Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Foreign Gods, Inc.” by Okey Ndibe
One culture’s guardian deity is another’s objet d’art, design inspiration or kitsch. Objects that might be worshipped, cared for,…
January 31, 2014-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Engagements: A Novel” by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Diamond is Forever, so the tagline goes, and the real Mary Frances Gerety who wrote it in 1947…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace” by D.T. Max
With the exception of (or possibly because of) “Consider the Lobster,” I have been a little intimidated by David…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture” by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
The Google Books project, underway since 2004, has scanned or converted approximately 30,000,000 books, making enormous volumes of information…
January 10, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City” by Robin Nagle
As a long-time resident of New York City I knew two things about New York City’s Sanitation Department: its…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu
Information wants to be free. The Internet is different. Net neutrality. Or, as Tim Wu puts it in his…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Heart Broke In” by James Meek
Two organisms living together. Sometimes, when each organism gets something from the other, we call it symbiosis. Other times,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” A Novel by Robin Sloan
It’s been a while since I read a good quest story. When information is available instantly in the comfort…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Junkyard Planet” by Adam Minter
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This mantra has been around since at least the first Earth Day back in 1970. Like…
November 15, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson
You are born, you live your life, you die. The universe appears to be ordered. As Albert Einstein once…
November 8, 2013