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Broke Interview in Detroit Free Press
Detroit's bankruptcy left lives of ordinary residents untouched, author says John Gallagher, Detroit Free PressPublished 8:00 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019 | Updated 4:56 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019 It's been five years since the City of Detroit emerged from a municipal bankruptcy deemed by many to be a near-miraculous success. Bankruptcy wiped off billions of...
Broke Interview on Michigan Public Radio
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/stateside-partial-collapse-uranium-contaminated-site-new-uaw-president-michigan-folk-songs
Broke Review in Columbia Magazine
Books Review: "Broke" Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises. By Jodie Adams Kirshner ’02JRN, ’06LAW (St. Martin’s).By Eric Liebetrau |Winter 2019-20 Outside of immigration, few political or social issues engender as much heated debate as income inequality. For decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots has been growing,...
Broke Event Photo Chosen as Shelf Awareness ‘Image of the Day’
Download Image of the Day: Detroit StoriesStory and Song Bookstore, Fernandina Beach, Fla., hosted Jodie Adams Kirshner (left), author of Broke: Hardship & Resilience in a City of Broken Promises (St. Martin's), in conversation with educator Nancy Dickson. The store reported that "Kirshner's stories about Detroit's bankruptcy, and how it affected the...
Broke Named One of Lansing’s Pulse “Ten Best Reads for 2019”
Ten best reads for 2019: From ancestory to housing insecurity Posted Thursday, November 28, 2019 3:27 pmBill Castanier I reviewed and read some fantastic books this past year which I condensed into a list to help you be the star of this season’s gift giving. This list is ideal for the family historian who is eager to dive into ancestory at...
Broke Reviewed in Florida Times-Union
https://www.jacksonville.com/entertainment/20191201/book-review-why-detroit-comeback-stalled By Lee Scott For the Times-UnionPosted Dec 1, 2019 at 12:01 AM In “Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises,” Jodie Adams Kirshner, a research professor at New York University, attempts to give us a...
Broke Essay on LitHub
https://lithub.com/six-novels-that-capture-detroit-past-and-present/
Broke excerpted on Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/23/how-detroits-downtown-revival-mostly-benefited-billionaire-developers/
Broke Reviewed by Chapter 16 / Nashville Scene
America’s Cracked Mirror In Broke, Jodie Adams Kirshner shines a light on the precarious lives in Detroit’s neglected neighborhoods BY SEAN KINCH | NOVEMBER 19, 2019 In an author’s note at the end of Broke, Jodie Adams Kirshner expresses her hope that “by understanding Detroit’s experience” of bankruptcy in 2013 “we may push for...
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. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782536989/broke-how-detroit-residents-navigated-the-citys-bankruptcy