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Joseph Mattson

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http://www.emptythesun.com

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Editor/contributor. Anthology of new fiction about the drug speed, feat. William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Megan Abbott, James Greer, and more. Akashic Books).

EMPTY THE SUN (Novel with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance)

EAT HELL

TWO LETTERS COLLECTION OF ART & WRITING VOL. 2

GIRLVERT: A PORNO MEMOIR by ORIANA SMALL aka ASHLEY BLUE (Edited by Joseph Mattson)

Forthcoming/In-Progress:

COURTING THE JAGUAR (novel)
HEXICO (novel)
WESTERN VIOLENCE AND BRIEF SENSUALITY (screenplay)
ALL THAT MATTERS IS THE WOLF (poems)
LAST SEEN IN BARSTOW/LAST SCENE IN BARSTOW (play)
JESUS DICE (novel)
HUNTED BY SAVAGES (nonfiction)

Also editing VIRGINS IN REVERSE and THE INTRUSION, two excellent novellas by Gabr ...more

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	Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Joseph Mattson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Oriana Small (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 1,477 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Speed Chronicles 3.64 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empty The Sun by Joseph Mattson (Goodreads Author), Six Organs of Admittance (CD Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eat Hell by Joseph Mattson (Goodreads Author), Mel Kadel (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slake: Los Angeles, A City and Its Stories, No. 2: Crossing Over by Laurie Ochoa, Joe Donnelly (Editor), James Greer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slake: Los Angeles, A City and Its Stories, No. 3: War & Peace by Joe Donnelly, Laurie Ochoa, James Greer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slake: Los Angeles, A City and Its Stories, No. 4: Dirt by Laurie Ochoa (Editor), Joe Donnelly, Joseph Mattson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Letters Collection, Volume 2 by Christopher Lepkowski, Joseph Mattson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Josh Cochran (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Speed Chronicles. Edited by Joseph Mattson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empty the Sun Paperback – September 7, 2010 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing. The whole thing is by turns hilarious and hilariously sad, artfully pin-holed with melancholy (my favorite drink)… Empty the Sun is an impressive achievement, as well as an excellent and I believe as yet unused name for a rock band.”
― James Greer, Artificial Light

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“Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.”
― Beth Lisick, Everybody into the Pool: True Tales – A Bestselling and Irreverent Memoir of Life's Paradoxes from Suburbs to Fringe

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message 3: by Devri

Dec 10, 2011 04:37AM

DEVRI LOVES JOSEPH.

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message 2: by Brian

Apr 20, 2010 08:46AM

You're the nuclear bomb that I want to be around to see go off.

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message 1: by D.

Jan 14, 2010 12:33PM

Hey, man! How ya doing? No LA for me that I know of...but maybe in the next couple of months. I need to get up there every so often to de-program the bullshit merchant Orange County stimuli out of me.

Good reading & writing to you, my friend.

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