Broke offers an urgent, narrative account of a city’s bankruptcy and its aftermath, told through the lives of seven valiantly struggling Detroiters.
In the lead up to Detroit’s July 2013 bankruptcy, and in its aftermath, dramatic headlines, thousands of column inches, hundreds of news reports, and a goodly number of books explained the process and possible benefits of municipal bankruptcy. But rarely in all that reporting was the impact on the people living in the city discussed.
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Op-Ed Contribution: Mitch McConnell Has No Idea What Bankruptcy Actually Means
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/coronavirus-bankruptcy-detroit.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Opinion Mitch McConnell Has No Idea What Bankruptcy Actually Means Cities should avoid bankruptcy. It hasn’t helped Detroit....
Broke Interview on BBC World
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Broke Shortlisted for J Anthony Lukas Book Prize (with Alex Kotlowitz, Emily Bazelon, Margaret O’Mara)
https://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2020/02/2020-j-anthony-lukas-prizes-shortlist-announced/ Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2020 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize....
Broke Selected as New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice”
BROKE: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, by Jodie Adams Kirshner. (St. Martin’s, $28.99.) Kirshner, an expert in bankruptcy law, applies a scholar’s deep understanding and a novelist’s eye for detail to the largest municipal bankruptcy in...
Broke on C-Span Book TV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?466933-1/broke 00:00:00 STARTING NOW, IT'S BOOK TV IN PRIME TIME. IN JUST A MOMENT, THE IMPACT THAT DETROIT'S BANKRUPTCY HAS HAD ON THE CITY'S POOR. THEN VANDERBILT...
Broke Interview on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to bankruptcy expert Jodie Adams Kirshner about how Detroit residents have navigated life during and after the city's bankruptcy. Kirshner's new book is called Broke....
Broke excerpted in the New York Times
‘Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises,’ by Jodie Adams Kirshner: An Excerpt Nov. 19, 2019 Prologue: Springtime in Detroit Miles strode through the streets of Detroit, long-legged and focused, carrying a cup of keys to all the houses he...
Broke reviewed in the New York Times
NONFICTION ‘Broke’ Chronicles a City Out of Cash and Awash in Desperation An abandoned home on Detroit’s east side, 2017.Credit...Erin Kirkland for The New York Times By Anna Clark Nov. 19, 2019, 5:00 a.m. ET BROKE Hardship and Resilience in a City of...
Broke Wins Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
2020 Working-Class Studies Association Awards for work produced in 2019 July 5, 2020 (Download the press release here). CONTACT: Cherie Rankin, immediate-past president and 2019 awards organizer Each year, the Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) issues...
Author Conversation for 2020 Michigan Notable Book Prize
Interview on PIX11 Evening News on $600 Unemployment Supplement
To view video news segment: https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/600-federal-benefits-for-unemployed-set-to-expire-this-weekend Many Americans have come to rely on that extra $600 per week as they try to make ends meet during the pandemic. But Congress doesn't seem...
Broke one of Bridge Magazine’s “Thirteen Michigan Books to Get You Through the Stay-At-Home Order”
https://www.bridgemi.com/quality-life/13-michigan-books-get-you-through-stay-home-order May 4, 2020Monica WilliamsQuality of Life Coronavirus Michigan SHARE THIS:TWITTERFACEBOOKMAILPRINT THIS ARTICLE The stay-at-home orders have undoubtedly left many...
Contribution to Niskanen Center Think Tank
https://www.niskanencenter.org/we-must-do-better-than-bankruptcy-for-virus-stricken-cities/ BY JODIE KIRSHNERAPRIL 16, 2020 “I just go outside for air and go right back inside the house,” Stevie, an African American man in Detroit in his mid-40s, said. “For the past...
Broke in New York Journal of Books
“Jodie Adams Kirshner brings together a wide cast of those most affected and thereby opens the case of and for Detroit and our other large cities suffering financial strain.” Jodie Adams Kirshner is well qualified to write such a book on bankruptcy and its broad...
Broke one of ‘Michigan’s Best’ – 20 New Books to Add to Your Reading List This Year
https://www.mlive.com/life-and-culture/j66j-2020/02/e97b2cb1fe311/20-new-michigan-books-to-add-to-your-reading-list-this-year.html By Emily Bingham | ebingham@mlive.com LANSING, MICH. -- Michigan bibliophiles in search of a few great reading recommendations need look...