The House of Representatives and U.S. Senate are considering tax reform bills that, if passed, could affect writers and literary nonprofits across the country.
Among the homegrown events regularly packing the literary-minded into bars in Washington's hippest neighborhoods is The Inner Loop, a reading series created by local residents Rachel Coonce and Courtney Sexton.
While New York remains the center of gravity in the publishing world, a new breed of independent presses in the nation's capital are set to pull some of that force down south.
The idea that there is something unique, something exceptional about America, dates back to de Tocqueville and has firmly taken root in the nation's literary and political imagination.
So much of the political news from the nation's capital seems, these days, stranger than fiction.
A new tax reform blueprint offers some sense of where the Administration wants to take tax policy—and what it means for writers.
Today, one in seven Washingtonians are immigrants, which has shaped literary trends and artistic output.