Hinc tells her story masterfully by weaving multiple perspectives, revealing the core of human sorrow and the transcendent quality of compassion. –Chukwudi Okpala, author of The Uncircumcised Danuta Hinc’s novel To Kill the Other distills three decades of geo- and socio-political forces to their impact on the protagonist, Taher, an upper class Egyptian boy who […]
Read More…I met a few weeks ago with my friend, massage therapist and poet Lisa Faraone. We welcomed 2011 with an exchange of gifts and a cup of tea. What serendipity that Lisa put The Miracle of Water by Masaru Emoto into my hands. I flipped through Emoto’s book to check out the photographs of water […]
Read More…Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his 52 years in Baltimore. He spent 23 years working at The Baltimore Sun, writing daily news stories on Baltimore’s odd collection of crimes and misdemeanors. Consequently, his journalism seems full of imaginary people and places, and his fiction reads real. And it all feels Baltimore. “My journalism informs my […]
Read More…When I met acupuncturist Dianne M. Connelly, I was a highly impressionable young woman dealing with tremendous spiritual dilemmas and an identity crisis brought on by years of being picked on for not being black enough and more than a decade of not being connected to a nuclear family. I was introduced to her by […]
Read More…From Tennessee to the Gaza Strip, Truth Thomas’ genius lies in his ability to take us places where we’ve never been before…the message is always clear, the craft exquisite and masterful. –Randall Horton, author of The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street Truth Thomas, one of our contributing editors, is on our Salon Series schedule […]
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