I Lead a Troop of Girl Scouts Living in NYC Shelters Heidi Schmidt On 4/24/21 at 5:00 AM EDT
In January 2017, I was working at the New York City Department of Homeless Services when I got a call from the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, asking about the possibility of setting up a Girl Scout troop at a hotel-turned-homeless shelter in Queens. The caller, Giselle Burgess, was a community engagement specialist at Girl Scouts of Greater New York, a mother of five who had recently been displaced from her home because her building was being converted to condominiums a very common reason families go from housed to homeless in New York City.
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New in Paperback: âThinking Inside the Boxâ and âThe Mountains Singâ
By Jennifer Krauss
March 5, 2021
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Canât Live Without Them,
by Adrienne Raphel. (Penguin, 304 pp., $18.) This affectionate analysis of a cultural fixation that in 1924 The Times dismissively compared to âthe temporary madness that made so many people pay enormous prices for mahjong setsâ succeeds â our reviewer, Peter Sagal, argued â because âlike a good crosswordâ it challenges us to âback away from our assumptions,â âthink differentlyâ and âapply ourselves again.â
TYLL,
by Daniel Kehlmann. Translated by Ross Benjamin. (Vintage, 352 pp., $16.95.) Our reviewer, Irina Dumitrescu, called this picaresque fable in which the proverbial trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel tightrope-walks above the brutality of 17th-century Europeâs Thirty Yearsâ War â