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Joseph Mattson Saturday Double-Header: first public glimpses of HEXICO

In summer, 2011, Joseph Mattson was awarded a prestigious DCA COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowship for the 2011-2012 grant cycle for his novel-in-progress, Hexico. A re-imaging/re-imagining of the United States and northern Mexico, in Hexico, the Mexican-American war was averted, the 1848 Mexican Cession of the southwestern states never happened, and the present-day border between Mexico and the U.S. is the continental divide--a border divided by a strip of presently war-torn, ungovernable land mythically known as HEXICO, where a beautiful ex-circus sideshow strongman T-girl prostitute is on the run to after experiencing natural, biological auto-prodantry and is impregnated by a chupacabra.

While the novel will remain in progress for some time, Joseph Mattson will be presenting excerpts at public readings as part of the COLA grant cycle:

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012, 1pm:
Los Angeles Artists Fellowship Laboratory Exhibition*
Plaza de la Raza
3540 North Mission Road
Los Angeles, CA 90031
*Also featuring current COLA visual and performance artist grantees Martin Durazo, Lynne Berman, Paul Outlaw, Raphael Xavier, and more! MATTSON reads at 1pm SHARP!

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012, 5pm:
A Barnacle Book Showcase*
Stories Books
1716 W. Sunset Blvd.
Echo Park/Los Angeles, CA 90026
*Also featuring ORIANA SMALL aka ASHLEY BLUE (Girlvert: A Porno Memoir), STEVE ABEE (Johnny Future), and GARY PHILLIPS in celebrating the Barnacle book release of Monkology!

ALSO: Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm: Mattson will be presenting another HEXICO excerpt at GRAND PERFORMANCES at California Plaza, downtown Los Angeles.

Joseph Mattson with J.R. Helton and Tony O'Neill at BookCourt in Brooklyn!

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012, 7PM

BOOKCOURT in BROOKLYN, NY presents

A NIGHT ON DRUGS

with J.R. HELTON (Drugs) * TONY O'NEILL (Sick City) * JOSEPH MATTSON (The Speed Chronicles)

BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: (718) 875-3677
info@bookcourt.com



www.bookcourt.com

Joseph Mattson at Silver Lake Jubilee Sunday, May 27, 2012!

Joseph Mattson, author of EMPTY THE SUN and editor/curator/contributor/introducer of THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Akashic Books, feat. William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, Beth Lisick, Megan Abbott, James Greer, James Franco, the mighty Jerry Stahl and MANY OTHERS!) will be reading at JUBILEE in Silver Lake on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at 2pm SHARP!


Mattson is reading as part of the DIRTY LAUNDRY crew in conjunction with PEN Center USA. JUBILEE happens Memorial Day Weekend at Sunset Junction, 4219 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90029--a killer lineup of readers (LARB, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Loory, Jillian Lauren, and more), plus several bands (Kinky, Autolux, Abe Vigoda, and more!) and food and inclusive mayhem and joy!--schedule, parking, all that shit HERE.

SO, prepare your addictions for the ready and exploit yourself in public at will!

Joseph Mattson with J.R. Helton at Book Soup 5.23.2012 and with Tony O'Neill & J.R. Helton in Brooklyn on 5.29.2012!

Joseph Mattson will be joining J.R. Helton (author of Drugs) at Book Soup in West Hollywood/Los Angeles on Wed., May 23, 2012, at 7pm--8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood CA 90069--

--AND in Brooklyn!--

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at 7pm, with J.R. Helton and Tony O'Neill (author of Sick City and Down and Out on Murder Mile) at BookCourt!--163 Court Street Brooklyn NY 11201--

God damn the nightly trembling and god bless the liver! Or is it the other way around? Join Mattson/Helton/O'Neill and find the hell out!

Mattson/SLAKE/others @ SKYLIGHT BOOKS 5/18/12!

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, LOS FELIZ/LOS ANGELES, 1818 North Vermont Avenue  Los Angeles, CA 90027

(323) 660-1175:
Friday night @7:30. 
Great lineup: Luke Davies, Joseph Mattson, Melissa Chadburn, Clay Steakley, Diana Turken, Joe Donnelly... reading from Slake #4, "Dirt." It's beautiful stuff and you should come. Thanks.

SLAKE: LOS ANGELES Issue 4--"DIRT"--Launch Party!

