Literature Archives - Baltimore Post-Examiner

Dennis the Menace costar Joseph Kearns Wurlitzer pipe organ: courtesy Laurie Jacobson

‘Hey Mr. Wilson! Show Me Your Wurlitzer!’ – The Ghost of Joseph Kearns

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 Laurie Jacobson

Actor Joseph Kearns (1907-1962) will always be remembered as the easily ruffled Mr. Wilson on the classic television series Dennis

Excerpts Literature

Imperfect

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 Katy Motiey

Vida slid her hand across the cool surface of the wooden end table and searched for the box of matches she had left along with a lighter next to the candle the night before. She bit her lip. Was she already getting used to the changes being forced on her—on all Iranians?

Literature Serial Novels

Anti-Catholic Chronicles Section B

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 Michael P. Tremoglie

What began as a dispute about divorce between England’s King Henry VIII and Pope Clement VII mushroomed into a civil war and a long-lasting hatred of Catholics by English Protestants.

Literature

Spiderweb Alley

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 Verlyn Flieger

Elverie, noun. obscure. Fairyland, Elfland, the Otherworld of myth and folktale. Often conflated with the Land of the Dead. Dialect

Literature Serial Novels

The Anti-Catholic Chronicles: Chapter I Section A Introduction

June 3, 2024June 20, 2024 Michael P. Tremoglie

It is fitting that a Baltimore newspaper should publish a monograph about anti-Catholicism in America. Maryland was a colony founded for Catholics, and Lord Baltimore, after whom the city was named, was Catholic. Maryland is also the home of the oldest Catholic Church in the original 13 colonies—St. Francis Xavier was founded in 1731 in Compton.

Essays Literature

Joy?

April 7, 2024 Earl Yarington

For some, joy is the most elusive. Even after a half-century or more, it’s shown its face once or thrice? I think about when did I really experienced joy.