Apr.
03
2026
Poet Elizabeth Hazen’s new collection on BookNotes
Poet and essayist Elizabeth Hazen is a Maryland native and a fixture on the Baltimore literary scene. Her new poetry collection, The Sky Will Hold, is out this weekend.
Judith Krummeck
Mar.
25
2026
Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet” onstage at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. is presenting the Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Hamnet,” adapted for the stage from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel by actor-writer Lolita Chakrabarti. I spoke with Lolita by phone from London.
Mar.
20
2026
Celebrating Shriver Concert Series’ 60 years
Continuing to mark the 60th anniversary of the Shriver Hall Concert Series with our decade-by-decade overview, I invited Executive Director Catherine Cochran to talk about the decade from the oughts to the teens of this century.
Mar.
06
2026
#AWP2026 in Baltimore with writer Natasha Williams
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs—AWP—is holding its 2026 Annual Conference & Bookfair at the Baltimore Convention Center through this Saturday. One of the thousands of attendees is Natasha Williams, whose memoir The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness has been published by Baltimore’s Apprentice House Press. […]
Mar.
04
2026
Isidore String Quartet with pianist Jeremy Denk for Shriver Concerts
The New York City-based Isidore String Quartet, which, was formed in 2019 at Juilliard, will be joined by pianist Jeremy Denk for a program of works by Haydn, Billy Childs, and Schumann for the Shriver Hall Concert Series. I spoke to the group’s violist Devin Moore by phone from New York.
Feb.
16
2026
Bach maestra Angela Hewitt returns to Shriver Concerts
Angela Hewitt‘s performances of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters, and she returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series with two of his works, along with pieces by Rameau and Scarlatti on Sunday, February 22.
Feb.
06
2026
A fictional former Orioles player on BookNotes
Nathan Leslie—Writer. Editor. Organizer. Educator—is out with his latest novel titled Van Boyle, which one reviewer describes as “a compelling, heart-rending tale of a former major league ballplayer who has lost everything and now subsists in the wilds of Maryland.”
Feb.
02
2026
As Shriver Concerts celebrates 60 years, looking back on the millenium decade
Having joined WBJC in February 1998, my personal experience with the Shriver Hall Concert Series began that year. I caught up on the decade from the mid 90s to the mid-aughts with Exceutive Director, Catherine Cochran.
Feb.
01
2026
Music at Emmanuel’s spring season
Christian Lane, Director of Music at Emmanuel in Mount Vernon, puts together an impressive program of 30+ concerts and liturgies each season, and I invited him back to talk about the 2026 spring lineup.
Jan.
09
2026
Emanuel Ax returns to Shriver Hall
Grammy Award-winning pianist, Emanuel Ax, returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series with a recital of fantasies by Beethoven, Corigliano, and Schumann. It was a great pleasure to speak with him.
