BOOKS

Empty the Sun: A Novel by Joseph Mattson with Music by Six Organs of Admittance

“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-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.

Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue

Proclaimed “girl-pervert” Oriana Small AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From accolades to agony, Girlvert illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension.