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BookNotes Review April 2024
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salmon Rushdie The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Erik Larson The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan The Cemetery of Untold Stories Julia Alvarez Table for Two Amor Towles
Writing about grief on BookNotes
Danielle Ariano’s memoir, The Requirement of Grief, is a poignant and muscular account of the relationship between two sisters—and the bond that remains in the wake of a suicide. I’ll be in conversation with Danielle for the launch of her memoir at The Ivy Bookshop at 4pm on Sunday, April 21st. Here […]
BookNotes Review March 2024
Until August Gabriel García Márquez After Annie Anna Quindlen H Is for Hope CLIMATE CHANGE FROM A TO Z Elizabeth Kolbert One Way Back: A Memoir Christine Blasey Ford
Ben Tanzer’s “Missing” on BookNotes
Author, podcaster, publicist, and teacher, Ben Tanzer, is out with his latest novel, The Missing, from 7.13 Books. It was my pleasure to catch up with Ben by phone from Chicago.
BookNotes Review February 2024
Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America Joy-Ann Reid Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Philippa Gregory Wandering Stars Tommy Orange Fourteen Days The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
BookNotes marks Black History Month
The poet and speechwriter, Terry Edmonds, whose latest collection is Question Marks published by DARKLIGHT PUBLISHING, has had a life journey from the projects in Baltimore, to being chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, and beyond. I invited him to be my guest for this edition of BookNotes during Black History […]
BookNotes Review January 2024
Diva Daisy Goodwin The Wharton Plot Mariah Fredericks The Queen of Sugar Hill ReShonda Tate This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Edited by Kwame Alexander The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky Simon Shuster
BMore Art’s “City of Artists” on BookNotes
Since 2015, BMore Art has been the go-to magazine for arts and culture in Baltimore. Now, they are out with their first full-length book, City of Artists, highlighting personal reflections and portfolios from the city’s writers and artists. I spoke to BMore Arts Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Cara Ober.
BookNotes Review December 2023
Absolution Alice McDermott Homicide: The Graphic Novel Part II David Simon Illustrated by Philippe Squarzoni Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song Judith Tick Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning Liz Cheney
An epistolary novel with a difference on BookNotes
J. Wynn Rousuck, theater critic at WYPR and former theater critic at The Baltimore Sun, is out with her first novel, Please Write, from Bancroft Press. After all these years, it was a pleasure to talk to her in person.
