Timepieces: Three Decades of Commentary in the Baltimore Sun

As Peter Jay’s Timepieces makes clear, occasional blog posts are no substitute for the collected newspaper columns of an astute observer whose sustained curiosity, distinctive perspective and dry humor can be crafted into such a compelling book. Jay’s columns range from statehouse politics in Maryland, the periphery of several presidential campaigns and the Baltimore Orioles to farming in Harford County, watermen on the Chesapeake and a symposium on “contemporary writing.”