LARB Podcast #70: Jim Ruland

Published: Oct. 10, 2014, 5:14 p.m.

Colin Marshall talks with Jim Ruland, founder of the Southern California-based reading series Vermin on the Mount and a columnist at Razorcake and San Diego CityBeat. He is the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the new novel Forest of Fortune, the story of three haunted souls \u2014 an alcoholic, an epileptic, and a gambling addict \u2014 who try to turn their luck around at a decrepit Indian casino.