Posts Tagged ‘Booknotes’
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.
Glazed With War: honoring Veterans Day on BookNotes
On Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11 at 7 p.m., the Iranian-American poet, writer, and graphic designer, Pantea Amin Tofangchi, will launch her poetry collection, Glazed With War, published by Mason Jar Press. It will be my pleasure and privilege to be in conversation with Pantea at her launch and, by way of a sneak preview, […]
Artwork as a trigger for public awareness on BookNotes
Phase Two In this garden, the snow will melt, evaporate, and begin its cycle all over again. — Lee Heineman Jann Rosen-Queralt is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent project is Heart Beating Beneath the Earth, a book of photographs and the writings they inspired.
BookNotes explores a clever satire of an all-too-plausible scenario
The year is 2023, and the United States has collapsed into a second civil war. In her debut novel, writer and editor Christine Grillo asks how we can make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us.
On BookNotes, garden restoration as a metaphor for restoring familial bonds
Following on from her prize-winning novel in short stories, The Balcony, Jane Delury has just released her second book, Hedge, about a strong and creative woman at an emotional cross-roads in her life.
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 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 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.
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 […]
The Father of the Underground Railroad on BookNotes
At the start of Black History Month, we honor a towering figure in the abolitionist movement, William Still — not to be confused with the Dean of African American composers, William Grant Still. Historian at Towson University, Andrew K. Diemer, talks about his William Still biography, Vigilance.
