Chelsea G. Summers

Chelsea G. Summers
Born
Janice Ellen Cable

(1962-11-06) November 6, 1962
Illinois, U.S.
Other namechelsea girl
Notable workA Certain Hunger (2020)
Websitewww.chelseasummers.com

Janice Ellen Cable (born November 6, 1962), known professionally as Chelsea G. Summers, is an American blogger, columnist, author, and former stripper.

Early life

Janice Ellen Cable was born on November 6, 1962 in Illinois.[1][2] Her parents divorced when she was six months old and she was completely estranged from her father until 2007.[3][4] Her father was a history professor at the University of North Carolina.[5][6][7] Her mother was an English teacher and public relations director. She has a younger maternal half-sister.[8]

Summers spent her early childhood in Illinois and, briefly, Burlington, Vermont.[2] After her mother's remarriage she lived in a two-room schoolhouse in Huntington, Vermont, where her parents published The Vermont Freeman, an anti-Vietnam War journal.[5][9]

Career

In her early twenties, Summers very briefly worked as stripper for bachelor parties.[10] In 1991 she began waitressing at Peter J. Stringfellow and El Morocco Present Thee DollHouse, a strip club in Manhattan.[11][12] In 1992 she formally debuted as a stripper at Thee DollHouse under the name "Candace".[13] She worked at various strip clubs throughout the next six years while attending college and graduate school.[14]

In 2005, while writing her doctoral dissertation, Summers began the Typepad blog pretty dumb things under the alias "chelsea girl", a reference to the Manhattan neighborhood where she had lived since 1994.[15] Her blog extensively covered her personal life, focusing especially on her sexual encounters, her romantic relationships, and her career as a stripper, which was serialized in a 42-part series entitled "spandex & lucite shoes".[16]

In 2007, following the success of her blog, Summers left her Ph.D. program after nine years to pursue a career as a freelance writer.[17] Previously she had been working at a boutique that sold clothes for dogs.[18] She became a regular columnist for the blogs Fleshbot[19] and Sappho's Girls.[20] In 2015 she became the sex columnist for Adult magazine.[21] Her writing has been published on websites and in magazines including Vulture,[22] The Guardian,[23][24][25] Vice,[26][27][28][29][30] The New Republic,[31][32] and Real Life.[33]

Summers was working as a wine marketing writer in 2011 when her work required her to spend three months in Italy. While there, her friend suggested to her that she write her own Eat, Pray, Love. Instead, she began writing the book that would become her first novel A Certain Hunger (2020), which follows a cannibalistic food critic. Summers has credited her "rage at being middle aged and perimenopausal" and "the feeling of ageism in the writing industry" as inspirations for protagonist Dorothy Daniels's psychopathic rage.[34] She has also cited Amber Tamblyn, Samantha Leigh Allen, Maria Adelmann, Angela Carter, and Matthew Gregory Lewis as literary influences.[35] The book was released first as an audiobook by Audible Studios, before being published in print by Unnamed Press.

An Excellent Host (2024), Summers's second book, was a novella published for Indie Bookstore Day.[36] A retelling of The Bacchae, the story focused on a ritualistic human sacrifice held after an unsuspecting man is invited over for an orgy.[37]

