Join us on Thursday, March 6 at 7pm when we welcome Michelle Kicherer to celebrate the release of her debut novella, Sexy Life, Hello, with Achy Objeas at 9th Ave!
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Or watch on YouTube Live at the link below:
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Praise for Sexy Life, Hello
"An absolute screaming riot of a novella. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is funny and sexy and completely absurd, short and somehow still a full meal."-- Yael van der Wouden, author of Booker Prize finalist, The Safekeep
"Kicherer deftly satirizes modern pornography and porn addiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Jane's teaching career? Over. Her new gig? Simultaneously ghost-sexting for a famous porn star while working as a high-end nanny. Between blending pureed peas and crafting wild fantasies for porn fans, Jane's life is equal parts absurd and thrilling. Her texts get bolder and the boundaries blur, making Sexy Life, Hello a darkly comic exploration of reinvention, fantasy, and the unexpected places we find ourselves when life throws a curveball. Funny and charming and full of heart."-- Achy Obejas, translator & author of PEN/Faulkner finalist The Tower of the Antilles
About Sexy Life, Hello
After getting fired from her job as a fourth grade teacher, Jane takes on two jobs at once: as a nanny for twin babies and as a sexter for a famous porn star. Soon, Jane is feeding Franny and Zooey with one hand and shooting off ridiculous sexts with the other. At first, she feels it's like a joke: a lot of her clientele are into scat play or "mystical bestiality." By the end of her first month on the sexting-nanny jobs, Jane is making significantly more money than she could have ever made as a teacher. She sees a way to move out of her rundown childhood home on the California Central Coast; a way to finally have a nice place of her own. And it feels great--until Jane realizes she isn't as anonymous as she thought.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO teeters between satire and literary thriller. Infused with creepy-gross moments reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh and Miranda July, a dark, twisting storyline in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, and a dry wit uniquely Kicherer, this fascinating debut novella introduces a bold and exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
About Michelle Kicherer
Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes about books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master's Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award and won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.
About Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of Boomerang/Bumerán, an unique and inspiring bilingual collection of poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She was one of the organizers of the #15novCuba Poesiá Sin Fin 2021 marathon in support of change in Cuba.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
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Or watch on YouTube Live at the link below:
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Praise for Sexy Life, Hello
"An absolute screaming riot of a novella. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is funny and sexy and completely absurd, short and somehow still a full meal."-- Yael van der Wouden, author of Booker Prize finalist, The Safekeep
"Kicherer deftly satirizes modern pornography and porn addiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Jane's teaching career? Over. Her new gig? Simultaneously ghost-sexting for a famous porn star while working as a high-end nanny. Between blending pureed peas and crafting wild fantasies for porn fans, Jane's life is equal parts absurd and thrilling. Her texts get bolder and the boundaries blur, making Sexy Life, Hello a darkly comic exploration of reinvention, fantasy, and the unexpected places we find ourselves when life throws a curveball. Funny and charming and full of heart."-- Achy Obejas, translator & author of PEN/Faulkner finalist The Tower of the Antilles
About Sexy Life, Hello
After getting fired from her job as a fourth grade teacher, Jane takes on two jobs at once: as a nanny for twin babies and as a sexter for a famous porn star. Soon, Jane is feeding Franny and Zooey with one hand and shooting off ridiculous sexts with the other. At first, she feels it's like a joke: a lot of her clientele are into scat play or "mystical bestiality." By the end of her first month on the sexting-nanny jobs, Jane is making significantly more money than she could have ever made as a teacher. She sees a way to move out of her rundown childhood home on the California Central Coast; a way to finally have a nice place of her own. And it feels great--until Jane realizes she isn't as anonymous as she thought.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO teeters between satire and literary thriller. Infused with creepy-gross moments reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh and Miranda July, a dark, twisting storyline in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, and a dry wit uniquely Kicherer, this fascinating debut novella introduces a bold and exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
About Michelle Kicherer
Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes about books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master's Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award and won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.
About Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of Boomerang/Bumerán, an unique and inspiring bilingual collection of poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She was one of the organizers of the #15novCuba Poesiá Sin Fin 2021 marathon in support of change in Cuba.