Meet us at the Slake 4 launch party this Friday, May 4, 2012--Joseph Mattson has a new piece in its pages alongside paramountaineers Aimee Bender, Lauren Groff, Iris Berry, Ben Ehrenreich, Luke Davies, Antonia Crane, Lynell George and more more more! PLUS, Devri Richmond has accompanying photos to Mattson's "West of Olive" in the issue and exhibited in the art show/launch party, info here http://slake.la/events/you-re-invited-to-slake-issue-4-celebration + details below!
Also, for the calendar: Friday, May 18, 2012, Mattson will be reading at Skylight Books in Los Feliz with Luke Davies, Melissa Chadburn, Sam Slovick, and Clay Steakley for Slake 4--"DIRT" is the word. Dirt.

Cheers!You're Invited to Slake Issue 4 Celebration!Friday, May 04 , 7:30 p.m.
Get Directions

Atwater Crossing
3245 Casitas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Come toast Slake’s new issue! Our issue-release parties have become opportunities for Los Angeles’s ever-growing lit, art, and music communities to congregate, swap stories, drink, eat, and revel in the beauty of the printed word. Everyone will have a chance to spend time with the guest of honor, Slake No. 4, “Dirt.”

The night will include:

• Free beer from new local brewers Golden Road Brewing
• DJ sets by the experimental collective Ojo
• Live, haunting, acoustic music by John Curry’s The Edwardo Show
• Art show featuring Slake No. 4 artists and photographers Anne McCaddon, Brenna Youngblood, Kevin Zacher, Ted Soqui, Anne Fishbein, Allen Tombello, Ginny Cook, Devri Richmond, and more
• Slake artists doing original artwork for limited-edition debut album by Detective , the new band featuring Slaker and former Guided By Voices member James Greer
• Dirty dance performance by choreographer and Kristin Campbell-Taylor
• Let’s Be Frank hot dog truck
• Delicioso flatbread and wine from Atwater Grill Wood Fire Kitchen and other items for purchase
• Handsome Coffee
• Free pie served up by the Slake pie girls!
• Stacks and stacks of Slake No. 4 for sale

Joseph Mattson at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Joseph Mattson will be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend, April 21 & 22 on the campus of USC.

Mattson will be representing THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Akashic Books) for the panel discussion, "Fiction: Over the Edge" (Panel 2032), along with fellow fringe wolves Joshua Mohr (DAMASCUS), Rob Roberge (WORKING BACKWARDS FROM THE WORST MOMENT IN MY LIFE), and Terese Svoboda (BOHEMIAN GIRL), and moderated by Vermin on the Mount's mighty Jim Ruland (BIG LONESOME), 12:30pm Sunday in the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC.

FULL LATFoB mojo at: http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

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AKASHIC ALL STARS TOUR -- 2 Dates Left for Pilgrims

DEAR Pilgrims of Pilgrim Country:

Please join ROBERT ARELLANO (Curse the Names), ELIZA FACTOR (The Mercury Fountain), STERLING WATSON (Fighting in the Shade), and JOSEPH MATTSON (The Speed Chronicles) TONIGHT, March 22, 2012, 7PM at Books on the Square in Providence, RI and TOMORROW, March 23, 7PM at THE FREE LIBRARY of New Hope & Solebury, PA, info to the right...

Fear not the radical Thanksgiving in March...

Rose Bunch to join Joseph Mattson and Beth Lisick at KGB BAR NYC

THE SPEED CHRONICLES at KGB BAR in NYC Sunday March 18 at 7pm NOW to be fully realized by Joseph Mattson, Beth Lisick AND shotgun-shooting, globetrotting, PhD of whiskey and fiction and Arkansas, the one and only Rose Bunch!

Also appearing: Adam Wilson! 

Fun facts toward the near-future:

KGB BAR

http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/adam_wilson/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/books/literary-readings-are-free-at-kgb-bar.html?scp=1&sq=kgb%20bar%20mattson&st=cse

Beth Lisick joins Joseph Mattson for KGB Bar reading THIS SUNDAY!

This just in, kittens, monkeys, virgins, hounds, etc.: The onliest Beth in the land, BETH LISICK!, will be joining Joseph Mattson for THE SPEED CHRONICLES event THIS SUNDAY, 18 of March, 2012 @ the onliest KGB BAR, 84 East 4th St. NYC 10003, dogs to left and whippers to the right, 7PMisher, please NYC if you know what's good for you you know what's missing AND THAT'S SPEED BABIES!

information:

Joseph Mattson and Beth Lisick present THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Akashic Books) w/ADAM WILSON
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 7pm-9pm
KGB BAR
NYC
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/adam_wilson/

dislocation: JESUS LIZARD