Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Shirley Hazzard: a Writing Life’
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
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 […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Manifesto: On Never Giving Up’
The Booker Prize-winning author owes it all to tenacity. And talent. Reviewed by Kitty Kelley If “perseverance is genius in disguise,” then Bernardine Evaristo is a 22-carat gold, diamond-encrusted genius. […]
National Book Festival Returns to an In-Person Experience (photos)
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes Over the course of its 20-year history, the Library of […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington’
Meet a fortunate son genuinely grateful for his luck. Reviewed by Kitty Kelley Sometimes, the sons of famous fathers are cursed. “They’re born on third base and think they’ve hit […]
Washington Drawings: Abe to Zoo, by Dhiru Thadani
The recently published book “Washington Drawings: Abe to Zoo” by architect, author and urban designer Dhiru Thadani is a delightful pen and ink treasure of 26 drawings depicting favorite D.C. […]
Remembering David McCullough
It is hard to say goodbye to my friend David McCullough, who died Aug. 7 at the age of 89. We met in 1989 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the centennial commemoration […]
Little Free Libraries of Georgetown and Beyond
The tiny boxed libraries you’ve seen sprinkled around Georgetown are not just local gems, but part of a global book-sharing community. Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization with more […]
Kirchick’s ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’
In her final Q&A Café interview of the season, Carol Joynt hosted James Kirchick, author of “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington,” at the George Town Club on […]
‘Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History’
An edifying, bloated chronicle of what might’ve been. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ ” These woeful words from […]