{"title": "Catherine Townsend's How to Survive a Murder Investigation", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Mysterious Bookshop", "address": "Warren Street 58, 10007", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A book event at a Manhattan bookshop featuring Catherine Townsend's How to Survive a Murder Investigation, held as an in-person event and signing. The author, a journalist and private investigator, appears in conversation with Sara DiVello. Her book follows her return to her childhood home in Arkansas thirteen years after Rebekah Gould's murder to investigate the cold case herself. 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Life of M follows a writer who studies the life of M, a movie star whose fame has melted away the rules of reality, hoping to capture truths about the experience of living. Signed copies of the novel are available in ticket bundles, and books will be sold at the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rachel-cusk-life-of-m-71722/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/rachel-cusk-life-of-m", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2e4afcbba6e83430e00bf0528043b2751d9ef6585307685d824a4d31a513a2e-2000.webp"}]}