Posts Tagged ‘Booknotes’
In safe hands with suspense novelist, Dan Fesperman
In his new novel, Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman balances history and suspense across decades as a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin.
Booknotes Out of Step
In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual boy running off to join the army in the midst of two wars and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. The book won the Non/Fiction Prize series from The Journal & The Ohio State University Press. […]
Booknotes revisits the Pratt Library
In Part II of the interview with Heidi Daniel, President and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, a game changing new initiative.
Booknotes checks out the Enoch Pratt’s Heidi Daniel
In Part I of a two-part interview, Heidi Daniel, the new President of the Enoch Pratt Free Library , talks about her aspirations for the library system going forward.
A Baltimore Treasure on Booknotes
Johns Hopkins University Press has just published a comprehensive biography of George A. Lucas and his art collection. It was written by retired attorney and independent art historian, Stanley Mazaroff.
An “assured debut” on Booknotes
Little, Brown has just published the The Balcony, the debut collection of linked stories by Baltimore writer, Jane Delury. It was a pleasure to talk to her about it for Booknotes.
A new Director for America’s oldest university press
The historic Johns Hopkins University Press has a newly appointed Director, who brings to the position twenty years’ experience with the National Academies Press. Barbara Kline Pope is this month’s guest on Booknotes.
Booknotes looks ahead to good reads for 2018
In the New Year we can look forward to new books by local writers, and some hidden gems. Here is Ann Berlin from The Ivy Bookshop with some guidelines. Laura Lipman’s Sunburn Sujata Massey’s Widows of Malabar Dan Fesperman’s Safe Houses Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Victorian poetry from faraway places on Booknotes
In his new book, due for release by Johns Hopkins University Press later this year, Jason Rudy suggests that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada was vitally engaged in the social and political work of settlement in those countries.
