Category: Event

  • Kevin Coval Performs Poetry From L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems

    Spoken-word poet Kevin Coval, co-founder and Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, will perform at Quimby’s in support of his third collection of poetry L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems (Haymarket Books, September).

    Coval, who has been hailed as “a new glowing voice in the world of literature” by Studs Terkel, explores the dynamic intersection of race and culture in America today with “L-vis,” an imagined persona and pastiche of artists who have used and misused Black music. In Coval’s poetic novella, L-vis’s story is equal parts autobiography and forgotten and re-imagined history. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history’s more obscure “whiteboy” heroes and antiheroes. A free audio preview of L-vis Lives!, with poems read by Coval and beats by Coolout Chris, can be heard here: http://bit.ly/oXSIxZ
    “This book is bold, brave and morally messy – twelve rounds of knock-down, drag-out shadowboxing against a shapeshifter. The dark humor, intellectual fervor, and emotional rigor Coval brings to bear animates these pieces, turns caricatures to characters…”
    —Adam Mansbach, author, Go the F**k to Sleep

    For performance, interview, and review requests, contact: Jon Kurinsky, Haymarket Books, jon@haymarketbooks.org

    Wed, Oct 12th, 7pm

    from hero to most
    i am a hero
    to most. the great hope
    of something other.
    a complex back-story.
    something other than
    the business of my father.
    bland’s antonym.
    jim crow’s black sheep.
    the forgotten son
    left to rise in the darkness
    among the dis
    carded in the wild
    of working class, single
    mother hoods.

  • Joe Janes and Friends Read from 50 Plays 10/1

    50 Plays by Joe Janes is the follow-up to the remarkable and insane 365 Sketches of 2010.  

    Joe Janes spent months working with fifty local directors and their chosen casts to write a ten-minute(ish) play for each one.

    A “Best of” presentation of pieces at Donny’s Skybox at Second City in August was hailed by the Chicago Reader as “”silly, bizarre, violent, and provocative” “…the pieces showcase Janes’s willingness to take risks of all kinds.”

    Joe Janes is a teacher, writer, actor, improviser and director in Chicago. He is the Improv Program Director in Columbia College’s Theater Department. At Second City, he teaches all levels of the writing program. He has worked for Second City for over a dozen years and in that time has performed in the national touring company, produced and directed at Second City – Detroit, directed for the touring company and Second City – Las Vegas.  He spent time as the artistic director of ComedySportz-Chicago where he developed their training center curriculum and created BattleProv. As a comedy writer, he wrote for and provided voices for Jellyvision’s You Don’t Know Jack series of CD-ROM trivia games, freelanced for SNL’s Weekend Update and won an Emmy for his work on Cincinnati’s Club 19. He is a founding member of The WNEP Theater Foundation for which he has written and performed for 20 years in such shows as The (Edward) Hopper Project, Metaluna and the Amazing Science of the Mind Revue, The Armageddon Radio Hour and Soiree Dada. He is also the artistic director of Robot vs. Dinosaur and a former company member of the hit show Improvised Shakespeare. Joe began his career as a stand-up comedian where he toured the country for five years opening for such acts as The Monkees, Bill Hicks, Rita Rudner, and Paula Poundstone. You can follow his exploits on his blog biteandsmile.blogspot.com and Twitter and become a fan of 365 Sketches on Facebook.

    Joe Janes can be contacted at jjanes@secondcity.com

     

    Sat, Oct 1st, 7pm  

  • Todd Dills and Friends Celebrate All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10 on 10/3

    THE2NDHAND’s founding editor, Todd Dills, joins contributors to launch the mag’s 10th-anniversary anthology: All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10

    THE2NDHAND began its life as an 11-by-17-inch block of black text on white paper peppered variously with photo-illustrations, comics, line drawings and distributed in storefronts first in Chicago, then in an ever-growing list of cities around the U.S. New writing, simply, has been its focus since editor and publisher Todd Dills (author of the novel Sons of the Rapture) founded it in 2000—a small format its physicality, but a loud mouth and a big heart its most important parts.

    “And without Quimby’s, where we began hosting readings shortly after we launched,” says Dills, “we would never have built the community of writers and readers we now enjoy.”

    After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised funds to print the book, All Hands On: THE2NDHAND after 10 arrived in August to lay down the best of the mag’s 10+ years of publishing writing by the budding insurgents of the American lit landscape—and others, no doubt. True to form, the book begins with a section of new, as-yet unpublished work, and follows with sections devoted to some of its best repeat writers, including those on the program for this event.

