Category: books

  • Comedy By Numbers Event

    This event was super fun. Thanks to everybody that came! Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren reenacted/read from their book Comedy By Numbers, to scientifically enlighten us how to be funny. Special guest Bob Odenkirk acted as the obnoxious college circuit comedian, and as you would expect, was hilarious.

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  • 2NDHAND & Tao Lin reading, reviewed

    Literago’s Nick Osdick has an excellent review (as well as some photos) of the last THE2NDHAND event at Quimby’s, which featured an “Inside The Actors Studio” Q&A with hip-lit dreamboat, Tao Lin.

  • Meet the locals, part one

    The Return of Kebab
    The Return of Kebab, by Dan Gleason – $8.95

    Professional news clipper and writer Dan Gleason has been bringing his short story zines to Quimby’s since the Hannah regime. He’s back again with The Return of Kebab, his second collection of short stories, and he’s got a disgusting/delicious gyro sandwich in tow. And that’s just the cover! Inside, you’ll find deliciously disgusting tales of wonder, woe, drunkenness and sexual depravity so grossly compelling as to make all that shredded meat seem a distant, savory memory.

    Here’s your sweet taste:

    In the whisper game she revealed to me that the
    darkly-packed black man’s testicles, smashed together
    as they were in the pornographic video, looked just
    like a large avocado. And I responded to her that
    this was obvious- not unlike the difference between
    the meditative sort versus the over-emotional open
    book, or the ever-present look of death in the eyes of
    the once Quixotic gent who got a job trivializing the
    marginalized with perfunctory kindness.

    Support Chicago zinesters and pick up a copy already.

  • New Stuff 3/16/07

    Tattoos 4 U

    Come check out our new window display by Myles from Business in Risky. Its SKULL-Tastic.
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