Lost City Books Spring Salon

Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our Spring Salon, part of a quarterly reading series. Each time, we invite talented authors doing exciting work in all different genres to join us and read aloud a piece of their choosing. We'll eat, drink, talk, and listen, meet fellow lovers of literature, discover new authors, and mark the changing of the seasons together.

Help us welcome in the spring and celebrate our city's vibrant literary community!

about the authors

Tania James is the author of four works of fiction, including most recently the novel Loot, which was longlisted for The National Book Award and the Carol Shields Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Granta; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; and One Story, among other places, and thrice featured on Symphony Space Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor of English in the MFA program at George Mason University.

Becca Rothfeld is the non-fiction book critic at the Washington Post and an editor at The Point. Her debut essay collection, All Things Are Too Small, was published by Metropolitan Books in 2024.

Zak Salih is the author of the novel Let's Get Back to the Party, recommended as a must-read book in 2021 by O, the Oprah Magazine; BuzzFeed; Cosmopolitan; The Millions; Electric Literature; Vanity Fair; The Advocate; Harper's Bazaar; Kirkus Reviews; Lambda Literary; and other publications. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, Foglifter, Epiphany, The Florida Review, The Millions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in Washington, DC.

Lena Moses-Schmitt is a writer and artist. Her debut poetry collection True Mistakes was selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Her work appears in Best New Poets, The Believer, Ecotone, The Rumpus, Narrative, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in New York.

The event will be held in the Carina room of The Line hotel.

Seating will be first come first served. Doors open at 7pm.

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