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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!
EVENT! Silver Lake Jubilee, May 22nd and 23rd - Narrow Books will be participating in the We Come in Peace exhibit as well as hosting a booth at the Silver Lake Jubilee. It's a 2-day community music and arts festival, and we'll be selling books, zines, artist prints, t-shirts, music, and more. With live bands to listen to and food trucks galore if you get hungry. Stop by and say hi! EVENTS! East Coast Book Tour, May 18th-20th - Author and frequent Narrow Books collaborator Joseph Mattson has a slew of east coast appearances coming up. He'll be reading from Eat Hell and his new book Empty the Sun: A Novel with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance (Barnacle Books). Event details below.
EVENT! Independents present, Saturday, May 15th, 7pm - Synchronicity Space gallery has put together an art show by asking independent publishers to showcase an artist they were excited about. We chose Shawn Petersen. See his work and that of the artists chosen by Nieves, Ooga Booga, Penny Ante and others. More info on Facebook. EVENT! Signings at L.A. Times Festival of Books, Saturday, Apr. 24th - Authors James Greer and Joseph Mattson both appear in Two Letters Vol. 2 and they'll both be signing their new novels at the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Greer will be signing The Failure (Akashic) at 3pm and Mattson will be signing Empty the Sun (Barnacle) at 4pm. Both signings take place at the Book Soup tent, located in Zone C, booth 330, and copies of your favorite Narrow Books titles will also be on sale. EVENT! Literary Crawl 2010, Saturday, Feb. 20th - Join Goodreads, Book Soup and PEN Center USA for a trip down Sunset Boulevard. Readings by Aimee Bender, Joseph Mattson and Martin Pousson will begin (upstairs) at Malo at 7pm (4326 W. Sunset Blvd, LA 90029). The group will then travel to Tiki Ti, Good Luck Bar and 4100 Bar. This event is for readers 21 and older. EVENT! Smart Gals Ten Year Anniv. Show, February 4th-7th - Smart Gals are commemorating their ten year anniversary with an unusual installation piece at the Barnsdall Art Park. Narrow Books author Joseph Mattson (Friday 5th, 2-3pm) and publisher Christopher Lepkowski (Thursday 4th, 2-3pm) will be among those quietly reading. Notable authors also participating include Janet Fitch, Aimee Bender, and Cecil Castellucci. You can find more on the author schedule. |
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| HEY FUDGE By Travis Millard | $30 |
| EAT HELL By Joseph Mattson | $5 |
| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 2 | $19 |
| TWO LETTERS Collection of Art and Writing - Vol. 1 | $9 |
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".
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.
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.
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.
