Join us for a new reading series in partnership with Lost City Books. A celebration of DC’s vibrant literary community, the series features talented local and visiting authors alike, all doing exciting work in different genres. We’ll eat, drink, talk, and listen, meet fellow lovers of literature, discover new authors, and mark the changing of the seasons together.
Fall authors: Stephen Kearse (essays), Kat Chow (memoir), Kim Addonizio (poetry), and Hanne Ørstavik (fiction)
Refreshments will be provided.
Mezzanine is an ADA-accessible space on the first floor
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Stephen Kearse is the author of Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light. He works as an editor at Spotlight PA and a contributing writer at The Nation. His essays and reporting have been published by the New York Times, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, NPR, The Washington Post, and other outlets. His short stories have been published in Joyland, The Deadlands, Plotter, and FIYAH. He’s lived in the DC area for 10 years, and feels comfortable in all traffic circles, even Dupont.
Kat Chow is a reporter and writer, and the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), named a Notable Book by The New York Times. She was a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding member of the Code Switch team and podcast. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, among others. She’s a contributor to Pop Culture Happy Hour and Slate’s Culture Gabfest and has received residency fellowships from Storyknife, Millay Arts and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. She is currently George Washington University’s Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington.
Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. Exit Opera (poems) is just out from W.W. Norton. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been translated into several languages. Her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom. https://www.kimaddonizio.com
Hanne Ørstavik, one of the most admired and prominent writers in contemporary Norwegian fiction, published her first novel, Cut, in 1994. She has since been translated into more than 16 languages. Martin Aitken’s translation of Love was a 2018 National Book Award finalist and won the 2019 PEN Translation Prize. Celebrated novels The Pastor and Ti Amo have also appeared with Archipelago Books.
