Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Dancing with the Devil in the City of God”
Alexandra Bowie’s review of “Dancing with the Devil in the City of God” by Juliana Barbassa, is posted on…
November 7, 2016-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life” by Ruth Goodman
by Alexandra Bowie The Tudors lived and ruled 500 years ago and more, yet they still capture our imaginations.…
October 28, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “High Dive” A Novel by Jonathan Lee
by Alexandra Bowie Dan, a young Irishman, an electrician by trade, stays in a hotel in Brighton. He violates…
October 21, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Meet the Regulars: People of Brooklyn and the Places They Love” by Joshua D
by Alexandra Bowie The urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg has written about the Third Place – gathering spots like bars,…
October 14, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren
by Alexandra Bowie Hope Jahren’s memoir “Lab Girl” abounds in a sense of place, both Jahren’s lab, where many…
September 30, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “All Set for Black, Thanks: A New Look at Mourning” by Miriam Weinstein
by Alexandra Bowie We live in a society that has given up strict rituals. As a result, we’ve had…
September 23, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Ecliptic” a novel by Benjamin Wood
by Alexandra Bowie Portmantle – part artist’s colony, part refuge – the setting of Benjamin Wood’s novel “The Ecliptic,”…
September 16, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life” A Memoir by Tracy Tynan
by Alexandra Bowie Tracy Tynan, the daughter of the novelist Elaine Dundy (“The Dud Avocado” reviewed here and “The…
September 9, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “All Souls” A Novel by Javier Marias
by Alexandra Bowie Relationships outside of family often come into existence through the expedient of contiguity, and may simply…
July 22, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Food and the City: New York’s Professional Chefs, Line cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It,” an oral history by Ina Yalof
by Alexandra Bowie Food. We’ve got to have it, and in New York City the food we have almost…
July 8, 2016