Reads - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 27 May 2021 21:10:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Reads - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 13 Great Beach Reads From Well-Read DC Types https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/05/27/13-great-beach-reads-from-well-read-dc-types/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=13-great-beach-reads-from-well-read-dc-types Thu, 27 May 2021 18:22:13 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1533678 The Food Explorer Daniel Stone “Stone’s dry humor and eye for anecdote animate David Fairchild’s navigation of agricultural politics and DC bureaucracy as he brings avocados, dates, and citrus to American tables.” Sandra Beasley, Author of the poetry collection Made to Explode Animal Lisa Taddeo “The novel follows a woman who is enraged at the cruel […]

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The Week in Comments: The Good and Bad of HomeGoods, Reston Reactions https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/09/13/the-week-in-comments-the-good-and-bad-of-homegoods-reston-reactions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-week-in-comments-the-good-and-bad-of-homegoods-reston-reactions https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/09/13/the-week-in-comments-the-good-and-bad-of-homegoods-reston-reactions/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:45:12 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/the-week-in-comments-the-good-and-bad-of-homegoods-reston-reactions.php This week, readers had plenty to say about the T.J.Maxx/HomeGoods store that just opened in Georgetown, and about the news that Reston recently became the first place in the Washington area to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public...

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Politics & Prose Packed for Reading of Jack Nelson’s Memoir, “Scoop” https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/01/07/politics-prose-packed-for-reading-of-jack-nelsons-memoir-scoop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=politics-prose-packed-for-reading-of-jack-nelsons-memoir-scoop https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/01/07/politics-prose-packed-for-reading-of-jack-nelsons-memoir-scoop/#respond Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:30:48 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/books/politics-prose-packed-for-reading-of-jack-nelsons-memoir-scoop.php This Sunday afternoon, audience members packed into the Politics & Prose bookstore on Connecticut Avenue to hear a reading of Scoop, the memoir of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Nelson. Appearing to discuss the work were his wife, Barbara Matusow, a...

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A Washington Party for Cristina Alger’s “The Darlings” (Pictures) https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/29/a-washington-party-for-cristina-algers-the-darlings-pictures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-washington-party-for-cristina-algers-the-darlings-pictures https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/29/a-washington-party-for-cristina-algers-the-darlings-pictures/#respond Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:59:44 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/a-washington-party-for-cristina-algers-the-darlings-pictures.php Jaclyn Mason, Cristina Alger, and Lauren Mason. Photograph by James R. Brantley. Slideshow: "The Darlings" Book Party Imagine the quintessential Washington cocktail party celebrating the quintessential New York novel, throw in a family of hosts in all age ranges and...

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Valerie Plame Wilson: From Spy to Spy Novelist https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/23/valerie-plame-wilson-from-spy-to-spy-novelist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valerie-plame-wilson-from-spy-to-spy-novelist https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/23/valerie-plame-wilson-from-spy-to-spy-novelist/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:22:22 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/valerie-plame-wilson-from-spy-to-spy-novelist.php Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt. The ranks of female spy novelists are about to get some competition from a woman with a notorious spy past: former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Blue Rider Press announced this week that early...

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Book Review: Man Seeks God https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/23/book-review-man-seeks-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-man-seeks-god https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/23/book-review-man-seeks-god/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:24:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/book-review-man-seeks-god.php Talk about the assignment of the century: For his previous book, The Geography of Bliss, former NPR correspondent Eric Weiner hotfooted the globe in search of true happiness. In Man Seeks God, Weiner—a witty writer with the insatiable curiosity...

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Book Review: Watergate https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/22/book-review-watergate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-watergate https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/22/book-review-watergate/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:46:53 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/book-review-watergate.php If you were to become a DC heavyweight whose life merited a novelist’s attention, you’d be lucky to have Thomas Mallon pick you for a muse. Unlike Gore Vidal, whose Washington historical novels have a crotchety polemical undertone, Mallon is...

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Book Review: Eisenhower in War and Peace https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/21/book-review-eisenhower-in-war-and-peace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-eisenhower-in-war-and-peace https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/21/book-review-eisenhower-in-war-and-peace/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:27:17 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/book-review-eisenhower-in-war-and-peace.php Jean Edward Smith’s biography of Dwight Eisenhower arrives when the Republican President who had a flair for governing without flair is a topic du jour among conservatives. David Brooks wrote in the New York Times that the older he...

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A Q&A With the Author of “The Last Justice” https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/13/a-qa-with-the-author-of-the-last-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-qa-with-the-author-of-the-last-justice https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/13/a-qa-with-the-author-of-the-last-justice/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:27:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/a-qa-with-the-author-of-the-last-justice.php Photograph courtesy of Arnold & Porter. Anthony Franze’s debut novel opens with a dramatic scene at the Supreme Court: Six justices have just been gunned down by a crazed assassin. If that doesn’t grab your attention, nothing will. Franze...

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Former Weiner Sexting Partner Postpones but Still Plans to Publish Tell-All https://www.washingtonian.com/2011/11/30/former-weiner-sexting-partner-postpones-but-still-plans-to-publish-tell-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-weiner-sexting-partner-postpones-but-still-plans-to-publish-tell-all https://www.washingtonian.com/2011/11/30/former-weiner-sexting-partner-postpones-but-still-plans-to-publish-tell-all/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:28:09 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/reads/former-weiner-sexting-partner-postpones-but-still-plans-to-publish-tell-all.php Photograph from Traci Nobles’ appearance on the Today show. Traci Nobles, one of the women who had an online affair with former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, says she still plans to publish her tell-all, I Freinded You [sic],...

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