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BookNotes Review June 2023
The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Pageboy: A Memoir Elliot Page August Blue Deborah Levy Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces Patrick Mackie
A cellist traces her Holocaust history on BookNotes
Janet Horvath is the former associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra, and she is the daughter of two professional musicians who were Holocaust survivors. She recounts their story, and her link to it, in The Cello Still Sings — A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the […]
BookNotes Review May 2023
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Rogue Justice Stacy Abrams The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks
BookNotes experiences Your Brain on Art
The science of neuroaesthetics offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross are co-authors of The New York Times Bestseller, Your Brain on Art: HOW THE ARTS TRANSFORM US. Here, Susan talks about the ways we can use arts creatively […]
BookNotes Review April 2023
Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld Symphony of Secrets Brendan Slocumb Chita Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
BookNotes reflects on Poetry Month
“Always be a poet, even in prose.” April is Poetry Month and my guest is educator, speaker, facilitator, poet, and writer, Judy Sorum Brown, whose work encompasses both poetry and prose.
Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair returns, again
The Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, featuring twenty galleries and print publishers from across the US, returns for a second edition at the Baltimore Innovation Center in Pigtown the weekend of March 30–April 2. I spoke with curator, Ann Shafer.
BookNotes Review March 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Hang the Moon Jeannette Walls The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions Greta Thunberg The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery Adam Gopnik The Wife of Bath: A Biography Marion Turner
BookNotes reconnects with Passager
“I see this issue as a mending, turning trauma and pain into art . . . It is the process of creating that heals us.” Christine Lincoln, Guest Editor It’s been almost seven years since BookNotes caught up with Passager the local, independent literary press dedicated to older writers. So, I invited Founding […]
BookNotes Review February 2023
Victory City Salman Rushdie A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe Mark Dawidziak What Napoleon Could Not Do DK Nnuro BLK ART The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware
