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BookNotes explores a memoirist’s silent treatment

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2025/11/07

Jeannie Vanasco, who teaches creative writing at Towson University, has been on the receiving end of a silent treatment from her mother. It’s the subject of her third memoir.

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BookNotes considers Best Small Fictions

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2025/10/03

Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. The Series Editor is Nathan Leslie, who is my guest on BookNotes this month.

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Pawprints on BookNotes

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2025/09/05

Five centuries before cat videos took over the Internet felines were gracing the margins of medieval manuscripts, and an exhibition called Paws on Parchment is currently on display in the Medieval Gallery at The Walters Arts Museum. It’s been curated by Lynley Anne Herbert, the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, […]

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An Odyssey in Words and Pictures on BookNotes

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2025/08/01

“I want to combine narrative and image, language and paint. I want them together.” And that is what happens in Deborah Brown English‘s debut illustrated novel, Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in words and Pictures.

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A Pariah on BookNotes!

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2025/07/04

Dan Fesperman, former foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun turned author of intrigue and suspense, is coming out with his thirteenth novel this month. It’s called Pariah, and it was a pleasure to speak to Dan about it.

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The visionary designer Claire McCardell on BookNotes

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2025/06/06

You know Claire McCardell through ballet flats, mix-and-match separates, pockets, zippers, leggings, and more, yet she remains the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson has set out to change that with her book, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free. […]

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The Opposite of Cruelty on BookNotes

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2025/05/02

The Opposite of Cruelty, newly released by Blair Publishing, is the second poetry collection from Steven Leyva. It was an enormous pleasure to catch up with an old MFA alum.

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BookNotes eavesdrops on the art of collaboration in...

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2025/04/04

Annie Fullard, Director of Chamber Music at Peabody Conservatory and founding member of the Cavani String Quartet, along with Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, who is on the faculty at Saybrook University and consults in the areas of team collaboration and music education, have published a book called The Art of Collaboration: Chamber Music Rehearsal Techniques and Team Building, […]

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Hiram Larew’s This Much Very on BookNotes

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2025/03/07

Hiram Larew, who generously underwrites BookNotes through his Cynipid Fund, is out with his seventh poetry collection, This Much Very, published by Alien Buddha Press. I spoke with Hiram by phone.

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Wrangling the Doubt Monster on BookNotes

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2025/02/07

Amy L. Bernstein—novelist, journalist, speechwriter, playwright, poet, and writing coach—has written a book about that insidious feeling that plagues all creatives: Doubt. I talked to her about wrangling the monster.

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Faraway Tables on BookNotes

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2025/01/03

Fiction and travel writer Eric D. Goodman is out with his first poetry collection: Faraway Tables. He’s my first guest on BookNotes for 2025.

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Emotion as Industry on BookNotes

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2024/12/06

Tracy Dimond is following up the publication of four chapbooks of poetry with her first full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry. She’s my guest on BookNotes this month.

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BookNotes’ insights into the little known Portuguese...

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2024/11/01

Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822: A New Geography of the Atlantic World is the title of the new book being published this month by geographer Alan Marcus. I spoke to him for BookNotes.

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BookNotes marks Jewish holidays through poetry

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2024/10/04

The month of October is rich with days of observance on the Jewish calendar, including the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I spoke with poet, Robbie Nester, about the significance of Jewish poetry in this context.

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Yale Rep on BookNotes

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2024/09/06

Award-winning dramaturg, playwright, and novelist James Magruder is coming out with his first nonfiction work, The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016). I spoke to Jim for BookNotes.

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Liminal Spaces on BookNotes

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2024/08/02

A collection of poetry inspired by art, titled Liminal Spaces, is a product of the Arts Lab of South County, Maryland, and its publication has been supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. The editor of the collection is the writer and educator, Nancy Murray.

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BookNotes takes a Slow Time in Baltimore

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2024/07/05

Antje Rauwerda is a Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures at Goucher College, and she published a novel with Spuyten Duyvil earlier this year called Slow Time. I spoke to Antje for BookNotes.

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BookNotes Review June 2024

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2024/06/21

When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day Garrett M. Graff On Call: A Doctor’s Journey Dr. Anthony Fauci The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir Griffin Dunne The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion Cory Leadbeater The Glass Maker Tracy Chevalier

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A Point of Beauty on BookNotes

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2024/06/07

A Point of Beauty: TRUE STORIES OF HOLDING ON AND LETTING GO is the 5th book from The Moth, which is dedicated to the art and craft of unscripted, first-person storytelling. Their latest iteration includes a story from the violinist, Frank Almond, who is perhaps more famous than he would like for having had his […]

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BookNotes Review May 2024

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2024/05/17

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me Whoopi Goldberg Coming Home Britney Griner The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis George Stephanopoulos Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space Adam Higginbotham

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