This post has been updated…again The DC Public Library is hosting an event to kickoff a new website — DC By the Book — Wednesday, March 27 at 6 PM at Busboys and Poets (5th & K Streets, NW). Special guest authors Thomas Mallon (Watergate), Ann McLaughlin (The House On Q Street), and editor Adam [...]
Eating is the great preoccupation of both primitive and civilized man. But the savage eats from need, the civilized man from desire. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) When I did my close up for “The Angle Show” on food, creator/producer Gemal Woods asked me the all important question — “If you could heave a meal with anyone [...]
EXPERIENCE OVEE James Baldwin from “The Negro and the American Promise” (WGBH Archives, recorded 1963) Log on for a a live screening and chat with E. Ethelbert Miller on the literary and political activism of American novelist, essayist, playwright James Baldwin Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 1- 2 PM (ET) http://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/0kksw VIDEO DESCRIPTION:James [...]
My first introduction to James McBride was James McBride the musician who had a really cool day job as a writer for the Washington Post. I also knew James had a pretty good rep for being a top notch journalist and quitting, then getting journalism jobs that any graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism [...]
It’s been awhile since the last Eclectique Interview. This will be the second interview with a poet. That’s Sarah Browning, director of D.C. Poets Against the War and Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Sarah is also author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the [...]
