Ina Garten Delights in Chat with Author Ann Patchett at the Kennedy Center
• October 16, 2024

The Kennedy Center has officially launched “Nourish,” a month-long program focused on arts and well-being. The program urges audiences to explore the vast impact of food and artistic expression in […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage’  
• October 9, 2024

 A Trump apologist values at least some of the U.S. Constitution.   Jonathan Turley road-tested an idea last year with a 45-page article entitled “The Right to Rage: Free Speech and […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion’  
• September 11, 2024

A tour-de-force look at the doyennes of designer couture.   Given that women are the biggest buyers of books in America, and that the country boasts the largest apparel market in […]

Publicity Pro Recounts Campaign Adventures via Whistle Stop
• August 26, 2024

The presidential nominating conventions are over. Candidates up and down the ballot from those vying to become president, representative, senators or other positions are listed. It’s the end of August — we […]

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 […]

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 […]