Mark reading from his book in LA tonight (Saturday)

I'll be staying up way past my usual bedtime to give a reading at Vermin on the Mount, at 8pm. It's at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown. 475 Gin Ling Way (in the plaza between College and Hill directly across from the Wishing Well.)

I'll read a couple of things from my book, The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things.

My friend Marc Weingarten is reading from his book, The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution, too.

Here's a closer look at the readers participating in Saturday's event:

BUCKY SINISTER is an accomplished Bay Area poet and the author of several books, including Whiskey & Robots from Gorsky Press. I read with Bucky in Oakland last year and have been trying to get him to down to Los Angeles every since. We've had some amazing poets at Vermin on the Mount, and Bucky promises to be one of the amazingest.

Boing Boing editor MARK FRAUENFELDER is the author of a book that compiles the very worst things in this terrible world we live in. It's called The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things.

Vermin faithful already CAROLYN KELLOGG as the tireless promoter of literary Los Angeles through her podcast Pinky's Paperhaus. But did you know she was recently appointed editor of LAist? Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear her read a hard-hitting account from the mean streets of Koreatown.

MARC WEINGARTEN'S book, The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution, offers a close look and thick description of a unique period in American journalism.

Fun starts at 8, readings at 9, conflagration at midnight.

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