Baltimore authors

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.

We’ll go On the Record with the author of the new novel She’s Not Home, about a family whose sorrow over a lost daughter has turned love into something caustic. Plus: Waverly creates its own book festival!

Jim Burger has photographed Baltimore for decades. His book “What’s Not to Like: Words and Pictures of a Charmed Life” is part memoir, part time capsule … and part love letter to a city whose streets and people he adores. We get a preview.

We’ll go On the Record to look at ways to come to grips with the legacy of lynching in Maryland--the outlook for the state’s ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission, and a book tracing a trial that was surrounded and permeated with the threat of lynching.

We’ll go On the Record with Shawn Nocher, whose latest novel portrays what looks at first like a picture-perfect family in Roland Park. But they’re sorting through long-buried secrets about the sister with disabilities who was sent away and need a new way to be family.

Civil rights leader and former candidate for governor Ben Jealous reaches deep into personal episodes and his family’s history … to argue that the only path to rebuilding the American Dream is white and Black people working together. The book is: Never Forget Our People Were Always Free.

We’ll go On the Record with sociology professor Gregory Smithsimon. His book Liberty Road looks at the many factors and people involved when African-Americans broke the color-barrier to build middle-class suburbs in Baltimore County.

Shawn Nocher’s latest novel, set in Roland Park, is a family story on edge. When a young sister with developmental disabilities was sent away, shame and secrets were buried. What will happen now that she’s grown, and may come back? Who is her family now?

Lawyer Rabia Chaudry is an accomplished advocate who helped clear Adnan Sayed of murder charges. But for decades she struggled with her weight, pushing against loving but misguided messages from her Pakistani family. We discuss her delightful memoir 'Fatty Fatty Boom Boom.'