Potomac Fever by Charlotte Taylor Fryar

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Thu Mar 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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Lost City Books | Washington, DC

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Book release and conversation with Charlotte Taylor Fryar and Sonia Rao.
About this Event

About the book:

As she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, Charlotte Taylor Fryar examines the geography and ecology of Washington, D.C. with all manner of flora and fauna as her witness. The ecological traces of human inhabitancy provide her with imaginative access into America’s past, for her true subject is the origin of our splintered nation and racially divided capital.

From the gentrified neighborhood of Shaw to George Washington’s slave labor camp at Mount Vernon, Potomac Fever maps the troubled histories of the United States by leading us along the less-trafficked trails and side streets of our capital city, steeped in the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism. In the end, Fryar offers hope for how “we might grow a society guided by the ethics and values of the places we live.”

A compelling synthesis of historical, environmental, and personal narrative, Potomac Fever exposes the roots of our national myths, awash in the waters of America’s renowned river.


Charlotte Taylor Fryar is a writer, historian, educator, and herbalist. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, less than seven hundred feet from the banks of the Potomac River. Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in March 2025) is her first book.

Charlotte Taylor Fryar will be joined in conversation by Sonia Rao.

Sonia Rao is a reporter at The Washington Post, where she covers entertainment and local dining. Originally from the Midwest, she spent time in New England—at Boston University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and as an arts correspondent at The Boston Globe—before moving full-time to Washington, D.C.


Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.

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