Arts & Society
A Harvard Art Historian at Politics and Prose
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Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Memorial Days: A Memoir’
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Kitty Kelley Book Club : ‘John Lewis: A Life’
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Book Review: ‘War’ by Bob Woodward
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Booked Up: Everybody Loves Connie
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 22, 2021
April 22, 2021
•Sign up for the National Sporting Library & Museum’s online program on brook trout next Thursday and you may win a sample of dry flies.
Weekly Arts Round Up, April 15, 2021
April 15, 2021
•Ford’s is presenting a radio play and GALA will reopen with a show about radio plays. This Saturday: a streamed performance by the Thalea String Quartet.
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘1957: The Year That Launched the American Future’
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Former NBC and Fox News correspondent Eric Burns divides his 15th book into five parts, the most important being on race, the cutting issue of our times then and now.
Texas Novelist and Georgetown Bookseller Larry McMurtry, 84
April 1, 2021
•The author of “Horseman, Pass By” (reworked by Hollywood as “Hud”), “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Lonesome Dove” died on March 25.
Weekly Arts Round Up, March 18, 2021
March 18, 2021
•This Saturday, Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez will be the special guest at the National Archives Museum’s virtual pajama party.
Georgetown Resident Is Co-Author of ‘Dior in Bloom’
March 14, 2021
•Each chapter of the book explores a different aspect of Christian Dior’s life and work. Naomi Sachs’s essay focuses on nature as his inspiration and restoration.
‘False Light’: Revenge Can Be Sweet When It’s Untraceable
March 11, 2021
•Eric Dezenhall’s latest is a fast-moving novel about a crusty journalist at a prestigious daily newspaper in Washington, D.C.
‘Widowish: A Memoir’
March 10, 2021
•In this very personal narrative of joy, grief and recovery, author Melissa Gould struggles with the loss of her husband and the category it suddenly puts her in.
Weekly Arts Round Up, February 25, 2021
February 25, 2021
•Books to be discussed online by their authors: “French Like Moi” and “Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted the Seeds of Change.”
Weekly Arts Round Up, February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021
•On Friday afternoon, the Black Georgetown Community History Project will explore the family collection of sixth-generation Georgetowner Neville Waters online.