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  • New Stuff This Week

    Wow! We got so much stuff this week, we’re up to the brim. But now we have the Quimby’s Patches available for mail order on our web site if you’re not a Chicago local. Lucky you!

    How about this one?

    Come On In: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) $13.99 – Just in time for Halloween, undead zombie Charles Bukowski has a new book of poems. Oh, no wait. They must have just found this text somewhere under all the empty bottles or something. Wow. Bukowski and PK Dick are like the two most prolific dead guys EVER. -LM

    But anyway…

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS
    Apple Pickers Union #3 by Curiouser Jane $1.00
    Pieces #6 On Commuting by Nichole $3.00
    Fashionable Activism #2 Hardcore Punk Fanzine by Kevin McCaughey $3.00
    A Folk #4 Le Chien Qui Mord Tout Le Monde $3.34
    Lower East Side Librarian Special Zine Tour Edition by Jenna Freedman $2.00 – With a Quimby’s namedrop, yo! The zinester librarians stopped at Quimby’s for an Orderly Disorder event this past July featuring the Fly Away Zine Mobile. This zine tells about their adventures!
    Purification by Terence Hannum $30.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    Tragic Relief #12 Drag Bandits by Betsey Swardlick and Colleen Frakes (Retrofit) $5.00
    Ufoja Lahdessa #4 by Marko Turunen $10.00
    Scaffold #1 I to XII by V.A. Graham and J.A. Eisenhower $7.00 – Scaffold is told on a videogame-style map of a striking hive structure biodome. Visually stunning, the surreal geodesic panoramas of Scaffold would do any experimental architect proud, though the by-product of the extended long shot is it’s hard to get close to the story or characters running through the landscape. Science fiction flavors and environmental threat seem looming here- looking forward to seeing if this series can hit a strange cohesion. -EF
    Kill Tons of Stuff #1 by Luke Pelletier $2.00 – Comes with stickers. Ooo la la!
    End of The Fucking World Part 1 by Charles Forsman $1.00
    By the Slice #1 by Giulie Speziani by Cecilia Latella $2.00 – About working in a pizza place.
    Old Abdullah Had a Farm a Sing-a-Long Introduction to the Global BDS Movement by Ethan Heitner $1.00
    Mini comics by Fly (published by the Booklyn Arts Alliance): Dog Dayz #2 $10.00, Peops #2, #4, #5 ($10.00 each). Fly’s portraits and interviews reflecting travels and unravels in Lower East Sider-heavy bohemian -activist-squatter-freaker-punk circles. Badassssssss. We already have Peops #6 up on our website to order.
    We also have some cool arty chap books from this publisher too. See the section labelled poetry, lit journals and chap books section further down.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
    The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – What started out as a single-story in Eightball #23 in 2004 entitled “The Death Ray” is now a full on graphic novel that tells the (potential) tale of a loner teen that (potentially) obtains super powers and with the help of a friend tries to find (potential) real world applications. But is it for real? Potentially? -LM
    Dear Creature by Jonathan Case (Tor) $15.99 – A sea creature learns English by stumbeling upon Shakespeare texts in bottles, leading him on land adventures. The Tempest? Swamp Thing? Ummmmm…Splash? -LM
    Orcs Forged for War by Stan Nicholls and Joe Flood (First Sec) $17.99
    The GNB Doublec – The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists: A Story From the by Seth (D&Q) $24.95 – “Seth uses this superbly drawn narrative tour of one of the G.N.B. Doublecs meeting halls as an excuse for some grand mythmaking and wish fulfillment.” -Publishers Weekly

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Two Banksy books!
    *Banksy Locations and Tours vol 2: Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs From Around the World by Banksy/Martin Bull (ECW) $20.00
    *Banksy Myths and Legends: A Collection of the Unbelievable and Incredible Collected by Marc Leverton (Carpet Bombing Culture) $9.95 – No single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. In his home-town of Bristol almost everyone seems to have a Banksy story. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol, some are from further a field. What they share is that they are all told with the wide eyed wonder which Banksy inspires. Collated between 2009 and 2011 some of these stories are quite old and have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, others are more questionable and best described as myths. Some are laugh out loud bollocks and are simply gossip. You be the judge.
    Out of Sight: Urban Art/Abandoned Spaces by Romanywg (Carpet Bombing Culture) $39.95 – Urban ruins are like the woods in the old fairy tales, they are the place where the ordered reality of modern city life gives way to the irrational, the ambient and the surreal. Abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and deconsecrated churches. You get the idea.
    Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City by Isaac Cordal (Carpet Bombing Culture) $22.00 – London sculpture artist Isaac Cordal sculps little toy figures from concrete in ‘real’ situations. 3D street art of sorts, but pithier. -LM
    Illustrators In and Out: What Moves Them and How They Move Art by Youjia Nie (CYPI) $39.95
    My Even More Wonderful World of Fashion: Another Book for Drawing Creating and Dreaming by Nina Chakrabarti (Laurence King) $19.95 – A fun fashion coloring books for all ages. The first one was so successful we ordered this one too.
    Dan Eldon Safari As a Way of Life by Jennifer New (Chronicle) $24.99 – Through adventurous safaris and benevolent crusades around the world, Dan Eldon crafted a philosophy of curiosity, creativity, and charity. He lost his life at age twenty-two while on assignment in Somalia. This visual biography showcases unpublished artwork from Dan’s journals and letters.
    Logology 2 The Wonderland of Logo Design by Victionary (Victionary) $39.95 – A diverse array of logos, symbols, icons, mascots, emblems and graphics that all effectively achieve the goal of arresting one’s attention and entering our neural networks.
    Interior Pop! A Celebration of the Smartest, Trendiest, Quirkiest and Wildest Graphic Interiors by Narelle Yabuka (Gingko) $39.95 – This book is a grand survey of how brands and enterprises are using space as their canvases to express identity with maximum impact. Expanding on the underpinnings of the pop art movement of the 1950s and 60s, designers are championing anti-elitism and bold and figurative graphics-reworking these ideals and their meaning within contemporary three-dimensional architectural spaces.
    Audible Dwelling by Learning Site (Half Letter Press) $11.00 – This publication is a record of the research that inspired the Audible Dwelling project, which is is a mobile dwelling and a stereo loudspeaker system. Essays about the design work of Eileen Gray, Justin Stapleton and the history of transmission line speakers. Themes covered in this publication include: the history and politics of speaking houses, the autocity as aesthetic and political landscape, the relationship of revolutions to renovation, and the gender and political opinions of furniture.

    FICTION
    The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG) $28.00 – English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle is Madeleine’s friend Mitchell, a clear-eyed religious-studies student who believes himself her true intended. A new book from this Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.
    How Mistakes Were Made by Tyler McMahon (SMP) $14.99 – Seattle rocker Laura Loss, one-time teen bass player in her brother’s successful early-’80s hardcore punk band SCC, recalls her ascent to grunge queenÑand her descent into rock tabloid infamyÑas drummer of the legendary ’90s band the Mistakes. So this book is like, the rise and fall of a band called the Mistakes. Get it? Like the title? How they were made? Ha ha ha. Another grunge book to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind.
    The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga (Dunne) $24.99 – The Governor was voted ÒVillain of the YearÓ by Wizard magazine the year he debuted, and his story arc was the most controversial in the history of the Walking Dead comic book series. Now, for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes. Note: this is an actual fiction text book, not a graphic novel.
    Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade by Vladimir Nabokov (Gingko) $35.00 – A publisher we order design/lowbrow art/street art books from published this, which is interesting, because it’s actually fiction in a sort of poetry format by Nabakov. But it’s just so weird we think you might want it. So the story in this “book” is about a fictional American poet named John Shade who wrote a 999-line poem called Pale Fire, composed on notecards. And then his mad egotistic neighbor steals it and makes weird line by line commentary. So there’s the story. But here’s the extra interesting part about this: this reprint is more than a book. It reprints it on 50 notecards in a slipcase-esque fancy box. And it comes with two paperbacks of essays by Nabokov experts. And oh! Artist Jean Holabird, who conceived the project, illustrates key details of the poem. Literature geeks, this is for you. -LM

    POETRY, LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    The Believer #84 Oct 11 $8.00
    Piano Rats by Franki Elliot $10.00
    L-Vis Lives – Racemusic Poems by Kevin Coval (Haymarket) $16.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out this week to see Kevin Coval read poems from this week. He read from this narrative book of poems which tells the story of a white kid obsessed with hip hop. You know like, how Elvis was made to be like, the white music industry’s answer to rhythm and blues? Like that. But with hip hop. And suburbia. Very sort of Jonathan Lethemy, but in slam poet style.
    Electric Literature #6 $10.00
    Booklyn Arts Alliance chap books including ABC #3 Scream at the Librarian by various, with Raymond Pettibon illustrations $15.00 (and by the way, it’s hilarious, with aggro direct calling out of certain types of obnoxious library patrons), ABC #4 Like a Cure by NY Youth $15.00, Revisioning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America by Jen Benka $15.00

    MAYHEM & MISC
    Occupants: Photographs and Writings by Henry Rollins (Chicago Review Press) $35.00 – Yes, that Henry Rollins. His new book features full-color photographs he took in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Siberia, Vietnam, and other far-flung nations. Political commentary text accompanies.
    Stoner Coffee Table Book by Steve Mockus (Chronicle) $16.95 – Photoshop + cats + weird patterns. Have a good time.
    Inside Pee Wee’s Playhouse: The Untold Unauthorized and Unpredictable Story of the Pop Phenemenon by Cassen Gaines (ECW) $19.95
    Live Suburbia by Anthony Pappalardo and Max G. Morton (PowerHouse) $24.95 – Punks in suburbia in the eighties and early nineties. Mostly photos, some text from Max “Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse” Morton and Anthony Pappalardo $24.95 – So remember in high school you and your friends took pictures of each other outside Denny’s on skateboards? This is where those pictures have resurfaced. And yet, the text is interestingly poetic and compelling. Part Mortified, part FOUND Mag, a little Vice. But totally awesome. -LM
    Making an Exit From the Magnificent to the Macabre: How We Dignify the Dead by Sarah Murray (SMP) $25.99
    Encyclopedia Gothica by Liisa Ladoucheur and Gary Pullin (ECW) $19.95 – In case you need some help with that book report you’re writing about goth. -LM
    Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Plus…by Cory Doctorow (PM Press) $12.00 – Cultural criticism of sorts from this Boing Boing rock star, sci-fi thinker, desktop publisher and digital era commentator. Put him in a ring with Douglas Rushkoff and see who wins.

    DIY
    Crafting With Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat by Kaori Tsutaya (Quirk) $14.95 – First cats took over the internet. Now they’re taking over DIY crafts. But admit it! You are interested in looking at this book because it is so um, weird? Gross? Taxidermically pet voodooesque? Interesting? Cute? Ecologicaly saavy? Or something…? -LM
    How to Sell Your Crafts Online: A Step by Step Guide to Successful Sales on Etsy by Derrick Sutton (SMP) $21.99
    Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal by John Austin (Chi Rev Press) $16.95 – aka how to drive your co-workers and neighbors crazy. NOW GET OFF MY LAND! -LM
    Cyclopedia: It’s All About The Bike by William Fotheringham (Chi Rev Press) $25.00 – Not just helpful info about bike stuff but also, bike lore and stuff like that, with the added bonus of having super cool clean yet quirky design.

    MUSIC BOOKS
    Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records 1991-2011 by Kaitlin Fontana (ECW) $19.95 – As in the Canadian label that helped launch the careers of the New Pornographers, Neko Case, the Evaporators, the Smugglers, the Sadies and more.
    Instrument by Graham Pat (Chronicle) $29.95 –  Photos by Pat Graham have appeared in Spin, Artforum, The Village Voice, Washington Post, and VICE, among others. The photos in this book capture the intimate relationship between musician and instrument told by the signs of wear of fingers on frets or keys, chips, scratches, and modifications by the artists who have played, beaten on, bled over, and made them their own. He’s been documenting these amazing instruments and collecting stories about them from musicians on the road, in clubs, and at home, including members of The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., New Order, Wire, Fugazi, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and many more.
    Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, Illustrated Oral History of the Greatest Hip Hip Hit Making Machine in History by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas (Rizzoli) $60.00
    Mix of Bricks and Valentines by G.W. Sok (PM Press) $20.00 – Lyrics by G.W. Sok from The Ex.

    Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk In Toronto and Beyond 1977-1981, updated edition by Liz Worth and Gary Pig Gold (ECW) $19.95
    The Story of the Kinks: You Really Got Me by Nick Hasted (Omnibus) $29.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS
    Revolution as an Eternal Dream: The Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics (Half Letter Press) by Mary Patten $13.00 – Examines the political practice and visual propaganda of a now-obscure womenÕs poster, printmaking, and street art collective based in New York City between 1975 and 1983. For a brief, intense period of time, the MBGC collaborated on projects against racism and in solidarity with national liberation movements, producing many beautiful multicolored silkscreened prints, note cards, banners, posters, and other print ephemera before withdrawing into the isolation of a sectarian and militaristic political line. By 1982 its core members were in prison or underground. Revolution as an Eternal Dream calls up the perpetual desire for revolution, but also the frailty of such dreams.

    CHILDRENS BOOKS
    Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists ed. by Chris Duffy (First Second) $18.99 – Fifty classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by fifty of today’s preeminent cartoonists and illustrators like Roz Chast, Gene Yang, Lilli Carre, Jordan Crane. Theo Ellsworth, Hernandez Bros, Lucy Knisley, Aaron Renier, Craig Thompson, Sara Varon and more. Each rhyme is one to three pages long, and simply paneled and lettered to make it accessible for the youngest of readers.

