Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of Ghost Pains, in conversation with Lynn Steger Strong

Porter Square Books is delighted to welcome Jessi Jezewska Stevens for the release of Ghost Pains! Lynn Steger Strong will join Stevens in conversation. This event will take place on Thursday, March 21 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140).

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With her novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction--originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review, Harper's and Tin House--some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers.

Stevens's women throw disastrous parties in the post-party era, flirt through landscapes of terror and war, and find themselves unrecognizable 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.

Jessi Jezewska Stevens is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, as well as the story collection Ghost Pains. Her fiction, criticism, 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.

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and Flight. She teaches writing at Princeton and Columbia Universities. 

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