Jessi Jezewska Stevens returns to Lost City Books to discuss her new book in conversation with Johannes Lichtman, author of Calling Ukraine.
About the book:
Stevens’s women throw disastrous parties in the post-party era, flirt through landscapes of terror and war, and find themselves unrecognisable after waking up with old flames in new cities. They navigate the labyrinths of history, love, and ethics in a fractured American present, seeing first-hand how history influences the ways in which we care for – or neglect – one another.
With each story exemplifying Stevens’s ability to examine the big questions through the microscope of a shambolic human perspective, Ghost Pains is a triumphant statement of purpose from one of our greatest young writer-thinkers.
About the author:
Jessi Jezewska Stevens is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q (a NYT Editors' Choice) and The Visitors as well as the story collection Ghost Pains. Her fiction, essays, and reporting have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Times, Harper's, The Paris Review, Granta and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the German-American Fulbright Commission and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, she lives with her partner in Geneva.
The reading will be followed by a conversation between Jessi Jezewska Stevens and Johannes Lichtman.
Johannes Lichtman is the author of the novels Such Good Work, which was chosen as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, and Calling Ukraine. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, The Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Oxford American, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC.
Buy books here and you can pick them up at the event for signing:
Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Such Good Work by Johannes Lichtman
Calling Ukraine by Johannes Lichtman
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator.
This is a free event. RSVP here to help us anticipate the number of guests. Come early to get a seat!