City Sages: Baltimore
Jen Michalski
(Editor)
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Description
"There is a saying in Baltimore," said the sage himself, H.L. Mencken, "that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good." The same can be said of the different short pieces of prose collected in City Sages: Baltimore. Here are thirty-six ways to create literary art in Baltimore, and all of them are good. Edited by Jen Michalski, this first-ever anthology of some of Baltimore's best writers includes both famous and not-yet-famous scribes, both dead and alive. Michalski's objective was to represent an array of writers over a period of time who were born in Baltimore or lived in the city. The anthology includes pieces by seminal writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neal Hurston, Frederick Douglass, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; contemporary writers such as Laura Lippman, Anne Tyler, Madison Smartt Bell, Michael Kimball, Alice McDermott, Jessica Anya Blau, and Rafael Alvarez; and emerging writers such as Rosalia Scalia, Caryn Coyle, Joe Young, and Adam Robinson.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Citylit Press
Publish Date
May 01, 2010
Pages
319
Dimensions
9.0 X 0.75 X 6.0 inches | 1.09 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781936328017
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Jen Michalski is the author of THE SUMMER SHE WAS UNDER WATER (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and THE TIDE KING (Black Lawrence Press, 2013, winner of the Big Moose Prize), as well as two collections of fiction, Close Encounters (So New, 2007), and FROM HERE (Aqueous Books, 2013) and a collection of novellas, Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books, 2013). In 2013, she was named one of "50 Women to Watch" by The Baltimore Sun and won a "Best of Baltimore" for "Best Writer" from Baltimore Magazine. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the founding editor of the literary journal, jmww, and host of the monthly fiction reading series, Starts Here!