The Big Book of the Dead

Winik arranges her arresting portraits of the dead chronologically, spanning Friends of My Youth, Mostly in New Jersey 1958-1978, The Austin Years, Including New Orleans 1977-2009, We Were Ten Years in Pennsylvania 1999-2009, and Love in the Time of Baltimore 2009-2018. Featuring 12 additional vignettes, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathic chronicler of life.

Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and many other publications. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at the Baltimore NPR affiliate. She reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Reviews and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a professor in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore.