Posts Tagged ‘books’
Baltimore City’s Lit Festival
The annual CityLit Festival, a highlight of the Baltimore literary scene, is taking place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th on various midtown campuses. I invited CityLit founder Gregg Wilhelm to come in and talk to us about it.
Let Me See It
James Magruder has been a translator, a dramaturg, a playwright, a teacher, and a fiction writer. He has just published his first collection of short stories, and came to talk about them …
Play+work=plork & plorkology
The University of Baltimore’s new imprint, Plork Press, is excited to launch its first publication on October 3rd. It’s an anthology of stories, poems and essays, and each of the 150 copies is entirely hand made from start to finish. What is “plork” you may ask. Project leader, Meredith Purvis, explains …
Paper vs. Electronic
If you take the New York Times (as in subscribe to it or read it regularly) you may have noticed that the Book Review now includes a segment called By the Book, which features a Q&A with various writers. This week, it’s the American novelist and nonfiction writer, Anne Lamott, and my attention was caught […]
Oliver Stone’s Untold History
Oliver Stone is no stranger to controversy. His trilogy of Vietnam war films, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth; his take on the Kennedy assignation in JFK; the violence of Natural Born Killers; his “greed is good” indictment in Wall Street, his portrayal of Turkish people in Midnight Express, and […]
Top 5 – Books
I like to consider myself an avid reader. If I had to choose 5 books from my shelf to have while stranded on a deserted island (based on re-readability, love of characters/world/subject matter) , I’d choose: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick Lord of the Rings/Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien Alice’s Adventures […]
Teju Cole’s Open City
The Nigerian writer, Teju Cole, who was born in the US, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in Brooklyn, visited the MFA Reading Program at the University of Baltimore recently, and we had the great privilege of having him visit our International Writing Workshop beforehand. He is also a photographer and an art historian […]
Getting in on the conversation
With “The Help” picking up four Oscar nominations today, I confess I’m only just catching up with this highly successful phenomenon. I was certainly not one of those who contributed to its being on the New York Times best seller list for more than 100 weeks! Having grown up under the egregious apartheid system in […]
