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Livestream Reading: Meg Weber with Joshua Mohr
February 8, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeAnnie Bloom’s welcomes Portland author Meg Weber for a livestream reading from her debut memoir, A Year of Mr. Lucky. She will be in conversation with Joshua Mohr, whose forthcoming memoir is Model Citizen.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdu6uqTMiHdINPSxg49Gcc1cKGWxhYC3z
About A Year of Mr. Lucky:
When Meg Weber––a recently divorced, queer, single parent––realizes she’s ready to date again, she comes across the profile of Mr. Lucky. He’s a smart dominant with similar interests, but not all goes as planned. In her memoir, A Year of Mr. Lucky, Meg takes us through her journey of erotic encounters, pain and pleasure, explorations of self-worth, submission, yearning, and healing.
“This book is a political act where the story of desire, loss, power, pleasure, pain and standing up take on phenomenal new meanings.” –– Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water
“I could gush on the million, inspiring, literary feats Meg Weber has pulled off in this memoir—but I’ll highlight her authorial eye. Weber never flinches but writes into the messiness of being alive, with hard won painful poignancy. She’s the real deal.” — Joshua Mohr, author of Sirens
About Meg Weber:
Meg Weber writes memoir about sex, grief, love, family, therapy, and tangled relationships. Meg’s writing gives voice to the ways her life continues to unfold outside the boundaries prescribed for her. She is a queer mental health therapist who specializes in gender and sexuality, an adjunct instructor in counselor education, and a clinical supervisor. She lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon with her teenager and their labradoodle named Portland.
About Model Citizen:
After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief. A darkly beautiful, funny, incisive confession, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience, drawing the universal and human out of every moment.
About Joshua Mohr:
Joshua Mohr is the author of the memoir Sirens and of several novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called “beat-poet cool.” His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial.