Genie Haddock Kunkle, heroine of Elisabeth Dahl’s Genie Wishes, becomes class blogger in fifth grade, and she has a lot to write about. Her best friend,… more

We in Baltimore have a big literary weekend coming up, with the 10th annual CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Central Library on Saturday April 13 10am-5pm, a night of poetry performance at Creative Alliance at 8pm Saturday (preshow starts at 7pm), and a poetry reading Sunday, April 14,… more

Jen Michalski‘s first new book of 2013, Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books) (as Adam Robinson points out at HTML Giant,… more

Epublishing sensation Hugh Howey, the author of Wool and most of its many sequels and prequels (he also encourages fan fiction), says, “I love Baltimore!” He picked up a small sailboat in the Inner Harbor in 1996 and sailed it… more

Since I’ll be leading the book panel discussion about Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfey at the American Craft Council Show February 22 (Baltimore Convention Center, 6pm), I’ve had pottery on my mind. Coffee, tea, and even hot chocolate drinkers can show intellectual acumen,… more