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Jim

It was a great relief to bid farewell to this place and the only regret attending our departure was

About Me

Jim Ruland is a regular contributor to Razorcake Fanzine , The Believer , and National Public Radio’s “Day to Day” , and the host of Vermin on the Mount , an irregular reading series in the heart of Chinatown.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

John L. Sullivan's love babies' babies.

Books:

Big Lonesome

My Blog

VERMIN RECAP

Check it out: Famous Father's Day!
Posted by Jim on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:34:00 PST

WHO'S YER DADDY?

Sunday June 17 is Father's Day, but for author Pia Ehrhardt it's the West Coast release of Famous Fathers, Pia's spiffy new collection of scandalous short stories of sex, lies and crawfish in New Or...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:34:00 PST

ME & PIA Z IN L.A.!

Los Angeles, you're in luck: on Saturday June 16 Pia Ehrhardt will be in town to read from her debut short story collection, Famous Fathers, at Dutton's Brentwood Books at 2pm and she's invited yours ...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:32:00 PST

MONDO, OFF-THE-CHARTS UNLUCKY

Pearson has no lucky pants. I repeat: Pearson has no lucky pants.
Posted by Jim on Thu, 03 May 2007 10:35:00 PST

R.I.P. SLAVA

When I should have been basking in the giddy glory of watching the Dodgers rally back in the ninth at PetCo Park last night, or preparing for the NFL draft, this morning I wrote this appreciation of R...
Posted by Jim on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:58:00 PST

SENOR SINISTER & ME

Matt Singer of the Ventura County Reporter wrote a charming review of the reading I did with Bucky Sinister at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo. I'll post a full recap of the reading with photos lat...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:35:00 PST

DEPT. OF WARTIME POETS

A Kenneth Patchen poem as metaphor for the writing process....
Posted by Jim on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PST

BIG LONESOME AT CSUCI

No, its not a spin-off of the popular crime show -- CSUCI stands for California State University Channel Islands and I'll be "reading" there with Senor Sinister on Monday April 9 at 7pm (Reading being...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:12:00 PST

MEXICAN TIME

  It's 58 days until my wedding in Baja and one of the things I've discovered during my many trips across the border is that things move at a slower pace down there, especially once you get o...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:29:00 PST

PRAISE HOLEY CHEESES

Sunday, April 8 at 8pm marks the second coming of Bucky Sinister to Vermin on the Mount! Bucky will be giving a sneak preview of his new book All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go, which doesn't come out...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:25:00 PST