    Joining Nashville, Tenn.-based Dills at this event them are Time Out Chicago books editor and Featherproof Books publisher Jonathan Messinger (Hiding Out) and longtime THE2NDHAND contributors and Chicago residents Kate Duva and Jill Summers. For more about the book, as well as the writers, visit the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books

  • September News

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    September at Quimby’s Bookstore
    Here’s your September Quimby’s Bookstore news, store events and some notable things we’ve received since the last time you heard from us.And oh! Happy Labor Day. We’ll be open abbreviated hours on Monday, September 5th from noon to 5pm.

    Quimby’s Bookstore Temporary Tattoos Now Available
    The people have spoken. And we listened. So here they are. Come in and get yours. Then take a picture and add it the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr.


    Fouth Episode of the Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast Available Now
    This episode features an interview and discussion with Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior talking about Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. It’s available for your listening pleasure, in a variety of formats and places for you to stream or download. And the best part? The podcast is free.

    Dates Announced Fot the Chicago Alternative Expo (CAKE): June 16th-17th, 2012
    Save the date! This will be the debut of CAKE next year on June 16th and 17th at Columbia College’s Ludington Building. This event is focused on celebrating independent and alternative comics of all stripes. The festival plans to feature over 100 exhibitors along with a two-day program of signings, panels, workshops and lectures. With Chicago’s long legacy as a stronghold for underground and alternative comics, the Windy City is an ideal locale to showcase some of the most wild, weird and wonderful contemporary comics talent.


    Anders Nilsen Did Our Window Display
    It’s true. And it celebrates his beautiful Big Questionsanthology that Drawn & Quarterly just published. Thanks, Anders!

    September Events At Quimby’s Bookstore
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    Cindy Crabb Reads From The Encyclopedia of Doris
    Sat, Sep 3rd 7pm
    Cindy Crabb has been writing the influential, internationally distributed, autobiographical-feminist zine Doris since the early ‘90’s. Her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.

    CCLaP Releases American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
    Fri, Sep 9th, 7pm
    With all the talk of “hope” and “honor” that was bound to arise during the tenth anniversary of September 11th, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) thought it was important to also remind the future of what the last ten years have REALLY been like. That’s why the center put together this latest anthology, which took a dark science-fiction conceit as its core and then invited a series of writers across the nation to pen stories set within that alternative universe. Writers in attendance will be Delphine Pontvieux, Mark R. Brand and Lawrence Santoro. (Please note, this event is actually on September 9th.)

    Rebekah Mercuri Reads From Weeding the Seeds of Deceit
    Thurs, Sep 15th, 7pm
    Many of the events experienced by the main character of Rebekah Mercuri’s debut novel echo the true-life experiences of the author, who herself, was involved in a Christian Cult.

    A David Shrigley Double Shot!

    David Shrigley Celebrates What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley
    Tues, Sep 20th, 7pm
    David Shrigley’s new book of illustrations, comics, photography and sculpture include crude drawings and unexpected compositions that are at once childish and clever, and each depiction oddly sincere. They capture the morbid humor of Edward Gorey, the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, and the peculiar perspective of a Charles Addams cartoon. “David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” -Dave Eggers
    David Shrigley Comes to Columbia College Chicago
    Wed, Sep 21st , 6:30pm–9:30pm
    David Shrigley will also be at Columbia College Chicago – Stage Two 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor. Quimby’s will be there to sell books!
    These David Shrigley events are co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Columbia College and AIGA Chicago.

    The Creative Writing Guild (CWG) Presents: Prompts/Prompted
    Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm
    The CWG presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper. The CWG aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.

    Caroline Paquita of Pegacorn Press Reads and Shows Works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake
    Mon, Sep 26th, 7pm
    Caroline Paquita is releasing the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year. In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest – Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix) and Jo Dery (Quietly Sure Like the Keeper of a Great Secret). Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.”

    Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh With Sara Drake
    Thurs, Sep 29th, 7pm
    In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, the writer and independent publisher brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Moore is a columnist for Truthout, and has written for The Progressive, Bitch, Annalemma, Tin House, the Boston Phoenix, and The Onion. The former editor of Punk Planet and the Comics Journal, Moore received a Fulbright to continue her work in Cambodia in 2010, and recently held a solo exhibition at the MCA. Moore will be joined by Chicago cartoonist and writer Sara Drake, currently planning a comics project in Cambodia.

