‘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 […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Manifesto: On Never Giving Up’ 
• October 12, 2022

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)
• September 5, 2022

“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 […]