VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
FRANGELLO: I was the second writer slotted at a reading series in Chicago, and the first guy who stood up to read performed his piece entirely in Vulcan. With no translation. My husband bit the insides of his mouth so hard to keep from laughing that by the time I was reading my work he was sitting there swallowing his own blood.
Gina Frangello is the author of three books of fiction: A Life in Men (Algonquin 2014), which has been a book club selection for NYLON magazine, The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown; Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press 2010), which was a Foreword Magazine Best Book of the Year finalist, and My Sister’s Continent (Chiasmus 2006). She is the Sunday editor for The Rumpus and the fiction editor for The Nervous Breakdown, and is on faculty at UCR-Palm Desert’s low residency MFA program in Creative Writing. The longtime Executive Editor of Other Voices magazine and Other Voices Books, she now runs Other Voices Queretaro, an international writing program in the Central Highlands of Mexico.
Come see Gina read at Book Show in Los Angeles on Friday, April 18 at 7:30pm.