Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our inaugural Spring Salon, the beginning of a new quarterly reading series featuring both local and visiting authors. Join us for a celebration of our city's vibrant literary community, hosted inside the historic cornerstone building at the heart of Adams Morgan, The Line hotel.
LCB has gathered a lineup of talented writers doing exciting work in all different genres. We'll eat, drink, talk, and listen, meet fellow lovers of literature, discover new authors, and mark the changing of the seasons together.
The authors:
Zito Madu will be traveling from New York on the heels of the publication of his new book The Minotaur at Calle Lanza, a surrealist debut memoir set in Venice in 2020. Zito is a Nigerian-born writer who grew up in Detroit, Michigan. A former narrative director at several creative agencies, sportswriter, soccer player, and engineering student, he now lives in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in publications including Plough Quarterly, Victory Journal, GQ Magazine, the New Republic, and the Nation.
Catherine Barnett will also be traveling from New York, though she spent the first six years of her life in DC! Catherine is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space which comes out on May 7th. You can read a recent poem of hers published in The New Yorker here. She is also the author of Human Hours (2018 Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). A Guggenheim fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other recognitions. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, and elsewhere. She teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.
Lily Meyer is a DC-based author, translator, and critic. Her first novel, Short War, which has been called "a sharp exploration of the long afterlife and peripheral impact of historical trauma" (Danielle Evans),was released on April 9th this year. A contributing writer at the Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians.
Sunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She is the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India, and lives in Washington, DC with her family. Sunu’s award-winning collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, was published by Regal House in 2023. Sunu’s work can be found in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets and The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward, and serves on the board of the Transgender Law Center. Sunu has been named as one of the Queer Women of Washington.
Buy books:
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett
Short War by Lily Meyer
My Dear Comrades by Sunu P. Chandy
The event will be held on the Mezzanine in the Line hotel. Doors open at 7!
Please contact events@lostcitybookstore.com with questions or concerns.
**Next in the series will be our Summer Salon on June 12th, featuring Nina MacLaughlan, author of Summer Solstice, Johannes Lichtman, author of Calling Ukraine, and others to be announced!