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Q&A with James Magruder, Playwright and Author of “Vamp Until Ready”
James Magruder’s fourth book of fiction, Vamp Until Ready, recounts the experiences of a troupe of irresistible residents of Ithaca, New York, as they search for love, success, and fulfillment. This...
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Q&A With Kathy Flann, Author of a Guide for Werewolves, Mummies and Zombies
Reader’s of Kathy Flann’s fiction will recognize her clever and compelling sense of humor as she satirizes our species in her latest book, “How to Survive a Human Attack.” In this hilarious manual for...
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Thanksgiving on Mars
NASA launches its Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the Curiosity rover, aboard an Atlas V rocket that lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26, 2011. Image courtesy of NASA....
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Q&A with Dean Smith, Author of Baltimore Sons
Dean Bartoli Smith’s second poetry collection, Baltimore Sons, paints a brutally honest portrait of Charm City – a place bursting with personality and charm, but also marred by poverty and violence....
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Q&A with Michael Tager, Editor of ‘The Jarnal’
Thirty years ago, when I began to write in earnest, a teacher encouraged me to start submitting my work to literary journals. Just a teenager, I was unfamiliar with the form, but over the years...
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Q&A with Elise Levine, Author of Say This
Elise Levine’s new book, Say This, is composed of two linked novellas that take on the aftermath – both immediate and over decades – of a violent, meth-fueled murder. But this is far from your typical...
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A Princess In Flight: Q&A with author Barbara Bourland about new novel “The...
Princesses have long captured the imagination of the public and shaped feminine ideals. A child of the 80s, I grew up with the first-wave of Disney princesses on VHS, Princess Diana all over the...
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Click Here to Relive this Memory
The writer and her son. Baltimore-based poet Elizabeth Hazen reflects on the “complicated gift” of nostalgia. When I am overwhelmed with adult life, I think of childhood days home from school with a...
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A Baltimore Dope Fiend’s Miracle: Q&A with Bruce White and Rafael Alvarez
Books that explore the topic of addiction inundate the shelves of bookstores, a fact I see firsthand in the shop where I work, Bird in Hand. Among the titles are examinations of policy and the...
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Where Everything is Civilized and Gay and Rotted and Polite — Q&A with Poet...
Every year Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a literary co-op based in D.C., holds contests for residents of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., selecting manuscripts in the categories of...
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Love in Wartime: Q&A with Christine Grillo, author of ‘Hestia Strikes a Match’
Adult life is hard, and I have yet to meet anyone who actually feels like a grown-up. Most of us are making it up as we go along, trying our best to be decent humans, doing as little damage as we can....
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Q&A with University of Baltimore Professor Jane Delury, Author of ‘Hedge’
One of my bookmarks is printed with the quotation: “We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there, too.” Part of me is tempted to roll my eyes at this quaint proclamation, but mostly I have to...
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Digging Up the Truth on Freddie Gray: Q&A with Justine Barron
When the 2015 Baltimore uprising took place, I was teaching English at an affluent private middle school in the city. We had been studying To Kill a Mockingbird and had just finished the chapter in...
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Why Terror? Q&A With Danuta Hinc, Author of ‘When We Were Twins’
For those of us who were old enough to follow the news in 2001, the events of September 11 are a dark milestone. As with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. or the explosion of the...
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A Child’s View of War: Q&A with Pantea Amin Tofangchi
It is a tragic and seemingly inevitable truth that war is a part of human existence. It is also apparent, as the daily news reminds us with far too great a frequency, that war does not make exceptions...
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