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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...
Broke Reviewed in Sunday New York Times print edition
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 UNIVERSITY... Show Full Text00:00:06 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY.00:00:08 GOOD EVENING.00:00:08...