Beloved Scottish Writer Margot Livesey discusses her new novel, The Road from Belhaven, in Conversation with Novelist Alice McDermott

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Presented in Partnership with East City Bookshop This event will be in-person at Hill Center and streamed live on our Facebook page. "Powerful.... Livesey’s lyrical perfection comes at no expense to the plot, which barrels like a runaway train. This is a gem.” - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) New York Times best-selling author Margot Livesey…

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Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington’s Cherry Trees

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Celebrate Women's History Month and DC's beloved Cherry Blossoms as author and Capitol Hill resident Stephanie Deutsch moderates a conversation with Diana Parsell about her biography Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington’s Cherry Trees. Born just before the Civil War, Scidmore broke gender barriers as a prolific Washington correspondent, a globetrotting travel writer from…

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Talk of the Hill with Bill Press Featuring Alex Prud’homme

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Veteran journalist Bill Press sits down for an in-depth conversation with acclaimed writer Alex Prud’homme, author of DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at The White House. “Dinner with the President is a splendid and captivating book about the power of food in American politics. ‘Breaking bread’ around the…

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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis and Acclaimed Writer Elliot Ackerman Discuss 2054: A Novel in Conversation with Washington Post Foreign Affairs Columnist David Ignatius

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Stavridis and Ackerman are the bestselling authors or 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. Their new thriller 2054 opens twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over…

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Ben’s Chili Bowl Co-Founder & DC Matriarch Virginia Ali in Conversation with Chef Jerome Grant and Ben’s Official Historian Bernard Demczuk

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

This event is part of Hill Center’s annual Benjamin Drummond series of cultural and scholarly programming. Virginia Ali is a remarkable woman. She was born in rural Virginia in 1933, moved to DC in '52, and married Howard student Ben Ali in '58, opening Ben's Chili Bowl the same year. The eatery served chili dogs, half…

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Mapping Segregation in Washington, DC – Walking Tour Featuring Historian Sarah Jane Shoenfeld

Park across from Big Bear Cafe 1700 1st St NW, Washington, DC, United States

This event is part of Hill Center’s annual Benjamin Drummond series of cultural and scholarly programming. Rain Date: Sunday, May 19th at 2PM Historian Sarah Jane Shoenfeld, co-director of the public history project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC, will lead a walking tour of DC’s Bloomingdale neighborhood. This tour highlights key sites in the legal…

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Acclaimed Brass Supergroup DuPont Brass in Concert

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

  This event is part of Hill Center’s annual Benjamin Drummond series of cultural and scholarly programming.   This engagement is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The concert will be preceded by a conversation with the artists moderated by…

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The Life of a Poet Featuring Critically Acclaimed Poet Regie Cabico in Conversation with Kyle Dargan

Established in 2013, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron…

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