The North Carolina Literary Festival has announced that Anna Deavere Smith — actress, playwright and author — will deliver the […]
Last week, I had a rare opportunity to see a mid-morning production of a play — the Olney Theatre’s production
I’ve been giving lots of bandwidth here to my friend and fellow writer Kyle Semmel — but only because he’s
Throughout the course of his distinguished career, Alan Cheuse has proven himself adept at a variety of forms: the novel,
Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda seems to have taken a shine to a couple of North Carolina’s finest writers
My review in today’s Washington Post (Tuesday, May 26) could hardly have been timed better — a testament to the
A couple of years back, I needed a poisonous plant to spike a drink and kill a man. This was
This weekend — Saturday, May 23, to be precise — marks the 75th anniversary of the day Bonnie and Clyde
Given all the recent talk about the potential closing of literary journals (including both the New England Review and the
I’ll be down at the beach for Memorial Day weekend, and in keeping with a coastal N.C. theme, I want
Several things drew me to the Rivka Galchen event last night, hosted by Nextbook at the Washington DCJCC — not the
While I’ve written several times about plays on this site, I have to emphasize that I’m not pretending to be