Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England” by Thomas Penn
King Henry VII of England was a problematic king. He is so difficult to encapsulate that, as Thomas Penn…
July 19, 2013-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” by Adelle Waldman
The naif who comes to the big city to make his fortune has a long and distinguished literary history,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Travels With My Donkey by Tim Moore
The reasons one may have for setting out on the lengthy pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in northwest Spain,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “May We Be Forgiven” by A.M. Homes
Sometimes a novel picks you up and holds you tight until you finish it, and “May We Be Forgiven”…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney” by Malcolm MacKay
Richard Whitney had everything: a seat on the Stock Exchange (he was its president for five years – the…
June 7, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Hanging Garden” by Patrick White
Who am I? Will I ever be at home anywhere? These are some of the questions that haunt the…
May 31, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Good House” by Ann Leary
People are complex – we are not so much good or bad, as capable of doing both good things…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” by Walter Stahr
William Henry Seward is one of those people we think we know about – wasn’t he the cabinet member…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “People Who Eat Darkness,” by Richard Lloyd Parry
Japan is a country of great natural beauty, singular art, and an unending source of interest to many Westerners.…
May 10, 2013 -
History, Horse Racing, & Politics On Brooklyn’s Sportsmen’s Row
An archaeologist by training, Lucas Rubin has spent a good deal of his life immersed in the past. He…
May 8, 2013