A brief return to Baltimore

An excerpt from an as-yet unfinished memoir focused on my five years in Copenhagen

Supported by income as an office temp during my early days in Copenhagen, I spent whatever free time I had writing news features that I would send on spec to the half-dozen U.S. newspapers with which I had loose stringer arrangements. I considered myself a “serious” journalist, and my first instinct was to write on such weighty topics as the Danish social-welfare system, the upcoming referendum on Common Market membership and the fragmentation of Danish politics. I spent hours educating myself on…