Slate announced for The Rattling Wall Issue 4


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Narrow Books is proud to present the slate for The Rattling Wall, Issue 4, which includes new work by Anne-Marie Kinney, Arielle Bernstein, Ben Loory, Ben Pack, Brady Hammes, Bruce Weigl, Corey Campbell, Dana Johnson, David Francis, Erika Schickel, George Ducker, Heather Simons, Hunter Liguore, James Ragan, Jeremy Radin, Joe Kelly, Laura Bogart, LeahGriesmann, Martin Pousson, Megan Falley, Mehnaz Sahibzada, Michael Tolkin, Minh Pham, Nathalie Handal, Ron Gutierrez, Ruth Nolan, Susan Straight, T. Duncan Anderson Jr., and Wendy Xu.

The artist for The Rattling Wall, Issue 4, will be announced in the coming weeks, as will the release date for the book and details regarding The Rattling Wall, Issue 4: Reading & Release. Previous launches have been held at the Hammer Museum, The Standard Hotel (Hollywood), and Hollywood Forever.

BEN TEGEL: The Art of The Rattling Wall!

23 Feb.

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Please join PEN Center USA and Narrow Books for the premiere of  The Art of the Rattling Wall,  featuring Issue 3 artist Ben Tegel. 

Opening Reception: Feb. 23, 2013 / 7-10pm

Synchronicity Gallery
713 N. Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Illustrator Ben Tegel was born and raised in St. Louis. He studied painting at Washington University and, following graduation, left for Los Angeles to start a rock n’ roll band. Currently he illustrates for books and magazines (Flaunt, Beautiful/Decay), for music venues (House of Blues, Viper Room), for T-shirts (Vans, Hello Minor, B/D Apparel, Das Monk), and for himself. He lives in the Brookside area of L.A. with his wife, infant daughter, and two small dogs.

For the third issue of The Rattling Wall, Tegel created eighteen new illustrations using India ink and watercolor washes of Payne’s gray. The journal’s inside covers feature preliminary drawings and reference sketches. The outside cover artwork is an original watercolor piece.

Opening night reception! New artwork, book signing, readings,
and Mai Tai ice cream from Scoops!

RSVP not required, but you may check in with our Facebook invite. Street parking is available; please take note of signs.

The show will run from February 23 – March 24, 2013.

 More info:
www.therattlingwall.com, www.narrowbooks.com

The Rattling Wall at Skylight Books

2 Feb.

Next stop on The Rattling Wall, Issue 3, Book Tour? Skylight Books!

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Join Narrow Books for readings by Benj Hewitt, Rhoda Huffey, Mandy Kahn, Amelia Morris, and Rachel Reynolds.

BOOK SIGNING + DRINKS to follow!

RSVP here for this FREE event. We’d love to see you there.

The Rattling Wall at BOOK SOUP

13 Dec.

Next stop on The Rattling Wall, Issue 3, Book Tour? Book Soup!


Join Narrow Books in celebrating readings from The Rattling Wall, featuring contributors Amy Wallen, Brian Rooney, Panio Gianopoulos, Joseph Lapin, Kate Reeves, and Suzanne Lummis.

HOLIDAY COCKTAILS + BOOK SIGNING to follow!

RSVP here for this FREE event. We’d love to see you there.

Narrow Books stops at The Pop-Hop!

28 Nov.

For the first leg of the The Rattling Wall, Issue 3 book tour, we’ll be stopping by The Pop-Hop in Highland Park on November 28, at 7pm. This event will feature a presentation and Q&A with Featured Artist Ben Tegel and Narrow Books Art Director, Mark Dischler.

They will discuss the making of the artwork and design of the book in The Pop-Hop salon, followed by readings from Issue 3 contributors Trinie Dalton, Ben Epstein, Marytza K. Rubio, and Kim Young. A book signing and drinks to follow after the reading. RSVP on Facebook!

NAME THIS PLACE: The Making of a Literary Journal

Directed by Danny Corey & Heather Simons, the short film NAME THIS PLACE chronicles the making of The Rattling Wall‘s 3rd issue. Originally screened at the journal’s reading and release event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on November 10th, NAME THIS PLACE features interviews with editor Michelle Meyering, Narrow Books co-founder and art director Mark Dischler, and issue 3 featured artist Benjamin Tegel, as well as writer-contributors Panio Gianopoulos, David Ulin, Kate Reeves, Marytza K. Rubio, Casey Curry, and Joyce Carol Oates! If you couldn’t make it to the release event, you should check this out immediately!

NAME THIS PLACE: The Making of a Literary Journal on Vimeo.

THE RATTLING WALL, Issue 3: Reading & Release

10 Nov.

Sat. November 10, 8pm – Continuing its collaborative reading series, PEN Center USA will present The Rattling Wall, Issue 3, at Hollywood Forever‘s Masonic Lodge on November 10, 2012, at 8pm, featuring readings by L.A. Times book critic David L. Ulin, James Meetze, Jillian Lauren , Angel Nafis, Sean Carswell, and Joshua Mohr. Prior to the reading a short film by Danny Corey and Heather Simons, which details the making of the issue, will be screened, as well as artwork projected by Issue 3 featured artist, Ben Tegel. The event will finish with a book signing.

Tickets for the event are $10, and will only be sold online prior to the event by visiting: http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com/.

Lyndsey Lesh Process Blog

Lyndsey Lesh’s process blog Off Thee Wall updates - This writing and drawing process blog began as a collaboration between illustrator Lyndsey Lesh and Michelle Meyering, editor of The Rattling Wall. Using passages from The Rattling Wall Issue 2 as inspiration, Lyndsey’s writing thirty-five flash fiction stories and pairing each with an original illustration. New updates since the Synchronicity show! Check it out!

8th Annual Printers’ Ball

Narrow Books donates to The 8th Annual Printers’ Ball, Fri. July 20, 6pm - We’ve just sent out a bundle of The Rattling Wall and Two Letters to The Printers’ Ball in Chicago! Presented by Poetry Magazine, this year’s theme is TIME WARP and highly encourages costumes, along with face painting and an open bar onsite in Downtown’s historic Ludington Building. Stop by Columbia College Chicago this Friday, July 20 from 6pm-11pm for thousands of free books, broadsides and magazines donated by publishers from all over the literary galaxy.