Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer. --Beth Lisick, author of EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL and HELPING ME HELP MYSELFJoseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers--everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. EMPTY THE SUN will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. --Jerry Stahl, author of PERMANENT MIDNIGHT and PAIN KILLERS
Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing. The whole thing is by turns hilarious and hilariously sad, artfully pin-holed with melancholy (my favorite drink)... EMPTY THE SUN is an impressive achievement, as well as an excellent
Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer. --Beth Lisick, author of EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL and HELPING ME HELP MYSELFJoseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers--everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. EMPTY THE SUN will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. --Jerry Stahl, author of PERMANENT MIDNIGHT and PAIN KILLERS
Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true writing. The whole thing is by turns hilarious and hilariously sad, artfully pin-holed with melancholy (my favorite drink)... EMPTY THE SUN is an impressive achievement, as well as an excellent and I believe as yet unused name for a rock band. --James Greer, author ARTIFICIAL LIGHT and GUIDED BY VOICES: A BRIEF HISTORY"
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