Tag: literature
Celebrating Cooler Days With Fall Reads
As the temperatures dip and the leaves begin to color, what could be better than a good book, a cup of tea, and a...
Celebrating LGBTQ+ Writing and New August Reads
This month’s column highlights OutWrite 2023, an annual LGBTQ+ literary festival sponsored by the DC Center, running August 11th through the 13th. OutWrite’s mission...
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...
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...
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...
Register for Literary Pumpkin Walk
Get in the spirit of halloween this year by making your yard into part of the spooky story.
The Capitol Hill neighborhood is continuing the...
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....
The Literary Hill: Off the Grid
Off the Grid
When JoAnn Hill and her husband moved to DC nineteen years ago, her interest was initially captured by the “majestic monuments ...
Local Doctors Explain COVID in Children’s Book
The three local doctors were getting lots of questions about coronavirus from family, friends, neighbors, and patients. So they decided to write a book...
Attend Final Poet Reading in Folger Poetry Series Monday
You've got the chance to hear "the most popular poet in America" read in your own home.
On Monday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m., the...
