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1 week ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Dan Nadel |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. Awards & Accolades Likes 129 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s.
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3 weeks ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Richard Bienstock |Tom Beaujour |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Amy Griffin |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
An important, wholly believable account of how long-buried but profoundly formative experiences finally emerge. Recovered memories of childhood abuse tear through the fabric of a “perfect” life. Griffin’s debut memoir begins with a lyrical account of an idyllic childhood in Amarillo, Texas. Her family owned a chain of convenience stores called Toot’n Totum, whose sparkling aisles of colorful products seemed to the young Amy a kind of paradise. “The best things in life weren’t free.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Maureen Dowd |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Cassidy Randall |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
The story of how the “Denali Damsels” found mountaineering, each other, and the summit of the “Great One.”In 1970, Grace Hoeman and Arlene Blum led six women on the first all-women’s summit of Denali. Randall’s record of this climb is a study in showing rather than telling, spanning the grueling, weekslong trek and the question of how the “audacious, boundary-breaking climb” became largely forgotten.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Bruce Vilanch |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Otter Bickerdike |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Plunkett |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A superb biography that neatly weaves in nuanced and insightful readings of many poems. Plunkett’s first book begins with a discussion of Frost’s interest in having Lawrance Thompson, a young acquaintance who knew the popular poet’s work well, write his official biography, which he would do, in prize-winning volumes, portraying Frost (1874-1963) as an “ornery, erratic old man.” Plunkett then begins his own insightful, non-ornery biography.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Hanif Kureishi |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
Refashioning his life after an accident—with grace, dignity, and black humor. In 2022, Kureishi, then 68, collapsed at his partner’s apartment in Italy, partially breaking his neck and suffering spinal nerve damage and resulting tetraplegia, a near-complete paralysis of his hands, arms, and legs.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ricky Riccardi |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
Riccardi leaves no stone unturned in this expansive biography that jazz fans will enjoy. How a young Louis became the first King of Pop. Riccardi, director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and author of two books on the great jazz trumpeter, explores Armstrong’s formative years. With the assistance of new primary sources, he takes on numerous rumors and biographical discrepancies about Armstrong and others in his life.
