Experience Baltimore’s cultural music and murals in our walking tour through the stacks. The music is curated from the PGCC’s catalog, to include articles, videos, plays/musicals, and books/ebooks. Murals are photographs by Maria Wolfe, who spent around a year taking photos and documenting the locations and artists names before creating @BaltiMurals on Instagram. The PGCC […]
The Baltimore Memories and Murals Exhibit features: Lawrence Burney’s Memories -Celebrating the 2026 One Maryland One Book author of No Sense in Wishing: Essays. Walk in the stacks, slow down, observe, and reflect on themes from the book: music, Baltimore culture, fatherhood, belonging, and communities. He is also the author of True Laurels. And Iandry […]
Lawrence Burney — No Sense in Wishing: Essays – with Hanif Abdurraqib
Want to discuss “No Sense in Wishing” by Lawrence Burney at your book club? Here’s your chance. Each Book Club in a Bag kit contains 5 copies of “No Sense in Wishing” by Lawrence Burney, 5 bookmarks, a link to a Readers’ Guide and additional book-related activities, and links to information about author visits.
Woodlawn Senior Center Book Club
Open book club meeting featuring OMOB title No Sense in Wishing
Discuss and reflect upon the One Maryland One Book selection: No Sense in Wishing by Lawrence Burney.
Lawrence Burney – Youth Workshop. Details to follow
Join Vivian Fisher from the State Library Resource Center at Pratt Library for a lively discussion on the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and social movement in the 1920s and 1930s defined by an outpouring of African American literature, theater, music, and art. Discuss the origins of the historically significant time period and explore some of […]
A Night of Books + Music As a journalist and critic, Lawrence Burney has been writing about music and culture in and around his hometown of Baltimore for more than a decade. His debut book, the essay collection No Sense in Wishing (Simon & Schuster, 2025), takes us from the streets of Baltimore to the […]
The book discussion group meets the first Monday of each month at 12:00pm unless there is a holiday. The title for this month is No Sense in Wishing: Essays by Lawrence Burney. It is the One Maryland One Book selection. We will meet in the library garden if weather permits or in our downstairs meeting […]
Join us to discuss this year’s OMOB No Sense in Wishing.