Paul O. Zelinsky to appear at Greenlight Books on Saturday (11/1)
On Saturday, November 1, at 11 AM, Paul O. Zelinsky, the beloved children’s book author and illustrator and Brooklyn…
October 29, 2014-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Assault” by Harry Mulisch
In January 1945, Haarlem in the Netherlands still awaits liberation from the Nazis. Anton Steenwijk, 12 years old, lives…
October 24, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights” by Katha Pollitt
It’s been more than 40 years since the United States Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, limited the restrictions…
October 10, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Visitation” by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Twentieth century Germany lost two world wars, murdered many of its own citizens, and surrounded part of its former…
September 26, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Vacationers” A novel by Emma Straub
No matter how hard we try, we bring ourselves with us when we travel. “The Vacationers” is a completely…
September 19, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Tinderbox” a novel by Lisa Gornick
What makes a home? Myra, a therapist, lives alone in a brownstone in the West 90s. Now that her…
September 12, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate” by Rose George
The clothes you are wearing, the iPad you are holding, the computer I’m using to write this review have…
September 7, 2014 -
Cobble Hill Author Jessie Burton to Appear at Book Court on September 13
Cobble Hill author Jessie Burton will discuss her debut novel “The Miniaturist” at Book Court on September 13.
September 6, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club, “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville
Call me benighted. Not in my secondary schooling, at a New England prep school that had recently gone co-ed,…
August 1, 2014 -
The 13th Apostle by Dermot McEvoy
One thing about historical fiction: if you know anything about the history, there are no spoilers. When I picked up The 13th Apostle, I knew how it would end. Michael Collins would die by an assassin’s bullet. I knew it was because of a dispute that ha…
July 29, 2014
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