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Pop-Up: Mary Rechner
PBF PassNovember 4, 2023 @ 1:15 pm - 1:35 pm
Portland Art Museum
Mary Rechner pops-up for a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her short story collection Marrying Friends.
Rechner is paired with the artwork We Await Thee by Robert Colescott; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.
“No one ever changes. Yet no one ever stays the same. In this beautiful, knowing suite of linked stories, Mary Rechner conjures a group of wayward friends and relatives whose youthful loves and betrayals never faded away, and thus whose midlife encounters become rife with unfinished romance and ever escalating emotional damage. Kind of like The Big Chill as imagined by Anton Chekov.” —Jon Raymond, author of Denial
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Bios
Mary Rechner
Mary Rechner is the author of the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women named to the long list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the novella The Opposite of Wow published in the Hong Kong Review. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as New Letters, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Washington Square. Her criticism and essays have appeared in Litro, The Believer, Oregon Humanities, and the Oregonian. Treat is a word and music collaboration curated by Rechner and produced by Core Productions. A recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts and the Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as residencies from Caldera and the Vermont Studio Center, Rechner has taught fiction writing at Portland State University and the University of Portland, and now teaches media arts to high school students. Her novel-in-stories, Marrying Friends, is forthcoming from Propeller Books in October 2023.
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