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surrealistic death fantasy? sounds like my kinda party! stay tuned for a big announcement coming tomorrow… 🎃🎃🎃

thank you to the kindest and loveliest for coming by the shop yesterday after a moving reading from her book Ti Amo (recently translated into English by Martin Aitken), at our Fall Salon on Wednesday. Hanne is one of the most admired and prominent writers in contemporary Norwegian fiction, and her novels are published in English by our beloved .❣️she also got a chance to poke around the shop, and took home copies of PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER by Danielle Dutton and THE LONG FORM by Kate Briggs ❣️ thank you so much Hanne! come back soon!

Tonight: our Fall Salon -- a seasonal reading series featuring local and visiting authors

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 together 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.

Featuring:
Stephen Kearse
Hanne Orstavik
Kim Addonizio
Kat Chow

7pm - 9pm on Wednesday, September 25th
at the Line Hotel, 1770 Euclid St. NW, Mezzanine

Please join us! RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/996530829537?aff=oddtdtcreator

attention all: ROONEY FANS, OLGA HEADS, RICHARD POWERS FREAKS, JESSE BALL LUVERS, etcetera etcetera. We have new books for you!!!!!!!

There’s a slight (microscopic) chill in the air and we are rapidly approaching the last day that the sun will set after 7 pm for a concerning amount of time… you know what that means! It’s almost fall, baby! We invite you to join us on Saturday and Sunday, September 28th and 29th, for our second ever SIDEWALK SALE. Come chat with two of our noisiest book-slingers, Perry and Jac, and stockpile some good reads for these soon-to-be dreary days.

Some FAQs:

What is it? We had so much fun cleaning house at our Spring Sidewalk Sale that we decided to do it again! Unmarked books outside are on sale; nothing in-store is discounted.

How much will books cost? $2 for paperbacks, $3 for hardcovers, $5 for oversized books. Go to town!

Anything else to know? Cash or cards will be accepted. Bring your own reusable bags (or head inside and buy yourself an LCB tote)! Receipts will only be available inside (in case you’re interested in a certain deal with a certain pizza restaurant next door), please don’t ask us outside!

tonight at 7pm! 🌟 HOUSEMATES by Emma Copley Eisenberg, in conversation with Tania James 🌟 we’re so excited for this one!

about the book:
When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and one another. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography.

After Bernie’s former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished Daniel Dunn, dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs.

What ensues is a journey into the heart of the nation, bringing the housemates into conversation with people from all walks of life—“the absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide country”—as they try to make sense of the times they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to chase their own ideas and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both romantically and artistically.

Warm and insightful, Housemates is a story of youth and freedom—a glorious celebration of q***r life, and how art and love might save us all.

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new new today! highlights include some spooky stories, paperback romantasy, big Fall Fiction, and a new book of poems from one of our Fall Salon authors (next week!). lots more in store! come by for a look ☁️

Lost City Books and The Line Hotel DC present:

our Fall Salon -- a seasonal reading series featuring local and visiting authors

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 together 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

featuring:
Stephen Kearse
Hanne Orstavik
Kim Addonizio
Kat Chow

7pm - 9pm on Wednesday, September 25th
at the Line Hotel, 1770 Euclid St. NW, Mezzanine

please join us!

✳︎ SEPTEMBER EVENTS ✳︎
RSVP at the link in our bio, we'd love to have you join us.

The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by Stacey D'Erasmo in conversation with Brian Teare - Thursday, September 12th

The Land is Holy by noam keim in conversation with Zein El-Amine - Friday, September 13th

French Girl by Jesse Lee Kercheval in conversation with Amber Sparks - Sunday, September 15th

Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg in conversation with Tania James - Thursday, September 19th

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell in conversation with Johannes Lichtman - Tuesday, September 24th

Lost City Books Fall Salon at the Line DC, featuring Hanne Ørstavik, Kim Addonizio, and Kat Chow - Wednesday, September 25th

today is the last day of our summer sale and the last day of our vacation! use code SUMMERSALE24 for any last min purchases you may need to make. ;-) see you tomorrow!
www.shop.lostcitybookstore.com

Don't fret! This is of course a missive scheduled from the past, we are very much still on vacation. We just wanted to send a reminder that if you haven't yet taken advantage of our sale, there's still time to shop with the 20% discount via our website while we're away with the discount code SUMMERSALE24. We'll begin processing orders once we're back at work on Friday! Can't wait to see you all in the shop xoxoxox
www.shop.lostcitybookstore.com

vacation starts now 🍦 the sale continues on our website while we're away with the discount code SUMMERSALE24. we'll begin processing orders once we're back at work on Friday, August 29th! thank you for all the support last weekend. we miss you already!

Lost City Bookstore White Noise Signed First Edition (Signed Copy) $1,500.00SKU: 9781000298727Viking, 1985, hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition, as signaled by "First published in 1985 by Viking Penguin INC" line on the copyright page. Very good condition overall. Dust jacket is in very goo...

today! is! the! day! our summer sale is finally here. 𓆝 open 10-10 today, 10-9 tomorrow 𓆝 hope to see you at the store.❣️
https://loom.ly/86B-yRc

Sale anticipation going 📈📈📈📈 around here! In addition to all our regular books on the shelves, all of our collectibles will also be discounted 20%! We've compiled a list of our finest rare books as well as some recent exciting acquisitions, "a simple and unadorned 'this is some cool s**t,'" in the event you're looking for a big ticket item for your shopping basket this weekend. Prices listed are the original, un-discounted number (you do the math)! 😘 Full catalog here: https://loom.ly/zu6MT_g

huge day for fans of book stacks! if you’re not a fan of stacks of books, this might not be the right place for you…
(new books out now!)

