Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “It’s Not Yet Dark” A Memoir by Simon Fitzmaurice
by Alexandra Bowie The Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice (“My Name is Emily”) has ALS – Lou Gehrig’s disease, it’s…
July 28, 2017-
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Camp, crafts. Crafts, craft beer. All at the Transit Museum July 26
Want to go back to camp as an adult? But not sleep over? The Transit Museum is offering you…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Crossing” A Novel by Andrew Miller
by Alexandra Bowie Sauve qui peut. Those are the words tattooed on Maud’s forearm, her left. Maud, the central…
July 14, 2017 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Egg and I” by Betty MacDonald
by Alexandra Bowie Isak Dinesen, famously, had a farm in Africa. Perhaps less famously, but just as important to…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Word for Love” A Novel by Emily Robbins
by Alexandra Bowie Bea, the narrator of Emily Robbins’ lovely and moving novel “A Word for Love,” has come…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter” Essays by Scaachi Koul
by Alexandra Bowie Scaachi Koul, a writer for BuzzFeed, grew up in Calgary, the daughter of Indian immigrants. (Here’s…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: Two Memoirs
by Alexandra Bowie This post reviews two different memoirs by women from very different parts of the country and…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “News of the World” A Novel by Paulette Jiles
by Alexandra Bowie They pop up in old stories, every once in a while, a child with blue eyes…
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Exhibit “Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El” at Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery
An exhibit of photographs by Sid Kaplan, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts, documenting the dismantling of…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Bad Boy: My Life on and Off the Canvas” by Eric Fischl
by Alexandra Bowie Memoirs can be tricky to write: assuming one’s history has been public or interesting, there’s the…
March 17, 2017