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Mar. 18 2023

BookNotes Review March 2023

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  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Hang the Moon Jeannette Walls The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions Greta Thunberg The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery Adam Gopnik The Wife of Bath: A Biography Marion Turner  

Mar. 04 2023

BookNotes reconnects with Passager

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  “I see this issue as a mending, turning trauma and pain into art . . . It is the process of creating that heals us.” Christine Lincoln, Guest Editor        It’s been almost seven years since BookNotes caught up with Passager the local, independent literary press dedicated to older writers. So, I invited Founding […]

Feb. 18 2023

BookNotes Review February 2023

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  Victory City Salman Rushdie A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe Mark Dawidziak What Napoleon Could Not Do DK Nnuro BLK ART The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art  Zaria Ware  

Feb. 04 2023

The Father of the Underground Railroad on BookNotes

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      At the start of Black History Month, we honor a towering figure in the abolitionist movement, William Still — not to be confused with the Dean of African American composers, William Grant Still. Historian at Towson University, Andrew K. Diemer, talks about his William Still biography, Vigilance.    

Jan. 21 2023

BookNotes Review January 2023

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  Seasonal Work Laura Lippman One: Simple One-pan Wonders Jamie Oliver MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo A Message From Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky  

Jan. 07 2023

BookNotes honors MLK Day

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  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, GA, and in 2023, we mark MLK Day on Monday, January 16. To talk about the legacy of his words, the guest on BookNotes this month is Marilyn Nelson, award-winning poet and author or translator of more than 20 books […]

Dec. 17 2022

December BookNotes Review

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  The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe Kevin Gutzman The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty Sarah Gristwood Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy A Book of Days Patti Smith  

Dec. 03 2022

BookNotes features a winning poetry collection

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        Anthony Moll is the winner of the 2022 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House for You Cannot Save Here. I spoke to them about this collection of poems exploring how we live when each day feels as if the world is ending.            

Nov. 19 2022

BookNotes Review November 2022

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Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth John Coleman Darnell & Colleen Manassa Darnell The Queen: Her Life Andrew Morton The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Michelle Obama We Are the Light Matthew Quick Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Matthew Perry  

Nov. 05 2022

A cautionary tale for democracy on BookNotes

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    The French Revolution is celebrated as a founding moment of modern representative government. But in her book Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals Laura Mason, a teaching professor in history at Johns Hopkins University, explains how an elected government’s assault on popular democracy and social justice destroyed the republic, and […]

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