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New on the Bookshelf at The Walters

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2024/05/03

Last June, The Walters Art Museum inaugurated a new exhibition space to introduce rare books and manuscripts added to the Walters permanent collection in recent years, many of which have never been on view. I invited Lynley Anne Herbert, the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, into the BookNotes studio […]

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BookNotes Review April 2024

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2024/04/19

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salmon Rushdie The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Erik Larson The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan The Cemetery of Untold Stories Julia Alvarez Table for Two Amor Towles

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Writing about grief on BookNotes

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2024/04/05

Danielle Ariano’s memoir, The Requirement of Grief, is a poignant and muscular account of the relationship between two sisters—and the bond that remains in the wake of a suicide. I’ll be in conversation with Danielle for the launch of her memoir at The Ivy Bookshop at 4pm on Sunday, April 21st. Here […]

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BookNotes Review March 2024

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2024/03/15

Until August Gabriel García Márquez After Annie Anna Quindlen H Is for Hope CLIMATE CHANGE FROM A TO Z Elizabeth Kolbert One Way Back: A Memoir Christine Blasey Ford

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Ben Tanzer’s “Missing” on BookNotes

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2024/03/01

Author, podcaster, publicist, and teacher, Ben Tanzer, is out with his latest novel, The Missing, from 7.13 Books. It was my pleasure to catch up with Ben by phone from Chicago.

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BookNotes Review February 2024

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2024/02/16

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America Joy-Ann Reid Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Philippa Gregory Wandering Stars Tommy Orange Fourteen Days The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston

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BookNotes marks Black History Month

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2024/02/02

The poet and speechwriter, Terry Edmonds, whose latest collection is Question Marks published by DARKLIGHT PUBLISHING, has had a life journey from the projects in Baltimore, to being chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, and beyond. I invited him to be my guest for this edition of BookNotes during Black History […]

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BookNotes Review January 2024

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2024/01/19

Diva Daisy Goodwin The Wharton Plot Mariah Fredericks The Queen of Sugar Hill ReShonda Tate This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Edited by Kwame Alexander The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky Simon Shuster

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BMore Art’s “City of Artists” on BookNotes

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2024/01/05

Since 2015, BMore Art has been the go-to magazine for arts and culture in Baltimore. Now, they are out with their first full-length book, City of Artists, highlighting personal reflections and portfolios from the city’s writers and artists. I spoke to BMore Arts Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Cara Ober.

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BookNotes Review December 2023

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2023/12/17

Absolution Alice McDermott Homicide: The Graphic Novel Part II David Simon Illustrated by Philippe Squarzoni Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song Judith Tick Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning Liz Cheney

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An epistolary novel with a difference on BookNotes

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2023/12/01

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.

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BookNotes Review November 2023

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2023/11/17

My Name is Barbra Barbra Streisand To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul Tracy K. Smith The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Robert Darnton Day: A Novel Michael Cunningham

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Glazed With War: honoring Veterans Day on BookNotes

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2023/11/03

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, […]

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BookNotes Review October 2023

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2023/10/20

Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein Anne Eekhout Translated by Laura Watkinson The Exchange John Grisham Worthy Jada Pinkett Smith Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Michael Lewis

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Artwork as a trigger for public awareness on BookNotes

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2023/10/06

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.

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