Complicated Knots: An Interview with Justin Kramon
Justin Kramon is as unpredictable as he is sweet. In his debut novel, Finny, a tender coming-of-age story, Kramon showed great sensitivity in portraying female characters, particularly the title...
View ArticleSwap Meet: Mesh Baltimore Is a One-Stop Shop of Skill-Sharing
Martha Simons participates in “Tai Chi Ruler,” which will be taught by martial artist Kini Collins on the November 9th SkillShare. If you’ve ever been at the family dinner, out for drinks with...
View Article12-Bell Blues: An Interview with Novelist Madison Smartt Bell
A rolling stone gathers no moss, and neither does the writer Madison Smartt Bell. The author of 20 novels, including All Souls’ Rising (which was a finalist in 1995 for the National Book Award and...
View ArticleDiving into the Wreck: An Interview with Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg’s second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth, will be remembered as the one that catapulted her from indie-press steerage to first-class cruising with contemporaries Karen...
View ArticleTransformation of the Chaos: An Interview with Jane Delury
Writer Jane Delury is not one to skim the surface. Her narrative landscapes, the product of a life spent in California, France, and Baltimore, are lush with atmosphere and magic; the reader is...
View ArticleA Good Woman Is Hard to Find: Baltimore Artist Starts Flannery O’Connor...
Caption: Festival-goers at the 2013 Flannery O’Connor Parade, Picnic, and Street Fair, Savannah,GA. Photo credit: Bill Dawers, Savannah Unplugged Caption: Festival-goers at the 2013 Flannery O’Connor...
View ArticleThe Virgins: An Interview with Pamela Erens
Pamela Erens’ second novel, The Virgins (Tin House Books, 2013), the tale of sexually abstinent boarding school teenagers Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung, was included in several notable and best books...
View ArticleThe Asylum of the Heart: An Interview with Maud Casey
Maud Casey’s latest novel, The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury, 2014), is the real life-inspired tale of the nineteenth-century Frenchman Albert Dadas who, in the first documented case of fugue,...
View ArticleBad Girls: An Interview with Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer is the girl you smoked your first cigarette with in the girls’ bathroom or, as an underage girl, took a beer bong hit at some off-campus party. You listened to Patti Smith and Laurie...
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