by Alexandra Bowie Sauve qui peut. Those are the words tattooed on Maud’s forearm, her left. Maud, the central… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Weekend Reads: Brooklyn booksellers give their picks for Feb. 15
Community Bookstore’s pick: “American Lucifers,” by Jeremy Zallen Subtitled “The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865,” this book goes from the tallow candles that lit the colonies, to the whale oil lamps, and then coal-powered electricity that allowed for the around-the-clock labor (particularly by children and the enslaved) through which a new nation grew. Jeremy Zallen’s history of artificial light in America threads histories of labor, ecology and technology into an incisive narrative spanning two centuries of war, industry, …
Weekend Reads! Brooklyn booksellers offer their picks for Feb. 1
Community Bookstore’s pick: “Fra Keeler,” by Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi A man buys the home of the recently deceased Fra Keeler, and upon moving in becomes consumed with the question of what caused her mysterious death. His inquest soon turns inward, and what follows is the magisterial narration of a mind unspun. Oloomi’s debut novel, set in the Netherlands, ranks among the works of Robert Musil and Thomas Bernhard as a master class in interiority. — Samuel Partal, Community Bookstore 43 Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street and Garfield Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, www.communitybookstore.net. Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: “Interior …
Weekend Reads! Brooklyn booksellers give us their recommendations
Word’s picks: “Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick,” by Zora Neale Hurston The title of this collection of “lost stories” from renowned Black writer and ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston encapsulates her very unique way of framing complex, subversive ideas about race, gender, and class within the assumed narrative confines of heterosexual and familial relationships. Balancing local folklore and highly specific dialect with delicate prose, Hurston uses her “crooked stick” to deliver hard truths about America’s troubled past that prove shockingly relevant as we enter 2020. — Althea Meer, Word 126 Franklin St. at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, www.wordbookstores.com. Community Bookstore’s…
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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,”… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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.… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Before the Fall” a novel by Noah Hawley
by Alexandra Bowie A private plane en route from Martha’s Vineyard to Teterboro falls into the ocean one calm… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Comet Seekers” a novel by Helen Sedgwick
by Alexandra Bowie Some people stay home and find the world; others must travel the world to find their… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Sarong Party Girls” by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
by Nidhi Pugalia Do we still live in a man’s world? In Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Sarong Party Girls, the… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Aim High in Creation! A One-of-a Kind Journey inside North Korea’s Propaganda Machine” by Anna Broinowski
by Alexandra Bowie Winston Churchill famously described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma;” add… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” by Phil Knight
by Alexandra Bowie “Shoe Dog,” Phil Knight’s memoir of his life up until approximately the time Nike became a… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Gambler’s Anatomy” A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
by Alexandra Bowie Bruno Alexander, the central character of Jonathan Lethem’s novel “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is a professional gambler… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
New book featuring photographs of 1990s Williamsburg, opening reception at Sideshow Gallery
Don’t miss the opening reception for I Can Be Pretty Too Friday, March 29th at Sideshow Gallery (319 Bedford Avenue). We love what we see so far on the Brooklyn Social Club Instagram. From the Brooklyn Social Club website, run by brothers Damian and Dominic Bielak: Brooklyn Social Club is a group of friends from Williamsburg Brooklyn who came together to archive, publish and create content displaying the neighborhood and its people. Through this, we hope our circle of friends…
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com
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… Read more at the BrooklynBugle.com