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The Tirelessly Prolific Laura Lippman Enters The Superstar Stage of Her Careernew

Lippman has reached Joyce Carol Oates proliferation levels lately.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  10-14-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

'The Women' Remake is Disjointednew

Director Diane English's remake of George Cukor's 1939 adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's satiric play keeps the men almost literally out of the picture.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  09-16-2008  |  Reviews

'Elegy' Captures the Pathos of Love Lostnew

Elegy, based on the Philip Roth novel The Dying Animal, is a funeral song not just for a lost love, after all, but a lost man.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  08-26-2008  |  Reviews

'Nim's Island' Stays Focused on Its Girl Heronew

Living out many a young person's fantasy, preteen Nim Rusoe occupies a tropic island with her scientist father, Jack, and assorted domesticated beach/forest/sea animals such as lizards, pelicans, and seals, but no monkeys--nor anyone else, since her beloved mother died at sea.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  07-29-2008  |  Reviews

'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew

The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  08-28-2007  |  Reviews

A Dream-catcher Storynew

Cummins applies a sensitive skill to the slow movements of the characters peopling the arid landscape of New Mexico and a Navajo reservation in her first novel, Yellowcake.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  04-10-2007  |  Fiction

Career Highnew

In Candace Bushnell’s latest book, it’s all work and not so much play.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Wendy Ward  |  09-19-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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