    MAGAZINES
    Juxtapoz #130 Nov 11 $5.99
    Hi-Fructose #21 $6.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #3 $6.25
    ArtForum Oct 11 $10.00
    Dwell Nov 11 $5.99
    ID Magazine Fall 11 $12.00
    High Times Dec 11 $5.99
    Skunk vol 7 #3 $5.99
    Meatpaper #16 Fall 11 $7.95
    BlackBook #87 Oct 11 $4.95
    Treats Magazine #2 $20.00
    Fader #76 Oct Nov 11 $5.99
    Chips and Beer #1 $5.00 – New music mag.
    Amass #41 $4.95
    Tabu Tattoo #46 $7.99

    SEX & SEXY
    OP Original Plumbing #8 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00
    Front #160 $9.99

    OTHER STUFF
    Witches Almanac #31 Spr 2012 to Spr 2013 $11.95
    Alphabet Magnutz Super Strong Magnets Includes 43 Letters by Goroku $9.99 – Alphabet magnets in more unique fonts than you usually see on fridge letter magnets.
    Robot USB Hub with 4 Ports and LED Eyes $19.00 – Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto. Kilroy provides 4 more USB Ports for your devices. Don’t say we didn’t ever provide you with anything digital. Connector cord included.
    Yummy Ice Cream Sandwich Pillow $19.99 – Almost the size of a body pillow! There for you after you crash from an ice cream sugar overload.

    To see new items added almost every week to our web store, see quimbys.com/store/

  • New Stuff This Week

    Awesome thingy of the week:

    Big Questions Extras Outtakes and Random Scraps Book Tour Zine Thing by Anders Nilsen $5.00 – Our buddy Gabe up in Brooklyn at Desert Island hooked us up with this VH-1 Behind the Music of Chicago-based comics superstar Anders Nilsen’s masterpiece Big Questions. Not to be missed, and not easily found in lots of other places. -LM

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS
    Negative Insight #1 by Aaron and Erik SN $6.50
    Waiting Slowly for Death by Leto (Bongout) $28.00
    Map #4 Floods Manual of Architectural Possibilities $10.27 – MAP aims to merge science and research on one hand, and architectural design on the other. Research and data on one page, and architectural projects on the other. This issue deals with the spatial implications of inundation, presenting projects in The Netherlands, Italy, the US and the Maldives. A phenomenon that crosses multiple boundaries and scales, flooding can occur in seconds or hundreds of years, surface from multiple directions, be natural or artificial in origin, of water, mud or even molasses. Intro by architect Peter Cook.
    Jenny Shimizu: The Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 3 #2  by Eloisa Aquino $6.00
    Martina Navratilova: The Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 3 #1 by Eloisa Aquino $6.00
    All Hands On THE2NDHAND after 10: 2000-2011 A Reader ed. by Todd Dills $16.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out to the release event for this anthology earlier this week, which collects pieces from this celebrated broadsheet, founded here in Chicago. Head autour Todd Dills, who in the past has been known to read from a novelized version of Dukes of Hazzard in front of audiences here at Quimby’s, came back for this book’s release. Yes, we have a few issues available of THE2NDHAND in our free zine area, but for maximum enjoyment, a collection of older pieces are collected in this fancy volume. – LM
    Summoning Sickness #1 by Adrienne Kammerer $7.00
    Walk #1 by Laura Curley $10.00
    Melted Light #1 by Jesjit Gill $7.00
    Tim Tadabrucki #1 by Adam Buttrick $5.00 – The adventures of mushroomy, oozing, crying little Tim Tadabrucki, in a land that looks like The Residents would feel at home. -LM
    Serial Killers Unite #8 $2.00 – No (edible) bones about it, this one’s for all mayhem-intrigued  true crime “fans.” Letters from serial killers for reals. All sorts of things run through one’s mind when reading it, the least of which, it’s not surprising we always sell out of this zine when it comes in. Is it exploitation? Shocking? Strangely “normal” prisoner correspondance? Descriptions of killers you haven’t heard of? Do you feel dirty and freaked out reading it but then you can’t put it down? Is “entertaining” a dirty word for this? Are we hard-wired to take pleasure in gossip but then we experience cognitive dissonance because we don’t want to seem shallow so we call it a “sociological document?” The answer to all these questions: YES. Come get your copy now. -LM
    Mana Leak #1 by Patrick Kyle etc. $5.00
    Regional  An examination of American Cuisine #1 Spr 11 and #2 Sum 11 by Cassie Tompkins $8.50 each
    DB Drawing Book by Daniel Blumberg $10.00
    Carpet by Leland Meiners $6.00
    Statelines by Leland Meiners $8.00
    Whet #1 by Ryan Dodgson $6.00 – Geometric fantasy shapes, brown ink. Satisfying.
    Savage Messiah by Laura Oldfield Ford (Verso) $29.95 – London’s less-than-exquisite social realities as drawn in the black-and-white, cut ‘n’ paste-style zine  Savage Messiah. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city’s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.

    COMICS and COMIX
    Sexy Guns by H. Reumann (Bongout) $28.00
    Von Vorne Is Auchalles Schick by Franzizka Schaum (Bongout) $25.00
    Issues of Retard Riot by Noah Lyon $2.00 – #37-40: A variety of people show up in Noah Lyon’s comics: ABBA, Britney Spears. A weird conglomeration of pop culture references and little kid humor: a drawing of what looks like Smurfs! With the words “The Diaper Hat Four” underneath. And he often has guest drawers like Mat Brinkman and Brian Chippendale. Lyon’s work is always bizarre, but strangely compelling. We also sell 1″ buttons by him here, which often solicit guffaws, bragging “I am farting right now” or “I beat up Henry Rollins” with a Black Flag logo. You’re not gonna find that at no big box store.
    Valentine Comics by ES Olsen $5.00
    Portrait in 3 Months #1 by Sara T. $5.00 – Awfully cute! Profound in it’s minimal petiteness, with maxims of truth like “Honesty is the best fallacy.” You want this. Too bad stocking stuffers aren’t a year round tradtion. – LM

    GRAPHIC NOVELS and TRADE PAPERBACKS
    MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus by Art Art Spiegelman (Pantheon) $35.00 – An inside look at the 25 year anniversary of the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus. Includes a bonus DVD that provides a digitized reference copy of The Complete Maus linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman’s private notebooks and sketches.
    Frank Book by Jim Woodring (Fantagrtaphics) $34.99 – Jim Woodring’s collection of Frank comics compiled in one book, now in soft cover.
    Mail Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads by Kirk Demarais (Insight) $19.95
    Nuts by Gahan Wilson (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon Embarrassing Mishaps and Everyday Adventure  ed. by Arthur Jones (Plume) $15.00 – Personal stories from an all-star lineup-immortalized in beautiful, black Sharpie(r). When former Chicago local Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast across the nation. Inspired by the series and spanning a wide and weird range of topics from an A-list roster of contributors, Post-It(r) Note Diaries captures everyday occurrences from a job interview gone hilariously awry and a nude run-in with a neighbor to hair-raising events like an overnight encounter at Nicholas Cage’s house (it’s not what you think!), and nearly drowning while trying to paddle across the East River in a homemade canoe. Post-It(r) Note Diaries is perfect for NPR addicts and fans of unique graphic favorites like Postsecret and Blankets.Diarists include: John Hodgman, David Rakoff, Hanna Tinti, Arthur Bradford, Chuck Klosterman, Andrew Solomon, Starlee Kine, Kristen Schaal, Mary Roach and Andrew Bird.
    Fantastic Four 1234 by Grant Morrison and Jae Lee (Marvel) $19.99
    Walking Dead Book Seven by Robert Kirkman etc. (Image) $34.99
    All Star Superman TPB by Grant Morrison (DC) $29.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Tatt Book Visionaries of Tattoo by  JK5 and Carlo McCormick (Universe) $29.95
    Amazing Everything the Art of Scott C (Insignt) $24.99 – With a foreward by Jack Black.

