Please join me in celebrating the launch of Christine Sneed’s hilarious fifth book, Please Be Advised, at Women and Children First in Chicago.

About the book:

Please Be Advised is award-winning author Christine Sneed's bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21stcentury. Mixing cultural critique and formal inventiveness with wicked laughs and the sort of surrealistic mysteries only a novel about the corporate world could give us, Please Be Advised tracks the decline, fall, and possible resurrection of Quest Industries, one of the world's foremost purveyors of collapsible, portable, and (occasionally) dangerous office machines. Featuring a rogue's gallery of corporate cogs from drunk, womanizing, and often-delusional CEO Bryan Stokerly, Esq. to his executive secretary, the brainy, libidinous Hannah Louise Schmidt and his soon-to-be-rival, new office manager and disgraced former coroner, Dr. Ken Crickshaw, Jr., Please Be Advised will leave you laughing at a work world more like our own than most of us would care to admit.

About the Author:

Christine Sneed is the author of Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos (7.13 Books, 10/18/22) and the editor of Love in the Time of Time's Up (Tortoise Books, 10/4/22), a short fiction anthology, to which she is also a contributor. Her four previous books include Little Known Facts and The Virginity of Famous Men. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, the New York Times, O Magazine, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, New Stories from the Midwest, Glimmer Train, and many other periodicals. She has received the Grace Paley Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, among other honors. She teaches for the MFA programs at Northwestern University and Regis University.