VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
ORTIZ: The host got tired of reading the writer’s bios in full and just started letting them trail off into “etc., etc.” and “yadda yadda yadda” like endings.
Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015) and the forthcoming Bruja (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hazlitt, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and The Nervous Breakdown, among other places. Wendy co-founded the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, which she’s curated and hosted since 2004 in Los Angeles.
Come see Wendy read at Book Show in Highland Park on Friday, August 21 at 7:30pm and at 3rdSpace in University Heights on Saturday, August 22 at 7:30pm.