    MAYHEM & MISC
    Negropedia: The Assimilated Negros Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience by Patrice Evans (Three Rivers) $14.00 – Suitable for all melanin levels.
    Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris (Norton) $50.00 – Fantastic bone-encrusted creations, religious masterpieces of art created from human bone, mummified or skeletal remains lovingly dressed.
    3 rule-realted books! What’s up with that?! Guess we’re all about minding our manners this week, drinking tea with our pinkies up!
    1. How to Behave a Guide to Modern Manners by Caroline Tiger (Quirk) $14.95 – Share elbow space on an airplane armrest? Contend with road rage? Position yourself when boarding a crowded elevator? A guide to proper behavior in the twenty-first century.
    2. Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson (Broadway) $14.00
    3. Divination by Punctuation by Craig Conley $9.95 – Punctuation in tarot decks! There is much to say about it.

    FICTION
    Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt (New Directions) $24.95
    Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 ed. by Dave Eggers and Guillermo Del Toro (Mariner) $14.95
    Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet (Norton) $24.95
    Saamaanthaa by DT Neal $19.99
    Rector and the Rogue by W.A. Swanberg (Mcsweeneys/Collins Library) $18.00

    DIY
    Microcrafts: Tiny Treasures to Make and Share by Margaret McGuire etc. (Quirk) $16.95

    MUSIC BOOKS
    Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge by Stephen Tow (Sasquatch) $18.95 – The 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind is being celebrated with a number of grunge retrospective books, including this one. -LM
    House of Cash: Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash by John Carter Cash (Insight) $39.95

    MAGAZINES
    Randy #2 by AK Burns and Sophie Morner $8.00
    Fortean Times #280 Nov 11 $11.99
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #2 Oct 11 $9.99
    Uncut Nov 11 #174 $9.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS
    Operation Alphabet, Ministry of Letters by MacCuish, Lozano, Bletsas (T&H) $19.95
    Nina In That Makes Me Mad by Hilary Knight and Stven Kroll (Toon) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY
    Book of Kink: Sex Beyond Missionary by Eva Christina (Perigree) $14.00

    POETRY
    Some Math by Bill Luoma $14.95
    Passion For Apathy: Collected and Rejected Poems by Vittorio Carli $10.00

    OTHER STUFF
    Quimbys Patch $5.00 – Our Quimby’s logo patches are 3? round and printed by our roller derby friends down the street at Broken Cherry. Heat-adhesive, 4 color beauties. They will be available on our website soon, but for now, ya gotta come in and get ‘em here in person. Guess you’ll just have to come in and say hi!

    Tape Recorder Photo Print Bag $16.00 – They took the word cassette out of the OED! Protest the digital revolution and show off your analog sensibility. The irony is that we’re writing about it here on our blog! -LM
    Extra Small Tape Dispenser $8.00 – For extra small street teams hanging extra small flyers. -LM

  • We Got Patches!

    Our Quimby’s logo patches are 3″ round and printed by our roller derby friends down the street at Broken Cherry.

    Heat-adhesive, 4 color beauties, for only  $5.00! They will be available on our website soon, but for now, ya gotta come in and get ’em here in person. Guess you’ll just have to come in and say hi!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Back in print! Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia vol II!

     

    ZINES
    Every Reason #7 $1.00
    Drawers by The Perpetual Dusk at Crusty Caverns, Edwin Perry & Stephen Gregg $5.00
    Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #4 a Cotillion Charge Through Organic Esoterics $3.00
    It’s 1973 by L. Taylor $3.00
    Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
    One A Day July 2011 by Laura Walker $3.00
    Welcome to Bend #7 Yoga Issue by Laura Walker $3.00
    The Groovy Pickle #1 by Pamela Larson $2.00
    Feeding the Masses: A Guide to Mass Vegan Catering by The Anarchist Teapot Mobile Kitchen $3.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    Department of Art #1 by Dunja Jankovic (Sparkplug) $6.00
    Passage #1 by Tessa Brunton $6.50
    Monster Treasure Digest Comics #1 by Maria Sputnik $3.00
    Future Tense by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $9.00 – Anthology with work by Jo Dery, Josh Bayer, Al Burian, Edie Fake and more.
    Round Room Funnies #1 by Ian Sundahl (Sparkplug) $1.00
    Ishis Brain by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug) $4.00
    Sorry Sheets #1 by Erowyn Franklin $5.00
    Goodbye Turtle by Yumi Sakugawa $5.00
    Goodness by Mel Stringer $7.00
    Pope Hats #2 by Ethan Riley (Adhouse) $6.95
    Yakitori #1 by Andrea Tsurumi $4.00
    Terka #1 in Missing Pieces by Andrea Tsurumi $5.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPER BACKS
    Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95
    Best American Comics 2011 edited by series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, with guest editor Alison Bechdel (HM) $25.00 – Don’t miss Alison Bechdel here at Quimby’s on 10/8.
    Ink Weed Some Collected Comics by Chris Wright (Sparkplug) $16.00
    Gandhi: A Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine (Penguin) $15.00
    Reporter Little Black by Dylan Williams (Sparkplug) $8.00
    Daybreak by Brian Ralph (D&Q) $21.95 – All issues compiled into a nice hardcover volume, with a handful of extra pages.
    Suicide Girls vol 1 TPB (IDW) $19.99
    Freddy Stories by Melissa Mendes $10.00 – So cute!

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Tattoo World by Kakoulas and Kaplan (Abrams) $35.00
    Moby Dick in Pictures: One Drawing For Every Page by Matt Kish (Tin House) $39.95
    Classic Flash 2 In 5 Bold Colors by Jeromey Tilit McCullock (Schiffer) $25.00
    Sweet Rot book 2 Raiders of the Lost Art by Joe Simko (Schiffer) $19.99
    Chewed by Svenson & Warren (IWB) $24.95
    Genealogies of Pain by Marilyn Manson & David Lynch (Kunst) $40.00
    No Mervy Life on the Roller Derby Track by Jules Doyle (Schiffer) $39.99
    Stencil 201 25 New Reusable Stincils with Step by Step Project Instructions by Ed Roth (Chronicle) $24.95

    SEX & SEXY
    The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia) $18.95

