DC Reads
A City-Wide Conversation with DC Writers
DC Reads is an annual series of workshops, book clubs, and one signature panel discussion with noted authors. Held in partnership with the DC Public Library, DC Reads fosters thoughtful conversations about fiction, builds community, and celebrates local writers. This year’s titles and authors are When She Left by E.A. Aymar, Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma, and Absolution by Alice McDermott.
For each selection, the DC Public Library will host a virtual book club, and each author will lead a two-hour session for community members at a DCPL branch library. Dates and locations for those events will be shared as soon as they are available.
DC Reads will culminate in a panel discussion featuring all three authors on Thursday, March 20 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. This conversation will be moderated by Hannah Oliver Depp, co-owner of Loyalty Bookstores. Afterwards, the authors will stay for a book signing.
In 2023-24, DC Reads focused on authors Karin Tanabe (The Sunset Crowd), Tania James (Loot), and Morowa Yejidé (Creatures of Passage).
At the panel discussion in February, recorded live and archived here, moderator Lauren Francis-Sharma led Tanabe and James in a conversation about the inspirations for their historical novels, research, and the craft of grounding their stories in a particular time and place.
Our thanks to Shreve Williams Public Relations for making PEN/Faulkner’s participation possible.
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