This spring, CityLit Seniors completed its pilot workshop at the Bykota Senior Center in Towson.  The course on memoir, taught by novelist and CCBC writing professor Lauren Small, guided a group of eight older writers during six sessions designed to capture life experiences through...

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By Katrina Stevens Walter Isaacson , a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, former managing editor of Time Magazine and Chairman and CEO of CNN, now President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is perhaps most famously known for writing the biography of Steve Jobs . Working closely with Jobs...

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By Katrina Stevens On April 14, 2012, at 10:30 AM the first floor of the beautiful Enoch Pratt Library is buzzing with people choosing where to go first at the CityLit Project Festival —the rows of tables with books, author sessions or the welcoming rooms of books to be borrowed....

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By Katrina Stevens On the 3rd floor there’s standing room only in the Wheeler Auditorium as Kwame Alexander reads from his new children’s book, Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band , which was nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award . The Board president graciously (though...

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By Katrina Stevens Benjamin Busch read passages from his new memoir, Dust to Dust , sharing his first connections to Baltimore through his acting career on Homicide and The Wire . Busch quickly acknowledged that the Baltimore portrayed in these two shows is completely different than the...

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