    MAYHEM & MISC
    Ten Ways to Recycle: A Corpse and 100 More Dreadfully Distateful Lists by Karl Shaw (Three Riv) $10.99
    Chasing Ghosts: Texas Style on the Road with Everyday Paranormal by Klinge & Passero (Thom Dunn) $25.99
    Werewolves: Myth, Mystery, and Magick by Katie Boyd (Schiffer) $16.99
    What Comes After Money: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (Evolver) $18.95
    Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood by Peter Bebergal (Soft Skull) $15.95

    FICTION
    The Immortality Engine by George Mann (Tor) $24.99

    MUSIC BOOKS
    Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage by Alic Bag (Feral House) $17.95
    Put The Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute by Matthew Chojnacki (Schiffer) $39.99

    DIY
    Craft Activism People Ideas and Projects from the New Community of Handmade by Joan Tapper and Gale Zucker (Potter) $22.99

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Stanley and Smith (AK) $21.95

    MAGAZINES
    Raw Vision #73 $14.00
    IdN vol 18 #4 $17.50
    Infamous #5 $6.99
    True Crime Sep 11 $8.99
    Survivalist #4 $4.95 – For the “GET OFF MY LAND” types.
    Fantastic Man #14 $12.99
    Garage Magazine #1 Fall Win 11 $18.99
    Gothic Beauty #34 $6.95
    Astonish  Magazine #1 $9.95
    Ladygunn #3 Fall 11 $9.99
    Lovecat #2 $8.99
    Four Gs #4 Graffiti Guns Girls and Ganja $7.00
    Skateboard Mag #92 $3.99
    Paper Oct 11 vol 28 #2 $4.00
    Fangoria #307 $9.99
    Cinema Retro vol 7 #21 $11.99
    Mojo #216 Nov 11 $9.99
    Wire #331 Sep 11 $10.99
    Ghetto Blaster #29 $3.95
    Remedy Quarterly #6 Stealing $7.50
    Z Magazine Oct 11 $4.95
    Monocle vol 5 #47 Oct 11 $10.00
    Reason Nov 11 $3.95
    Progressive Oct 11 $4.95
    GLQ vol 17 #4 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
    AdBusters #98 Nov Dec 11 $8.95
    In These Times Oct 11 $3.50
    Travel Naturally #80 $9.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Explosion Proof Magazine #4 Fall 11 $9.00
    Rejected Quarterly #22 Sum Fall 11 $7.50
    Coffin Factory #1 $9.00
    Sinister Wisdom #83 Sum 11 $6.00
    The Paris Review #198 $12.00
    Matrix #90 $8.00
    Bomb #117 Fall 11 $7.95
    Logan Square Literary Review #8 Fall 11 $5.00

    OTHER STUFF
    Caroline Paquita 2012 Calendar $10.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES
    Radical Pet #6 by Margarat Nee $2.50

    Found Magazine #7 Willis Earl Beal Special Collection: Limited Edition Acousmatic Sorcery 17 Song Debut Album $20.00
    Translady Fanzine #1 by Amos Mac and Zackary Drucker $20.00
    Show and Tell #8 a zine made with love in Bend Oregon by Rachel Lee Carmen $3.00
    Phallic Titty Manifesto by Jackie Wang $1.50
    Peops #6 by Fly $4.00
    Great Anarchists by Peter Willis $3.00
    Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks by Dniel Gross, Staughton Lynd and Tom Keough (PM Press) $4.95
    No More Unicorns by Emilie Robin $5.00
    Train Stories #2 by Dre CTA $1.00
    Can of Air #1 by Peter E. Rosales $2.00
    Shotgun Seamstress #5 $3.00
    Bookstores and Baseball: 2nd Inning the Moneyball Issue by David Labounty $4.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    Feedback #9 by John Isaacson  $2.00 – Jon goes to a lot of punk shows. Then he does comics about them.
    Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown $5.00
    Get on My Horse by Robin Emilie $3.00
    Captcha #4 by Jojo Sherrow $4.00
    Devil Burger by Kevin Fair $10.00
    French Toast Comix #6 Coffee and Beer Money by Becky Hawkins $4.00
    Zegas #1 by Michel Fiffe $9.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
    Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – New work from the artist of Blankets and Good-Bye Chunky Rice!
    1-800 Mice HC by Matthew Turber (Picturebox) $22.95 – Finally! All in one place.
    Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    Pure Pajamas: A Handsom Treasure Trove of Scrumptious Visual Delights… by Marc Bell (D&Q) $22.95
    Dawn of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley (Chronicle) $12.95
    Hellboy vol 11 Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Hellboy vol 3 HC by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $49.99 – Collects Conqueror Worm and Strange Places.
    New York Five TPB by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Vertigo) $14.99
    New X Men TPB 1 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
    Astonishing X-Men TPB Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews (Marvel) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
    Cut and Paste 21st Century Collage by Richard Brereton and Caroline Roberts (Laurence King) $29.95
    Idols by Gilles Larrain (PowerHouse) $35.00
    Rebus by James Jean (Chronicle) $45.00
    What The Hell Are You Doing?: Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out to the David Shrigley event here at the store or the lecture at Columbia.
    Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
    Everyday Love: The Art of Nidhi Chanani $30.00 – Awfully cute.
    Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00
    Graffiti 365  by Jay “J.SON” Edlin (Abrams) $32.50 – This book delivers the first real insider’s view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists—from Blade to Banksy—and styles—from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more. Author J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades—he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.

    DIY
    The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day by Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stroller (Stewart/Chang) $29.95

    FICTION
    All The Pretty People: Tales of Carob Shame and Barbie Envy by Ariel Gore and Summer Pierre (Lit Star) $10.00
    Temple of Air by Patricia Ann McNair (Elephant Rock) $16.00
    Murder At Any Age by Tony DeMarco $14.99
    Zippermouth by Laurie Weeks (Feminist) $14.95
    Stories of Haven I ed. by Bob Nelson – An collection of stories from Anthology Magazine.
    God Complex by Chris Titus $19.95
    In Case You Didn’t Hear Me The First Time by Sharon Skinner $7.99
    Marks Night by Brian Schmarje $17.00
    50 Plays Fifty Short One Act Plays by Joe Janes $25.00 – Don’t miss Joe Janes here at Quimby’s 10/1!

