Michael Olesker's Baltimore: If You Live Here, You're Home
Olesker is a very good writer, enthusiastic, compassionate, and often pretty funny. I especially enjoyed his sketches of Baltimore eccentrics such as Frank (Mr. Diz) Rosenfeld, a life-long gambler; of Alan Murrell, the great public defender; of Dominic Leone, Sr., a City Council member who shot craps in his office and was shot dead in City Hall; of Harley Brinsfield, a native of Eldorado (Caroline County), submarine-sandwich king, and jazz aficionado; and many more.(John GoodspeedCity Paper)A Baltimorean since fleeing the Bronx at age 4, Mr. Olesker has been writing about and affectionately obsessed with Baltimore since he was in high school.(Baltimore Sun)