The Mid-Atlantic is lovely this time of year.

Or at least it (kind of) was last Thursday night in Washington, DC when the inimitable poet and memoirist Sandra Beasley…

…hosted a reading in the Social Room of her building, The Ontario, featuring novelist Elliott Holt reading from You Are One of Them…

…poet Michelle Chan Brown reading from Double Agent…

…and me, reading from O, Democracy!: 

In spite of torrential rains at the start of the evening, turnout was excellent, and Sandra was, as ever, the hostess with the mostest. Then on Friday, Litmore was kind enough to host Tom Glenn, Eric Goodman, and me, all reading from our respective novels:

Thanks to everyone in both cities who came out to hear literature on a couple of steamy summer nights!