Booknotes – WBJC

Booknotes – WBJC

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Booknotes – WBJC episodes

  • BookNotes marks Jewish holidays through poetry

    Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
    Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878
    Tel Aviv Museum of Art

     

    The month of October is rich with days of observance on the Jewish calendar, including the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I spoke with poet, Robbie Nester, about the significance of Jewish poetry in this context.

     

     

     

     

    http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BOOKNOTES-Jewish-high-holidays.mp3

     

    4 min
  • Yale Rep on BookNotes

     

    Award-winning dramaturg, playwright, and novelist James Magruder is coming out with his first nonfiction work, The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016). I spoke to Jim for BookNotes.

    http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BOOKNOTES-Yale.mp3

     

    4 min
  • Liminal Spaces on BookNotes

     

     

    A collection of poetry inspired by art, titled Liminal Spaces, is a product of the Arts Lab of South County, Maryland, and its publication has been supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. The editor of the collection is the writer and educator, Nancy Murray.

     

     

    http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BookNotes-Liminal-Spaces.mp3

     

    4 min
  • BookNotes takes a Slow Time in Baltimore

    Book cover from publisher website: spuytenduyvil.net

     

     

     

    Antje Rauwerda is a Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures at Goucher College, and she published a novel with Spuyten Duyvil earlier this year called Slow Time. I spoke to Antje for BookNotes.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BOOKNOTES-Slow-Time.mp3

     

    4 min