Join us on Thursday, March 6 at 7pm when we welcome Michelle Kicherer to celebrate the release of her debut novella, Sexy Life, Hello, with Achy Objeas at 9th Ave!
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Mask Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch on YouTube Live at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/rieyb65V0Ls
Praise for Sexy Life, Hello
"An absolute screaming riot of a novella. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is funny and sexy and completely absurd, short and somehow still a full meal."-- Yael van der Wouden, author of Booker Prize finalist, The Safekeep
"Kicherer deftly satirizes modern pornography and porn addiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Jane's teaching career? Over. Her new gig? Simultaneously ghost-sexting for a famous porn star while working as a high-end nanny. Between blending pureed peas and crafting wild fantasies for porn fans, Jane's life is equal parts absurd and thrilling. Her texts get bolder and the boundaries blur, making Sexy Life, Hello a darkly comic exploration of reinvention, fantasy, and the unexpected places we find ourselves when life throws a curveball. Funny and charming and full of heart."-- Achy Obejas, translator & author of PEN/Faulkner finalist The Tower of the Antilles
About Sexy Life, Hello
After getting fired from her job as a fourth grade teacher, Jane takes on two jobs at once: as a nanny for twin babies and as a sexter for a famous porn star. Soon, Jane is feeding Franny and Zooey with one hand and shooting off ridiculous sexts with the other. At first, she feels it's like a joke: a lot of her clientele are into scat play or "mystical bestiality." By the end of her first month on the sexting-nanny jobs, Jane is making significantly more money than she could have ever made as a teacher. She sees a way to move out of her rundown childhood home on the California Central Coast; a way to finally have a nice place of her own. And it feels great--until Jane realizes she isn't as anonymous as she thought.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO teeters between satire and literary thriller. Infused with creepy-gross moments reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh and Miranda July, a dark, twisting storyline in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, and a dry wit uniquely Kicherer, this fascinating debut novella introduces a bold and exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
About Michelle Kicherer
Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes about books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master's Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award and won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.
About Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of Boomerang/Bumerán, an unique and inspiring bilingual collection of poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She was one of the organizers of the #15novCuba Poesiá Sin Fin 2021 marathon in support of change in Cuba.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Mask Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch on YouTube Live at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/rieyb65V0Ls
Praise for Sexy Life, Hello
"An absolute screaming riot of a novella. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is funny and sexy and completely absurd, short and somehow still a full meal."-- Yael van der Wouden, author of Booker Prize finalist, The Safekeep
"Kicherer deftly satirizes modern pornography and porn addiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Jane's teaching career? Over. Her new gig? Simultaneously ghost-sexting for a famous porn star while working as a high-end nanny. Between blending pureed peas and crafting wild fantasies for porn fans, Jane's life is equal parts absurd and thrilling. Her texts get bolder and the boundaries blur, making Sexy Life, Hello a darkly comic exploration of reinvention, fantasy, and the unexpected places we find ourselves when life throws a curveball. Funny and charming and full of heart."-- Achy Obejas, translator & author of PEN/Faulkner finalist The Tower of the Antilles
About Sexy Life, Hello
After getting fired from her job as a fourth grade teacher, Jane takes on two jobs at once: as a nanny for twin babies and as a sexter for a famous porn star. Soon, Jane is feeding Franny and Zooey with one hand and shooting off ridiculous sexts with the other. At first, she feels it's like a joke: a lot of her clientele are into scat play or "mystical bestiality." By the end of her first month on the sexting-nanny jobs, Jane is making significantly more money than she could have ever made as a teacher. She sees a way to move out of her rundown childhood home on the California Central Coast; a way to finally have a nice place of her own. And it feels great--until Jane realizes she isn't as anonymous as she thought.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO teeters between satire and literary thriller. Infused with creepy-gross moments reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh and Miranda July, a dark, twisting storyline in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, and a dry wit uniquely Kicherer, this fascinating debut novella introduces a bold and exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
About Michelle Kicherer
Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes about books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master's Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award and won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.
About Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of Boomerang/Bumerán, an unique and inspiring bilingual collection of poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. She also authored The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a critical hit and a national best-seller. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Wendy Guerra, Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She was one of the organizers of the #15novCuba Poesiá Sin Fin 2021 marathon in support of change in Cuba.
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