Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘August Wilson: A Life’ 
• September 13, 2023

This biography’s brilliance approaches that of its subject.  The celebrated playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. to a Black mother and a White father who abandoned […]

Mapping Georgetown: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Author Visits Sacred Spaces
• August 21, 2023

Only in Georgetown… would a visiting gentleman, driving along Rock Creek, notice a cemetery and discover it to be The Oak Hill Cemetery where President Lincoln’s son Willie was laid […]

‘Dog Days of Summer’ Reading Suggestions
• August 3, 2023

Though we’re now officially in the Dog Days of August and everyone’s gearing up for “Back to School,” there’s still plenty of time to delve into the delights of summer […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald’ 
• July 12, 2023

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley  Analyzing the author via his lesser known stories.  Success is said to be a bitch goddess who sprays splendor like a shooting star in the night […]

Luke Russert’s Odyssey: ‘Look for Me There’
• May 4, 2023

This is not a story about Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, who went in search of his wandering father. But it is a personal story, an epic all his own, […]

Mapping Georgetown: Emily Durso at the Francis Scott Key Book Shop (Part II)
• April 17, 2023

In our April 3 Mapping Georgetown Story “Where Will Georgetown Take You?”, Emily Durso painted a beautiful picture of growing up in Georgetown and Rose Park and she shared with us […]

Mapping Georgetown: Where Will Georgetown Take You?
• April 3, 2023

How cute is Georgetown native, Emily Durso — whose Mapping Georgetown stories we feature today — and how clever is her 1960s Book Shop poster for the Francis Scott Key […]

An Evening with Kitty Kelley: Register for The 2023 BIO Award Virtual Event, March 28
• March 23, 2023

Announcement From 2023 BIO Awards: Kitty Kelley is the preeminent unauthorized biographer of our time and is the winner of the 2023 BIO Award. The BIO Award is presented annually […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Shirley Hazzard: a Writing Life’ 
• December 1, 2022

An entertaining, edifying look at the underappreciated Australian author Shirley Hazzard’s first short-story submission was plucked from a slush pile of 30,000 unsolicited manuscripts at the New Yorker by fiction […]

David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American Book Award Honors Michelle Coles 
• November 9, 2022

No one hosts a more spectacular dinner party for a better cause than David Bruce Smith. His heavy parchment invitations of exquisite calligraphy arrive each fall to announce his Grateful […]