Enjoy a lively evening Saturday, November 10 at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles Street, as Baltimore Fishbowl columnist and local writer Marion Winik, The Baltimore Book of the Dead, and Laura Lippman, Sunburn, discuss their newest books, the unpredictable writing life, and Baltimore.
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The Boomer and the Boomerang: A Love Story
When writer Marion Winik’s overachieving grown son beelined back to Baltimore after college, she didn’t regret a moment of his residence, she rejoiced.
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Scrabble, and Other Secret Languages
In the latest installment of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” columnist Marion Winik meditates playfully on Scrabble rules and strategies — and love lost, found, and renamed.
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Weekend Events Calendar: Ice Festival, Orchid Show, Baltimore Restaurant Week, theater openings and more
The forecast is calling for snow this weekend, but there’s still plenty of reasons to venture out, like festivals featuring creative takes on ice, seafood and German culture. Or, head to the Parkway and sing along with Queen. Here’s the weekend schedule:
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I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up
There’s been a surge of fiction and nonfiction by writers of my generation dealing with the matter of becoming the caretaker of aging parents. I myself got a piece out of this life transition — for the New York Times, yippee. But in my case, that phase only lasted a few months, and it was ten years […]
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A Cat Named Bruce
The email list in our neighborhood is an active one, what with people getting rid of furniture and gadgets, looking for plumbers and electricians, and calling for crews to pick up litter at Stony Run, the creek that runs along the edge of our three-block enclave. This posting about Bruce the Cat, complete with framed […]
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Hook, Line, and Sinker: How the Phishermen Reeled Me In
I’ve been reluctant to tell the story below: it’s too embarrassing, even for a blurter like me. However, I just read that one of the secondary dangers of being scammed is that the victim feels so much shame about falling for the con that they are unwilling to talk about it, leading to depression and […]
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Just Like Star Wars, I Got a Sequel
Good news: A couple of days before Christmas I received word that Counterpoint, the press that published The Glen Rock Book of the Dead in 2008, will bring out a companion volume in the late fall of 2018. Like its predecessor, The Baltimore Book of the Dead is named for the place where it is […]
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How to Celebrate the Day of the Dead
It seems to have become a tradition to re-post this 2013 column on November 1. At my house, Day of the Dead season opened a couple of weeks ago when I started a new book project: a sequel to The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. It will be called The Baltimore Book of the Dead, […]
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Harvey’s Choice
As soon as I heard about Hurricane Harvey, I started worrying about the animals. The ones tied up in backyards, the ones waiting on roofs, the ones peering out attic windows. I hoped it would go better for them than it did in 2005 when according to the Louisiana SPCA, tens of thousands of pets died.
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Surprise Party Surprise
For Vince’s 27th birthday, his longtime girlfriend Shannon decided to throw a surprise party. Shannon is a gorgeous blonde and a smart cookie too, but her real superpower is worrying. She can worry ordinary people under the table. As you might imagine, planning a surprise party gave her some material. Whom to invite, and how many, […]
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The Return of Tracy Beth Richardson
A couple of months ago, as we were stuffing our blocks into the cubbies after a yoga class, a woman I saw frequently but knew only as “the short one with the beautiful blond hair” introduced herself. Alex Hewett is one of the producers of the Baltimore/DC chapter of Mortified, a show where adults present […]
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Backstage at the Wedding
Big news: My son got married last week, and now I have a daughter-in-law. I have lucked out in this department. Maria is a formidable person with beauty, brains and a lovely family hailing from the country of Ecuador. I often describe her as “the younger, prettier Penelope Cruz.” She is bilingual, she is doing […]
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Keeping Up With Caitlyn
Last night at school, my student Amelia had a question. “As writers,” she asked, “do we have to feel shame for liking books written by celebrities? Because —” She cast down her big brown eyes and gathered her courage. “I love them.”
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The Long Way to Okay
For about a year now I’ve been feeling the pain of my empty nest, though it will not actually occur until the fall of 2018. In the spring of that year, I will turn 60. That’s pretty much fine with me. Listen, by the time you get to the end of a decade, 28, 29, […]
