The birdcage

"There is something about the newspaper business that teaches you some humility - you are so used to having something you wrote today winding up in someone's birdcage tomorrow..." - CARL HIAASEN, whose latest novel, STAR ISLAND, was released Tuesday, July 27.

WIRE, SUN Veteran Alvarez Offers Writing Tutorial

Rafael Alvarez, author of the "Orlo & Leini" tales and a former staff writer for The Wire, is offering tutoring in fiction, journalism, memoir and screen writing.

The 50-minute classes take place in person in the Baltimore metro area, as well as on-line. Cost is geared to what the student can afford.

Alvarez, a former City Desk reporter for The Baltimore Sun, is also
the author of Storyteller, an anthology of newspaper stories, as well as A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

His website is alvarezfiction.com, and he can be reached via e-mail at tutor@alvarezfiction.com.