Tag: reading
Food and Connection, Island Intrigue –and Poopgate?
A Celebration of Food—and Life
In his second edition of “Simple Summer,” Jonathan Bardzik presents a slew of innovative recipes—including scrumptious new offerings for breakfast...
The Literary Hill: Race and Reckoning
Reckoning and Reconciliation
Two new books from Georgetown University Press deal with the powerful and timely issue of racial reckoning in the nation’s capital.
In 2015,...
The Literary Hill: Good Jokes, Bad Drawings
Dad Jokes, Illustrated
It only takes a few pages into “Good Jokes Bad Drawings” before you realize that something’s screwy. These jokes are anything but...
Attend Meeting on Southeast Library Modernization
Give your input on the redesign of the Southeast Community Library (403 Seventh St. SE). The next community meeting will be Wednesday, July 21...
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 ...
Retracing Steps, Sorting Through the Past
No Girls Allowed
Back when female reporters were “usually confined to the women’s section still wore white gloves to work,” a few courageous women...
‘A Thought-Provoking Meditation on the Nature of Truth’
Truth is an elusive commodity these days. But we don’t expect equivocation from scholarly disciplines that are supposed to traffic in hard facts. And...
Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
You Say You Want a Revolution?
In writing “The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World,” Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts have accomplished...
Napoleon the Novelist
We’re all familiar with Napoleon the military hero and conqueror. But who knew he was also a novelist?
Local author Margaret Rodenberg has used his...
They Paved Paradise…
In the 1920 photo, Hans Wunderlich stands on the stoop of his C Street townhouse with his dog Archie at his side. Wunderlich was...
