"Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer." -- Beth Lisick, New York Times bestselling author of Everybody Into the Pool and Helping Me Help Myself.  EAT HELL: Plus Two Variations on the Heart Going Down in L.A. is the wrenching, funny, and gut-maniacal new book of stories of unrequited love by Joseph Mattson, author of the much-anticipated forthcoming novel Empty the Sun, which will include a Soundtrack by Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance. A Los Angeles trio of love gone south, Eat Hell occupies a special crux where humility, humanity, and insanity come together in the name of exquisite oblivion. Cover art by the incomparable Mel Kadel.

Eat Hell

Literature & Fiction

Joseph Mattson

Short Stories & Anthologies

Narrow Books

Volume Two in this anthology series features cover art by Josh Cochran; writing by Tod Goldberg, James Greer, Joseph Mattson, Cem Ozturk, Dave Reeves, Daniel Rolf, Lynn Veach Sadler, Nickolay Todorov and Melissa Yancy; and artwork by J. Jacob Bloomer, Josh Cochran, Benoit Guillaume, Peter Hamlin, Sasha Isaac-Young, Mel Kadel, Ronald J. Llanos, Mike Lowery, Travis Millard, Brendan Monroe, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, Shawn Petersen, John Pham, Martha Rich, Suzannah Sinclair, Becky Smith, Frank Stockton, Jamie Tanner, Jeremy Tinder, Mark Todd, Mike Vecchio and Esther Pearl Watson.

Two Letters Collection, Volume 2

Arts & Photography

Christopher Lepkowski

Mark Dischler

Individual Artists

Contributors to this issue include Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin (The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time), acclaimed poet James Meetze (Dayglo), author Trinie Dalton (Wide Eyed, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is), and bestselling author, National Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize nominee Joyce Carol Oates. The featured artist for issue 3 is Ben Tegel.

The Rattling Wall, Issue 3

JOYCE CAROL OATES

David L. Ulin

James Meetze

Jim Krusoe

Angel Nafis

Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles. Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's EMPTY THE SUN, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.

Empty The Sun w/ CD Ltd Ed

Six Organs of Admittance

A Barnacle Book & Record

"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race against God to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, which includes a soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.

Empty The Sun w/ LP Ltd Ed

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