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

Jul. 05 2024

BookNotes takes a Slow Time in Baltimore

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      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.              

Jun. 21 2024

BookNotes Review June 2024

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  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  

Jun. 10 2024

A 1742 grist mill and miller’s house as a creative hub

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The restored Manor Mill in Monkton, MD offers everything from classes, workshops, and a fine arts gallery to musical performances and poetry and prose readings. I spoke to the owner, Angelo Otterbein, about his vision.  

Jun. 07 2024

A Point of Beauty on BookNotes

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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 […]

Jun. 07 2024

Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute

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Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute, a collaboration between The Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company, reimagines Mozart’s final opera as “a hybrid, a playful variation, more a creature of the theatre [than of] opera.” I spoke to Mary about her concept.  

May. 17 2024

BookNotes Review May 2024

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  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  

May. 03 2024

New on the Bookshelf at The Walters

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  Last June, The Walters Art Museum inaugurated a new exhibition space to introduce rare books and manuscripts added to the Walters permanent collection in recent years, many of which have never been on view. I invited Lynley Anne Herbert, the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, into the BookNotes studio […]

May. 03 2024

Reimagining Shakespeare

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We speak often on WBJC about the composers who were inspired by Shakespeare—from Mendelssohn and A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the 20th century version of Romeo and Juliet in the form of West Side Story. What is perhaps not as well known is how Shakespeare himself was inspired by other creatives. With a genius like […]

Apr. 29 2024

A swansong for Mark Cudek

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    Having founded the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble thirty-six years ago in 1988, Mark Cudek will conduct the group for the last time in a concert called “Music for Joan the Mad,” inspired by Marjorie Sandor’s book “The Secret Music at Tordesillas,” at Peabody and St. David’s Roland Park. Please click on the link below […]

Apr. 19 2024

BookNotes Review April 2024

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  Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salmon Rushdie The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Erik Larson The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan The Cemetery of Untold Stories Julia Alvarez Table for Two Amor Towles  

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