Writers LIVE: An Evening With D. Watkins and Liza Jessie Peterson. D. Watkins and Liza Jessie Peterson talk about their books The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island. Thursday, April 20, Maryland State Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped, 415 Park Avenue, 6:30 p.m.