This Reading from Sherman Alexie's New Memoir Is Only 55 Seconds Long

by Christopher Frizzelle LEE TOWNDROW
You know how most live readings are kind of hard to follow because if your mind wanders even for a second, it's difficult to find your way back? And you don't have the text in front of you? And if you get lost in one extraneous detail in the course of a typical 20- or 40-minute reading, you lose all sense of whatever it is you're supposed to notice, and you feel kind of like a jerk or an idiot or a fraud afterward when everyone's going, "Wow, wasn't that ama