Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Visit from the Goon Squad” and “The Invisible Circus” by Jennifer Egan
I admit to letting “A Visit from the Goon Squad” sit on my night table for several months after…
November 18, 2011-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Courtney E. Smith Discusses Record Collecting for Girls
Author, music maven and former MTV programmer Courtney E. Smith discusses her book Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your…
November 18, 2011 -
Author Barron Lerner to be on “All Things Considered” today
Barron Lerner, MD, author of “One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900″ will be discussed the book on…
November 17, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria” by Brooke Allen
Brooke Allen closes her entertaining travelogue about two trips she took to Syria with a quote from Mark Twain:…
November 11, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein” by Julie Salamon
Like it or not, Wendy Wasserstein, playwright and essayist who died at age 55 in 2006, was the voice…
November 4, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The House in France” by Gully Wells
A beautiful and witty mother, a famous stepfather, literary gossip, and a sparkling style: Gully Wells’ delightful memoir has…
October 27, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Bedbugs” by Ben H. Winters
We normally think of Brooklyn Heights as an idyllic haven from the challenges of New York City life, tucked…
October 21, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “fathermothergod” by Lucia Greenhouse
Like other kids growing up in suburban Minnesota, Lucia Greenhouse loved her parents, and was lucky enough to grow…
October 14, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Christianity, The First 3000 Years, by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Part Two
Back in July, I wrote a post about this rich and complex book, and I have now finished it…
October 7, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, a retelling by Peter Ackroyd
Somewhat embarrassingly, I missed reading any of “The Canterbury Tales” during high school and college, so I was very…
September 30, 2011