Baltimore authors

We go On the Record with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to ask what she weaves into her new book about her grandmother’s abstract expressionism; about white flight from Baltimore; about anti-gay stigma — and why art is never just art.

We go On the Record with Baltimore Peace Movement to ask why changing their name lets them refocus energies … and with a photographer whose new book holds a decade of images that depict the effects of gun violence, and the people who rally against it.

We go On the Record to ask how Kinklings, Chop Chae, Blintzes and Stuffed Ham came to represent the varied cultures in Maryland. Kara Mae Harris previews her book about recipes and the people who prepared them.

We go on the record with author Carole Boston Weatherford and her illustrator son, Jeffrey, about their latest book: "Kin: Rooted in Hope."

We go On the Record with psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. Her books about mental illness, including her own, have won acclaim. Her newest work, Fires in the Dark, traces the tangled roots of psychotherapy … and what makes a good healer.

We’ll go On the Record with Kate Myers of Annapolis to ask about her debut novel “Excavations,” set at an archeological dig on a Greek island. Humor! Romance! Mystery! Feminism?

We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore’s queen of psychological thrillers, Laura Lippman. Her newest, Prom Mom, opens with tragedy the night of the Towson High prom … but it takes two decades of plot twists before we learn the depth of the evil.

Passions run high between Federalists and Republicans during the War of 1812.

Young minds are the heart of the mission for CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth, where students write, edit and publish the stories that matter to them.

We’ll go On the Record with Michelle Paris … who at age 42 was suddenly widowed. It wasn’t just the waves of grief -- but dating apps! compressive underwear to look good! A new pet! It all shows up in her darkly funny novel New Normal.