Rare Bird is a Los Angeles–based publishing company founded in 2010 by Tyson Cornell, former Marketing and Publicity Director of Book Soup, a legendary independent bookstore on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Rare Bird publishes fifty books and records a year in all trade formats, including hardcover, trade paperback original, paperback, e-book, limited edition, and audiobook with hundreds of authors, including William T. Vollmann, Bella Thorne, Chip Jacobs, Francesca Lia Block, Frank Capra, Joseph Di Prisco, and J. G. Ballard, among many others.