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SUMMARY:"The Long Corner" with Alexander Maksik
DESCRIPTION:Alexander Maksik joins us to discuss his new novel\, The Long 
 Corner\, a bold novel about ambition\, grief\, creativity\, beauty\, and 
 existential emptiness that retraces the arc of American life and culture in 
 the first decades of the 21st century. \n\nIt is 2017 in New York City and 
 Solomon Fields\, a young journalist-turned-advertising hack\, finds himself 
 disillusioned by the hollowness and conformity of American life and 
 language. Once brimming with dreams and ideals instilled in him by his 
 bohemian grandmother\, a Holocaust survivor who has dedicated her adult 
 life to passion and pleasure\, Sol now finds the senseless jargon he 
 produces at work seeping into all aspects of the world around him. \n\nLoss 
 and disenchantment drive Sol to leave New York and accept an invitation to 
 The Coded Garden\, an artists’ colony located on a tropical island\, 
 whose mysterious patron\, Sebastian Light\, seems to offer the very escape 
 Sol desperately needs. But the longer he remains in the Garden\, the more 
 Sebastian Light comes to seem the very embodiment of his age’s worst 
 impulses. Slowly lines begin to blur—between reality and performance\, 
 sincerity and manipulation\, art and life\, beauty and emptiness—until 
 Sol finds that he must question everything: his past\, his convictions\, 
 and his very sanity. \n\nThis event will be live streamed\, but will not be 
 available to watch later.\n\nAlexander Maksik is the author of You Deserve 
 Nothing (Europa\, 2011)\, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller\; A 
 Marker to Measure Drift\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\; and 
 Shelter in Place (Europa\, 2016)\, named one of the best books of the year 
 by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle. His latest novel is The 
 Long Corner (Europa\, 2022). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim 
 Fellowship\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Andrew Lytle Prize\, as well as 
 fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and the Corporation of 
 Yaddo.
LOCATION:John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall\, The Community Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Conversations
CONTACT;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
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