    MAGAZINES
    Color Ink Book vol 11 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
    Bizarre #180 Oct 11 $10.50
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #16 $45.00
    Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99
    Razorcake #64 $4.00
    Tape Op #85 Sep Nov 11 $4.95
    Wax Poetics #48 $9.99
    Harpers Magazine Oct 11 $6.99
    Tattoo Revolution Oct 11 $11.75

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss (Crown) $25.00
    Trans Love Radical Sex: Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary by Morty Diamond (Manic D) $14.95
    Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Progressive) $15.95
    Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melvilee) $16.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
    Origin of My Organs: Aching What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Loudin $6.95
    A Capella Zoo #7 Fall 11 $7.00
    Prompts Prompted Spr 11  by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $5.00
    Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #27 Aug 10 $5.00
    Waukegan Pepsodent Conundrum by G. Wallace $3.00

    MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
    Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab (university of Chicago) $20.00
    Crap I Bought on E-Bay: 101 Crazy Bizarre Seriously Weird Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Running) $13.00
    Death In the City of Light: Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris by David King (Crown) $26.00
    Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending Without Words by Romana Lefevre and Daniel Castro (Chronicle) $12.95
    Stories in Reserve vol 1 by The Temporary Travel Office $15.00
    Zombies Zombies Zombies: The Most Complete Collection of Zombie Stories Ever Published (Vintage) $25.00
    Maybe He’ll Grow Out Of It: Collection of 45 Outlandish Stories of Youth Idealism by Christopher Gutierrez $16.00

    SEX & SEXY
    RFD #147 Fall 11 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF
    Flavor Savers Mustache Chip Clips (Gama Go) $8.00
    New assorted wrapping papers with such graphics as: Bacon, Fancy Moustaches, Pi, Cupcake! $4.00 per pack
    Instantly Antique Wall Decals: 35 Peel and Stick Decals Easy to Apply and Remove by Julia Rothman (Chronicle) $24.95
    Crazy new toys! Finger Pickles that make your fingers into pickles! Whaaaat? Yes! ($.75 each!) And Finger Narwhals!
    Shark Attack Porcelian Mug $9.50 – So you look inside, and at the bottom there’s a shark fin. Call the troops!
    Individually Wrapped Bacon Candy $6.00 – It’s all about the tin it comes in!
    Old-Fashioned Bacon Candy Canes $4.50 – September is the new December.
    Silver Fox Sly Ceramic Desk Organizer (Gama Go) $20.00
    Blood Sucking Sour Candy Blood Cherry $1.50
    Gummy Earthworms Candy $.32
    Topps Wacky Packages Stickers Series 7 $1.99
    Best of CGW Radio by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $6.00
    Popcorn Jelly Beans $5.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes! Optic Nerve #12 is here! $5.95

    ZINES
    Punch Yourself In the Face and Drop Dead by Dimitri Karakostas (No Fun Press) $7.50
    Basic Paper Airplane #5 by Joshua James Amberson $3.00
    Zisk #20 Fall 11 $2.00
    Half Nelson #2 $2.50
    Bushwick Review #3 $5.00
    Class Struggle #71 Aug Sep 11 $3.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    The Plot #1 a Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Charming new comic from Neil, our comics sommalier. He got it all ready for SPX and boy, was it worth it!
    Leper by Jeff Zwirek $3.00
    Love Pile #1  by Ze San San $8.00
    Barefoot On Bumblebees #1 $2.00
    Fest #1 by Nicholas Bennett and Christopher Stryker $3.00
    You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    Jumping Bo: An American Legend by Alex #1 and #2 each $2.00
    19 Short Comics by Drewscape $7.00
    Boy and the Worm by Drewscape $5.00
    Cartoon Picayune #2 Fall 11 by Josh Kramer, James Sturm, and Katherine Roy $4.00
    Homos In Herstory 19th Century Edition by Elvis Bakaitis $3.00
    Twinks for Sale: A Humble Comics Zine $3.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
    Mark Twains Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain’s (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity.
    Readers eager to see how Twain hunted the Yeti (“Come out here and face me, you snow-covered coward!”), met the Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair with Mamie Eisenhower (“Boy oh boy, this lady was one hot dish”), and accidentally became involved in X-rated films, will devour this tome, which of course is augmented with Kupperman’s hilariously deadpan illustrations. 128 pages of full-color comics.


    Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
    Armed Garden and Other Stories by David B. (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Art of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Evil Garden by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95
    Troop 142 by Mike Dawson (Secret Acres) $20.00
    Korgi Book 3 by Christian Slade (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Zahras Paradise by Amir and Khalil (First Sec) $19.99
    New X-Men TPB vol 5 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
    Crossed vol 2 Family Values by David Lapham (Avatar) $19.99
    Lost Lions by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Hip Pocket Sleaze The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
    Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
    Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Tascen) $39.99 –
    Twenty-seven of the famous Grimms’ fairy tales in an all-new translation, containing illustrations by some of the most famous illustrators from the 1820s to the 1950s.
    Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00

    DIY
    Rabbit Food Cookbook: Practical Vegan Recipes Food History and Other Miscellany by Beth A. Barnett (Sasquatch) $21.00
    Salad Daze: The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook by Alex Brown etc. (MBP) $25.00
    Happy Buds: Marijuana For An Occasion by Ed Rosenthal (Quick) $12.95 Dance, play, chill, snuggle, this book is all about helping readers – whether they are casual or regular users. Select the right varieties for any mood or activity. This book offers expert guidance on marijuana buds that work best for more than 25 occasions, profiling more than 80 varieties of bud. Ed Rosenthal is joined by buds. That is, his friends Anna Foster and Mamakind.

    FICTION
    Karaoke Singers Guide to Self Defense by Tim Kinsella (Featherproof) $14.95 – Member of Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, Chicago’s own Tim Kinsella’s first novel tells the story of family members that reunite for a funeral, published by local publisher Featherproof.


    Sour Candies by Jon Dambacher $19.95
    Black Like Us a Century of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction ed. by Devon W. Carbado (Cleis) $24.95
    American Wasteland: Bleak Tales On the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 911 ed. by Jason Pettus $20.00

    MAGAZINES
    Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
    Shots #113 Fall 11 $6.50
    Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
    Up Magazine #44 Sum 11 $8.75
    Goodfellas #3 $12.00
    True Crime Aug 11 $8.99
    Romka #5 $12.00
    Open Minds Oct Nov 11 $6.50
    Skeptic vol 16 #4 $6.95
    ID Magazine Pre Fall 11 $12.00
    High Times Nov 11 $5.99
    Art of Mary Jane #6 $6.99
    BlackBook #86 Sep 11 $4.95
    Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #4 Fall 11 $15.00
    Explosion Proof Magazine #3 Sum 11 $9.00
    Creative Nonfiction #42 Sum 11 $10.00
    Radical History Review Fall 11 $14.00
    Against the Current #156 Sep Oct 11 $5.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Weinstein) $25.00
    F’em Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls by Jennifer Baumgardner (Seal) $17.00
    How the World Works: Four Classic Bestsellers in One Affordable Volume by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian (Soft Skull) $18.00 – Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series—What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good.
    Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington (Seven Stories) $14.00
    Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward (Oxford) $11.95
    Liberating Society From The State and Other Writings by Erich Musham and Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) $26.95
    Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas Von Hoffman (Nation) $15.99

    CHILDRENS
    Treehorn Trilogy by Parry Florence Heide and Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $29.95
    Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) $29.99 – By the author of Invention of Hugo Cabret.
    Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philipe Coudray (Toon) $12.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
    Origin of My Organs Aching: What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Louden $6.95
    South Loop Review vol 13 $10.00
    First Line vol 13 #3 $3.00
    Literary Review vol 54 #4 Sum 11 $8.00
    Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct 11 $4.00
    Sound Projector #20: Full Colour Edition $39.50, Mono Black and White Edition $12.00
    Grow No Moss by Julia Hendrickson $16.00 – Local poet, with screen-printed images done at the local Spudnik Press.
    I’m Not Your Fucking Doctor: Medicine Poems by Dustin C. Pickett $10.00

    MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
    Blood In, Blood Out: Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood by John Lee Brook (Headpress) $19.95
    Steampunk Poe by Zdenko Basic and Manuel Sumberac (and oh yeah, Poe) (Running Press) $18.95 – Every Poe story and poems is fully illustrated with steampunk-inspired art—from 1920s aviation gear to elaborate musical instruments—creating a fresh perspective on his work containing bizarre characters of madmen and mystery.
    Crap I Bought on EBay: 101 Crazy, Bizarre, Seriously Weird, Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Weinstein) $13.00
    Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer (Pomegranate) $35.00
    Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology About Setting ed. by Traci Kim (CCLaP) $20.00
    99 Problems: Essays About Running and Writing by Ben Tanzer (CCLaP) $20.00
    Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture by Chris Edwards (See Sharp) $11.95

    SEX & SEXY
    Steamlust Stempunk Erotic Romance ed. by Kristina Wright (Cleis) $14.95 – Fetishizing the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, editrix extraordinaire Kristina Wright selects erotic stories of shiny brass and crushed velvet; mechanical inventions and romantic conventions; sexual fantasy and kinky fetish.


    Take Me There Trans and Genderqueer Erotica ed. by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) $14.95
    Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $14.95
    Pinups #15 Micka $14.00
    Front #159 $9.99

    OTHER STUFF
    Field Notes Blank Journals $9.95 – Our customers asked us to get these awesome blank books sold in packs of 3. And here they are! Blank, lined and graph styles. Also in other styles like neon colors, balsam fir and Illinois County Fair. They’re movin’ fast!


    We Wish You a Crazy Christmas: 30 Oversized Postcards (Darling & Co.) $9.95 – Never to soon to get in the holiday craze.

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!
    Whore Eyes #4 by various (Drippy Bone) $11.00 – One meaty thickpack of 3 sickosauce artzines from Jessie Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw AND a 80-minutt rambunk cd compilation -EF


    Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck Ups Know It Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Whos Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone) $4.00
    Death Trip by Shalo P and Peter Gray Hurley $7.00 – “This new release sees the artists respectively knashing their teeth at their obsessions and desires, tearing inward into depictions of fear, isolation and charming forms of nihilism, revealing a common theme of self-defeating anxiety that propels them into “the spiritual pursuits of the street”. the images collide and play off each other, dancing in full cover spreads and stark black and white pages like twisted visions shared by dreamers on different planes of existence. DEATH TRIP is ultimately a book for those not content with conventional imagemaking but at ease in shredding beyond its basic fabric into the emotional sparseness and infinite lushness we bear as human beings ruled by strange and powerful desires.” – Shalo P on DEATH TRIP


    Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00
    Birdsong #15 $6.00
    Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 Get Ur Magic Marker Wet Cuz This is the Jafolio $20.00
    Losing Things Is Easy – A One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
    You and Everyone You Know is Damaged in Innumerable Secret Ways And Most… $2.00
    Wanderlust Herbal $2.00
    Fiesta Del Sol 2011 by M. Miller $10.00
    Sensation #1 by Gene Booth and Grace Tran $3.00
    Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
    Bullet Breath #1 $1.00
    Jimmy #1 Greenwood $7.00
    Take a Trip On a Cloud by Thad Kellstadt $8.00
    KerBloom #91 Jul Aug 11 by Artnoose $2.00
    DIY or Dont We #3: A Zine About Doing Things Together by Nicki $3.00
    Somnambulist #17 by Martha Grover $3.00

    COMICS! COMIX!
    Papercutter #17 (Tugboat Press) $4.00 – Featuring Jason Martin, Jesse Reklaw, Corinne Mucha, Frabncois Vigneault, Calvin Wong, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, Vanessa Davis
    Fungus #1 By James Kochalka (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
    Gentle Soul by Lisa Vanin $6.95
    Fall Is Here by Meghan Ansbach $4.00
    Stars Were Exploding Meghan Ansbach $2.00
    Echo Location #1 by Krystal DiFronzo $3.00
    Map Makers Mansion by Kevin L Jensen $2.00
    In The Woods by Kevin Jensen $2.00
    You’re Not Alone: Quotes from A Letter From Katherine Collins Relatable Life… by Rachel Swanson $3.00
    Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
    Spirit House by Rylan Thompson $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Mome #22 Fall 11 $19.99
    Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
    Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Seymour Chwast (Bloomsbury) $20.00
    Feynman by Jim Ottaviani+var. (First Sec) $29.99
    Water Wife by Rachel N Swanson $15.00
    Steve Ditko Omibus vol 1 starring Shade the Changing Man (DC) $59.99
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 5 HC (Boom) $24.99
    Any Empire by Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $19.95
    Green River Killer a True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse) $24.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Second) $16.99
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – With an awesome Ivan Brunetti cover!
    James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – Introduction by Aimee Bender and cover by Jordan Crane.

    FICTION!
    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Postmortal by Drew Magary (Penguin) $15.00

    DIY!
    Foraging Self-Sufficiency by David Squire (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Cookiepedia Mixing Baking and Reinventing the Classics by Stacy Adimando and Tara Striano (Quirk) $18.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Bitch #52 $5.95
    Mojo #215 Oct 11 $9.99
    Filter #45 $5.95
    Design Bureau Sep Oct 11 $8.00
    Artforum Sep 11 $10.00
    Backwoodsman vol 32 #5 Sept Oct 11 $4.95
    Dot Connector #14 $7.95
    Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 11 vol 35 #5 $4.95
    Flaunt #116 $10.95
    Dwell Oct 11 $5.99
    Diffusion #3 2011 $12.00
    Treating Yourself #30 $7.99
    Scootering #302 $8.99
    Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
    Z Magazine Sep 11 $4.95
    The Progressive Sep 11 $4.95
    Skin and Ink Nov 11 $6.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
    So Sorry To See You Go by C. McGath $12.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    The Master Game: Unmasking The Secret Rulers Of The World by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval (Disinfo) $24.95 – The Master Game refers to a scheme or “game” played on the world stage to bring about a world order governed by a lofty goal which, today, we term the “Masonic Ideal.” The Master Game traces the origins of this game of symbols and words and talismans from ancient Egypt all the way to modern times, and places it squarely on the elitist Scottish Rite Freemasonry, headquartered in Washington, DC, and ruled by a secretive and powerful brotherhood of men who have attained the thirty-third degree. The Master Game exposes this world order’s true purpose and, more importantly, shows how it has affected the United States of America and badly backfired on 9/11.
    The Terror Conspiracy Revisited: What Really Happened on 9-11 and and Why Were Still Paying the Price by Jim Marrs (Disinfo) $17.95
    Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness by Jose Arguelles (Evolver) $14.95
    Half-Empty by David Rakoff (Anchor) $14.95
    More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by Charles Bukowski (Citylights) $16.95
    Wageslave’s Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell (Biblioasis) $11.95 – With illustrations by Seth.

