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Poe House reopening planned for October
Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week. "That's the official goal. That's the date," said Baltimore-based actor and author Mark Redfield, vice president of Poe...
Tags: Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Arts and Culture, Museums, Fiction, Prosecution
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Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced
As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Washington College (Maryland), The Washington Post, Sophie Kerr Prize, Northwestern University
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Student from Del. wins Washington College's $61K Sophie Kerr literary prize
BALTIMORE (AP) — A student from Delaware who hopes to work as a journalist has been awarded the $61,000 Sophie Kerr Prize, the nation's largest literary prize for undergraduate college students. Twenty-two-year-old Timothy Marcin of Wilmington...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Washington College (Maryland), Sports, Teaching and Learning, Sophie Kerr Prize
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BC-MD--Mid-Atlantic Daybook Mid-Atlantic Daybook Associated Press Mid-Atlantic Daybook for Tuesday, May 14. MID-ATLANTIC The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Federal Reserve, Jack Markell, FBI
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Carolyn Marie Hauck, librarian
Carolyn Marie Hauck, a retired Enoch Pratt Free Library staff member who encouraged patrons to explore films and the arts, died of dementia complications at the Pickersgill Retirement Community. The longtime Mount Vernon resident was 89. Born in...
Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Fine Arts, Music, Charles Street
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City presents latest plans for upgrading Waverly Library
The Waverly library would be about 2,000 square feet bigger than it is now, with a wall of glass, more computers, modernized equipment and separate areas for children and teens, as planned in a $6 million renovation project, Baltimore City library...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Mary Pat Clarke, Charles Village, Govans, Roland Park
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Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival
Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...
Tags: Syracuse, Teaching and Learning, GEICO, John Updike, Fiction
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Gaiman, Kinsella, Koontz among releases to look forward to
It's not too early to start compiling your summer reading list. Here are some recommendations, courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, with publication dates. Fiction Sophie Kinsella, "Wedding Night": An unlikely romance involves a pair desperate to...
Tags: Diabetes, U.S. Open (tennis), Authors, True Blood (tv program), Dan Brown
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Boonsboro High School student a finalist in writing contest
A Washington County student will be honored as a Maryland finalist April 13 at the CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Free Library for her entry into the Letters About Literature contest. Boonsboro High School student Elizabeth Longerbeam will be...Tags: Library of Congress, Authors, Arts and Culture, Culture, Libraries
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Book lovers, save the date for CityLit Festival
The lineup for the 10th annual CityLit Festival is set, so Baltimore-area book lovers should mark April 13 on calendars. The event, held at the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, offers a full day of author readings, panel discussions and...
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, George Saunders, Columbia University
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New branch manager named for Perry Hall Library
The Baltimore County Public Library has named a new branch manager for the Perry Hall Library. Cindy Kleback, a 15-year veteran of library work, was announced Tuesday as the new manager at the Perry Hall branch, 9685 Honeygo Blvd. Library officials...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Perry Hall, Libraries, Patterson Park, University of Arizona
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Novelist Taiye Selasi, hailed as next big literary star, visits Baltimore
Taiye Selasi's debut novel has been in publication for less than a week. But even before a single copy was sold, the glamorous 33-year-old was being hailed as the newest star of the literary world. Selasi's publisher, The Penguin Group, is promoting...
Tags: The Wire (tv program), Jhumpa Lahiri, Ghana, Fiction, Johns Hopkins University
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