Bushwick Book Club
Who needs a therapist? You can get a birds-eye view of trauma, its causes, and its treatment in this Matisse-covered text.
What is The Body Keeps the Score?
Ernest Hemingway is perhaps the most famous owner of these many-toed cats.
What are polydactyls?
A dessert best left undisturbed, this inflated cake trembles at the mere thought of heavy footsteps.
What is soufflé?
When asked what she meant by the term “SkeeYee,” this passerine, or perching bird, flapped its distinctive wings and flew off.
What is the Sexyy Red Winged Blackbird?
This state bird of Florida is featured in the title of a classic novel about racism in Jim Crow-era American society.
What is a mockingbird?
If you’ve heard of zoning laws, then you’ve been instructed to read this non-fiction exploration of legal housing discrimination in the United States.
What is The Color of Law?
Pregnant people are advised to avoid scooping cats’ litterboxes to avoid infection by this mind-controlling virus.
What is toxoplasmosis?
Not to be confused with an American coconut cookie by a similar name, these almond-based sandwich cookies are notoriously finicky to get right.
What are macarons?
Known for her distinctive blond buzzcut and utensil-shaped beak, this video vixen derives her unique color from a shrimp-heavy diet.
What is the Amber Roseate Spoonbill?
This state flower blooms on the Citrus sinensis tree, and its scent is commonly featured in perfumes.
What is the orange blossom?
Jenny Odell advises the terminally online on the importance of touching grass in this botanically-jacketed book.
What is How to Do Nothing?
Notably swinging from side to side when in motion, this flap of loose skin is thought to protect felines from kicks during a catfight.
What is the primordial pouch?
Bakers beware–not only demanding command of crème pâtissière and choux pastry, this lofty dessert requires architectural know-how and a rigid spun-sugar exoskeleton.
What is a croquembouche?
The “state” bird of Washington DC, this close cousin of the American robin originally rose to fame in the Shire.
What is the Elijah Wood Thrush?
Known by names such as the puma and cougar elsewhere, this big cat’s wild population has dwindled to a mere 200 members.
What is the Florida panther?
This sophomore novel by Irish author Sally Rooney, now a TV miniseries, explores themes like class division and coming of age.
What is Normal People?
Cats both large and small perform this instinctive action of opening the mouth and baring the teeth to direct interesting smells to the vomeronasal organ above the roof of the mouth.
What is the Flehmen response?
Crispy, chewy layers of French meringue are assembled with fillings in between to construct this gluten-free treat.
What is a dacquoise?
Voicing little sister Anna in a now-classic Disney film, this olive-gray songbird migrates from North to Central America each year.
What is Kristen Bell's Vireo?
Metathesis is a linguistic phenomenon by which letters in a word swap places, yielding the name of this state reptile from the Spanish word for lizard.
What is the alligator?
The plot of this highly-acclaimed murder mystery set in North Carolina bears uncomfortable similarity to the author’s involvement in the death of a Zambian poacher.
What is Where the Crawdads Sing?
While it bears this scientific name, the pink triangle on a cat’s muzzle is often referred to as its nose.
What is the rhinarium?
This custardy cake features macerated cherries and must be baked in a special dish bearing crimped edges and a recess along its circumference.
What is clafoutis?
You might exclaim “Wow!” when hearing the distinct “winnowing” call of this shore-dwelling woodcock doppelganger, whose genre-spanning work includes movies like Bottle Rocket and Wedding Crashers.
What is Owen Wilson's Snipe?
Despite not occurring naturally in Florida, this milky, bluish variety of feldspar was named the state gemstone in 1970 to commemorate the Apollo program.
What is moonstone?