Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Age of Insight” by Eric Kandel
Did you ever wonder what the new neuroscience of PET scans and functional MRIs can tell us about the…
September 28, 2012-
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Tale of the Tweets: The Brooklyn Book Festival
Hundreds of authors and 70s TV icon Jimmy “JJ” Walker were on hand for the 6th annual Brooklyn Book…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Carry the One” by Carol Anshaw
What’s done cannot be undone, and this is the lesson the three young protagonists of Carol Anshaw’s novel “Carry…
September 21, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Radical Survivor” by Nancy Saltzman
By the time she was in her early forties, Nancy Saltzman had a thriving career as an elementary school…
September 14, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Voodoo Wave: Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick’s” by Mark Kreidler
Maverick’s is a big wave formation off the Santa Cruz, California Coast, and there’s a surfing contest there every…
September 7, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Rez Life” by David Treuer
David Treuer begins his engrossing memoir “Rez Life” by describing his grandfather’s suicide and the way the family comes…
July 27, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Manservant and Maidservant” by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Victorian gentleman Horace Lamb lives with his wife, Charlotte, and their five children in a small English village. His…
July 20, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Taste of Place” by Amy B. Trubek
In “The Taste of Place,” Amy B. Trubek, an anthropologist who has studied the production of food and wine,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Bring Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel
“Bring Up the Bodies” is a follow-up volume to Hilary Mantel’s wonderful novel “Wolf Hall” (2009). Ending in approximately…
July 9, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up” by Kaitlin Bell Barnett
People diagnosed with ADHD, depression, or anxiety as children or young teenagers, and treated with medication, may take those…
July 6, 2012