VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
MOHR: i read in oakland this past saturday, and a probably off-her-meds woman cornered me at the break, saying that in 1979 i trashed her band on the internet and what’s my fucking problem? when i stupidly suggested that i was 3 in 1979 and there was no internet, per se, she told me to stop “pissing on her online platform.” then i apologized and bought her a soda water.
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as Termite Parade, an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel All This Life was recently published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull.
Come see Joshua 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.