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May 29th, 2005

Ring out Memorial Day weekend with Narrow Books, in celebration of their literary adventures. Narrow Books founder, Christopher Lepkowski, will be joined by a dashing set of writers who contributed to their launch issue, Two Letters. Readers for the night include Joseph Mattson, David M. Guest, Daniel Larson and Lepkowski himself. In a shocking display of redundancy, this month's game will also involve pencil and paper, and may raise more questions than it can possibly answer. Esther Pearl Watson, another esteemed contributor to the Two Letters anthology, has designed the evening's bookmark.

The password is "off balance."

David M. Guest moved to Los Angeles from Missouri. He recently finished his first novel for kids, The Dooley Twins - $ We Solve Crimes for Cash $.

Daniel Larson is a youth worker in South Central Los Angeles and a commercial fisherman in Kasilof, AK.

For years Joseph Mattson was a rambler man, roaming the United States from town to town, working many diverse jobs, from farmer to dishwasher to healthcare worker for developmentally disabled adults and the clinically mentally ill. Settled in Los Angeles, he has published work in a number of magazines/journals, including the Chiron Review, Slipstream, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Two Letters, the One Paycheck Away anthology, and more. He types on an Adler Satellite electric, ‘Trusty,’ and uses the computer for editing. Friends, enemies, bill collectors, traveling medicine shows, and any other interested parties can reach him at josephfmattson@yahoo.com.

Christopher Lepkowski is the founder of Narrow Books, a small press headquartered in Los Angeles. He starts more projects than he finishes and thinks more about writing than he actually writes, but "shows improvement". On the wall next to his bed are reading awards from first and second grade (the "Reader Creature" award and the "Bigfoot Achievement" award), but he's mostly slid downhill since those glorious days and's thwarted the promise of the young boy who's himself in the family albums.

Esther Pearl Watson grew up in Texas, land of swagger and big belt buckles. She moved to California to attend Art Center College of Design and received her BFA in 1995. She has been included in every American Illustration Annual since her career began in 1994 and is featured on the cover of A.I.22. Currently, Esther lives in Southern California with her husband, Mark Todd, and their daughter Lili. Mark and Esther have recently returned to Art Center to teach children's book illustration and a class on self-publishing.

Sunday, May 29th
(& the last Sunday of Every Month)

8:00 until 10:00 in the evening
Mt. Hollywood Underground
4607 Prospect Avenue
(Underneath Mt. Hollywood Church in Silverlake,
corner of Prospect and Rodney, one block North of Hollywood Blvd. and one block east of Vermont Ave.... Enter on Rodney.)

Gents and Dames welcomed with equal regard!
Admission:
$7.00 (general)
$5.00 (members)
Bookmarks $10.00*

Passwords & such:
310.572.7347
www.smartgals.org

Mix, mingle, swoon, shine, speakeasy!

*Keeping this all on the QT, we don't sell booze, but we do sell
bookmarks. Do I make myself mysterious enough here?
We don't sell booze, but we do sell bookmarks.

Pack $17.00 for a full night. And hush!