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The recovering drug addict at the center of Don’t Count Me Out: A Baltimore Dope Fiend’s Miraculous Recovery, White has an ugly and at times brutal past that includes violence and incarceration, which Alvarez handles with a reporter’s objectivity and eye for detail, and a novelist’s understanding of character and narrative.
Rafael Alvarez (born May 24, 1958) is an American author based in Baltimore and Los Angeles. Alvarez went to work for the Sunpapers of Baltimore as a teenager—first in the circulation department and then the horse racing desk in sports—before landing on the City Desk as a utility man and neighborhood folklorist.
“I’m not leaving the city of Baltimore. It’s my co-dependent dysfunctional love of my life.” My name is Rafael Alvarez. And I am a writer, born and working, and living in the city of Baltimore. My parents left the city in the early 1950s, and they moved us to a suburb not far […]
Oct 15, 2022 · Alvarez, a journalist and screenwriter, allows the reader to get inside the head of an addict who was stealing alcohol from his parents at the age of nine, selling drugs and tripping on LSD and PCP by the time he hit seventh grade, and hooked on morphine before he turned fifteen.
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Somehow the combo of a Baltimore that was gone (Avalon) and this proud former steelworker from Dundalk fighting for his life unexpectedly brought me to tears. Mr. Mr. Rudacille—as Pop Pop—makes a cameo in the story “Nine Innings in Baltimore.”
Dec 18, 2015 · Baltimore’s decision to grant a $100,000 forgivable loan to Amazon so the company can shuttle employees to its Broening Highway fulfillment center has Alvarez steamed.
Jul 18, 2011 · The president of Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe Society is local writer Rafael Alvarez. Poe died here in 1849 and rests in the Westminster Burying Ground.
