Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (712 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451646666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Block by block, mile by mile, Buschel explores how the street—and by extension the city itself—has changed since his youth, presenting fascinating glimpses of current Broad Street residents in action, such as the owner of a fast-food joint that serves hoagies and cheesesteaks. This painfully honest and blunt memoir reveals how Buschel's love-hate relationship with the city is inextricably connected to his painful Broad Street youth: the death of his father when Buschel was three, his troubled relationship with his hard-working and hard-drinking mother and the abuse he suffered after being sent at age seven to a city boarding school for orphans. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly After living in New York for 25 years, writer Buschel returned to his native Philadelphia to explore the city from the perspective
Buschel was born on Broad Street, his father died on Broad Street; he flunked out of college, sold cameras, and purchased drugs on Broad Street; he wrote for a newspaper on Broad Street, touched JFK's left hand on Broad Street, and met his second wife when she worked on Broad Street. After 9/11, Americans were drawn to Philly's authenticity and history. On his thirteen-mile walk down the boulevard, Buschel talks to everyone from the old Italian tailor down the corner from the Chinese Mennonite pastor to the Jewish funeral home director across the street from Bilal, the Muslim restaurateur. He has retained his irreverent sense of humor, his distrust of authority, his ambivalence about New York, his. Wedged between the hus
He has won an ASCAP Award for his articles about music, has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series, and cocreated the five-time Obie-winning musical Eli's Comin', based on the songs of Laura Nyro. Buschel has one wife, two sons, a dog named Lulu, and a cat named E. Bruce Buschel worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia magazine before writing for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Rolling St
"walking broad resonates" according to @gocohen. i devoured bruce buschel's "Walking Broad" in two sittings.like many philadelphians who left long ago but still pridefully cling to their orginating identity, buschel's tale is one of love for the imperfect city that raised him. like other great works of art, "Walking Broad" evokes contradictory emotions, in particular the tragic-comic depictions of his childhood and their context with the city's character. the book lent me to reflect upon my own broad st./phi. Walkin' Philly Goose from Manoa If you are looking for a trip down the street of your memories and you are from Philly-especially from the North Philly,Logan,Cheltenham,Elkins Park of the 50's and 60's give this easy to read ,funny ,somewhat irreverent book a shot.My family is Irish Catholic from West Philly and we lived in an Italian neighborhood (49th & Thompson)so it tossed a bit of a perspective about a different(Jewish) ethnicity along North Broad.I could live without the Rizzo bashing . Stream of Consciousness Hack Job Walking Broad is yet another contribution to the ever-growing literary genre that consists of gratuitous and unwarranted attacks against the city of Philadelphia. Sure Philadelphia has its faults, but Buschel focuses on Philadelphia's faults to the exclusion of its many merits. Any person who reads this book and lives in and loves Philadelphia will at some point have the urge to punch this hack in the gut.Buschel's book is based on his hypothetical stroll down