A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer

A “diverse collection” of essays, stories, and poems about Baltimore that provide “a wide-ranging account of what the city feels like today” ( Baltimore Magazine ).   To many outsiders, Baltimore--sometimes derisively called “Mobtown” or “Bodymore”—is a city famous for its poverty and violence, twin ills that have been compounded by decades of racial segregation and the loss of manufacturing jobs. But that portrait has only given us a skewed view of a truly unique and diverse American city,