Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart’  
• December 9, 2025

A master biographer tells her own poignant story.   Imagine Nancy Drew with a Phi Beta Kappa key and you’ll glimpse the phenomenon of Megan Marshall, who many cite as the patron saint of biographers. And biographers […]

Foggy Bottom Book Crawl
• September 15, 2025

On Sunday, September 21, 2025 (from 11 am until 2 pm), Foggy Bottom West End Main Street and Litbox are teaming up to host the first-ever Foggy Bottom Book Crawl: […]

Donated book sale
• October 9, 2024

The Georgetown Library Friends will offer thousands of gently-used books for sale Oct. 19 and 20. Saturday: Friends members admitted at 10, public at 11. Hardbacks $4, paperbacks $2, children’s […]

Your Summer 2024 Reading List
• August 15, 2024

As summer slowly winds down, we have a last-minute summer reading list for your last long weekend at the beach, afternoon in the garden, or morning at your favorite coffee […]

Children’s Book and Learning Festival
• June 28, 2024

Join local non-profit, Turning the Page, for a day of learning and fun! Co-hosted with the Downtown DC BID and TCMA, we will be in Wilson Plaza outside of the […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: Literary Cocktail Party with Evan Thomas  
• November 8, 2023

The Washington Independent Review of Books held a literary salon at the home of Kitty Kelley on Oct. 29. The guest of honor was journalist, historian and author Evan Thomas, […]

Ferebee Hope Family Literacy Festival
• October 23, 2023

ADA Partner WANDA Shares the story of creating a diabetes-free legacy at the Ferebee Hope Family Literacy Festival Join us for the Ferebee Hope Family Literacy Festival hosted by The […]

Laurence Leamer on ‘Hitchcock’s Blondes’
• October 11, 2023

Laurence “Larry” Leamer lives “just over the bridge at 2501 M.” On decent days, he walks through Georgetown, enjoying the beauty of the neighborhood. Little do most know, the down-to-earth […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman’   
• August 16, 2023

Remember that iconic scene in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”? Mary’s editor, Lou Grant, played by Ed Asner, says, “You know, Mary. You’ve got spunk.”  She beams. “Why, thank you, […]

‘King: A Life’: Separating the Man from the Myth
• June 14, 2023

They said one to another  Behold here cometh the Dreamer  Let us slay him  And we shall see what will become of his dreams.                                                                          – Genesis 37:19-20   These words […]