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Unearthing African American History
This is the thing about history: it is never done telling its stories about the past. On Monday night, Oct. 10, the Citizens Association of Georgetown held a meeting at…
George Saunders Talks Fear, Joy, and Getting ‘More Precisely Manic’
Few authors anywhere get more hype than George Saunders. But the man is truly a prose wizard, as reaffirmed in this year’s Lincoln in the Bardo, which the New York Times likened to “a…
‘A Chance Encounter’ Debuts at Oak Hill Cemetery
Retired National Gallery of Art executive-turned-filmmaker, Joseph J. Krakora premiered A Chance Encounter, the first of 20 short films about the history of Georgetown’s Oak Hill Cemetery on Sunday, October 8, 2017. Not yet released and,…
Tischler’s Take: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ at Oak Hill Cemetery
“Lincoln in the Bardo” will confound you, will move you and make you feel drugged at times, will challenge your conceptions of what a novel should be — but also…