What do fashion and lacrosse have in common? Let’s find out! Jessica Anya Blau and S.L. Price celebrate their new books in conversation with Elizabeth Hazen and with live 80’s music from Steve Martel.
Shopgirls, the new release from Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane, is a novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s. It revolves around San Francisco’s most exclusive department store, I. Magnin– and questions of self-discovery, family, and outrageous fashion.
The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse is the powerful story of a sport that, perhaps more than any other, captures the complexity of America in its ongoing effort to achieve a more perfect union.
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Jessica Anya Blau’s novels have been featured on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and NPR, and in Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Bust, Time Out, Oprah Summer Reads, Oprah Daily, and other national publications. Jessica’s books have been translated into many languages and have been optioned for film and television. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. Jessica sometimes works as a screenwriter, a ghost writer, and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and The Fashion Institute of Technology. Jessica grew up in Southern California and now lives in New York City.
S.L. Price, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for twenty-six years, is the author of four previous books, including Playing through the Whistle, Finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Pitching around Fidel, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Price has also written for Vanity Fair, New York Times, Time, and Oxford American. He lives in Washington, DC with his family.
Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist. After teaching for twenty years, she changed tracks and now works at an independent bookstore. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Epoch, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has published two collections of poetry, Chaos Theories (2016) and Girls Like Us (2020). Her third collection, The Sky Will Hold, is forthcoming in March 2026. She lives in Baltimore with her family.
