"Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingerseverywhere at once, stinging, dark, and beautiful."

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."

JAMES GREER, author of Guided by Voices: A Brief History and The Failure

"Joseph Mattson is one hell of a mother****ing writer."

JEFF GARLIN, author of My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World and co-star and executive producer of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm

About the Author

JOSEPH MATTSON is the author of Eat Hell (Narrow Books), and his writing has appeared in Ambit, Pearl, Slipstream, Two Letters, and many more. An epical ramblermiles under him include working as a farmer, dishwasher, cook, getaway driver, healthcare worker for the clinically mentally insane, and morehis home base is Los Angeles.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE tours multiple continents and has released over a dozen albums, including Dark Noontide, School of the Flower, Shelter from the Ash, and Luminous Night