Category: podcast

  • Quimby's Bookstore Podcast Episode #8 With Adam Parfrey & Peter Sotos Now Available

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    This episode is entitled “We’re Having a Good Time With That Goat, Wish You Were Here: Decadence With Adam Parfrey and Peter Sotos.” Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey, talks about his book Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide, and controversial local writer Peter Sotos talks about his book Pure Filth.

    Stream or download this episode and past episodes (it’s free!) on our Podbean site at quimbys.podbean.com.

    Or find us on I-Tunes!

  • Quimby's Podcast Episode #7 With Authors Adam Levin & Tim Kinsella

    Quimby’s Podcast Episode #7 With Authors Adam Levin & Tim Kinsella is now available for your listening pleasure. Adam you might know from his books Hot Pink and The Instructions Tim you might know from his book The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense, or because he’s in bands like Joan of Arc and Cap’n Jazz (among others). Adam and Tim did an event here. Then we conned them into talking to us about their work and each other, while trapped in the mysterious Quimby’s basement. You can listen to the podcast in a variety of places like finding it on I-Tunes, or download it or even stream it, with links at the the Quimby’s podbean site here.

  • CCLaP Performs "Podcast Dreadful"

    Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) on Friday, September 21st, as it presents a live-audience episode of its new “Podcast Dreadful” serial literary anthology, at the popular Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park. Known for its annual themed compilation of local short work every fall, this year CCLaP is presenting this work as a free 12-part audiobook at its website cclapcenter.com/dreadful, every Monday in September, October and November; featuring a variety of celebrated authors both locally and across the US, each story in this collection has been written in the style of an old Victorian “penny dreadful,” featuring cliffhangers each week and a dark, strange tone throughout. Episode number 4 will be performed in front of a live audience at the famed indie-lit venue Quimby’s, and will feature not only readings from local authors Davis Schneiderman, Jacob Knabb, Jason Fisk and CCLaP owner Jason Pettus, but also real-time radio-style sound effects by a specially assembled stage crew. Free refreshments will also be served that night, and with other CCLaP merchandise available for purchase.

    For more info: cclapcenter.com/dreadful or write Jason Pettus at cclapcenter@gmail.com

     Fri, Sept 21st, 7pm

  • New Stuff This Week Including New Quimby's Podcast Episode

    Yes! There is a new episode of the Quimby’s Podcast, which you can listen to and/or download on Podbean or I-Tunes. This episode features an interview with the charismatic, funny and extremely articulate Caseen Gaines, the author of Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon. Relevant topics? Public persona, breaking the fourth wall, hommage vs. rip off, tribute vs authorization…Mr. Gaines is a high school teacher, so let’s just say we bet sitting in his class must be awesome.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Not Bored Anthology 1983-2010 by William J. Brown (Colossal) $25.00
    Rad Dad Zine Compilation Issues 1-10 by Tomas Moniz (1984) $15.00
    Taking the Lane vol 7 BikeSexuality $4.00
    Bipedal By Pedal #3 A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland Oregon by Joe Biel $4.00
    The Worst of While You Were Sleeping (Schiffer) $39.99 – 496-page compilation of The Worst of While You Were Sleeping magazine, over 900 images of the graffiti crazed, boozed-up partiers, and scantily clad ladies, and pop culture. WYWS magazine was started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19.

    Mumbo #9 $6.00
    Please You Will Sodomize Me #3 Sum 12 $4.50
    Lady Gardens $2.00
    Art of Dismantling: A Radical Artisan Collective and Ongoing Interview Series by Chris Richards, Matt Gauck, Lantz Arroyo, Alan Moore et al. (AK) $3.00 issues #1 and #2 $3.00 each
    Beyond the Affinity Group: The Organisational Challenge for Anarchists by Andrew Flood $4.50
    American Worker by Paul Romano (AK) $3.00
    Peops #7 by Fly $4.00
    Finite and Flammable: A Zine About Zines by various $3.00
    Drop Target #3 by Jon Chad and Alec Longstreth $5.00
    The Nutella Cookbook by Anna Williams $4.00
    Born To Kill Cheese Bike #5 by Pat McCarthy $2.00
    Infecticitis #11 Selfish by Halley $2.50
    Pulling Ink: Build a One Color Press and Start Screenprinting Zine by Rio $2.00
    Xerography Debt #31 by Davida Gypsy Breier $4.00
    Publick Occurances #13 by Danny Martin $2.00
    Gold by Sarah Royal $3.00
    Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00
    zines by Kriss Stress: Paper Houses #6 Margin Walker #4 $1.00 each
    ByUs #1 the Gary Historical and Cultural Society Summer Enrichment Program Zine by Miss Curiouser $4.00
    How To Commit Revolution In Corporate America by Domhoff G. William $5.00

    Comics & Comix
    Everybody Loves Tank Girl #1 $3.99
    comics by Noah Van Sciver: Dueling $2.00, Blammo #7.5  $4.00
    Blindspot #2 by Jospeh Remnant $5.00
    Gorilla Year #1 by Cara Bean $5.00
    East West Zodiac and Journal by Turtel Onli $5.00
    Raccoons by Cathon $5.00
    Pulse Burst and Wagon Engourdi by Vincent Giard $6.00
    Colibri #4 $6.00
    Mille Putois comics by Pascal Girard: Apartment Number 3 $4.00, Des Adolescents $5.00
    Hellenistic Philosophers by Drew Damron $2.00
    Cup O Noodles by JF $.50
    comics from Emily Armstrong: I Don’t Really Use a Recipe $2.00, Some of Us #3 $6.00
    Pilot Theory #1 by John L. Gehron $1.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Luchadoras by Peggy Adam (Blank Slate) $17.99
    Flower of Battambang by Em Satya $2.00
    Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $19.95
    No Straight Lines HC Four Decades of Queer Comics by Justin Hall (Fantagraphics) $35.00
    Scalped vol 9 Knuckle Up TPB by Jason Aaron and RM Guera $14.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 4 by Bill Willingham et al. $29.99
    3 Story Secret History of the Giant Man by Matt Kindt $19.99

