Books, Race, and Other Things I admit I Know Very Little About
I can imagine little more challenging than writing about the experience of being black in America if you are…
July 29, 2014-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Amy Falls Down” A Novel by Jincy Willett
Some years ago, Michael Kinsley explored the notion of a political gaffe, an event, he said, when “a politician…
July 25, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “How to Live or A Life of Montaigne: In One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” by Sarah Bakewell
Good writing sets off a conversation in the mind of the reader paying attention. Sometimes the conversation devolves into…
July 18, 2014 -
Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, "The Green Fields of France"
Today, June 28, 2014 is the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife,…
June 28, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Jacob’s Folly” A Novel by Rebecca Miller
Pity poor Jacob Cerf. A French Jew who was educated first to be a nobleman’s valet, and then an…
June 27, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady” by Sally O’Reilly
I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet…
June 20, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Boy, Snow, Bird” a novel by Helen Oyeyemi
Race and sex should be easy categories to check off, immutable characteristics that everyone understands. But in fact even…
June 13, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James Brown
In the early 1930s, the United States was deep in the Depression with millions out of work. Hitler gained…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Famous Writers I Have Known” a novel by James Magnuson
Frankie Abondonato, the narrator of James Magnuson’s hilarious new novel “Famous Writers I Have Known” is an orphan. He…
May 30, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics” by Barron H. Lerner
As Barron Lerner demonstrates in his clear-eyed and loving memoir “The Good Doctor,” the practice of medicine has changed…
May 9, 2014