    Save the date! Alison Bechdel comes to Quimby’s 10/8. She’s guest editing The Best American Comics 2011.

    And here’s some news from our sister store, Chicago Comics…

    (Just Some of the)New Stuff This Month at Quimby’s Bookstore
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    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!

    Xerography Debt #29 $3.00 – “The review zine with perzine tendancies.
    My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00
    Whore Eyes #4 by Jesse Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw. Comes with comes with Whore Eyes Comp Govmnt Acid compilation CD (Drippy Bone Books) $11.00
    Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck-Ups Know-It-Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Who’s Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00 – Can I just say that this is on the cover?: “Fuck You Buy It It’s Cheap”? Is that reason enough? No? Maybe this will sell you on it if you know this next fact: One page has a picture of Emo Philips with a trombone around his neck and it says “I still believe Emo Philips is a genius.” What else do you need to know? -LM
    Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb (Doris) $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement. Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on 9/3.
    Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
    The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
    Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
    Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
    Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
    Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
    Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
    Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
    Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
    Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
    Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
    Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00
    Underground Music Fanzines From the Late 1980s-Early 90s by Marc Fischer and Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $5.00 – Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
    Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
    Wanderlust Herbal $2.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!

    Eye of the Majestic Creature #5 by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Larrybear moves back to New York after having lived in the countryside. Life back in the big city! This issue was featured in outer limits mag Bizarre. First new issue since Fantagraphics compiled #1-#4. And yes, we have that too.
    Comics by Leda Zawacki: Fauna $3.00 and Puddles of Cute: A Comics Collection by $6.00 – Puddles reprints “Monster in the Mansion” from Goat Girl #1 plus 3 other stories:  “Fireflies”,  “Ladybird” and  “Killer Whale People” drawn with a Nicole J. George-ish eye  for  the  strangely  cute. -EF
    One Time Only by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – How do you sneak out from a shameful one night stand while the other person is asleep? What if they have really bad wall tapestries? Is hitting rock bottom both depressing and somewhat exciting because that makes you one step closer to resembling Vince Neil? Written by the hilarious Cassie J. Fine Fine Music Sneider and drawn by Nick Rhode. Um no, not Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. Just Nick Rhode. FYI. -LM
    Cebolla Con Chocolate by Ines Estrada and Rodrigo Simancas (Cafe Con Leche) $8.00 – Absurd burds, wurds, turds and nurds! Inés’ drawings are brillbrilliant and Rodrigo’s writing is smartgood and it also features a lovely contraption from the future. In español.
    various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)
    Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
    Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
    Losing Things is Easy a One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
    Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 $20.00
    Stars Were Exploding by Meghan Ansbach $2.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!

    Mome #22 Fall 11 (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – This issue jampacked with Jospeh Lambert, Lilli Carre, Anders Nilsen, Laura Park and more!
    PS Magazine: Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95 – It’s a lot like watching Disney WW2 educational army cartoons. -EF
    3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
    We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
    Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99
    Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Includes every issue! And there’s a fancy hard cover version as well for $69.95
    Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
    Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
    Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Sec) $16.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!

    Beautiful Decay Book 6 Future Perfect $20.00 – 300 artists riffed on what their ideal future would be and one Grand Prize winner was selected. Over 100 finalist’s work are featured throughout the publication.The book also includes a feature length article with notable, emerging, New York artist, Robin Williams whose surreal paintings give us a view into her very own Future Perfect. Only 1,500 copies were made, all of which are ad-free and hand numbered.”
    Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
    Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman  and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
    Criminal Class Review vol 4 #2 $15.00 – CCR searches for gritty, hard luck tales from all walks of life. This issue, guest editors identical twins Kent and Keith Zimmerman (who teach literary endeavors at prisons like San Quentin) curate this “Prison Issue.” And the cover is a beauty, designed by Chicago print artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
    Despite Moments of Clarity There Is No -Ism In This Book: 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin (Laurence) $39.95
    Lets Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars (Laurence) $19.95
    General Idea Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz (Afterall) $16.00
    Human Nature by Daikichi Amano (Bongout) $50.00 – This book makes me feel sort of throw-uppy but I can’t take my eyes off it, and I kind of want to own it. Marilyn Manson said it best: “Daikichi Amano’s art is a combination of Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau.” -LM
    Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95

    FICTION!

    How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Welcome to Christopher Boucher’s zany literary universe, a place where metaphors shift beneath your feet, familiar words assume new meanings, objects talk, trees attack, and time actually is money. Modeled on the cult classic 1969 hippie handbook of the same name.
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00
    Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
    Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
    Zero History by William Gibson (Berkley) $16.00 – Now in soft cover. From the author of Neuromancer.LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!

    McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00 – Their quarterly concern.
    N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95
    Pageboy Magazine III 11 $10.00
    Exact Change Only Sum 11 $10.00
    Granta #116 Sum 11 Ten Years Later $16.99
    So Sorry To See You Go by Carrie McGath $12.00
    Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

    DIY!

    In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99 – rom the All-Ages Movement Project comes this fantastic guide to finding a space, apeasing the neighbors, raising money, and getting a scene off the ground. DIY or die!
    Mission Street: Food Recipes and Ideas From an Improbably Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz (McSweeneys) $30.00
    SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Gettin’ It On – Sexy Stoner Advice From Cannabis Columnist by Mamakind (Quick) $14.95
    Cannabis Indica vol 1 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Greg Green (Green Candy) $20.00
    Marijuana Recipes and Remedies for Healthy Living by Mary Jane Stawell (Ronin) $14.95
    Baked: Over 50 Tasty Marijuana Treats by Yzbetta Sativa (Green Candy) $18.00
    Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It  by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!

    Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons Yakuza Skull and Bones Worlds Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds (Arcade) $14.95 – A smart and surprising behind-the-scenes exploration of the tales confirmed and fabricated that surround the best known and often least understood secret societies.
    UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean and John Podesta (Three Rivers) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands For a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff with illustrations by Leland Purvis (Soft Skull) $14.95 – From the author of Media Virus, Coercion and Life Inc. Will the internet rule us? Or will we rule the internet? And which is better?
    Fashion Cats:  Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry. As originally featured in Vice Magazine.
    Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
    Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00
    Fxxxing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!

    Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00
    Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00
    The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
    Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
    Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
    Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
    Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
    Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99

    MAGAZINES!

    Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
    Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
    Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
    Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
    Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
    Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
    Bitch #52 $5.95
    Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
    Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99

    SEX & SEXY!

    Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
    Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
    Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 $3.95
    SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00

    OTHER STUFF!

    Inherit 2012 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00 – Since we started getting Nikki McClure’s calendars in 2004 it’s been a bestseller. And when you see it, you’ll understand why.
    Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame.
    Annual Weekly Planner vol 6 (Little Otsu) $18.00 – 12 Months, 54 Weeks, undated.
    2012 Space Garden Claendar by Apak (Little Otsu) $14.00
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  • Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Cambodian Grrrl With Sara Drake 9/29

    In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, the writer and independent publisher brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge.

    “1000000000000000% punk rock.” –The Jacksonville Public Library

    “The best travel book I’ve read this year.” -USA Today

    Moore is a columnist for Truthout, and has written for The Progressive, Bitch, Annalemma, Tin House, the Boston Phoenix, and The Onion. The former editor of Punk Planet and the Comics Journal, Moore received a Fulbright to continue her work in Cambodia in 2010, and recently held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her book Unmarketable was said to offer “something distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism: a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist culture” by the LA Times; deemed “a work of honesty and, yes, integrity” by Kirkus and called “sharp and valuable muckraking” by Time Out New York. It was also named a Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. See more at: anneelizabethmoore.com

    Moore will be joined by Chicago cartoonist and writer Sara Drake, currently planning a comics project in Cambodia. Find out more here: http://iydcpc.wordpress.com

    Thurs, Sep 29th, 7pm

  • Caroline Paquita of PEGACORN PRESS, reads and shows works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake

    Caroline Paquita will be in Chicago to release the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year.

    In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest- Edie Fake and Jo Dery. Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.” The result is a scintillating cornucopia of hilarity and social commentary, printed in an assortment of colored ink and paper-stock. Paquita’s yearly calendar features ”Womanimals” and other fanciful creatures gallivanting in jolly and curious environments. Wolves wearing wigs howl at the full moon, while tribes of Womanimals live in the trees with snakes and sloths- in 2012, anything is possible!

    Also joining the bill is Edie Fake and Jo Dery. Both will be presenting work at this event, including some of Jo’s stunning animations.

    Caroline Paquita is an artist/musician living and working out of Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown and distributed internationally and printed in such publications as Maximum Rock and Roll and Cometbus. A longtime creator of zines (Brazen Hussy, Zine Libs and most currently, WOMANIMALISTIC), a printmaker, and in general, a lover of all things made by hand, she began compiling heavy printing equipment in the hopes that one day she might begin a small publishing venture. PEGACORN PRESS is the result of this and her desire to create an environment where artists, particularly women and queers, are able to have the luxury to make work that will get printed and distributed to a larger audience. When she has spare time, she tends to her bees and hangs out with the chickens in her backyard.


