I had a great time road tripping up to Camarillo with Louis Armand this week to visit with Sean Carswell and his students at Cal State University Channel Islands. It’s a gorgeous campus that, believe it or not, used to be a state mental hospital and is the inspiration for the Charlie Parker song “Relaxin in Camarillo.” (Srsly.)

It was the perfect setting to read from “Forest of Fortune” and Louis’s fantastic new novel “Cairo,” a madcap romp through time and space that was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. Louis has a website for the book with excerpts, insights and all kinds of interesting ephemera that’s definitely worth checking out. 

Then we read together again on Saturday night along with Heather Fowler, Megan Tuite and TBD at the Media Arts Center in an event organized by The Radvocate and sponsored by So Say We All.