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
Books
Q&A Cafe: Kitty Kelley, Neighbor and Author of ‘Unauthorized’ Books
‘Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness’
February 9, 2022
•A former officer of the court reveals that justice is hardly blind. With the publication of “Just Pursuit,” Laura Coates takes her place in a pantheon with Frank Serpico, who blew […]
Carl Bernstein: From D.C. Juvie to Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
January 27, 2022
•Carl Bernstein — The Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who with Bob Woodward exposed the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon in 1973 — grew up in Tenleytown and Silver Spring. When […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: A Fateful Friendship
December 9, 2021
•A Fateful Friendship Mark Perry’s 2004 Biography Expertly Captures the Bond Between Two American Icons Readers who appreciate Civil War memoirs and enjoy biographies will treasure Mark Perry’s 2004 double-barreled […]
Book Launch Eats Its Own, Fabulously
November 22, 2021
•Now, that was a book launch! A stack of cookbooks with a charming illustrated cover — along with matching wrapping paper and bookplates — greeted invited guests at a classic Q Street […]
Fiona Hill at Q&A Cafe Nov. 16; Kitty Kelley Book Review Included
November 10, 2021
•Fiona Hill will be interviewed at the Q&A Cafe, Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the George Town Club. Hill has a new book, “There Is Nothing For You Here,” that traces […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence’
October 14, 2021
•Reviewed by Kitty Kelley An instructive but dry treatise on a grim subject. Despite their mutual animosity, Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill will be forever linked as a result of […]
Q&A Cafe with Scott Gottlieb: ‘I Don’t Think I Can Visit China Anymore’
October 12, 2021
•Dr. Scott Gottlieb was interviewed by Carol Joynt at her Q&A luncheon held at the George Town Club on Oct. 7. She recalled that the Q&A Café was started in […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir’
August 18, 2021
•Some memoirs flicker like fireflies on a summer night. Others pierce your psyche with their subjects’ tortured experiences, consequent miseries and — finally — their oh-so-glorious survival. “The Story of […]
‘I Alone Can Fix It’ Q&A Packs Club
August 1, 2021
•Carol Joynt welcomed back Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker to a July 29 Q&A luncheon at The George Town Club to discuss their latest Donald […]
Summer Reading: Poetry, Philosophy, Science and Fiction
July 28, 2021
•Several Georgetowner staffers offer their picks for summer reading in a delightfully diverse list of books, some of which are quite unexpected. Send us your picks, too, if you wish. […]