    Art & Design
    Melamine Car Bomb by Mark Connery $9.95
    Art By Tattooists: Beyond Flash by Jo Waterhous $9.95

    Fiction
    City Life Coming of Age in Chicago by John G. Lineham $12.00
    This Bright River by Patrick Somerville $24.99 – New fiction from this popular local writer.
    Sorry Please Thank You Stories by Charles Yu $24.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    The Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Margaret Killjoy  and Colin Foran (Combustion Books) $10.00
    Pickled Punks and Girlie Shows: A Life Spent on the Midways of America by Rick West (Schiffer) $24.99
    Chicago’s Haunt Detective by Raymond Johnson $16.99
    The Art of Mediumship: Psychic Investigation Clairvoyance and Channeling by Elaine Kuzmeskus $16.99
    The UFOs Hunters Guide: Sightings, Abductions, Hot Spots, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, Identified and Unidentified and More by Bret Lueder (Weiser) $19.95
    God Forgive These Bastards by Rob Morton (Cantankerous) $7.95
    Toilet Yoga: Because Sometimes Shit Doesnt Happen by John Johnston and Jeff Tow $11.99
    Witchs Brew: Secrets of Scents by Morwyn (Schiffer) $16.95

    Poltics & Revolution
    Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America by Daniel Katz and Richard A. Greenwald $20.95

    Magazines
    True Crime Jul 12 $8.99
    Sneaker Freaker #24 $14.50
    BlackBook Sep 12 $4.95
    Empire Aug 12 $9.99
    Tattoo Society #34 $7.99

    Sexy & Sexy
    Handbook vol 6 #3 2012 $6.00

    Music Books
    The Gun is Loaded by Lydia Lunch (Black Dog) $55.00

    Other Stuff
    More 2013 Moleskines.
    Gless DVD Lonliness is Contagious $3.00

  • Quimby's Podcast Episode #4 is up!

    This episode features a discussion with Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior talking about Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries (Bazillion Points Publishers). Jon started it in Norway in 1985 and put out 20 issues over the span of 25 years. The zine covered a variety of extreme metal bands, including Emperor, Slayer, Kreator, Nihilist, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Cathedral, Entombed, Morbid, Napalm Death, and more. The Onion AV club called Slayer zine founder Jon Kristiansen “one of the best primary sources for facts and stories about Mayhem, Varg, and what really happened back in the day.” The Chicago Reader called this book “a chronicle of death and black metal at their births but also a personal coming-of-age story.” It’s an awesome 744 page hardcover with tons of pictures and reproduction pages from every issue, and there’s even material from the precursor Live Wire zine. It’s also part memoir. Co-editor Tara interviewed Jon all about his experiences with the zine, and then together they decided what to include.

    Yes, we have Metalion: The Slayer Mag at Quimby’s. It is $39.95. You can come and get in the store or order it here on line!

    Jon and Tara were at Quimby’s for a Chicago release event for the book on 6/8/11. But we conducted this interview in our dark and creepy basement beforehand.

    You can listen to all our podcasts quimbys.podbean.com either streaming live or in downloadable formats. Or you can click on the link there to get it on I-Tunes. Or you can just look up Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast on I-Tunes and subscribe to us there.

  • Quimby's Bookstore Podcast #3 Is Up!

    Editor Ryan Standfest discusses BLACK EYE 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension, an anthology that collects original narrative comics, art and essays by 41 international artists and writers, all focused on the expression of black, dark or absurdist humor. (And yes, we carry it at Quimby’s.) Ryan was here this past June 24th, to celebrate the Chicago release with some of the local artists included in the anthology.

    With comics and art by Stéphane Blanquet, Ivan Brunetti, Lilli Carré, Max Clotfelter, Al Columbia, Ludovic Debeurme, Olivier Deprez, Nikki DeSautelle, Brecht Evens, Andy Gabrysiak, Robert Goodin, Dav Guedin, Gnot Guedin, Glenn Head, Danny Hellman, Paul Hornschemeier, Ian Huebert, Kaz, Michael Kupperman, Mats!?, Fanny Michaëlis, James Moore, Tom Neely, Mark Newgarden, Paul Nudd, Onsmith, Emelie Östergren, Paul Paetzel, David Paleo, Martin Rowson, Olivier Schrauwen, Stephen Schudlich, Robert Sikoryak, Ryan Standfest, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch and Jon Vermilyea. Original essays by Jeet Heer (on S. Clay Wilson), Bob Levin (on “The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist”), Ken Parille (on Steve Ditko) and Ryan Standfest (on Al Feldstein and EC). Also includes the text “100 Good Reasons to Kill Myself Right Now,” by Roland Topor, translated into English for the first time by Edward Gauvin. You can find us on podbean or on I-Tunes (just do a search for Quimby’s Bookstore. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast at either of those places. And yes! Subscription to the podcast is FREE.