Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our Summer Salon, the second installment in 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:
Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a finalist for a LAMBDA Literary
Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice: An Essay. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and writes a weekly books column for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Ph.D., is the author of three books: the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel and the Balcones Fiction Prize; Blue Talk and Love, winner of the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary; and The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the MLA. She has earned honors from Bread Loaf, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Fiction, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Harlem, NY, Mecca is a Professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC.
Jonny Teklit has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, Catapult, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. He is a former Lost City bookseller and a current MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Johannes Lichtman’s debut novel, Such Good Work, was chosen as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. His second novel, Calling Ukraine, was named one of the best fiction books of 2023 by Library Journal. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, The Paris Review Daily, Foreign Policy, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC.
Buy books:
Calling Ukraine by Johannes Lichtman
Such Good Work by Johannes Lichtman
Summer Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin
Winter Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Blue Talk and Love by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
The event will be held on the Mezzanine inside The Line hotel.
(If you enter through the Euclid Street entrance, the stairs to the mezzanine will be immediately on your right. For elevator access, enter through the side entrance at 2468 Champlain St NW, and ask front desk staff for directions to the mezzanine.)
RSVPs are appreciated!!
**Stay tuned for our Fall Salon in September!!