Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Exiles Return” by Elisabeth de Waal
Readers may be familiar with “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” Edmund de Waal’s memoir of his family’s lives, and…
March 20, 2015-
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The Struggle Bus Episode 11: Taking a Therapy Hiatus as Self-Care and Hell is (Almost All) Other People For One Reason Or Another
In this episode Kate and Sally talk about why rainy days are the best days and how taking a break from therapy is the ultimate self-care.
March 16, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: When the World Was Young, by Elizabeth Gaffney
When I was in Mrs. Blalock’s 12th grade English class at Robinson High School in Tampa, I was required to give a book report every six weeks. Mrs. Blalock said students must begin each report by saying why they had read the book. With a tip of the hat to my still loved though long deceased teacher, I’ll begin this with a disclosure: I read this novel in part because the author is the daughter of a friend, neighbor, and fellow Grace Church parishioner.
March 14, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Infatuations” A Novel by Javier Marías
“Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen,” says Javier Diaz-Varela, one…
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City (Part 2)
The End of the Beginning (Or, Bitte, Kann ich haben eine Fribble?) As discussed in Part 1, the first…
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TBT: Neil Sedaka, "Stairway to Heaven"
Long before there was Led Zeppelin, even before there were Yardbirds, there was Neil Sedaka. Brooklyn born and raised (his father was a cab driver) and trained to play classical piano in Julliard’s preparatory school program, Sedaka found his true love…
March 12, 2015
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Coney Island Brewing’s new "Overpass IPA" compared to its "Seas the Day" IPL.
Mmmm…..beer.
March 11, 2015
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City
Part 1: The Beginning and Before (i.e., Sting = A Tool) For some reason, there seems to be a…
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Tell the Bartender Episode 55: If You See Something, Say Something (Even If It Takes A Few Years)
Mike tells a story that he has never told anyone (even his wife) and The Bartender is, for the first time, at a loss for words. Then Tommy talks about the idea of “casual racism”
March 10, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mermaids in Paradise” A Novel by Lydia Millet
The examined life is not worth living might be the credo of the self-absorbed Deborah, narrator of Lydia Millet’s…
March 6, 2015