Past Events — East City Bookshop

Hybrid Event: Back Where We Started, Becca Freeman with Laura Hankin

7:00 PM • Thursday, October 15, 2026East City BookshopFree

East City Bookshop welcomes Becca Freeman to discuss her book, Back Where We Started, in conversation with Laura Hankin. Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the author during audience Q&A. Pre-order your copy of Back Where We Started for the event in Eventbrite check-out as an add-on to your ticket.

Oct13

PastAuthor EventRomanceWashington, DC

Hybrid Event: The Gilded Rose, Joanna Shupe with Sophie Jordan & Diana Quicy

7:00 PM • Tuesday, October 13, 2026East City BookshopFree

East City Bookshop welcomes Joanna Shupe to discuss The Gilded Rose, in conversation with Sophie Jordan and Diana Quincy. Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the author during audience Q&A. Pre-order your copy of The Gilded Rose for the event in Eventbrite check-out as an add-on to your ticket.

Oct7

PastAuthor EventRomanceWashington, DC

Hybrid Event: A Pinch of Magic, Emily Heil

7:00 PM • Wednesday, October 7, 2026East City BookshopFree

East City Bookshop welcomes Emily Heil to discuss her book, A Pinch of Magic, in conversation with Rachel Kurzius. Pre-order your copy of A Pinch of Magic for the event in Eventbrite check-out as an add-on to your ticket. Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the author during audience Q&A. ABOUT A PINCH OF MAGIC A cookbook ghostwriter accidentally summons a spirit and must help with her unfinished business in this charming and cozy paranormal novel—full of small-town charm and a delightful cast of characters! Cam Parker likes being invisible. As a cookbook ghostwriter, she lives a quiet, orderly life well behind the scenes. But when a storm smashes into her beloved grandmother’s house, she’ll do anything to pay for the repairs, even taking on a nightmare celebrity client and returning from Brooklyn to her coastal-Virginia hometown of Silver Cove and all its small-town drama. Before she can say boo, Cam’s predictable world collapses like an underbaked souffle. For starters, she’s developing inconvenient feelings for carpenter Ian McCabe, who’s equal parts charm and complication. And then there’s the actual ghost Cam accidentally summons from an old cookbook, who apparently needs her help to right a century-old wrong. Cam can barely keep all these plates in the air. But the chaos just might push her to question her cautious approach to life—and finally write her own recipe for happiness. Emily Heil, the national food reporter for The Washington Post, has been a professional journalist since she got her first writing gig at her small hometown newspaper at the age of sixteen. She lives on Capitol Hill with her fellow-journalist husband and two cats and spends as much time as possible at her childhood home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Rachel Kurzius is an award-winning journalist reporting on the way we live now, with bylines in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, Vox, and more. Whether she is investigating a 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers or exploring the glorious burden of collecting glass jars, she seeks out stories that intrigue and inform in equal measure. She is also "the Woodward and Bernstein of hockey romance," according to NPR.