What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I don't think there's one thing, because it's been a slow evolution, not a sudden change. Mostly, it's been my relationships with family...
What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
I first tried to read the book Lolita when I was twelve, but only because I had a sense that it was obscene. (I believe my father...
Have you been keeping up with The New York Times Magazine's serialization of Laura Lippman's The Girl in the Green Raincoat? If not, check out the first four chapters, (1) here, (2) here, (3) here,...
On tap this afternoon.... An incredible trifecta of author appearances at the Baltimore Book Festival.
Cornel West at Noon... Naomi Wolf at 1 pm.... Walter Mosley at 2 pm!!!!!!!!
If you can make it...
Bibliophiles take note... This year's Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, billed as the largest indoor antiques event in the nation, opens Thursday at the Convention Center and includes an Antiquarian...
I've long been a fan of Jonathan Miles' writing, especially his Oxford American pieces and his New York Times cocktail column. So I was particularly excited about the arrival of his debut novel,...
Later this month, Plume publishes The James Brown Reader: 50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul. It’s quite an entertaining read, with a few Baltimore references along the way: Brown owned...
