Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: NYRB Books
Over the past few years I’ve noticed how many of the great books that have come into the house…
July 29, 2011-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Mary Gordon, “The Love of My Youth”
I am generally a fan of Mary Gordon’s fiction, and her new novel “The Love of My Youth,” set…
July 21, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Revolutionary School – Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
Carolyn Cooke’s novel, “Daughters of the Revolution,” is a curious book, in all good senses of the word. The…
July 15, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Christianity The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Back in 2003 Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford don, published a magisterial book called The Reformation: A History. That book…
July 9, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: A Singular Woman by Janny Scott
Ann Dunham was an anthropologist with a Ph.D. who spent most of her professional life working on microfinance, cottage…
July 3, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: City of Tranquil Light
Like her first book, Bo Caldwell’s new novel is set in China. Instead of bustling, commercial, cosmopolitan Shanghai, in City…
June 27, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman
I’ve just started reading The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman. In the book, the Park Slope…
May 24, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Brooklyn Heights Resident Ron Chernow Wins Pulitzer for Washington Biography
Ron Chernow, Heights resident and biographer of several important historical figures, including Alexander Hamilton, J.P. Morgan, and John D.…
April 21, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: A Visit From the Goon Squad
Fort Greene resident/author Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize today for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.…
April 19, 2011