starting now i am going to start sharing the books i read. finished this volume this morning. it is terrific.

Miss Daven hops on to pack a basket full of Easter ready book recommendations! The CCB team stays ready with holiday gift packages to ease your late stage capitalism laden mind.

Thank you Charm City Books for hosting our offsite event at AWP! We had the most wonderful time! #chestnutreview #reading #poetry #poets #awp

Patricia Smith, 2025 National Book Award Winner for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and National Poetry Slam Champion reads at the Sage Creators Collective event at the shop as part of the AWP conference this year.

Zaynab Iliyasu reading her poem “Finding My Way Home” at the @chestnutreview.bsky.social offsite event for #awp2026

Could really go for that three branch government with checks and balances our teaches kept raving about

Start the new year with a new book! Or just come and be at peace in beautiful treasure trove of bookish delights!

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Plan your next team retreat, workshop, or PowerPoint slam at the shop! Projection screen, AV, a craft mocktails/coffee and tea service available! Learn more at the link below

Preorder THE STARSEEKERS by 1/6 from any of the following bookstores for some fun swag! @multiversephilly.bsky.social @oldtownbooks.bsky.social @sistahscifi.bsky.social @charmcitybooks.bsky.social @seewhichbooks.bsky.social @kindredbookshop.bsky.social @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social

It’s like investing 15 cents a day into a magical transforming bookshop and earning that investment back a hundred times over on members exclusive sales, advanced ticket access to author events, even a locally brewed, sustainably farmed and traded cup of coffee or tea. The perfect stocking stuffer

The charm city book sustaining membership program is all about small business and community collaboration. That’s why when you become a sustaining member you also get amazing perks in one time or a long time benefits at other local businesses in Baltimore city. Even this T-shirt was printed locally.

Join us at the bookshop tonight with the good folks from Common tone!!

While being an amazing bookshop keeper, Daven is also a crafty mom busy creating a one of a kind dollhouse and set of felt figures from one of our daughters favorite crafty programs, Gabby’s doll house.

ANNOUNCING: Charm City Books is head over stilettos to host the world wide sensation, Bob The Drag Queen for her Baltimore stop on the national tour for her debut novel, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert. March 26th from 7-8:30pm with doors opening at 6:30pm. charmcitybooks.com/events/17111...

We're taking preorders until February 19 for copies of Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key for Tracy Occomy Crowder's visits to Federal Hill Preparatory School and Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women in March.

This Saturday at the bookshop! Story time and sing along and craft with Miss Daven and whiskers the Cat! RSVP at the link on our events page! charmcitybooks.com/events/16545...

We’re a mom and pop bookshop in Baltimore! We love books, doggos, creative community action, puzzles, local makers and cooperative economics to name a few! Introduce yourself below! What are you reading?

Whiskers and the gang are setting up for story time and craft! This weeks book is Can A Mess Make by Bee Johnson! Then we’re making friendship bracelets with construction paper!

Yes YOU CAN book the shop for a private evening for two or more! Celebrate an anniversary or surprise a friend with a Date Night at the bookshop. Evening and morning reservations are available. www.charmcitybooks.com/shop/date-ni...

This is what we came here for.

This morning at the bookshop! miss Daven and Whiskers will be reading singing and making crafts! RSVP at the link www.charmcitybooks.com/events/16546...

Congrats to one of the kindest most hilarious gracious humans walking the earth. Sure he’ll crawl inside your psyche with his gorgeous ghastly prose and haunt your hallucinations. But he’s a swell guy writing poignant satire wrapped in scary bows.

As I wrote about in my NYT Mag cover story last year, conservatives have co-opted the language of civil rights, but the adaptation of fuzzy terms and programs such as diversity, equity and inclusion have made the attacks on civil and BLACK rights easier as they have provided the camouflage.

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.