VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
LEMBERGER: Given the nature of readings, the unusual is never entirely unexpected, so here’s one story: at the very first reading I went to after moving to LA, I sat near a man and woman who came in together. He looked too cool for school. She was drop dead gorgeous. So when we struck up a conversation afterward and he asked me for my address so that he could send me *something* about poetry in LA, that’s all I gave him (because I was an idiot). He wrote me a letter. She was just a friend.
Michal Lemberger is the author of the short story collection, After Abel and Other Stories. She’s published poetry in The Rattling Wall, The Bellevue Literary Review, and other publications, and was thrilled to have one of her poems featured on Daily Poetry. Her prose has appeared in Slate, Salon, The Smart Set, and other publications that begin with the letter “S.” Originally from New York, she lives in LA, and—20 years later—still kind of can’t believe it.
Come see Michal read at Book Show in Highland Park on Friday, June 12 at 7:30pm.