Tonight, October 21st, author Jim Ruland reads from his new short story collection, Big Lonesome at Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR, along with local zinester Joe O'Brien. Ruland was once in the Navy, more recently won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and continues to host the Los Angeles-based reading series Vermin on the Mount. The event starts at 7PM at 921 SW Oak Street.
Big Lonesome(Gorsky Press, 2005) is the debut short story collection by the acclaimed and award-winning writer Jim Ruland. In these twisted, tall tales of America's past and present, Ruland transforms historical fiction into something brutal and weird. Whether he's spinning a lurid yarn about the previous adventures of Popeye the Sailor, imagining Dick Tracy as a San Fernando Valley police detective, or retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood in Nazi Germany, Ruland's stories resonate with the truth of lessons learned the hard way.
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June 2005
OCT 21, 2005 05:06 PM