Posts Tagged ‘Booknotes’

Jul. 06 2019

Booknotes has some ideas about summer reading for children

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | 3 Comments

Rona Sue London is the children’s book curator at The Ivy Bookshop. She has some recommendations for summer reading.                 Another book that Rona is very excited about, which we didn’t have time to discuss in the above interview, is a moving debut novel—The Benefits of Being an […]

Jun. 08 2019

D. Watkins speaks for black America on Booknotes

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    Award winning author, D. Watkins, is out with a new book, We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America. He speaks to Booknotes.          

Apr. 16 2019

The world’s oldest paper

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My publisher at Green Writers Press is floating the idea of printing Old New Worlds on hemp—and my instinctive response of “oo!” has quickly turned to Google. “Hemp hurds are favorable in comparison with those used with pulp wood.” – Jason L. Merrill, U.S. Department of Agriculture chief scientist in 1916 So what on earth is […]

Nov. 03 2018

In safe hands with suspense novelist, Dan Fesperman

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  In his new novel, Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman balances history and suspense across decades as a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin.        

Sep. 08 2018

Booknotes Out of Step

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    In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual boy running off to join the army in the midst of two wars and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. The book won the Non/Fiction Prize series from The Journal & The Ohio State University Press.         […]

Jul. 07 2018

Booknotes revisits the Pratt Library

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          In Part II of the interview with Heidi Daniel, President and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, a game changing new initiative.  

Jun. 02 2018

Booknotes checks out the Enoch Pratt’s Heidi Daniel

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    In Part I of a two-part interview, Heidi Daniel, the new President of the Enoch Pratt Free Library , talks about her aspirations for the library system going forward.    

May. 05 2018

A Baltimore Treasure on Booknotes

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        Johns Hopkins University Press has just published a comprehensive biography of George A. Lucas and his art collection. It was written by retired attorney and independent art historian, Stanley Mazaroff.  

Apr. 07 2018

An “assured debut” on Booknotes

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  Little, Brown has just published the The Balcony, the debut collection of linked stories by Baltimore writer, Jane Delury. It was a pleasure to talk to her about it for Booknotes.                

Mar. 03 2018

Booknotes investigates a mystery novel set in India

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | 2 Comments

    It’s 1920s Bombay, and Perveen Mistry becomes one of the first female lawyers in India. Her legal work turns to sleuthing as she tries to work out the mystery behind the three widows of Malabar Hill, who are living in purdah. Sujata Massey – half Indian herself – is the author.     […]

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