Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President’ 
• August 14, 2024

Edward F. O’Keefe argues that five women provided the ballast of Roosevelt’s life.   The huge granite sculpture startles tourists. Looming like a ferocious behemoth — intimidating, almost frightening — the […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: Bill Maher’s ‘What This Comedian Said Will Shock You’  
• July 17, 2024

The ‘Real Time’ host writes his best book to date.    This is a smart book with a dumb title.   Bill Maher dedicates “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You” to […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: Thinkin’ in the Bardo
  
• June 12, 2024

George Saunders did not want his tombstone to read: “Here lies a guy who never did what he wanted to do.” So in 2017, at the age of 59, having […]

Kitty Kelley Tells (Almost) All
• May 9, 2024

Georgetown’s own Kitty Kelley and “America’s bestselling investigative biographer” bedazzled her audience on the sun drenched penthouse patio of Alan and Nancy Taylor Bubes that overlooks the Potomac River. The […]

‘Hair Force One’: Intimate Yet Respectful  
• April 10, 2024

Eivind Bjerke — a Norwegian immigrant who became the hairdresser of first ladies, royalty and Georgetown “who’s-whos” — tells his remarkable life story in “Hair Force One.” The new paperback […]

Book Goes to the Dogs — and Vet’s Admirers
• March 27, 2024

More than 200 Georgetowners gathered at Georgetown Veterinary Hospital on M Street to celebrate the release of Dr. Lee Morgan’s new book, “Four Thousand Paws—Caring for the Dogs of the […]

Education: Some Hopeful News on D.C.’s ‘Reading Crisis’ 
• January 22, 2024

Although D.C. public school students are suffering through a well-documented “reading crisis,” some hopeful signs for progress appear to be emerging on the city’s horizon.  Representing Ward 2 on the […]

Chip Reid’s ‘Battle Scars’ Talk at City Tavern on Jan. 25
• January 18, 2024

Georgetown neighbor and retired journalist Chip Reid has authored an intense war book of action and remembrance. The urgency of  “Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later: 3d Battalion 5th Marines Looks […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’ 
• January 10, 2024

A brash young author offers dubious advice to the crown.    “After Elizabeth” purports to be the first life-saving buoy tossed to a drowning monarchy. “We’ve been conning ourselves,” writes […]

Book Watch: New Fairy Tales for Stepmothers 
• December 4, 2023

[Sponsored Content] “You already know how the “wicked stepmother” has become enshrined in legend and folklore. But in this modern era, most of us who are stepmothers or have one […]