VOTM: What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had at a reading?
CHADBURN: It wasn’t my reading but during the Tin House Writer’s Conference as Steve Almond read in the outside auditorium this guy tripping on acid came out of the bushes and joined him at the podium.
When Melissa Chadburn is not teaching at UCSD, she can usually be found protesting somewhere. She has written for Guernica, SLAKE, Salon, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and a dozen other places. Her essay, The Throwaways, was noted in 2013’s Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Follow her on twitter @melissachadburn. She loves your whole outfit right now.
Come see Melissa read at Book Show in Frogtown on Friday, August 8 at 7:30pm, and if you’re going to take LSD, please bring enough for everyone.