Posts Tagged ‘Booknotes’

Jan. 07 2023

BookNotes honors MLK Day

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  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, GA, and in 2023, we mark MLK Day on Monday, January 16. To talk about the legacy of his words, the guest on BookNotes this month is Marilyn Nelson, award-winning poet and author or translator of more than 20 books […]

Nov. 05 2022

A cautionary tale for democracy on BookNotes

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    The French Revolution is celebrated as a founding moment of modern representative government. But in her book Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals Laura Mason, a teaching professor in history at Johns Hopkins University, explains how an elected government’s assault on popular democracy and social justice destroyed the republic, and […]

Oct. 08 2022

A Violin Conspiracy on BookNotes

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  Brendan Slocumb is a Baltimore-Washington area violinist and teacher. He has now turned his talents to writing, and his debut novel The Violin Conspiracy has been published by Penguin Random House. As a prelude to our extended discussion in the Wheeler Room at The Enoch Pratt Free Libary on Cathedral Street on Wednesday, October 26 at […]

Sep. 03 2022

BookNotes celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month

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  Since 1989, all American Presidents have given a Presidential Proclamation to mark Hispanic Heritage Month, from September 15 through October 15, recognizing the contributions and influence of LatinX Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Puerto Rican co-owner of Snug Books, Emanual Figuaroa, makes his contribution through books.  

Aug. 06 2022

East Germany’s Stasi and America’s CIA on BookNotes

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        The 13th novel of spy craft and international intrigue by former foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, Dan Fesperman, is called Winter Work, and it’s set during the chaotic first months after the Berlin Wall came down.            

Jul. 02 2022

Baltimore’s Barbara Bourland on BookNotes

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        Barbara Bourland‘s third novel, The Force of Such Beauty, will be published by Dutton on July 19th, 2022. Barbara spoke to me about her latest genre-bending book.          

Jun. 04 2022

Award winning poet shares words about Juneteenth on BookNotes

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Juneteenth—June Nineteenth—will be observed as a public holiday for the second year on Monday, June 20th. Award-winning poet, Brian Donnell James, shares thoughts on how poetry contributes to this commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.   “Sweet Tones, Somber Tones” Sweet tones,…Somber tones in the night sky Me all alone with […]

May. 07 2022

BookNotes seeks out The Lost Weekend

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  Since the Covid-19 pandemic, literary events have nearly disappeared. The Lost Weekend—hosted by Baltimore independent bookstore Greedy Reads in partnership with production friends The Stables—is reigniting the spark by bringing together the best of Baltimore’s literary voices and creative talent with the city’s most celebrated food and drinks vendors, May 13—15. I spoke with Greedy Reads […]

Apr. 02 2022

BookNotes finds itself amongst the Wrecks and Ruins

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    Apprentice House Press will release the new novel by Baltimore writer, Eric D. Goodman, on Tuesday, April 17th. He talks here about this part romantic comedy/part buddy novel.        

Mar. 05 2022

Booknotes marks St. Patrick’s Day 🍀

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As the son of Irish immigrants, the poet, writer, and musician Terence Patrick Winch has been part of Irish-American cultural life, with his work sometimes taking its subject matter from his upbringing in a Bronx immigrant neighborhood. Here, he shares some of the words and traditions of that cultural life.   P R A Y E R  […]

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