VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
MALONEY: I was in the audience at the Lil Bitch Tour reading in Portland, Oregon in 2012. The event was outdoors in a public park. At one point a naked homeless man walked up behind the stage holding a plastic garbage bag over his crotch. He hung out for a while and then the cops came and arrested him and hauled him off to jail. This all played out while the readers (Scott McClanahan, Elizabeth Ellen, and Chelsea Martin) were performing. Being the pros that they are, they just powered through, giving the evening a feeling of surrealist urban theater.
Kevin Maloney was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976. He lived for a time in Vermont but currently resides in North Portland with his girlfriend and daughter. At times a TJ Maxx associate, grocery clerk, outdoor school instructor, organic farmer, apprentice electrician, student teacher, and teddy bear salesman, he currently works as a web developer and writer. His debut novel Cult of Loretta was published by Lazy Fascist Press in May. His stories have appeared in Hobart, PANK, Monkeybicycle, and a number of other literary journals.
Come see Kevin read at Book Show in Highland Park on Friday, June 12 at 7:30pm and at 3rdSpace in University Heights on Saturday, June 13 at 7:30pm.