"Every sentence is a marvel." –Ann Patchett

12/6/18: The Luxury of Solitude, on Baltimore Fishbowl, is the third installment in the unfolding saga of my empty nest, after The Long Way to Okay and Welcome to My Anticlimax. 

10/9/18: You can order The Baltimore Book of the Dead at IndieBound, Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Here are all the reviews. Highlights at LitHub.com.

• TOP REVIEWS
  Top five gift books at Oprah.com
  Raves in Newsday, the Newark Star-Ledger.
  Rave from a lit blogger in North Carolina.
  Profile in Kirkus Reviews.
  Ann Patchett's blog: A box of chocolates.
  
  
• STUFF I WROTE OR SAID
  Six minutes with Tom Hall of WYPR.
  About being a widow, on WashPo Lily.com.
  About celebrity deaths, on NextTribe.com.
  Interview by Jessica Anya Blau in Baltimore Style.
  Interview on The Ish podcast.
  Five Books of the Dead, on LitHub.

11/7/18: Reviews and essays on favorite writers:
Still lovin’ Lucia Berlin, in Newsday.
My last word on Cheryl Strayed on Michael Steinberg’s blog.
A talk with Dawn Raffel about her new book at On the Seawall, a cool lit site.

10/3/18: Recent Weekly Reader shows have covered Deborah Eisenberg, Lauren Groff, Andre Dubus III, Rachel Kushner, Lucia Berlin, Rebecca Makkai, Tom Barbash, Helen Schulman. Listen at the website or pick it up on any podcast app.

Browse the Bohemian Rhapsody archive — running since 2011 on Baltimore Fishbowl.

Marion's "Lives" columns for The New York Times Magazine: "Grand Theft Litho" and "A Mother of A Certain Age".

An archive of Marion's commentaries for All Things Considered.

Lots more essays and articles in the links archive and work archive.

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