Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Friendship” A Novel by Emily Gould
The path to true adulthood has twists, and life regularly forces a change of direction on you. And sometimes,…
July 31, 2015-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald
Grief exists; it’s a boulder, a stumbling block, but the metaphors don’t do it justice. A wave of pain…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World” by Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik opens his entertaining and interesting book on materials science with a compelling anecdote: when he was a…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “My Family and Other Hazards” A Memoir by June Melby
I’ve played it. And so have you, probably. But if you’re like me, you’ve given the mini-golf course and…
May 15, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm” by Dave Goulson
Over in the meadow, the old song tells us, live turtles, fish, rats, birds, bees, owls, frogs, and lizards,…
May 1, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Grace Reinhart has it all. Her loving husband, Jonathan Sachs, is a pediatric oncologist dedicated to his patients. Her…
April 24, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Rehearsal” by Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton’s debut novel “The Rehearsal” opens with a teacher of the saxophone explaining why she takes only experienced…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Arrows of Rain” A Novel by Okey Ndibe
Note: I didn’t post last week, partly because of the holiday weekend, and partly because I was so sad…
April 10, 2015 -
Thank You, Vin Scelsa
Here is a stereo set, bought at Korvettes, overheated and smelling gently of warm plastic. It sits on a…
April 1, 2015 -
My Zombie Movie Moment Now Available at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library
Thanks to John Lee, who was part of the superb technical crew that worked on the movie, I’ve learned that “Toxic Zombies,” a.k.a. “Bloodeaters,” a.k.a. “Forest of Fear,” a.k.a. Il ritorno degli zombi,, in which I play a small part, is one of 2,700 movi…
March 31, 2015
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