Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Ben Cricchi

SPECIAL

The City That Writes: Hey, remember writers? The people who, like, create books? They’re still around in full effect, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from what you see on the streets and in the papers these days. | Big Books Intro

Hustler: Once an Anonymous Internet Sex Writer, Now the Diva of Erotica, Zane Has Erected Her Own Hot Publishing Empire | Big Books Feature by Anna Ditkoff

Transition Words: For Author Maud Casey, Moving to Baltimore Has Led to Writer’s Block, Obsession, and Her Most Ambitious Book Yet | Big Books Feature by J. Bowers

Making History: After 15 Years, Madison Smartt Bell Brings His Benchmark Haitian Trilogy to a Close | Big Books Feature by John Barry

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NEWS

Houses of Ill Repute: City Leaders and Neighborhood Groups Try to Get a Handle on the Hundreds of Unlicensed Drug-Treatment Group Homes in Baltimore | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Wartime Rations: The Sept. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.

Reading Room: “I am incredibly frustrated, annoyed, and angry,” Russ Wattenberg, founder of the Book Thing of Baltimore Inc., said last week after learning that his new landlord plans to double the monthly rent on the Charles Village basement that houses the popular book exchange. | Quick and Dirty by Gadi Dechter

What Are the Odds?: Two Community Activists Seek to Take Out an Incumbent in the City Council’s 13th District | Campaign Beat by Christina Royster-Hemby

The Mail | Murder Ink | Q+A

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COLUMNS

Our Land: The United States is not China. There are no seven warring states that comprise our country. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Constitutional Wrong: ...if you allegedly do something and then they put your ass in jail and you get all convicted and shit, then you didn’t allegedly do it anymore, right? | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

Lady Chatter-Less: It could be that your boyfriend, like a growing number of men and women, is actually addicted to his chat rooms... | Think Mink by Mink Stole

Passive Aggressive: Last winter, I lost several bets during the Democratic primaries, putting down money on Gephardt as the winner of the nomination... | Right Field by Russ Smith

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