baltimore book festival

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Inner Harbor was a great location for the book festival.

The Baltimore Book Festival, once an annual staple in historic Mount Vernon Square, is smack dab in the touristy Inner Harbor this year, a move that got mostly positive reviews Saturday.

Wakile is among the cookbook authors at this years Baltimore Book Festival

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The annual Baltimore Book Festival is moving from Mount Vernon to the Inner Harbor for 2014.

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The Baltimore Book Festival kicks off today with three full days of readings, music and more. Here are my top picks.

Gathering at Mount Vernon Square continues through weekend

The 18th annual festival features a new comic book pavilion and exhibitions on the art of book-making

The Baltimore Book Festival in Mount Vernon this weekend will contribute to congestion and delays for commuters in the city this weekend, as multiple road and lane closures are and will be in effect through Monday, according to city transportation officials.

The Food for Thought stage at this weekend's Baltimore Book Festival will present a full slate of talks and demonstrations by Baltimore-based chefs and visiting cookbook authors

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Former Baltimore City detective Dick Ellwood has written two books incorporating his experiences into the novels, titled, "Cop Stories: The Few, the Proud, the Ugly," and "Charm City's Blue Justice." He will be discussing his books at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sept. 28.

"Third Space(s)" will stage plays in unconventional spaces, including a shipping container

The Baltimore area gets a heavy schedule of author appearances, thanks mainly to the Enoch Pratt Free Library and events such as the Baltimore Book Festival and the CityLit Festival. Bookstores also offer some interesting events, and none is more intriguing than tonight's double-billing: Laura Lippman in conversation with Sujata Massey at The Ivy Bookshop.

Book lovers in the Baltimore-Washington area should circle September on their calendars, to save the dates for a pair of big festivals.

This year's pick for One Maryland One Book, the statewide reading program, is "King Peggy," a tale about a Washington, D.C., woman who is unexpectedly chosen to be King of Otuam, a 7,000-person village in Ghana.

As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.

Monthly meetings at Arbutus Library support fellow writers, hone their craft

Monthly meetings at Arbutus Library support fellow writers, hone their craft

Village Learning Place, a community-run library in Charles Village, is participating in an international project called Little Free Libraries, in which painted boxes that look like oversized birdhouses are filled with free books and placed in public places and back yards. Passersby can take books out or put books in or trade.

No major delays on transit systems.

For one long weekend a year, Baltimore book nerds swarm to the area around the Washington Monument for the Baltimore Book Festival.