Personal life

Summers has lived in New York City since the 1980s.[38] Summers splits her time between Manhattan and Stockholm.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ girl, chelsea (November 5, 2006). "happy birthday to me?". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on November 28, 2006. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Kochman, Jennifer (August 15, 2015). "Vermont Historical Society Audio Log – Jennifer Kochman Vermont 1970s Project" (Interview). Interviewed by Kate Blofson.
  3. ↑ girl, chelsea (March 22, 2005). "gone daddy gone". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on November 28, 2006. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  4. ↑ girl, chelsea (May 6, 2007). "filling in the blank, part 1". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Summers, Chelsea G. (March 15, 2016). "The Half Dad". Catapult. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  6. ↑ Braun, Stephen (May 31, 1999). "A Parade of Fake War Heroes". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ Haworth, Karla (May 1, 1998). "Tenured Professor Quits U. of North Carolina After Newspaper Questions His Credentials". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  8. ↑ Jennifer Lyon King Kochman, Burlington, Vermont: Burlington Free Press, June 19, 2021, retrieved June 30, 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (June 10, 2015). "Bernie Sanders Was Just Another Hippie Rummaging Through My Mom's Fridge". The New Republic. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  10. ↑ girl, chelsea (April 18, 2005). "spandex & lucite shoes: part 4, in which our heroine finally takes off her clothes for strangers and cold, hard American cash". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on May 6, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  11. ↑ girl, chelsea (March 28, 2005). "spandex and lucite heels: part 1, an introduction". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on April 8, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  12. ↑ "El Morocco: Famous Sup 'n' Sip Is a Strip". The New York Times. September 27, 1992. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  13. ↑ girl, chelsea (April 25, 2005). "spandex & lucite shoes: part 5, licking bear". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on May 6, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  14. ↑ girl, chelsea (March 25, 2005). "c-c-c-c-c-catfight; or, unleashing the blogger within". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on April 30, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  15. ↑ girl, chelsea (April 5, 2005). "the hell down the hall". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on April 8, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  16. ↑ girl, summer (July 16, 2007). "spandex & lucite shoes: part 42, on how a good man is hard to find". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on December 4, 2007. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  17. ↑ girl, chelsea (March 23, 2007). "quite possibly the least erotic post ever". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  18. ↑ girl, chelsea (April 17, 2005). "chihuahua is the new black". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on May 3, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  19. ↑ girl, chelsea (July 31, 2007). "Sex Blog Roundup: Greasing It Up". Fleshbot. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  20. ↑ girl, chelsea (December 26, 2007). "Orlando, Bloom..." Sappho's Girls. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  21. ↑ Somaiya, Ravi (January 18, 2015). "As Playboy and Penthouse Fade, Newer Magazines Tilt Artistic". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 19, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  22. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (December 16, 2014). "A Brief History of Pubic Hair in Art". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  23. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (February 14, 2015). "Blood lust: why period sex shouldn't be taboo in Hollywood or anywhere else". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  24. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (December 1, 2015). "It shouldn't take a rape accusation to prove that sex workers can be raped". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 1, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  25. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (August 23, 2018). "When it comes to women's pockets, size really does matter". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  26. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (April 28, 2015). "Growing Up as a Girl Surrounded by Fuckweasels". Vice. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
  27. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (May 26, 2015). "'Procrasturbation' Is the Last Refuge of the Over-Burdened, Under-Pleasured Worker". Vice. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  28. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (June 10, 2015). "The Tongue-Twisting History of the Many Euphemisms for Eating Ass". Vice. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  29. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (December 21, 2015). "The Year in Male Tears". Vice. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  30. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (January 11, 2016). "What Would Sex Robots for Women Look Like?". Vice. Archived from the original on January 14, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  31. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (June 25, 2015). "Can 'Orange is the New Black' Jailbreak 'Caged Heart'?". The New Republic. Archived from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  32. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (April 19, 2016). "Fifty Shades of Shakespeare". The New Republic. Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  33. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. (September 13, 2016). "Infinite Scroll". Real Life. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
  34. ↑ "An Interview with Chelsea G. Summers on 'A Certain Hunger'". little lady bird. March 26, 2025. Retrieved July 2, 2025.
  35. ↑ Greene, Myka (January 29, 2023). "Interview: Chelsea G. Summers on the feminist cannibal 'nobody ever asked for'". PEN America. Archived from the original on February 1, 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
  36. ↑ Summers, Chelsea G. [@chelseagsummers]; (April 14, 2024). "My new tiny book, An Excellent Host, will be available on April 27, Indie Bookstore Day, only at American independent bookstores. In May, you'll also be able to order it from the publisher, @unnamedpress" – via Instagram.
  37. ↑ Lagunera, Camille (May 4, 2025). "Maenad as Myth of the Modern Woman". Cups of Cami. Retrieved July 2, 2025.
  38. ↑ girl, chelsea (May 9, 2007). "new york, new york, that city liquid in the night". pretty dumb things. Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
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