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Narrow Books is an independent publisher headquartered in Los Angeles.
We press both art and literature. On the phone no one can tell we operate from our living rooms.
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EVENT! The LA Rock/Swap Meet, 12pm-3pm, Sunday, May 24th Narrow Books will be outside in the courtyard at Space 15 Twenty on Sunday the 24th as one of the participants in the Rock/Swap Meet. Other vendors include Beautiful/Decay, and there'll be live music from All Seeing Eyes, Din Caliber, and Mack Winston & the Reflections. EVENT! 4pm, Saturday, April 25th - Joseph Mattson will be at the Book Soup booth at the LA Times Festival of Books signing Eat Hell! EVENT! May 2nd and 3rd - We'll be at the Unique Los Angeles event downtown—it's a giant, whiz-bang collection of independent designers and artists selling their stuff. Give yourself a few hours at the least! EVENT! Saturday, February 28th 6-10 pm - At Stories bookstore in Echo Park, a double book release event for our recent titles, Eat Hell by Joseph Mattson and Volume 2 of the Two Letters Collection. Featuring DJs, refreshments and a special music set from the notorious Horse Thieves. EVENT! November 1st and 2nd - Narrow Books will be at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco-- look for the white tiger at booth 133! NEWS! October 30th - We just got Two Letters Vol. 2 from the printers. Featuring Josh Cochran, Tod Goldberg, James Greer, Mel Kadel, Joseph Mattson, Brendan Monroe, and others. Be the first to see it when it previews at APE in SF; release events in LA coming soon. NEWS! October 27th - Eat Hell is #1 on Book Soup's fiction paperback bestsellers list! Recommend you visit this amazing independent LA bookstore and pick up a copy. EVENTS! And by God, a lot of them. Joseph Mattson, author of our new mini, Eat Hell, is doing four events in the Los Angeles area in early October:
EVENT! August 9th at Subliminal Projects. Travis Millard and Hey Fudge will be there! at Studio Number One's SIMPLE PLEASURES, an all-day independent publishing showcase. Narrow Books'll be there too, in an unofficial capacity. REVIEWS! Some great reviews of Hey Fudge from Fecal Face and Book By Its Cover. WORTH IT! Check out the film on Travis Millard by ByOsmosis.tv. WHILE YOU'RE AT IT... You should DEFINITELY indulge in this hefty Travis and Mel Kadel studio visit by Tony Larson and Andy Muller.
UPDATES! Sad news. The New York reception at the Riviera Gallery has been cancelled due to Travis' schedule and commitments. Good news! Look for the Fudge book at San Diego Comic Con at the Last Gasp and Little Paper Planes booths.
LA RELEASE EVENT! Tues. July 10th, 7-10pm NEWS! May 30th - Sweet Jesus! We just got the advance copies of Travis Millard's Hey Fudge and it's soo good. Release events in LA, SF, and NY all soon TBA. NEWS! We're currently proofing the new Two Letters: Off Balance anthology and steadily locking pages on the Travis Millard book Hey Fudge. Both for summer release, so check back soon! EVENT! October 2nd - Narrow Books will be at the West Hollywood Book Fair in Los Angeles with Cakewalk magazine and artists Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson. There'll be free handmade buttons and other fun stuff! EVENT! June 11th and 12th - Narrow Books will be at MoCCA's Art Fest in NYC (sharing a corner of comic artist and Two Letters contributor Jamie Tanner's table). PHOTOS! Pics from May's Speakeasy event featuring Narrow Books. EVENT! May 29th - Narrow Books will be featured at Speakeasy, a great monthly book event that's always a good time. You can see bookmarks and descriptions of their past events at the Smartgals website. PHOTOS! From the Alternative Press Expo in SF - Mark and Christopher of Narrow Books with artist/animator Anna Gallaspy, a shot of the table, and Mike Hollingsworth of Baby Bird Comics, our tablemate. MINI-BOOK! We've printed our first mini-book, The Unhappy Future by Christopher Lepkowski, a forty-four page story about the arranged marriage of a girl from Earth and a boy born in space. The fantastic cover was done by artist Travis Millard. EVENT! April 9th and 10th - Narrow Books will be an exhibitor at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco-- look for us there! March 3rd - Christopher Lepkowski and Mark Dischler of Narrow Books spoke to a publishing class at the Art Center College of Design. Afterwards, they took a rewarding stroll through the school's student art gallery, check it out if you can! PHOTOS! See photos from the Book Soup readings and release event and some of the art that was on display. RELEASE EVENT! Wednesday, Jan 26th at 7pm. EVENT! Dec 12th - Here we are at LA's Bazaar Bizarre, a single-afternoon (and folding table-based) commerce bonanza held in the Ukrainian Culture Center, just five days after getting books back from the printers. We were able to barter for table space from Jeremy Joseph of Chimni in exchange for a lamp and one roll of gaffer's tape. [You can also see some wallets and purses with stitched designs by TL contributor Megan Whitmarsh on the table next to us-- Jeremy acted as her proxy salesman.] |
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| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Volume 2 |
| EAT HELL By Joseph Mattson |
| HEY FUDGE By Travis Millard |
| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Volume 1 |