VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
TERRY: One time I read with one of the Super Bowl-winning ’86 Chicago Bears and he was conspicuously hot-boxing in the bathroom behind the stage right before he got up there to read. It was a kind of “Spicoli falling out of a van at prom” type situation when his name was called.
Chris L. Terry is the author of the novel Black Card, a satirical story about a mixed-race punk bassist with a black imaginary friend. NPR called Black Card, “hilariously searing.” Terry’s debut novel Zero Fade was on Best of 2013 lists by Slate and Kirkus. He lives in Los Angeles.
Come see Chris read at La Bodega Gallery in San Diego on Saturday, September 21 at 7pm