Joseph Mattson is the author of the story collection Eat Hell (Narrow Books) and the novel Empty the Sun (A Barnacle Book), which comes with a soundtrack by Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance and was a finalist for the 2010 SCIBA Fiction Award. He is the literary editor of Two Letters: Collection of Art & Writing, Volume Two (Narrow Books), and his novel Courting the Jaguar will be published by Barnacle in 2011. Mattson has also been shortlisted for DZANC's 20 Writers to Watch list, an alternative to the New Yorker's 20 under 40 list. He lives in Los Angeles.
The Speed Chronicles represents a surprising range of experiences.
The promise of the collection is that it will neither vilify nor
romanticize its subject matter.-- "The Portland Mercury"
The contributors to The Speed Chronicles amply demonstrate the
paradox of life under the influence of chemically induced
acceleration. At the best moments, the use of stimulants can
celebrate the beauty and intensity of human experience. As some of
these stories reveal, despite the mainstream cultural narrative of
'tweakers' as amoral zombies, the persistent will to live in the
face of adversity and affliction is a hallmark of many addicts'
lives.-- "The Rumpus"
The perfect stocking stuffer for your uncle in AA.
-- "New York Observer"
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