VOTM: What’s the strangest experience you’ve ever had at a literary event?
POVERMAN: No melodrama, fortunately, which is the way I like it. I’ve been kindly received. People laughed in the right places, looked appropriately grave when it was so required. I think nothing more wayward has befallen me than when the former dean of Yale college set up a reading and then fell into a rhythmic nod, head forward, head back, as he drifted off into a hearty snooze out in the audience.
C.E. POVERMAN‘s first book of stories, The Black Velvet Girl, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. His second, Skin, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His stories have appeared in the O’Henry, Pushcart, and other anthologies. His previous novels are Susan, Solomon’s Daughter, My Father in Dreams, and On the Edge. He’s a former director of creative writing at the University of Arizona, and will read from his new novel, Love by Drowning.
Come see Poverman read at 3rdSpace on Saturday, August 24 at 7pm.