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Rafael Alvarez

Rafael Alvarez was a city desk reporter on the Baltimore Sun for nearly a quarter of a century. A former staff writer for the HBO drama The Wire (he helped create the character of Ziggy Sobotka), Alvarez recently completed a feature script about the Nazi occupation of Greece. His new collection of stories is Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown, published in 2017 by CityLit Press.

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The Bard of Kentucky

A review of Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories (Library of America, 2018), Jack Shoemaker, ed. The long shelf of fiction by Wendell Berry—overshadowed by the colossal green canopy of his poetry and agrarian essays—has been brought into the light by the Library of America. Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories, the first of two volumes that will…
Rafael Alvarez
October 15, 2019