The Speed Chronicles(Illustrated) (Akashic Drug Chronicles) by JosephMattson Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2011 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-028-1, ISBN: 1-61775-028-X
""Akashic launches a new series of crime anthologies, each focused on a different controlled substance, with this addictive volume."--Publishers Weekly"All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity of its voices, and plain, old, good storytelling."--New York Journal of Books"The Speed Chronicles represents a surprising range of experiences. The promise of th ..."
"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles. Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's EMPTY THE SUN, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-roa ..."
"Volume Two in this anthology series features cover art by Josh Cochran; writing by Tod Goldberg, James Greer, Joseph Mattson, Cem Ozturk, Dave Reeves, Daniel Rolf, Lynn Veach Sadler, Nickolay Todorov and Melissa Yancy; and artwork by J. Jacob Bloomer, Josh Cochran, Benoit Guillaume, Peter Hamlin, Sasha Isaac-Young, Mel Kadel, Ronald J. Llanos, Mike Lowery, Travis Millard, Brendan Monroe, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, Shawn Petersen, John Pham, Mart ..."
Eat Hell(1st Edition) Plus Two Variations on the Heart Going Down in L.A. by JosephMattson, Mel Kadel Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 2008 by Narrow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9760388-2-5, ISBN: 0-9760388-2-X
""Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer." -- Beth Lisick, New York Times bestselling author of Everybody Into the Pool and Helping Me Help Myself. EAT HELL: Plus Two Variations on the Heart Going Down in L.A. is the wrenching, funny, and gut-maniacal new book of stories of unrequited love by Joseph Mattson, author of the much-anticipated forthcoming novel Empty the Sun, which will include a Soundtrack by Drag City recording artist Six ..."
"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles... Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's EMPTY THE SUN, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-r ..."
"by beth lisick 12/20, 7:36 a.m. Audio Recording #1 The appetizers are going to
be easy-peasy because all I have to do is do ... Who says you have to call the
Tasteful Affair catering truck just to have a holiday open house? ... I'm just being
me!"
"... Dream going up in flames, and even some accounts of pure About the Editor JOSEPH MATTSON is the author of the. joyFeaturing brand-new stories by: Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, James Franco, Megan Abbott, Jerry Stahl, Beth ..."
"Jeri's spirit animal was a cannibal coyote. Things went on like this for a couple
years. ... Yeah, like he'd ever read the book or watched any of those movies for
more than ten minutes. Then, one day, Jeri disappeared. Rumor had it she went
into ..."
The Speed Chronicles by JosephMattson Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2012 by No Exit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84243-854-1, ISBN: 1-84243-854-9
"It feels so good and hurts so bad. The first contemporary collection of all new literary short fiction on the drug from an array of today's most compelling and respected authors."
Empty the Sun W/ CD(1st Edition) A Novel by JosephMattson with Music by Six Organs of Admittance by JosephMattson, Ben Chasny Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by A Barnacle Book & Record ISBN-13: 978-0-9825056-2-5, ISBN: 0-9825056-2-0
"'As Rolling Stone once said about Public Enemy, Empty the Sun doesn't just break new groundit's become the new ground to break."
"A selection of the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series. Featuring brand-new stories by Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, James Franco, Megan Abbott, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Jess Walter, Scott Phillips, James Greer, Tao Lin, Joseph Mattson, Natalie Diaz, Kenji Jasper, and Rose Bunch. Speed: the most demonized - and misunderstood - drug in the land. Deprived of the ingrained romantic mysticism of the opiate or the cosmopolitan chic of coc ..."