Tag: books
Celebrate Start of Pride Month on Capitol Hill
Eighth Street SE has historically been a center of LGBTQ night life, especially the 500 block. Lynn Womack's Guild Press printed LGBT fiction there...
Rambling, Surviving, Painting: Underlife Times Three, DC 2020
The events that shook DC in 2020 are the backdrop for each of this month’s stories. Each offers unique insider’s perspectives ‒ razor wire...
The Literary Hill: Three Reads for Local History Buffs
Indigenous DC: Native People’s and the Nation’s Capital,
by Elizabeth Rule
Forthcoming 2023. Dr. Elizabeth Rule begins her extensively researched and fascinating mapping of the indigenous...
Gothic Mystery Becomes a Netflix Adaptation
If you have not already read Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye (first published in 2003), Netflix’s recent movie-adaptation may sway you to pick...
Pentecost and Parker: “Secrets Typed in Blood”
The detective team of Lillian Pentecost and Willowjean “Will” Parker is on the case again—and this time, they’re multitasking. The duo, created by DC...
Happy 100th Birthday to the Southeast Library
On December 8, the Southeast Library (703 Seventh St. SE) officially turned 100 years old.
The library has a variety of events planned for community...
Fun and Games: The Literary Hill
Connecting with Baseball
When it comes to the national pastime, Pasquale A. “Pat” Carlucci has led a charmed life. He was born in Queens on...
The Lyon’s Share: Pentecost and Parker
Fans of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries (and I count myself among the most fervent) will find a certain sense of familiarity in a...
A Match Made in Kiddie-Lit Heaven: Hill Author and Artist Collaborate
A spark was struck at last year’s Literary Hill BookFest when author Christopher Datta and illustrator Christine Vineyard got seated next to each other....
A Real Life Game of Thrones
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine straining the already tense US-Saudi relationship, it might be time for a refresher course. And no one is better...
