Vermin on the Mount

Look Who's Coming to Vermin (LA & SD): Louis Armand

VOTM: What's the most unusual experience you've had at a reading?

ARMAND: Maybe strangest thing was reading in front of a picture of Benny Hill (surrounded by a bevy of bikini-clad girls), with a signed dedication to Anthony Burgess. 

LOUIS ARMAND is a Sydney-born writer & visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor, publisher & curator. Currently he lectures in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University & is an editor of VLAK magazine. He has published four novels, Breakfast at Midnight (Equus, 2012), Clair Obscur (Equus, 2011), Menudo (Antigen, 2005) & The Garden (Salt, 2001). In addition, he is the author of seven collections of poetry–most recently, Letters from Ausland (Vagabond, 2011) & Synopticon (with John Kinsella; Litteraria, 2012) & of a number of volumes of criticism, including Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (Litteraria, 2008).

Come see Louis read at 826LA in Echo Park on Friday, October 19 at 7:30pm and at 3rdSpace in San Diego on Saturday October 20 at 6pm.

LITERARY L.A.

Vermin on the Mount gets a nice mention in this excellent write up of the lit scene in L.A. in the Ploughshares feature "Literary Boroughs" (though we prefer the term "rat nests").
A sample:

The literary life of Los Angeles is like a newly discovered shortcut or a charming local bistro. You sort of don’t want anyone to know about it for fear it might get ruined, but you don’t want to be greedy.