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A recent Urbanite article about the Baltimore media ignoring Baltimore's literary scene is pinballing its way around social media, and for good reason - the stereotype that Baltimore newspapers are run by petulant wannabe New Yorkers might very well be wrong, but it sure is easy to bring up in this context.

What pricked my ears up, though, was not the generic advice about writers needing to "put their stuff out there" (even if there's no designated "out there" to put their work into) or the co...