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-
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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…
June 23, 2017 -
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…
May 12, 2017 -
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…
April 21, 2017 -
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…
April 7, 2017 -
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…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “What Belongs To You” A novel by Garth Greenwell
by Alexandra Bowie All relationships with friends, family, lovers, carry the risk of betrayal, but must all relationships require…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown” by Gerri Hirshey
by Alexandra Bowie For women of my generation, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor-in-chief-forever of Cosmopolitan was close to a…
February 17, 2017 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and our Energy Future” by Gretchen Bakke Ph.D.
by Alexandra Bowie It’s a truism that the United States, like the rest of the developed world, is dependent…
February 3, 2017