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Judith is WBJC's afternoon host. Her full bio can be read here.

Sep. 01 2023

BookNotes explores a clever satire of an all-too-plausible scenario

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      The year is 2023, and the United States has collapsed into a second civil war. In her debut novel, writer and editor Christine Grillo asks how we can make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us.        

Aug. 18 2023

BookNotes Review August 2023

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  Tom Lake Ann Patchett August Wilson: A Life Patti Hartigan Homicide Philippe Squarzoni Based on the book by David Simon Booker Longlist 2023 Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Nigerian) A Spell of Good Things (Canongate)  Sebastian Barry (Irish) Old God’s Time (Faber & Faber)  Sarah Bernstein (Canadian) Study for Obedience (Granta Books)  Jonathan Escoffery (American) If I […]

Aug. 04 2023

The 17th annual Marfield Prize-winner on BookNotes

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      Jennifer Homans is a prize-winning author, historian, and dance critic for The New Yorker who has brought her personal and professional experience to the biography, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century. It was a pleasure to speak with Jennifer via Zoom.            

Jul. 21 2023

BookNotes Review July 2023

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    Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead Prom Mom Laura Lippman Thunderclap A memoir of art and life & sudden death Laura Cumming  

Jul. 07 2023

On BookNotes, garden restoration as a metaphor for restoring familial bonds

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        Following on from her prize-winning novel in short stories, The Balcony, Jane Delury has just released her second book, Hedge, about a strong and creative woman at an emotional cross-roads in her life.              

Jun. 16 2023

BookNotes Review June 2023

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The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Pageboy: A Memoir Elliot Page August Blue Deborah Levy Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces Patrick Mackie  

Jun. 02 2023

A cellist traces her Holocaust history on BookNotes

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            Janet Horvath is the former associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra, and she is the daughter of two professional musicians who were Holocaust survivors. She recounts their story, and her link to it, in The Cello Still Sings — A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the […]

May. 19 2023

BookNotes Review May 2023

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King: A Life Jonathan Eig Rogue Justice Stacy Abrams The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks  

May. 17 2023

The BSO’s Music Director Designate, Jonathon Heyward

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  Jonathon Heyward is one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene, and we are so fortunate to have him as the Music Director Designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. His tenure officially begins in September 2023, but he’s been in town to conduct the BSO in a couple of programs this month. […]

May. 15 2023

Lesley Malin wearing many hats at Chesapeake Shakespeare

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Founding Chesapeake Shakespeare Company member and Producing Executive Director, Lesley Malin, plays Gertrude in the current production of Hamlet, and she has devised a 2023-2024 season of RULE-BREAKERS, a celebration of mavericks. She came in to talk to me about all of it.            

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