This Monday will bring the first installment of the F.W. Thomas Performances, and you, gentle DCist readers, are largely to blame. The series, which bills itself as a “monthly literary variety show featuring live presentations from area writers, artists and musicians,” was started in part because of the great turnout for a reading by writers John Hodgman, Adam Mazmanian and others here in D.C. in December — an event that we’re told DCist readers showed up for in force.

Mazmanian is the man behind the new show, which is being patterned on Hodgman’s NYC-based Little Gray Books Lectures. The inaugural edition will include work by Mondo DC author Jeff Bagato, novelist Sarah Grace McCandless and artist T.M. Lowery. And, in an amazing bit of synergistic nepotism, the show will also include a staging of our very own Jason Linkins‘ short play The Taking Of The Orange Line 1-2-3, featuring a cast that counts Sommer Mathis among its members. It’s about metro-riding, fixating upon terrorism and existential ennui — three things that Washingtonians spend a lot of time on, and therefore must enjoy. And now we’re adding incestuous self-promotion! It’s a Washingtonian quadruple-threat.

We think this would sound like a good time even if staff members weren’t involved. But feel free to show up, enjoy the solo acts, and then protest DCist’s sliding journalistic standards, Gonzalez-at-Georgetown-style. If you’re not feeling militant, though, you might want to just sit back and enjoy the show. We promise it’ll be good.

It’s all happening on Monday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Warehouse Theater (map), which seems to be quickly becoming an important nexus for people who describe their ideal mates in terms of This American Life contributors. Admission is $3; seating is limited.