VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve ever had at a reading?
BUSTILLOS: I went to hear David Foster Wallace and some others read at the Grove the day after the Iraq War started, and the crowd was overflowing, with people sitting on the floor and everything. The whole world had gone crazy, and here we were, at the Grove. And then Michael Silverblatt started to speak, and very soon he began to weep, and so did everyone else.
Maria Bustillos is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Awl, The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum and here and there around the Internet. She lives in Los Angeles.
Come see Maria’s presentation at 826LA Echo Park on Friday, April 5.