by Alexandra Bowie The Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice (“My Name is Emily”) has ALS – Lou Gehrig’s disease, it’s…
Want to go back to camp as an adult? But not sleep over? The Transit Museum is offering you…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2017/07/20/camp-crafts-crafts-craft-beer-all-at-the-transit-museum-july-26/
by Alexandra Bowie Sauve qui peut. Those are the words tattooed on Maud’s forearm, her left. Maud, the central…
by Alexandra Bowie Isak Dinesen, famously, had a farm in Africa. Perhaps less famously, but just as important to…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2017/06/23/brooklyn-bugle-book-review-the-egg-and-i-by-betty-macdonald/
by Alexandra Bowie Bea, the narrator of Emily Robbins’ lovely and moving novel “A Word for Love,” has come…
by Alexandra Bowie Scaachi Koul, a writer for BuzzFeed, grew up in Calgary, the daughter of Indian immigrants. (Here’s…
by Alexandra Bowie This post reviews two different memoirs by women from very different parts of the country and…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2017/04/21/brooklyn-bugle-book-review-two-memoirs/
by Alexandra Bowie They pop up in old stories, every once in a while, a child with blue eyes…
An exhibit of photographs by Sid Kaplan, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts, documenting the dismantling of…
by Alexandra Bowie Memoirs can be tricky to write: assuming one’s history has been public or interesting, there’s the…
by Alexandra Bowie All relationships with friends, family, lovers, carry the risk of betrayal, but must all relationships require…
by Alexandra Bowie For women of my generation, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor-in-chief-forever of Cosmopolitan was close to a…
by Alexandra Bowie It’s a truism that the United States, like the rest of the developed world, is dependent…
by Alexandra Bowie Bruno Alexander, the central character of Jonathan Lethem’s novel “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is a professional gambler…
by Alexandra Bowie “Shoe Dog,” Phil Knight’s memoir of his life up until approximately the time Nike became a…
by Alexandra Bowie Winston Churchill famously described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma;” add…
by Nidhi Pugalia Do we still live in a man’s world? In Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Sarong Party Girls, the…
by Alexandra Bowie We think of the Depression as a time of food scarcity, our vision shaped by John…
by Alexandra Bowie Some people stay home and find the world; others must travel the world to find their…
If you’re passing through Grand Central, take a moment and stop at the Transit Museum’s Grand Central Annex (and…
by Alexandra Bowie A private plane en route from Martha’s Vineyard to Teterboro falls into the ocean one calm…
Alexandra Bowie’s review of “Dancing with the Devil in the City of God” by Juliana Barbassa, is posted on…
by Alexandra Bowie The Tudors lived and ruled 500 years ago and more, yet they still capture our imaginations.…
by Alexandra Bowie Dan, a young Irishman, an electrician by trade, stays in a hotel in Brighton. He violates…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2016/10/21/brooklyn-bugle-book-review-high-dive-a-novel-by-jonathan-lee/
by Alexandra Bowie The urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg has written about the Third Place – gathering spots like bars,…
by Alexandra Bowie Hope Jahren’s memoir “Lab Girl” abounds in a sense of place, both Jahren’s lab, where many…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2016/09/30/brooklyn-bugle-book-review-lab-girl-by-hope-jahren/
by Alexandra Bowie We live in a society that has given up strict rituals. As a result, we’ve had…
by Alexandra Bowie Portmantle – part artist’s colony, part refuge – the setting of Benjamin Wood’s novel “The Ecliptic,”…
by Alexandra Bowie Tracy Tynan, the daughter of the novelist Elaine Dundy (“The Dud Avocado” reviewed here and “The…
by Alexandra Bowie Relationships outside of family often come into existence through the expedient of contiguity, and may simply…
http://brooklynbugle.com/2016/07/22/brooklyn-bugle-book-review-all-souls-a-novel-by-javier-marias/