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Rafael Alvarez
Rafael Alvarez

Rafael Alvarez has lived in Baltimore his entire life except for a brief and cautionary exile in Hollywood. A former City Desk rewrite man for the Baltimore Sun, Alvarez has published books of fiction, memoir and very provincial history. Best known works include “The Fountain of Highlandtown” and the on-going “Orlo & Leini” stories, each detailing life in Crabtown, USA. Alvarez also worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun prior to starting a career in television. He has worked as a writer and story editor on the Home Box Office drama series The Wire and a writer and producer on the crime dramas Life and The Black Donnellys. He has written several books including a guide to The Wire, a non-fiction guide to the archdiocese in Baltimore, a short-fiction anthology and two collections of his journalism. He can be reached via [email protected] or [email protected].

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Excerpts Literature Tales from the Holy Land 

Tales from the Holy Land

December 7, 2013December 7, 2013 Rafael Alvarez

Baltimore Post-Examiner is proud to present an excerpt from Baltimore-based author  Rafael  Alvarez’s latest book – Tales from the Holy

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Baltimore Business News 

‘Grandeur of the Seas’ returns to Baltimore, sets sail for the Caribbean

May 6, 2013May 28, 2013 Rafael Alvarez

James J. White, executive director of the Port Administration  welcomes the latest ship to Port in Baltimore – Grandeur of

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Literature Short Stories 

The Greatest Thing that Almost Happened Orioles Baseball 2012

October 13, 2012October 13, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

                       “Experience makes good people better.”                           “How does it do that?”                           “Through their suffering.”                           “I’ve had enough

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Literature Nine Innings in Baltimore Serial Novels 

Nine Innings in Baltimore: Bottom of the Third

September 7, 2012September 7, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

Bats and gloves photo by Frank Klein. (This is the continuation of the serial novel Nine Innings in Baltimore. Read the

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Essays Literature 

The Card Catalog as Schindler’s List

August 7, 2012August 6, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

(This is the third and final part of a series of essays by Rafael Alvarez. Please read the first and

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Essays Literature 

Crimson Hexagons & the Meandering Mississippi

August 3, 2012August 3, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

How vast the universe of storytelling when glimpsed through the prism of the library! How boundless that library when harnessed

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Literature Nine Innings in Baltimore Serial Novels 

Nine Innings in Baltimore: Top of the third

August 1, 2012July 31, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

(This is the continuation of the serial novel Nine Innings in Baltimore. Read the previous chapter here.) “Everything is gray …”

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Essays Literature 

The Archdiocese of Narrative

July 28, 2012August 3, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

                                       

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Commentary News 

My two cents: A penny is still a penny

July 22, 2012July 22, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

I can’t imagine this happening in Baltimore. Around the Fourth of July, I was drinking a “Blood Transfusion” cleanser shake

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Literature Nine Innings in Baltimore Serial Novels 

Nine Innings in Baltimore: The Bottom of the Second

July 1, 2012June 30, 2012 Rafael Alvarez

(This is the continuation of the serial novel Nine Innings in Baltimore. Read the previous chapter here.)    “In the small

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