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation by Sujatha Fernandes (Verso) $19.95
    Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm (Anchor) $25.00 – No, not by Mark Arm from Mudhoney. Mark Yarm. Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, record executives, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, club owners, roadies, scenesters and hangers-on who lived through it. The book tells the whole story: from the founding of the Deep Six bands to the worldwide success of grunge’s big four (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains); from the rise of Seattle’s cash-poor, hype-rich indie label Sub Pop to the major-label feeding frenzy that overtook the Pacific Northwest; from the simple joys of making noise at basement parties and tiny rock clubs to the tragic, lonely deaths of superstars Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. “Yarm’s affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years.” —Kirkus Review, *Starred Review*


    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker (Simon) $12.00 – “The performance and identify of @MayorEmanuel, a fake Twitter account, captured the imagination nearly as much as the real politics” —The Atlantic.
    We Are Wisconsin ed. by Erica Sagrans $18.00 – Wisconsin Uprising in the words of the activists writers and everyday wisconsinites who made it happen. Contributors include Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Medea Benjamin, Mike Elk, Andy Kroll, Tony Schultz, Ian Murphy, Allison Kilkenny, Billy Wimsatt, Chris Bowers, and more.


    Signing Their Rights Away: Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution by Denise Kiernan etc. (Quirk) $19.95
    Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories) $15.95
    9-11 Was There an Alternative by Noam Chomsky – With a new essay written after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
    Story of the Iron Column Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War by Abel Paz (Biblioasis) $18.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
    Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 by Wes Crum (Eros) $3.95
    Alt #3 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Fun little Otsu datebooks! Get your 2012 on now.

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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
    For more info about events at Quimby’s, see quimbys.com/blog/store-events/

    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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  • New Stuff This Week

    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


    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Xerography Debt #29 $3.00
    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
    Death Trip by Shalo P. and Peter Gray Hurley (Drippy Bone) $7.00
    Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    In The Wake of Heroes #1 by Lee Kolinsky and Sham Arifin #3.50
    Product of Society Aug 11 $3.99
    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.
    Viisitoista Paivaa Meksikossa by Ines and Muura $8.00
    Kim Gee Comics #4 by Kim Gee $5.00
    Brendan Wells Presents: Mickey Comics #1 – Featuring the story Mouse Secrets by Walt Disney Jr. $2.00
    Ring Wraiths at Home Xenia James O’Keefe $4.00 – New comic from the artist of Spider Who Had Arachnophopia of Patton Oswalt-Tweeting-about fame!

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (Abrams) $29.95
    PS Magazine Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95
    Blackjacked and Pistol Whipped Crime Does Not Pay Primer by Dennis Kitchen etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Bouncer the One Armed Gunslinger by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Francois Boucq (Humanoids) $29.95
    Okie Dokie Donuts Open For Business by Chris Eliopoulos (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Male Call: Complete Newspaper Strips 1942-1946 Starring Miss Lane by Milton Caniff (Hermes) $39.99
    How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden (Vertigo) $19.99
    Nogoodniks by Adrian Norvid (D&Q) $24.95
    Malinky Robot Collected Stories and Other Bits by Sonny Liew (Image) $16.99
    Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod (Top Shelf) $24.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Whole Car Poetry by Frank Veleno and Hepo (Whole Train) $29.95
    Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
    Twinkles by Miss Van (Drago) $50.00
    Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman  and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
    Art of Big City by Ragnar (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
    Book of Skulls by Faye Dowling (Laurence) $14.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    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.
    Monday Night #10 vol 1: Journal of New Literature $5.00
    Paper Darts vol 3: A Magazine of Lit and Art $14.00
    Inhuman by Hillary Basile $1.00

    DIY!
    Teeny Tiny Mochimochi by Anna Hrachovec (Potter Craft) $19.99 –  More than 40 itty bitty minis to knit wear and give.

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Workin’ Mime to Five by Dick Richards (WriteBloody) $17.00 – Thoroughly silly!
    Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation by Trevor Norton (Pegasus) $24.95
    Gris Grimlys Atrium Secretum: 13 Years of Hidden Truths (Baby Tattoo) $44.00
    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.
    Who Am I?: And If So, How Many? by Richard David Precht (Spiegel & Grau) $16.00 – This book has been talked about as being a philosophical view on topics like morality, happiness, and the soul with insights gleamed from biology and the neurosciences. Sounds like an episode of Radiolab to me. -LM

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Pirate Penguin Vs Ninja Chicken Troublems With Frenemies by Ray Friesen (Top Shelf) $9.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad Tariq Ali (Verso) $12.95
    True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School by Susan Gubar (Norton) $29.95
    Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
    Flaunt #116 $10.95
    Clutter #15 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99
    Paper Sep 11 vol 28 #1 $4.00
    Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
    Tattoo Society #29 $7.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Inamorata: The Erotic Art of Michael Manning (Last Gasp) $24.95 – Finally back in print and available in soft cover.

    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.

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    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.


    The Comedians Aug Sep 11 #27 $4.50
    Exp #00 Infinity by Matthew Kumar $7.00
    There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here #1 Sleep by various $8.00 – “The street corner magicians who plugged in this archive of dangerous thinkers and awesome nobodies have finally put together something in paperback form that will last through the wars when virtual Tomorrowland comes crashing down. A perfect-bound reader for all gods of the porcelain throne. The Sleepy of the Week; Greatest Hits now at a nice price. Featuring candid photos of the ones who have the right idea.”


    Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
    The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
    Things That Matter by Jamie issues #1-#3 $2.00 each and #3 is a split zine with M. Xavier.

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    (FD Agent In) Haystack Full of Needles #1  by various $7.00
    various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Europe 1 20000000 $8.00
    3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
    Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising 1970s to 1940s ed. by Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard (Fantagraphics) $28.99
    Even More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    John Constantine, Hellblazer TPB Bloody Carnations (Vertigo) $19.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 3 by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99
    We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
    New X-Men vol 4 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99 – Collects New Xmen 127 through 133.
    Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99

    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.”


    Cult Street Ware by Josh Sims (Laurence) $16.95
    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
    Microworlds by Marc Valli and Margherita Dessanay (Laurence) $19.95
    1000 Steampunk Creations Neo Victorian Fashion Gear and Art by Dr. Grymm amd Barbe Saint John (Quarry) $24.95
    Visual Complexity: Mapping Patrterns of Information by Manuel Lima (Priceton) $50.00

    FICTION!
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00
    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
    Upstreet #7 $12.00
    Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

    DIY!
    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
    Jiggles: Shots 75 Recipes To Get the Party Started by Rachel Federman (Abrams) $12.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    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?

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith (Mariner) $13.95
    Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead by Joel McIver (Omnibus) $23.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
    Wallpaper Sep 11 $10.00
    True Detective Aug 11 $4.99
    Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
    Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
    Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
    Fader #75 Aug Sep 11 $5.99
    Monocle Mediterraneo #3 Sum11 $8.00
    Harpers Magazine Sep 11 $6.99
    In These Times Sep 11 $3.50
    Inked Sep 11 $7.99
    Rebel Ink Magazine Sep 11 $5.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
    Frat Boys: Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
    Girls Who Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica by Delilah Devlin (Cleis) $14.95
    Front #158 $9.99
    All American Guys #1 $9.99