    Jo Dery     is an artist who experiments with narrative form, using both traditional and new media. Her works include short films/videos, drawings, prints, illustration, installation, and artist/small-press book publications. Through the playful invention of characters and events, she investigates her relationship to the built environment, natural phenomena, history and current events, as well as aspects of cognition and consciousness. She currently lives in Chicago.

    Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He’s received a Critical Fierceness Grant for queer art and was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in Hot and Cold, Creative Time Comics, and LTTR. Gaylord is his first full-length book. Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books.

    For more info:
    http://pegacornpress.blogspot.com/
    www.carolinepaquita.com
    http://www.jodery.com/
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  • The CWG Presents: Prompts/Prompted Here at Quimby's 9/23

    The Creative Writing Guild presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper.

    The Creative Writing Guild aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.

    cwgsaic.blogspot.com

    Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm

  • Quimby's in Time Out Chicago!

    Two events we’re involved with are in this week’s Critics’ picks in Time Out Chicago! We’ll be selling Anders Nilson’s Big Questions anthology off-site at his release event at Lula Café on Tues, Aug 30th 7pm, and Carrie McGath reads from So Sorry to See You Go here at Quimby’s on Sat, Aug 27th, 7pm.

    Thanks to Carrie McGath for pointing this out to us!

  • Rebekah Mercuri Reads From Weeding the Seeds of Deceit 9/15

    Many of the events experienced by the main character of Rebekah Mercuri’s debut novel echo the true-life experiences of the author, who herself, was involved in a Christian Cult.

    Weeding the Seeds of Deceit is a story of Hope Locker, a young woman seeking closure to the haunting and vivid memories of an impoverished life, beginning with the manipulations and contradictions from a Christian Cult her parents joined in her youth.  When the prophet of the cult threatens their lives, the family escapes to Texas to live with Hope’s paternal grandfather. The deep affliction her parents feel from dragging the family into such annihilation leads them down an even more despairing and destructive path. Despite the cult experience, Hope maintains her faith through prayer, and music later becomes her sole outlet from life’s chaos, and provides her with the inspiration to follow her dreams.

     

    REBEKAH MERCURI is a writer and mother of two. She had a unique and nomadic childhood as a member of a Christian cult. Her experiences inspired her to pen her debut fiction novel, Weeding the Seeds of Deceit. Mercuri was born in Anaheim, California and was educated at Columbia College Chicago, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Fiction Writing. She also holds an Associate’s degree in Marketing and Business Management from Cincinnati State Community College. She resides in Chicago, Illinois and is currently working on a her next novel.

     

    Thurs, Sep 15th, 7pm

  • CCLaP Releases American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

    With all the talk of “hope” and “honor” that was bound to arise during the tenth anniversary of September 11th, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) thought it was important to also remind the future of what the last ten years have REALLY been like. That’s why the center put together this latest anthology, which took a dark science-fiction conceit as its core and then invited a series of writers across the nation to pen stories set within that alternative universe. In this case, the stories look back from a fictional twentieth anniversary of 9/11, but one where John McCain won the 2008 and ’12 elections, then Sarah Palin in 2016 and ’20; and with no government bailouts, no withdrawals from the Middle East, and no attempts to move away from an oil-based economy, the US has become a much bleaker and more terrible place, a nation that is now used to rolling electricity blackouts two or three days a week and that is just about to go to war with Mexico, where the permanently unemployed squat in half-finished McMansions out in crumbling suburbs that almost completely lack both gasoline and fresh fruit. A sobering reminder of what life under Tea Party rule would likely be like, “American Wasteland” is an antidote to the false cheeriness and optimism that has come with the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a more realistic look at all the mistakes this nation has made between then and now.

    Various local contributors to this anthology will be performing at Quimby’s that night, including DELPHINE PONTVIEUX (“ETA: Estimated
    Time of Arrest”), MARK R. BRAND (“Life After Sleep”) and LAWRENCE SANTORO (“Just North of Nowhere”). CCLaP itself (cclapcenter.com) is a
    mostly online organization that has been open since 2007, a regular publisher of both electronic and handmade paper books, as well as such other activities as a podcast, 150 book reviews a year at its blog, and half a dozen live events annually at various venues across the city.

    Friday, September 9th, 7pm