Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Abbott Awaits” by Chris Bachelder
Abbott – husband, father, professor, and smallholder in the American dream – is awaiting the birth of his second…
February 15, 2013-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Contents May Have Shifted” by Pam Houston
There are some women who are simply unlucky in love, and there are other women who always fall for…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Revenge” by Yoko Ogawa
“Revenge,” Yoko Ogawa’s extraordinary new book of intricately, meticulously linked short stories is subtitled “Eleven Dark Tales.” The stories…
February 1, 2013 -
BBBC’s first contest! What Would a Jane Austen Episode of Girls Be Like?
“Pride and Prejudice” was first published 200 years ago, on January 28, 1813. In its honor, the Brooklyn Bugle…
January 26, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Trapeze” by Simon Mawer
Marian Sutro, half French, half English, and raised in Geneva where her father was a diplomat, is living in…
January 25, 2013 -
‘Truth in Advertising’ Author John Kenney Likes The Heights
Brooklyn Heights’ writer & author John Kenney’s debut novel “Truth in Advertising” was released this week by A-list publisher Simon and Schuster. The book explores the fictional life of a modern day ad pro—after Kenney worked as a copywriter in NYC for 17 years and as a New Yorker magazine contributor since 1999. It was […]
January 22, 2013
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Newlyweds” by Nell Freudenberger
It was George Stillman’s interest in the Indian subcontinent that led him to Amina Mazid of Dhaka, Bangladesh. An…
January 18, 2013 -
Literary Irrational Exuberance – Shteyngart Blurbs
He’s been called the Balzac of blurbs, the Robert Pollard of blurbs. And now he’s the centerpiece of a…
January 11, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Singapore Grip,” by J.G. Farrell
What is the Singapore Grip? Walter Blackett is the managing partner in the oldest British firm in Singapore (rubber…
January 4, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Caleb’s Crossing” by Geraldine Brooks
In about 1641 the Mayfields and a few other families left the proscriptive Massachusetts Bay Colony near Boston and,…
December 21, 2012