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Broke Interview on Author Stories Podcast
Today's author interview guest is Jodie Adams Kirshner, author of Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises. https://hankgarner.com/author-stories-podcast-episode-760-jodie-adams-kirshner-interview/
Broke Interview on Kirkus Fully Booked Podcast
Fully Booked, by Kirkus Reviews Law professor and bankruptcy expert Jodie Adams Kirshner discusses Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, which Kirkus calls, "Eye-opening and sometimes heartbreaking .... A significant work of social sciences and urban studies" (starred review). ...
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 contracted and an envelope of charge cards to cover construction supplies. He had reached his...
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 Broken Promises By Jodie Adams Kirshner Detroit does not have the luxury of solving...
Broke in Bridge Magazine
Last winter, after Fiat Chrysler announced it would spend nearly $5 billion to build the first new auto assembly plant in Detroit in nearly three decades, President Trump tweeted, “They are all coming back to the USA, it’s where the action is!” In referencing Detroit, however, the message described a city that used to have nearly a dozen large auto...
Broke a Salon.com ‘November Must-Read Book’
November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more The women of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" speak for themselves; disquieting novels revisit the Nazi and Pinochet regimes ERIN KEANE • ASHLIE D. STEVENS NOVEMBER 4, 2019 10:59PM (UTC) As we begin our march toward the holiday shopping season, November's...
Broke in the Daily Beast
In Puerto Rico, so far, this year’s hurricane season hasn’t seemed bad. Dorian grazed the island but unleashed the bulk of its furies elsewhere. The same cannot be said of the financial lashings that Puerto Ricans have been weathering.
Earlier this fall, after over a decade in recession and more than four years since a declaration that Puerto Rico could not pay its bills, a federal oversight board disclosed a plan for restructuring the island’s debt. Two years earlier, the board had entered the island into a new, bankruptcy-like process to restructure nine times the amount of liabilities that Detroit reported when it filed for bankruptcy. The plan for Puerto Rico would reduce a third of the debt; it still requires a creditor vote and court approval.
I spent the last three and a half years studying the impact of Detroit’s bankruptcy on its residents.
Broke Named One of Kirkus ‘Six to Seek Out’
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American Library Association’s Booklist Magazine Reviews Broke
The city of Detroit was put into bankruptcy in 2013, weighed down by years of blight, urban flight, and fiscal mismanagement. The mortgage crisis of 2007 to 2008, the great recession, and the near insolvency of the "Big Three" automakers all factored heavily in the city’s problems. The city's troubles began years before with the relocation of auto plants...
Broke: Library Journal review
In her study of Detroit’s recent bankruptcy, Kirshner (research professor, New York Univ.) observes the experience of seven individuals, including residents, aspiring homeowners, and speculators. They include young single mother Lola, educated and motivated but unable to find an accessible job; lifelong resident Cindy, who, in her 60s, tries her hand at...