Under the Awning: Nina MacLaughlin: Thursday, June 18th, 6p

What is summer made of? The smell of cut grass behind the gasoline of a lawn mower. Ponds, lakes, and oceans. The first swim. A sunburn. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Stargazing, spooning, and sleeping with the windows open. Fireflies. 

We're thrilled to welcome local author, Nina MacLaughlin as she reads from her 2020 release, Summer Solstice: An Essay. Gather with us under Pod's awning. The reading will begin at 6p. Standing room only.

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and then as a books columnist for the Boston Globe, and her column on New England Literary News continues in newsletter form. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Most recently, she collaborated with the artist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer in Burning in the Eyes of the Maker- a powerful collection of Dupuy-Spencer’s electrifying paintings, paired with lyrical, incisive text by MacLaughlin. This publication will be released in July.