Castaneda, a long-time award-winning Washington Post journalist, covered the crime beat during the height of the city’s crack epidemic. It was a scene he knew intimately, as he shares in this personal account, since he was swept up in addiction himself. Part memoir and part portrait of a city in crisis, S Street Rising is a vivid account of D.C. during the Barry era. (Bloomsbury)
Sep 14, 2026 7:00 pm - Sep 15, 2026 4:00 am
