Arts & Society
Book Goes to the Dogs — and Vet’s Admirers
Arts & Society
Education: Some Hopeful News on D.C.’s ‘Reading Crisis’
Arts & Society
Chip Reid’s ‘Battle Scars’ Talk at City Tavern on Jan. 25
Books
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’
Arts & Society
Book Watch: New Fairy Tales for Stepmothers
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 […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington’
August 17, 2022
•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 […]