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Memories & History, Pleasures, Travel

Amtrak adding private rooms on Northeast Regional trains: Boston, NYC, DC

Amtrak’s Superliner bedroom. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amtrak

Travelers booking the rooms will get access to private onboard facilities and get to use Amtrak’s premium lounges in Boston and Washington.

The overnight trains between Washington, DC, and Boston are getting slightly more bearable with upgrades coming this spring. 

Amtrak will offer private rooms on late-night Northeast Regional trains running between Washington and Boston starting in April. The once-daily trains already depart in the evening and arrive in the early morning after a near-10-hour journey in each direction but have been limited to standard coach class and business class seats.

Source: Amtrak adding private rooms on Northeast Regional trains: Boston, NYC, DC

Arts & Humanities, Books & Reading, Libraries, Travel

A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers Webcast | Library of Congress

Video

Kim Roberts discusses her book, “A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston.”

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Source: A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers Webcast | Library of Congress

Current Affairs

‘It’s the End of Small Talk in Washington’ – POLITICO Magazine

Illustration by Ed Fotheringham
Illustration by Ed Fotheringham

But these aren’t normal times. Team Trump is showing few signs so far of hungering for the sort of social intercourse with permanent Washington that usually accompanies a new administration. And many longtime capital denizens in interviews describe themselves as put off by what they see as Trump’s personal vulgarity, and disturbed on some more fundamental level by the tornado of ethical controversies swirling around him.

“I think you are going to need a very strong blender to mix the Washington community with the Trump crowd, and I don’t think it’s going to end up being a smoothie,” says Sally Quinn, widow of the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. “A friend of mine said, ‘It’s the end of small talk in Washington.’”

Source: ‘It’s the End of Small Talk in Washington’ – POLITICO Magazine