Two Letters Collection, Volume 2

by Christopher Lepkowski, Joseph Mattson (Editor), Josh Cochran (Illustrator)

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.

224 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2008

About the author

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer. --Beth Lisick, author of EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL and HELPING ME HELP MYSELF

Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers--everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. EMPTY THE SUN will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. --Jerry Stahl, author of PERMANENT MIDNIGHT and PAIN KILLERS

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, author ARTIFICIAL LIGHT and GUIDED BY VOICES: A BRIEF HISTORY"