Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

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Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast episodes

  • Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
    On the night of March 8, 1971, eight amateur burglars broke into an FBI office in Media, PA, and stole every file in the office. Betty Medsger, then a reporter at the Washington Post, received copies of the stolen files from anonymous sources and wrote the first stories about these files that chronicled the massive political spying and dirty tricks operations of FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover. Now, 43 years after her reporting on the Media files, Medsger introduces the burglars to the public for the first time in The Burglary.Betty Medsger is the author of Framed: The New Right Attack on Chief Justice Rose Bird and the Courts. As head of the journalism education program at San Francisco State University, she founded the university's Center for the Integration and Improvement of Journalism. She is a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE).
    51 min
  • Janice Gary
    Janice Gary's new book, Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, is a beautifully written portrait of two damaged souls and how they lean on one another to heal and find their way back to happiness.After a brutal rape in her youth, Janice Gary never walked alone without a dog. Her new Lab-Rotweiler pup, Barney, is attacked by a vicious dog and becomes a clone of his attacker; walking with him is impossible. However, Gary risks taking him to a public park near the Chesapeake Bay; and over the course of their walks, the leash of the past begins to unravel for both Gary and her canine companion.Janice Gary has an MFA in creative writing from Goucher College and is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Short Leash has won two Silver Nautilus Awards, one for memoir and one for animals/nature and has been shortlisted for the Grand Prize for the Eric Hoffer Award.
    48 min
  • C. Alexander Hortis, The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

    Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, The Mob and the City is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through the 1950s.

    Baltimore attorney and author C. Alexander Hortis draws on newly discovered primary sources to consider the Sicilian gangs' role in the criminal underworld, the Mafia's real role in the drug trade, and the Cosa Nostra's involvement in gay bars in New York.

    Cosponsored by the Free State Legal Project.

    Recorded On: Wednesday, May 7, 2014

    1 hr 5 min
  • C. Alexander Hortis, The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
    Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, The Mob and the City is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through the 1950s.Baltimore attorney and author C. Alexander Hortis draws on newly discovered primary sources to consider the Sicilian gangs' role in the criminal underworld, the Mafia's real role in the drug trade, and the Cosa Nostra's involvement in gay bars in New York.Cosponsored by the Free State Legal Project.
    1 hr 5 min
  • Richard Striner, Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of Neighboring Cities

    The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time and are evident in the architecture of cities like Washington and Baltimore. Richard Striner and co-author Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing (and mourn those that have been lost) and examine the contrasts and similarities in the two cities.

    Richard Striner is professor of history at Washington College; Melissa Blair is an architectural historian in Maryland.

    Presented in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Press, AIA Baltimore, and the Baltimore Architecture Foundation.

    Recorded On: Thursday, April 17, 2014

    1 hr 4 min
  • Richard Striner, Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of Neighboring Cities
    The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time and are evident in the architecture of cities like Washington and Baltimore. Richard Striner and co-author Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing (and mourn those that have been lost) and examine the contrasts and similarities in the two cities.Richard Striner is professor of history at Washington College; Melissa Blair is an architectural historian in Maryland.Presented in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Press, AIA Baltimore, and the Baltimore Architecture Foundation.
    1 hr 4 min
  • CityLit Festival 2014 - Poetry in Translation

    Presented by the DC-area Literary Translators Network and Loch Raven Review. Features Nancy Naomi Carlson (French), Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (Persian), Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka (Polish), and Katherine E. Young (Russian) reading poems in the original and translation.

    Recorded On: Saturday, April 12, 2014

    1 hr 24 min
  • CityLit Festival 2014 - An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring

    Alan Cheuse reads from his just-published An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring, which collects the best short stories and novellas from this National Public Radio reviewer. Introduced by Andrew Gifford, publisher, Santa Fe Writer's Project.

    Recorded On: Saturday, April 12, 2014

    38 min
  • CityLit Festival 2014 - Releasing the Muse

    Three poets with local connections read from their new collections: Lalita Noronha (Her Skin, Phyllo-thin), Erica Dawson (The Small Blades Hurt), and Natasha Saje (Vivarium). Hosted by Kristen Harbeson, board chair, Poe Baltimore.

    Recorded On: Saturday, April 12, 2014

    48 min
  • CityLit Festival 2014 - The Tampa Connection

    Join Jeff Parker (The Taste of Penny), Jason Ockert (Neighbors of Nothing) and Nathan Deuel (Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East) of the University of Tampa's MFA in Creative Writing program.

    Recorded On: Saturday, April 12, 2014

    50 min

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Podcast offerings from the Enoch Pratt Free Library / Maryland State Library Resource Center, featuring many author's appearances at the public library of Baltimore, MD.

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