![]() John Waters’s tacky-aluminum-TV-tray city is one, where the fringe people are the soul of the place. If you’re searching for Lost Baltimore, the city you find depends on the one you were thinking about beforehand. It was a factory town with aspirations, one that was built to house nearly twice its current population with great civic imagery to match - the Beaux-Arts monuments and crab houses, Pimlico races and rowhouses with white marble steps. Her latest book, Lady in the Lake , takes place mostly downtown in the mid-’60s, and today she and I are headed out to find some places that used to be here.īaltimore is layered with loss. ![]() She was a reporter for more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun, and in the past 22 years has set 23 crime novels and thrillers in and around the city. Lippman ought to know because she, apart from several years away in her 20s, has spent her entire adulthood in town. ![]() Lippman at a union rally in 1996, when she was a reporter at the Baltimore Evening Sun.īaltimore is a city where they give directions according to what’s not there anymore,” Laura Lippman says, quoting an old newspaper colleague of hers named Linell Smith. ![]()
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