Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:34am
DC Events 3/12/10 - 3/18/10
This week, Gina Welch, Helen Simonsen, James McGrath Morris, Karl Rove and Kelly Corrigan are just some of the wonderful authors with events in in the DC area.
Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 8:54am
DC Events 3/5/2010 - 3/11/2010
This week, Chris Cleave, C.M. Mayo, Lorraine Adams, Sujatha Hampton, Sarah Pekkanen, and Chang-Rae Lee are just some of the wonderful authors with events in the DC area. Also, don't miss the Smithsonian Resident Associates panel moderated by our very own Bethanne Patrick that includes Seth Grahame-Smith.
Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 9:19am
DC Author Events 2/26/10 - 3/4/10
Sarah Blake, Katherine Neville and Gwen Ifill are just a few of the wonderful authors that have events in the DC area this week.
Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 10:27pm
DC Author Events 12/4/09 - 12/10/09
DC events for the week of 12/4/2009 - 12/10/2009 have been posted. Ken Burns, Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes, actress Amber Tamblyn, Madeleine Albright, Lidia Bastianich, Alia Malek, Jane O'Connor, Lana Dajani, and Edward Luce are all authors coming to the DC area.
Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 4:40pm
The End of NaNoWriMo 2009 Is Near!
This is not a bad thing...people who have been participating in National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as "NaNoWriMo," have been feverishly scribbling and typing and sometimes (don't judge!) dictating up to 50,000 words of fiction during the month of November.
The finish line is in sight, now: Tonight at midnight, NaNoWriMo 09 comes to an official close. Of course, that doesn't mean that faithful writers have to stop at 50K, or that they can't keep going if they only made it to 40K; it's all in the spirit of creativity and productivity, man!
NaNoWriMo is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Some writers participate just once, some return year after year, and others just watch their friends writhe in agony...
Have you ever tried NaNoWriMo? If so, what was it like? If you haven't, would you? Why or why not?
Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 4:01pm
DC Author Events 11/27/09 - 12/3/09
This week, Jonathan Safran Foer (review of Eating Animals), Deborah Tannen (interview), Lidia Bastianich, Denis Lipman, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Hank Stuever are all authors who have events in the DC area.
Submitted by thebookstudio on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:40pm
DC Events - 11/13 - 11/19
DC Author Events for Friday, November 13 - Thursday, November 19 have been posted.
Actress Julie Andrews, Apollo astronaut Alan Bean, Jeff Shaara, Deborah Tannen, Woody Holton, David Wroblewski, Nicholas Thompson and Shannon Hale are just a few of the wonderful authors coming to the DC area this week.
Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 5:14am 
Twitter Book Club: "The Believers" by Zoe Heller -- TONIGHT at 9 p.m. Eastern!
Get out your copies of "The Believers" and line up your questions, Twitter Book Club members -- tonight we'll be chatting with author Zoe Heller about her latest novel, and I know she's game since I interviewed her last week.
Who'd a thunk we'd be in Month Six of Twitter Book Club now? If you're reading this and you have no idea of what I am talking about, take a look at our info page -- it should make things fairly clear. If they're still not after you read that page, feel free to email me: thebookmaven at gmail dot com. If you've never been on Twitter, don't let that stop you from joining us! It's simple, free, and can be a lot of fun -- if you find it's no fun for you, you have no obligation to continue.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 7:25am 
Right Here, Right Now: The Jewish Literary Festival
This week at the DC Jewish Community Center is quite bookish; The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is going on. Look at that fantastic poster! I want one. I hope I'll get the chance to nab one at some point during the festivities...
Speaking of festivities, here's the full schedule of Festival events. For us at The Book Studio, one of the most exciting parts of the Jewish Literary Festival is that we are sponsoring it; check out our sweet little logo here.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 2:38pm 
Peace, Like a River: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Recent Win
It isn't often that we give front-page status to something that's neither a review nor an author interview, but in the case of the recent Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award to co-authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, I believe it is justified.
Consider this an out-and-out editorial from me, your fearless Managing Editor, who is also -- full disclosure -- a member of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominating committee. If literature is the best way to learn about another person's consciousness (and I believe that it is), then encouraging artists to consider peace and ways to foster it in their written works is a means towards a very fine end.
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