Vermin on the Mount

VERMIN MOURNS

Theresa Duncan passed away last week. Our condolescences go out to her family, friends and loved ones, and especially to Jeremy Blake. The sketch was made during Theresa's reading at The Mountain last year.   

CELEBRATING THREE YEARS OF VERMIN

Three years ago when we offered to set up a reading for Joe Meno's visit to Los Angeles, we had no idea that Vermin on the Mount would turn into a Chinatown mainstay. Three years, seventeen readings, and over fifty writers later we're still going strong. The arrangements are made from Vermin headquarters in San Diego now and your humble host is no longer single, but the rest is the same. Except for the readers of course, which change with every event. Presenting...

The good...

Katherine Taylor is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Rules for Saying Goodbye, a novel of a young woman dissembling and reassembling -- the classic arc of the bounty hunter narrative. Katherine received her MFA from Columbia University and lives in Los Angeles.

The bad...

Michael A. FitzGerald's novel Radiant Days seems innocent enough: a happy-go-lucky dot.comster heads for Budapest with a beautiful Hungarian woman, but what follows is as harrowing as it is gripping. Michael earned an MFA from the University of Montana and comes all the way from Idaho.

The ugly...

Ron Currie, Jr.'s novel-in-stories imagines a world where God comes to earth as a Dinka woman. After she is killed and consumed by a pack of feral dogs, things get ugly on spaceship earth. Ron lives in Maine. God Is Dead is Ron's first book.

HUNAN DECLARED NO-GO ZONE FOR VERMIN

Summer flooding at Dongting Lake in China's southern province of Hunan has forced two billion mice to flee. So far, residents have killed 2.3 million mice since June. Be careful my little furry friends in the East, be very careful.