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VIDEO! PHOTOS! MORE! ALBERT REYES: The Art of The Rattling Wall Wrap-up - Good times were had by all who came out to the opening night party for ALBERT REYES: The Art of The Rattling Wall at Synchronicity Gallery. If you didn't make it, check out the LA Weekly Slideshow, PEN Center USA's Facebook photo gallery, or this video interview with Albert Reyes that covers the opening, his artwork, and the event.
VIDEO! PHOTOS! MORE! The Rattling Wall Release Party Wrap-up - Thanks to everyone who came out to The Rattling Wall release and reading at the Hammer Museum last week. If you couldn't make it, check out the L.A. Times blog, this photo slideshow, or this great video covering the opening and the origin of the journal.
VIDEO! Authors@Google: Travis Millard - A few months back, artist Travis Millard (creator of Narrow Books release, Hey Fudge) gave a talk at Google about his career as an artist. Travis gets emails from young artists and art students all the time asking how he's "made it", and, every time, he explains it's more about sitting at the drawing board than a by-the-numbers "this is how you become a professional" plan. See the whole Google talk here! VIDEO! The Showdown - Jeff Garlin vs Joseph Mattson - Narrow Books friend and author Joseph Mattson has been touring in support of his new book out with Barnacle Books, Empty the Sun, a novel featuring a soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance. You can now see this awesome co-promotional book trailer for both Joseph's Empty the Sun and comedian/actor Jeff Garlin's book My Footprint! SHOP! Unique LA and Apartment 3 store at H.D. Buttercup, On-going thru 2011 - Unique LA and Apartment 3 have teamed up for a pop-up shop at Helms Bakery in Culver City. Located inside the H.D. Buttercup furniture store, this beautiful 3,700 sqare foot space is filled with the best of the best in design, art gifts, and apparel. Find titles from Narrow Books interspersed throughout the shop! Located at 3225 Helms Avenue. Open 10am-7pm Monday through Saturday and from 11am-6pm on Sundays. |
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| THE RATTLING WALL - Issue 2 | $18.95 |

Featured Artist: Lyndsey Lesh

The Rattling Wall is a new literary journal that features sophisticated short fiction, travel essays, and poetry. Contributors to this issue include writer and media icon Henry Rollins, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, poet and New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear, and author Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like). The journal is edited by Michelle Meyering, and the featured artist is Lyndsey Lesh.
The Rattling Wall is generously funded by PEN Center USA.
ISBN 978-0-9760388-5-6
288 pages, 6" x 9"
Square bound, $18.95
Note: All pre-orders will be shipped after February 8th, 2012.
FEATURING WRITING BY:
Gene Albamonte
Eric Amling
Diana Anhalt
Katie Arnoldi
Refael Paul Arenson
Laurel Crosby
Natashia Deon
Dana Goodyear
Anna Journey
Noelle Kocot
Ron Koertge
Yusef Komunyakaa
Keetje Kuipers
Christian Lander
Michal Lemberger
Helena Lipstadt
Paul Maliszewski
Rick Marlatt
Lou Mathews
Graham Moore
Kevin Nolan
Jamie O'Halloran
Claire Ortalda
Dale Pendell
Martin Pousson
Henry Rollins
Jim Ruland
Jon Sands
David Shook
Alan Soldofsky
J. Ryan Stradal
Andrew Tonkokich
Erik Wennermark
Paula Younger
| THE RATTLING WALL - Issue 1 | $18.95 |
| HEY FUDGE By Travis Millard | $30 |
| EAT HELL By Joseph Mattson | OUT OF STOCK |
| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 2 | $22 |
| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 1 | $12 |
































Yeti Logic (Rojo) features the embroidery that's the most recognized and imitated part of artist Megan Whitmarsh's catalog. Threadwork house parties with boom boxes and yetis are iconic without being parodic; it's a cute reworking of pop detritus where the ultramodern stuff that normally fills you with anxiety becomes not just nonthreatening but actually fun again. Hardcover import from Spain, limited to 500 copies. Some signed. 160 pages, 110mm x 150mm.
Unlovable Vol. 1 (Fantagraphics). True story: artist Esther Pearl Watson found a teenager's diary in a public bathroom. She then proceeded to recreate the girl's embarrassingly personal (yet surprisingly universal) story in the milieu of a low-brow rural high school. This hardcover is replete with glitter nail polish highlights and expands on Esther's Unlovable comics zines to give you a sophomore-year-in-the-life of the desperately unlovable Tammy Pierce. Hardcover, 416 pages, 5.75" x 5.75".
1-Up MegaZine #3 is another round of homage to video game culture with contributions by cool artists like Jordan Crane, Sammy Harkham, Bwana Spoons, kozyndan, and Megan Whitmarsh. All the issues are great, but this one is probably the prettiest. Edited by Raina Lee and designed by John Pham. Square bound, 102 pages, includes silk-screened trading card.
Epoxy #3 John Pham's Sublife comics are now put out by the comic book kings at Fantagraphics, but before that he was publishing Epoxy himself with the aid of a Xeric grant. John's since said that looking at some of the Epoxy work is like looking at his high school senior portrait, but there's no doubt that this "giant format" third and final issue (including the lauded "Oceanus Vs. the Venusian Crayfish" story) was and remains a landmark book. Square bound, 104 pages.