Three years ago (an eon, basically), we had a crazy idea to try to close the store for a few weeks and give our staff a paid vacation, as if we were in Spain or something. (Ha!) Now, for the third year in a row, we’re doing it! August in DC is here. It’s hot, it’s sticky, and while we do love seeing you and selling you books everyday, we’re gonna need to have a little rest. What is a DC summer without the Lost City Books summer sale?

To celebrate our vacation, we’re holding a 20% off sale on in-store and online purchases the weekend leading up to our break, August 17th and 18th. You can continue to support us by shopping while we’re closed with a 20% discount for online orders from August 19th through 29th. We reserve a store-wide sale for only the most special of occasions, so a paid summer break for our staff is the best way to celebrate.

Mark your calendars for August 17th and 18th, and come out and show your favorite independent booksellers some love, clear out our shelves, and wish us a relaxing and restful vacation. Head to lostcitybookstore.com for more information! 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟 𓆟

TOMORROW! Join us for an event with Dara Baldwin, activist & author of To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement, at 7pm at The Line hotel around the corner! Dara will be in conversation with Sunu P. Chandy, author of My Dear Comrades.

About the book:
To Be a Problem is a searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color.

For over 20 years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are made. Disenfranchisement of people of color and multi-marginalized communities within the disability rights community is not new and has left many inside the community feeling frustrated and erased.

In To Be a Problem, Baldwin candidly shares her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in DC while critiquing the disability rights community. She reveals the reality of erasure for many Black people and people of color in the disability community and argues that, in turn, many white disabled people center themselves within the movement without addressing their own white privilege.

Disability rights groups have been centering white, straight, cisgender people while racial justice groups often fail to center disabled people, leading many Black and Brown disabled people to start their own Disability Justice organizations. Drawing from her unique vantage point, Baldwin calls readers to understand the shortcomings of the disability rights movement while inspiring us to push all movements towards a more inclusive and authentic liberation.

The event will be held in the Lyra & Lynx rooms of The Line Hotel.
The space is accessible through the hotel lobby entrance on 2468 Champlain Street NW. Take the elevator to Level 1; then the rooms will be down the hallway, on your right.
If you use the entrance with the big stone steps at 1770 Euclid St., go straight back, pass through the dining/lounge area, then you'll find the rooms on your left.
Please contact [email protected] with questions or concerns.

we love a sunny bookstore afternoon 🪩 (and yes we have a disco ball.) come by if you know what’s good for ya!

join us next Friday, July 26th at 7pm, for a book talk and poetry reading by multidisciplinary artist Jive Poetic, in conversation with DC's own Jason Reynolds!

About the book:
An innovative memoir—composed of poems, prose, and photographs—that engages with the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, cultural identity, music, and masculinity, by a poetry legend.

Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system” (complete with “records,” “tracks,” “decks,” and “channels”), expertly curated to convey the complexity of Blackness in the Americas. In this ancestral and cultural excavation, Jive conducts archival and oral-history research into his family’s connections to Jamaica, Panama, Brazil, and Cuba to explore the impact of culture, environment, and family on first- and second-generation Black Americans in the United States. He also traces the profound influence that hip-hop, soul, R&B, reggae, and other popular musical genres have had on him—all the while performing a dynamic re-creation of his legendary onstage persona on the page. A raw and affecting indictment of police violence and racism in the United States, Skip Tracer is also a searingly honest exploration of personal identity, power, and privilege—all expressed in the unmistakable language, rhythm, and style that characterizes Jive’s live performances.

next week! join us for a evening with former UK Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, in conversation with Duncan Wu. 🌾Tuesday, July 23rd, 7pm.

about the book:
Waders is made up of fifteen poems that Andrew Motion has written since moving from England to the United States in 2015. It is full of the shock and wonder of such a move, the new seeing and the sadness and the joy. Dazzling in its range of settings and themes, the poems take shape in an equally wide variety of forms as the book takes up haunting questions of home and belonging. Fog and ocean, love and loss.

In the first section of the book, a consideration of place is often linked to pressing ecological issues of our day. In the second, poems about childhood and family intertwine with complicated meditations on generation, inheritance, and independence. And in the long and moving final poem, the jewel of the collection, a startling autobiographical narrative uncovers the poet’s preoccupation with human transience, a preoccupation that binds the whole collection together. Waders is lithe and stunning, a treasure of a book from one of the finest poets writing today.

happy Monday! this is our (wild) running list of items that people have asked if we sell at our bookstore. what should we start stocking first?

a summer evening where the temperature outside has dropped to just-bearable-enough to open the door for the evening; we’ve got some foreign language and poetry gems on the wall for you to peruse 🌞 come by!

hi y’all, we are closed for the day tomorrow in observance of the 100 year anniversary of the invention of the Caesar Salad 🥰 hope you get to set off some fireworks in the street! (it’s what Caesar would have wanted.)
we’ll be back regular hours on Friday! 🎇

it’s here! ❇️ summer is a season of abundance: there are fresh cherry tomatoes, fragrant flowers, sweaty park hangs, and of course lots and lots of new books! we're created this Summer Reading guide to help you sift through your options. everything on this list is coming out in June, July, or August (books not yet released have their pub dates noted!), plus as always, we’ve included some delightfully summery backlist books. please enjoy posted up on a stoop or a roof, alongside a icy lime flavored popsicle or a cold beverage, dirty bare feet, belly out, sun in your eyes, etcetera. ❇️ head to the link below to view the digital flipbook, and to shop these picks via our website. happy reading! 💚, LCB
https://issuu.com/lostcitybooks/docs/lcb_summer_reading_2024_1_