About this Event
Lost City Books welcomes you to attend our Spring Reading Series, the latest installment of a quarterly 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.
Unlike previous installations of the reading series, this time we're charging a $5 ticket. We want to continue elevating this beloved reading series of ours, we want to keep bringing authors you love, and we believe the ticket price is a small step towards doing just that. All the money from ticket sales goes back into making the event the best it can be.
about the authors
Caren Beilin is the author of the novel Sea, Poison (New Directions, 2025), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her previous books include Revenge of the Scapegoat (Dorothy, 2022)—winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction—Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), Spain (Rescue Press, 2018), The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014), and the chapbook Americans, Guests, or Us (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2012). Some of these titles have been published abroad with Scribner (UK), The Last Books (Amsterdam), and los tres editores (Madrid). She lives in Cleveland where she is Fiction Editor for Cleveland Review of Books and an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University.
Arden Levine is the author of Spoke (The Word Works’ Hilary Tham Capital Collection, 2026; National Poetry Series Finalist, 2024), and Ladies’ Abecedary (Harbor Editions, 2021). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in AGNI, Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, RHINO and elsewhere, and have been featured by Poetry Society of America, Poetry Foundation, and WNYC's Radiolab. Arden is a member of the National Book Critics circle and serves on the boards of Beloit Poetry Journal and No, Dear. She lives in New York City and works in urban housing policy and community development.
Nancy Lemann is the author of Lives of the Saints, The Ritz of the Bayou, Sportsman’s Paradise, The Fiery Pantheon, Malaise, and her latest from NYRB: The Oyster Diaries. She has written for the Paris Review, Harper’s, the Oxford American, Lapham’s Quarterly, and more.
Sylvia Jones teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and a senior reader for the journal, Ploughshares. Her debut collection, Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024), was published last fall. Its follow-up, Dope Calisthenics, is forthcoming from Relegation Books. Her writing appears in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Shenandoah, Common Place Poetics, the American Poetry Review, the Hopkins Review, Long News Magazine and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. She lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland.
The event will be held on the first floor of The Festival Center. Seating will be first come first served. Doors open at 7pm.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road Northwest, Washington, United States
USD 6.24
