Posts Tagged ‘Booknotes’

Jul. 04 2025

A Pariah on BookNotes!

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        Dan Fesperman, former foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun turned author of intrigue and suspense, is coming out with his thirteenth novel this month. It’s called Pariah, and it was a pleasure to speak to Dan about it.            

Jun. 06 2025

The visionary designer Claire McCardell on BookNotes

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    You know Claire McCardell through ballet flats, mix-and-match separates, pockets, zippers, leggings, and more, yet she remains the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson has set out to change that with her book, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.               […]

May. 02 2025

The Opposite of Cruelty on BookNotes

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  The Opposite of Cruelty, newly released by Blair Publishing, is the second poetry collection from Steven Leyva. It was an enormous pleasure to catch up with an old MFA alum.  

Apr. 04 2025

BookNotes eavesdrops on the art of collaboration in chamber music

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  Annie Fullard, Director of Chamber Music at Peabody Conservatory and founding member of the Cavani String Quartet, along with Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, who is on the faculty at Saybrook University and consults in the areas of team collaboration and music education, have published a book called The Art of Collaboration: Chamber Music Rehearsal Techniques and Team Building, […]

Mar. 07 2025

Hiram Larew’s This Much Very on BookNotes

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    Hiram Larew, who generously underwrites BookNotes through his Cynipid Fund, is out with his seventh poetry collection, This Much Very, published by Alien Buddha Press. I spoke with Hiram by phone.      

Feb. 07 2025

Wrangling the Doubt Monster on BookNotes

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        Amy L. Bernstein—novelist, journalist, speechwriter, playwright, poet, and writing coach—has written a book about that insidious feeling that plagues all creatives: Doubt. I talked to her about wrangling the monster.    

Jan. 03 2025

Faraway Tables on BookNotes

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            Fiction and travel writer Eric D. Goodman is out with his first poetry collection: Faraway Tables. He’s my first guest on BookNotes for 2025.                  

Dec. 06 2024

Emotion as Industry on BookNotes

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        Tracy Dimond is following up the publication of four chapbooks of poetry with her first full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry. She’s my guest on BookNotes this month.                

Nov. 01 2024

BookNotes’ insights into the little known Portuguese Inquisition

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    Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822: A New Geography of the Atlantic World is the title of the new book being published this month by geographer Alan Marcus. I spoke to him for BookNotes.                

Oct. 04 2024

BookNotes marks Jewish holidays through poetry

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  The month of October is rich with days of observance on the Jewish calendar, including the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I spoke with poet, Robbie Nester, about the significance of Jewish poetry in this context.          

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