Tonight’s reading features writers published through the Center. Two lone scientists work in isolation in what may or may not be an apocalyptic America beyond their locked compound insolo/down, Lauren Allison Lewis’s follow up to her cultishly popular novella, The Beauties. In her short story collectionGet Up Tim, Sally Weigel demonstrates why she has been called the love child of Joe Meno and Joan Didion. Katherine Scott Nelson’s novella, Have You Seen Me, was a double nominee for a 2012 Lambda Literary Award and described by Kirkus Reviews as “refreshingly earnest and artfully wrought.”