Geraldine Brooks

2 weeks ago | bookbrowse.com | Kristin Hannah |Ariel Lawhon |Percival L. Everett |Geraldine Brooks

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2 months ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Claude Peck |Geraldine Brooks

I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my tear-splattered journal. This eruption of anger and sadness came more than two years after my longtime partner died at 32 of AIDS-related illness. kAm(9:=6 x 5@?’E C642== H92E DA2C<65 E96 56=2J65 C624E:@?[ :E 2==@HD >6 E@ C6=2E6 E@ v6C2=5:?6 qC@@<D’ :==F>:?2E:?8 ?6H >6>@:C[ H9:49 C64@F?ED E96 562E9 @7 96C 9FD32?5[ HC:E6C 2?5 9:DE@C:2? %@?J w@CH:EK] w6 5:65 @? |6>@C:2= s2J :?

2 months ago | thelcn.com | Claude Peck |Geraldine Brooks

I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my tear-splattered journal. This eruption of anger and sadness came more than two years after my longtime partner died at 32 of AIDS-related illness. kAm(9:=6 x 5@?’E C642== H92E DA2C<65 E96 56=2J65 C624E:@?[ :E 2==@HD >6 E@ C6=2E6 E@ v6C2=5:?6 qC@@<D’ :==F>:?2E:?8 ?6H >6>@:C[ H9:49 C64@F?ED E96 562E9 @7 96C 9FD32?5[ HC:E6C 2?5 9:DE@C:2? %@?J w@CH:EK] w6 5:65 @? |6>@C:2= s2J :?

2 months ago | startribune.com | Claude Peck |Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction: A celebrated novelist confronts the sudden loss of her spouse. January 27, 2025 at 3:00PMTony Horwitz and Geraldine Brooks (Elizabeth Cecil/Viking)I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my tear-splattered journal. This eruption of anger and sadness came more than two years after my longtime partner died at 32 of AIDS-related illness.

Nov 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Geraldine Brooks |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.