There’s an article in Baltimore’s City Paper about my book. It’s a bit harsh and kind of snarky (right down to the ? in the headline), but I’ve got thick skin. It’s quite insightful when he’s not slagging me off personally. And he did very well with the material from the phone interview (really). He…
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I love doing radio interviews. I can wear shorts and be sweaty from biking to the studio. I can cough and drink water and pick my nose (I said I can, not that I did). It’s so much easier to relax when you’re not wearing makeup, not worried about how you look, and have a…
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Arnold Ages of the Jewish Post & Opinioncalls Cop in the Hood: [An] objective, incisive and intelligent account of police work. Moskos’s graphic descriptions of the drug culture in Baltimore’s Eastern District are the most detailed and analytical to be found anywhere. What distinguishes Moskos’s book…is the author’s plea for greater flexibility in addressing the…
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This review of Cop in the Hood comes from Largehearted Boy. He keeps a music blog and is also reading and reviewing 52 books in 52 weeks: With our images of policemen and their work too often coming from dramatic television these days, a book like Peter Moskos’Cop in the Hoodis refreshing. A sociologist, Moskos…
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Don’t forget to buy my book! OK, now that that’s out of the way… Tuesday from 12 to 12:40 (that’s tomorrow), I’ll be on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. And keep your eyes out for a piece I just wrote in support of drug legalization for my new favorite news magazine, U.S. News &…
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I’ll be on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show this coming Tuesday, July 22, at 12 noon (Eastern Time). The show is rebroadcast at 3am the following morning. You can listen live through their website or stream through your iTunes (look under: radio, public, then WNYC AM or FM). I hate to admit it, but Mr. Lopate…
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The Wall Street Journal reviewed Cop in the Hoodtoday. In the small world of books like this, that’s big. And it’s a good review! My only complaint is his assertion in the last paragraph that I lacked the impulse to run toward gunfire. I often did. My heart was big enough to be a good…
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So says Diane Scharper in the Baltimore Sunabout my book, Cop in the Hood. Here’s the whole review: In his classic book, On Writing Well, William Zinsser claimed that people and places were the twin pillars on which all good nonfiction is built. These three books – all with a local connection – prove that…
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I don’t know who this guy is, but I like him because he likes my book. A lot. Certainly more than he likes O’Malley.
You can listen to my appearance on WBAL’s Ron Smith show.