{"title":"Ron Cassie","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"if-you-love-baltimore-it-will-love-you-back-171-short-but-true-stories-paperback","title":"If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaltimore \u003c\/em\u003esenior editor Ron Cassie has garnered national awards for his coverage of the death of Freddie Gray, sea-level rise on the Eastern Shore, and the opioid epidemic in Hagerstown.\u003c\/strong\u003e This collection of short stories, culled from a decade spent roaming around Charm City with a notebook in his back pocket, is different, however. They are of the kind of wide-ranging city writing and literary journalism that speaks directly to the fabric of a place. There are encounters with former Rep. Elijah Cummings, former Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Orioles Hall-of-Famer Jim Palmer. But more often, these stories revolve around people few Baltimoreans have heard of--a blind police detective, old Jewish boxers, a flower shop owner, the city native who created the statue of Billie Holiday in Upton. Each story makes the picture of Baltimore and its work-a-day inhabitants--gritty, resilient, quirky--clearer and more complex at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376725131487,"sku":"9781627203098","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Cah1XvxZE39781627203098.webp?v=1789221793"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ron-cassie.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}