first Friday of each month at 5:15 PM
& first Saturday of the month at 10 AM

Join Judith Krummeck for an interview series on WBJC devoted to the world of books — from different genres, to book awards, to local and national authors — everything to do with books. Booknotes is made possible by our members.

Podcasts of our latest Booknotes are here for your listening pleasure! In each post, you can click to listen immediately, or right-click and “Save Link As” to download and listen later.

• BookNotes’ insights into the little known Portuguese Inquisition
• BookNotes marks Jewish holidays through poetry
• Yale Rep on BookNotes
• Liminal Spaces on BookNotes
• BookNotes takes a Slow Time in Baltimore
• BookNotes Review June 2024
• A Point of Beauty on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review May 2024
• New on the Bookshelf at The Walters
• BookNotes Review April 2024
• Writing about grief on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review March 2024
• Ben Tanzer’s “Missing” on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review February 2024
• BookNotes marks Black History Month
• BookNotes Review January 2024
• BMore Art’s “City of Artists” on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review December 2023
• An epistolary novel with a difference on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review November 2023
• Glazed With War: honoring Veterans Day on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review October 2023
• Artwork as a trigger for public awareness on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review September 2023
• BookNotes explores a clever satire of an all-too-plausible scenario
• BookNotes Review August 2023
• The 17th annual Marfield Prize-winner on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review July 2023
• On BookNotes, garden restoration as a metaphor for restoring familial bonds
• BookNotes Review June 2023
• A cellist traces her Holocaust history on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review May 2023
• BookNotes experiences Your Brain on Art
• BookNotes Review April 2023
• BookNotes reflects on Poetry Month
• Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair returns, again
• BookNotes Review March 2023
• BookNotes reconnects with Passager
• BookNotes Review February 2023
• The Father of the Underground Railroad on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review January 2023
• BookNotes honors MLK Day
• December BookNotes Review
• BookNotes features a winning poetry collection
• BookNotes Review November 2022
• A cautionary tale for democracy on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review October 2022
• A Violin Conspiracy on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review September 2022
• BookNotes celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
• BookNotes Review August 2022
• East Germany’s Stasi and America’s CIA on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review July 2022
• BookNotes Review June 2022
• Award winning poet shares words about Juneteenth on BookNotes
• BookNotes Review May 2022
• BookNotes seeks out The Lost Weekend
• BookNotes Review April 2022
• BookNotes finds itself amongst the Wrecks and Ruins
• BookNotes Review March 2022
• Booknotes marks St. Patrick’s Day 🍀
• Booknotes’s new underwriter, Snug Books
• Honoring MLK on Booknotes
• Booknotes gets into the holiday spirit
• Booknotes honors Veterans
• Booknotes + Poetry X Hunger
• Booknotes talks to indie publisher, Woodhall Press
• Dr. Leana Wen turned writer on Booknotes
• Booknotes comes of age with Mary Jane
• Confederados on Booknotes
• Booknotes investigates self-publishing
• Booknotes and one of the driving forces behind Folger Shakespeare
• Booknotes is drawn into the noir world of intrigue, romance, and alluring clues
• Pandemic Diaries on Booknotes
• Booknotes gets into the holiday spirit with the Pratt Library
• Booknotes goes Upstate
• A National Book Awards 2020 nominee on Booknotes
• Booknotes ventures into a dystopian land
• Wes Moore’s “Five Days” on Booknotes
• Booknotes investigates how the shroud of Turin came into being
• Booknotes encounters the 16th century polymath, Galileo Galilei
• The intersection of visual art and literary art on Booknotes
• Taking care of precious books on Booknotes
• Booknotes on “The Understudy’s Handbook” and the 17th CityLit Festival
• The Daily Miracle on BookNotes
• Booknotes catches up with Baltimore’s newest indie bookstore
• Agatha Christie from the page to the stage on Booknotes
• Baltimore Book Festival 2019
• Setting the Family Free on Booknotes
• The Ivy tells Booknotes about their new home
• Book design on Booknotes
• Booknotes has some ideas about summer reading for children
• D. Watkins speaks for black America on Booknotes
• All the Fierce Tethers with Lia Purpura on Booknotes
• The world’s oldest paper
• CityLit on Booknotes
• Creative Writing & Publishing Arts MFA at UB
• Tending to precious books
• Booknotes catches up with The Ivy in 2019
• Booknotes is curious
• In safe hands with suspense novelist, Dan Fesperman
• A collection of quirky, elegiac vignettes on Booknotes
• Booknotes Out of Step
• Catching up with the St. Francis Missal on Booknotes
• Booknotes revisits the Pratt Library
• Booknotes checks out the Enoch Pratt’s Heidi Daniel
• A Baltimore Treasure on Booknotes
• An “assured debut” on Booknotes
• Booknotes investigates a mystery novel set in India
• A new Director for America’s oldest university press
• Booknotes looks ahead to good reads for 2018
• Booknotes and George Peabody’s Bibliomania
• The 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature
• The detective work of dramaturgy
• Victorian poetry from faraway places on Booknotes
• Booknotes sings the blues
• Booknotes gets in touch with it inner ink press
• The precious St. Francis Missal on Booknotes
• Booknotes congratulates a Guggenheim Fellow
• Book arts on Booknotes
• Booknotes meets one of Baltimore’s quirkier independent presses
• Booknotes goes to the AWP conference
• Enoch Pratt’s gift to Baltimore
• Booknotes takes a coffee break
• Booknotes takes a sneak peek behind the visual arts scene
• Brilliant Blunders on Booknotes
• September means the Baltimore Book Festival
• Booknotes marks Shakespeare 400
• Booknotes catering to all demographics
• Writing letters for Booknotes
• Booknotes celebrates Apprentice House Press
• The Ivy launches “The Letter Writer”
• Booknotes digs into musical folklore
• Booknotes and the issue of ContamiNation
• Booknotes goes to the Symphony
• Baltimore folklorist, Rafael Alvarez
• Booknotes at The Ivy
• The first Booknotes on WBJC!
• A new series about the world of books