March 14, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tombs & Tomes Book Club March (In Person)

This month’s pick

The Dead Beat
Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

Tombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery’s book club.

We meet every other month on the second Tuesday in our historic Chapel, and we discuss primarily non-fiction books.

Our book selections have no rhyme and reason; however, our choices tend to stray towards the macabre, as is natural for a cemetery book club. Our very first meeting was in September 2013 and we chose to read Stiff, by Mary Roach.

It’s free to join, and mostly free to attend. For each in-person meeting, we simply ask that you bring either a $5 donation or a bit of food or wine to share with the group. Extra points for brownies!

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Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don’t quite appreciate until they’re gone.

Interested in learning more? Read our Blog Post about Tombs and Tomes, or request to join our Goodreads group.

Still interested? Sign up here!

 

Details

Date:
March 14, 2023
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Website:
https://congressionalcemetery.org/tombs-and-tomes-book-club/

Venue

Historic Congressional Cemetery
1801 E Street, Southeast
Washington, DC 20003 United States
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Phone
(202) 543-0539
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