‘House of Cards’ and ‘Scandals’
Enjoying the gritty depictions of Washington power players in the fabulous House of Cards series on Netflix? Then you might
Tag: Washington fiction
Guest essay for Andy Holloman
Jane Austen wrote for herself, not her contemporaries. Her earliest reviewers were less than fully gung-ho about her fiction. Among
Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Freedom’: Enjoy the amusing Washington novel inside
As if the stolen glasses weren’t enough, Jonathan Franzen is in the news for not making the final cut in
The Washington Post, Sally Quinn and the Mink Stole Ladies: How much VIP-watching is too much?
How closely should the world follow VIP journalists and politicians and—for that matter—celebrities in general? “Newspapers spend too much time
Sally Quinn’s ‘Party’ column dropped from print: Shades of LBJ’s Hoover surprise for her husband?
LBJ was about to replace J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director when word leaked to Newsweek. So what did the
Washington novels: A few uppity observations, plus a guide to D.C. fiction guides
Washington, D.C., is a perilous place about which to write fiction. In more than a few of the guides to
David Rothman at Large 