Lost City Books Fall Salon

Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our Fall Salon, part of a quarterly reading series where 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.

Revel in the beginning of autumn with us while celebrating D.C.'s flourishing literary community!

about the authors

Nicole Chung is the author of the award-winning memoir , which was named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen other outlets. Her 2018 debut was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Chung has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, The Guardian, Slate, and many other publications.

Issam Zineh is a poet, editor, and public health worker. He is author of The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel, 2021) and Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022), a Trio House Press Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Housatonic Book Award and Balcones Prize for Poetry. His writing appears in AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Yale Review, Prairie Schooner, Split This Rock, and elsewhere. He lives on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock people. www.issamzineh.com.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).

Erin Cecilia Thomas is from Buffalo, New York. She graduated from Berklee College of Music and went on to receive her MFA from Lesley University. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Arts & Letters, and Redivider Journal, among many others. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Beacon Street Prize in Fiction. She has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Jersey, and she currently resides in Nashville with her husband and their dog. I Watched You From The Ocean Floor is her first book.

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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