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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. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998, honor the best in American nonfiction writing. The...
Broke on New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/jodie-adams-kirshner-broke-hardship-and-resilience-in-a-city-of-broken-promise-st-martins-press-2019/ JODIE ADAMS KIRSHNER Broke Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promise ST. MARTINS PRESS 2019 February 7, 2020 Stephen Pimpare In her new book Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of...
Broke Interview on How Do We Fix It Podcast
https://player.fm/series/how-do-we-fix-it-1331917/detroit-bankruptcy-and-broken-promises-jodie-adams-kirshner When Detroit went bust in 2013 it was the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in American history. During the Motor City's fifty years of decline, population fell from nearly 2 million people to just under 700,000. Today, Motown is on the...
Broke in The Week Magazine
Broke wins “Michigan Notable Book” Award
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/want-read-local-check-out-year-s-michigan-notable-books Want to read local? Check out this year’s Michigan Notable Books By STATESIDE STAFF• JAN 20, 2020 StatesideShareTweetEmail Listen 0:00Stateside's conversation with Tim Gleisner and Jessica Trotter Now that winter is feeling a little more, well,...
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 American history, Detroit in the 2010s.
New York Times Selects Broke as a “New Book Recommended This Week”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/books/review/11-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
Broke on Port Huron News WPHM
https://www.wphm.net/episode/january-6-jodie-adams-kirshner/
New Executive Director of ALA ‘Reading Broke’
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/meet-alas-next-executive-director/ What are you reading right now? Several things at once, as usual. I’m still carting around Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy. It’s a revelation, an [Octavia] Butlerian treatise on the nature of change and a powerful statement on the necessity of social...
