This anthology presents 36 ways to create literary art in Baltimore, and all of them are good. Included are pieces by Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laura Lippman, Anne Tyler, Madison Smartt Bell, Michael Kimball, Alice McDermott, Jessica Anya Blau, Rafael Alvarez, Rosalia Scalia, Caryn Coyle, Joe Young, and Adam Robinson.