Brooklyn Bugle Book Club – Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff, out in paperback
Who is Cleo? What is she? Any number of different things, including Elizabeth Taylor, depending on who you ask.…
September 6, 2011-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Bossypants” by Tina Fey
OK, I didn’t really read Bossypants, Tina Fey’s recent memoir, except for the excerpts in The New Yorker (available,…
September 2, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “To The End of the Land” by David Grossman
A parent’s work is never done, the saying goes, and there’s a reason for that. Several, in fact, but…
August 25, 2011 -
Video: Earthquake in New York? This 1972 TV Movie Imagined It
The moment today’s DC area earthquake shook Brooklyn Heights, we thought about the corny and wonderful 1972 made for…
August 23, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Air We Breathe” by Andrea Barrett
I recently finished reading Andrea Barrett’s 2007 novel The Air We Breathe. It’s set in a tuberculosis sanatorium in…
August 18, 2011 -
Sheepshead Bay ‘Bites’ Less than Blogger Ned Berke Originally Thought
The last place Ned Berke thought he’d wind up was back home in Sheepshead Bay. Probably the second-to-last place…
August 10, 2011 -
Urban Folk Art Gallery Showcases Local Graffiti Legends
The Urban Folk Art Gallery buzzed with a frenetic energy as intense as the vibrant artwork adorning the walls…
August 9, 2011 -
Drink of the Week: Rock The Boat (Don’t Rock The Boat, Baby)
My goodness, New York. You really know how to get us all hot and bothered, now don’t you? I…
July 29, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: NYRB Books
Over the past few years I’ve noticed how many of the great books that have come into the house…
July 29, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Mary Gordon, “The Love of My Youth”
I am generally a fan of Mary Gordon’s fiction, and her new novel “The Love of My Youth,” set…
July 21, 2011