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EVENT! *THE RATTLING WALL Issue 2: Reading & Release* - PEN Center USA and Narrow Books proudly present the release of the journal's second issue at Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, February 4, 2012, at 7PM. The event will feature readings by Dana Goodyear (Honey and Junk); Jim Ruland (Big Lonesome); Katie Arnoldi (Point Dume); Graham Moore (The Sherlockian); Jon Sands (The New Clean); and Martin Pousson (No Place, Louisiana). Admission is free, and a book signing will follow the reading! NEWS! Pushcart Nominations! The Rattling Wall is proud to announce 2012 Pushcart Nominations for Issue 1's contributors Joseph Mattson, Marissa Tinloy, Tod Goldberg, Blake Butler, Libby Flores, and Stacey Waite. Good luck to all! 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. EVENT! ALBERT REYES: The Art of The Rattling Wall at Synchronicity Gallery, Sat. August 13th, 7pm - Join PEN Center USA and Narrow Books for the opening night reception of ALBERT REYES: The Art of The Rattling Wall. The show will feature artwork from Issue 1 of The Rattling Wall literary journal, as well as new work by Albert Reyes and a mural on the gallery's outside wall. RSVP Now! The show runs from August 13 - 27, 2011. EVENT! The Rattling Wall in Los Angeles - Reading at Book Soup, Wednesday, June 29, 7pm - Join The Rattling Wall on June 29 at Book Soup (8818 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069) for an ensemble reading, featuring: Sam Dunn, Libby Flores, Alisa Slaughter, KM Droney & Eric Layer. Drinks will follow reading. RSVP Now! EVENT! The Rattling Wall in Los Angeles - Reading at Skylight Books, Thursday, June 23, 7:30pm - Join The Rattling Wall on June 23 at Skylight Books (1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027) for an ensemble reading, featuring: James Greer, Lou Mathews, Jessica Garrison, Kathleen Tyler & Lisa Giaffo. Drinks will follow reading. RSVP Now! 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. EVENT! SHOP! The Rattling Wall at The Silver Lake Jubilee, Saturday, May 21th, 2:15pm - Join us at the PEN Center lit stage for readings by The Rattling Wall contributing authors Lou Matthews, Libby Flores, DJ Pangburn, Monica Carter, and Denise Emanual Clemen. And contributor Joseph Mattson will be immediately following on the stage at 3pm! Books will be available at the event, or find them at fine bookstores in L.A. including Book Soup and Skylight Books! EVENT! The Rattling Wall: Reading and Release at the Hammer Museum, Wed. May 11th, 7pm - Join us for the release of Issue 1 of The Rattling Wall, a new literary journal published by Narrow Books and generously funded by PEN Center USA! Featuring readings by Narrow Books alum Joseph Mattson, recent Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Matthew Zapruder, and others! Free admission, cash bar, and live DJ! 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. News Archive »

The Rattling Wall - A Literay Journal - Issue 2

THE RATTLING WALL - Issue 2

$18.95

The Rattling Wall - A Literay Journal

Featured Artist: Lyndsey Lesh

Artwork by Albert Reyes
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 - A Literay Journal - Issue 1

THE RATTLING WALL - Issue 1

$18.95

HEY FUDGE By Travis Millard

$30

EAT HELL By Joseph Mattson

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TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 2

$22

TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 1

$12

Books Make Great Gifts!

The Rattling Wall Issue 2 is a new literary journal. 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 featured artist for Issue 2 is Los Angeles artist Lyndsey Lesh. Square bound, 288 pages, 6" x 9".

$18.95

The Rattling Wall Issue 1 is a new literary journal that excels in both content and style. Contributors to this first issue include 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Matthew Zapruder and 2011 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award recipient Brando Skyhorse. The featured artist for Issue 1 is Los Angeles artist Albert Reyes. Square bound, 256 pages, 6" x 9".

$18.95

Hey Fudge is the first solo book featuring the art and comics of Travis Millard, including many pieces previously only published by hand in small batches at the artist's studio. Presented within are dreamscapes full of oddballs, biting caricatures of neo-conservatives, and a thirty page opus entitled "Michael Jackson in Exile," starring a timid-looking pop star cast out of society and into the threatening jungles of Borneo. Flexi-bound, 240 pages, landscape format.

$30

TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 2

Two Letters Vol. 2 is the hefty new entry in our anthology series. Award-winning writers dazzle with clever tales that we've sandwiched between works by our favorite artists. In addition, specific illustrations to partner the prose have been provided by artist Josh Cochran and others. Square bound, 224 pages.

$22

TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Volume 1

Two Letters Vol. 1 Loosely structured around the theme of "sneaking in", Two Letters is our first collection of fiction, nonfiction, art, comics, poetry and photography, featuring a number of artist who've gone on to impressive acclaim. An engaging book that is by turns comical, tender, and grotesque. Square bound, 144 pages, 6" x 9".

$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.

$40

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".

$23

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.

$12

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.

$12

EAT HELL: Plus Two Variations on the Heart Going Down in L.A. is a wrenching and funny book of stories by Joseph Mattson, author of the much-anticipated new novel Empty the Sun. Eat Hell occupies a special crux where humility, humanity, and insanity come together under that weird Los Angeles shadow of oblivion. Cover art by the incomparable Mel Kadel. Square bound, 80 pages, 4.25" x 5.5".

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THE UNHAPPY FUTURE by Christopher Lepkowski

The Unhappy Future mini-book was our first foray into short-form publishing. Hand-folded and staple-bound (or, if you'd like to be fancy, "saddle-stitched") The Unhappy Future is a short story by Narrow Books cofounder Christopher Lepkowski that describes the arranged marriage of a girl from Earth and a boy from space. Cover art by Travis Millard. Saddle stitched, 48 pages, 4.25" x 5.5".

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