Last night, I caught Megan Anderson's excellent performance in David Harrower's play, Blackbird, at Everyman. Fans of The Wire know Anderson as Jennifer Carcetti, the mayor's wife. Exiting the...
Wes Moore grew up in Baltimore City. So did Wes Moore. The first Wes Moore went to Hopkins, became a Rhodes Scholar, worked at the White House and on Wall Street, and The Sun published a piece about...
Tomorrow night, Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat and songwriter Manno Charlemagne appear at Goucher College's Athenaeum. It's an amazing double bill, and I suspect...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
My favorite book is [William Golding's] Lord of the Flies. It introduced me to the darker side of human nature—something I explore in my...
The Maryland Humanities Council has selected Warren St. John's Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference for this year's ...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Virginia Woolf's book The Waves and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire convinced me of the eternal.
Dave Wakeling will be eternally...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Up 'til that point, I hadn't read anything that flowed like a song. Musically, I remember Bob Marley. When...
The current New York Times list for Hardcover Fiction puts Anne Tyler's Noah's Compass at #13.
Tyler nudged out Stephen Hunter's I, Sniper, which came in at #14.
The mysterious visitor who's been placing roses and a bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave was a no-show last night. The toaster usually appears on Poe's birthday between midnight and 6 a.m.,...
David Simpson
Loch Raven (self-published)
Loch Raven Reservoir never looks so subtly enticing or stunningly dramatic as when David Simpson revisits the same spot seasonally and juxtaposes his...
