A Banner columnist on writing in long form

Former CNN anchor looks back on 9/11 25 years later

Music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis discusses her book Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams.

Poet and essayist Elizabeth Hazen is a Maryland native and a fixture on the Baltimore literary scene. Her new poetry collection, The Sky Will Hold, is out this weekend.

Nathan Leslie—Writer. Editor. Organizer. Educator—is out with his latest novel titled Van Boyle, which one reviewer describes as “a compelling, heart-rending tale of a former major league ballplayer who has lost everything and now subsists in the wilds of Maryland.”

Dr. Marjory Serrano-Coyer is a violinist, educator, performer, and passionate communicator. She has brought all these gifts together in her informative book, Concertmaster Leadership: A Guide for Violinists.

Jeannie Vanasco, who teaches creative writing at Towson University, has been on the receiving end of a silent treatment from her mother. It’s the subject of her third memoir.

Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. The Series Editor is Nathan Leslie, who is my guest on BookNotes this month.