes\, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain\, in adulthood\, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson\, an aspiring comic actress\, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah\, a gifted musician\, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash\, Jules’s now-married best friends\, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams\, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper\, but also underscore the differences in their fates\, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. \nWide in scope\, ambitious\, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City\, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class\, art\, money\, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/358/
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SUMMARY:Celebration for Stephanie Stokes and the publication of Elegant Rooms that Work
DESCRIPTION:Known for her understated elegance\, Stephanie Stokes explains how to maintain fantasy and functionality in home decor by focusing on the planning of comfortable and multipurpose spaces that include attractive storage. New York-based interior designer Stephanie Stokes has dealt with demanding spaces in apartments and houses worldwide. With consummate skill\, she has delivered unparalleled efficiency of space without sacrificing style. This design primer is organized by room type—from living rooms and kitchens to bedrooms and entryways. Her ingenious solutions to the challenges of creating a livable environment—from clever and attractive storage units to libraries that convert gracefully to guest rooms and home offices—are inspirational to all homeowners. With exacting precision\, she plans every anticipated need and can turn the tiniest of spaces into a cornucopia of cabinetry and imaginative storage. Her secrets for using every cubic inch while creating atmospheric environments that work are illustrated in this attractive yet practical book. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebration-for-stephanie-stokes-and-the-publication-of-elegant-rooms-that-work/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Patty Volk reads from her new book Shocked
DESCRIPTION:From the best-selling author of Stuffed\, comes a richly illustrated memoir\, written with charm and panache\, that juxtaposes two lives—an iconoclastic Italian fashion designer and the author’s mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. \nAudrey Morgen Volk\, an upper-middle-class New Yorker\, was a great beauty and lover of fashion\, and the polished hostess at her family’s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—”Schiap”—the high-fashion designer whose creations shocked the world\, broke every rule\, blurred the line between fashion and art\, and believed that in both fashion and life\, everything\, even a button\, has the potential to delight. Audrey’s daughter Patricia read Schiap’s autobiography\, Shocking Life\, at a tender age\, and was transformed by it. These two very different women—volatile\, opinionated\, and brilliant\, each in her own way—offered Patricia lessons about womanhood and personal style that would stay with her throughout her life. Moving seamlessly between the Volks’ Manhattan and Florida homes and Schiap’s astonishing life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dalí\, Duchamp\, Picasso)\, Shocked weaves Audrey’s notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli’s often outrageous creations into a dazzling meditation on beauty\, then and now\, and on being a daughter\, sister\, and mother. It is funny\, wise\, and utterly delightful.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/patty-volk-reads-from-her-new-book-shocked/
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SUMMARY:Thea Goodman reads from her debut novel The Sunshine When She's Gone
DESCRIPTION:When Veronica Reed wakes up one frigid January morning\, two things are “off.” First of all\, she has had a good night’s sleep\, which hasn’t happened in months\, and second\, both her husband and her baby are gone. This is a fresh\, funny\, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage\, and about the love\, longing\, and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes a baby on a highly unusual outing.  \nThea Goodman’s short stories have appeared in New England Review\, Other Voices\, Columbia\, Confrontation and The Brooklyn Review among other journals. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize Special Mention\, the Columbia Fiction Award and residency fellowships at The Ragdale Foundation and The Corporation of Yaddo. Thea holds an MFA from Brooklyn College\, CUNY and has taught writing at New York University\, The New School University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/thea-goodman-reads-from-her-debut-novel-sunshine-when-shes-gone/
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SUMMARY:Yuri Feynberg reads from his debut memoir The Child of Gulag
DESCRIPTION:This story is based on the life of author Yuri C. Feynberg\, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet Penal System\, known to the world as the Gulag\, Although not a prisoner\, Yuri spent his childhood behind the barbed wire fence in a remote Siberian hard labor camp\, where his mother worked as a medical doctor. This extraordinary childhood created an unusual personality and unbendable character\, which made it possible for Yuri to excel in the Soviet Special Forces\, survive persecution\, and overcome unfathomable personal tragedies without losing his humanity.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/yuri-feynberg-reads-from-his-debut-memoir-the-child-of-gulag/
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Cody Epstein reads from her new novel The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
DESCRIPTION:A lush\, exquisitely rendered meditation on war\, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families\, American and Japanese\, their loves and infidelities\, their dreams and losses\, and how they are all connected by one of the most devastating acts of war in human history. \n\nIn this evocative and thrilling epic novel\, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi\, child of Japan’s New Empire\, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past\, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm—an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins. In the days that follow\, Yoshi’s old life will blur beyond recognition\, leading her to a new world marked by destruction and shaped by those considered the enemy: Cam\, a downed bomber pilot taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army; Anton\, a gifted architect who helped modernize Tokyo’s prewar skyline but is now charged with destroying it; and Billy\, an Occupation soldier who arrives in the blackened city with a dark secret of his own. Directly or indirectly\, each will shape Yoshi’s journey as she seeks safety\, love\, and redemption.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jennifer-cody-epstein-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-gods-of-heavenly-punishment/
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SUMMARY:Tom Folsom reads from his new biography Hopper
DESCRIPTION:As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man\, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. \nThe chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean\, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. \nDennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream\, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit\, complemented with iconic photographs\, and packed with insights from his fellow actors\, artists\, and friends\, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/tom-folsom-reads-from-his-new-biography-hopper/
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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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