VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
ROBERGE: Probably a night when all the readers were supposed to go for ten minutes and a poet read 44 minutes (we timed it) of her “epic poem” about…well, among other things, her father going down on a bull. It was, I pray, a dream sequence, but I have never forgotten the line “and the bull’s black balls smacked my father’s fat face!” screamed over and over. That might be the most unusual.
Rob Roberge is the author of four books of fiction—the novels The Cost of Living, More Than They Could Chew and Drive, and the book of stories Working Backwards from the Worst Moment in My Life. Stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He plays guitar with the LA punk band The Urinals.
Come see Rob read at Book Show in Los Angeles on Friday, April 18 at 7:30pm.