Category: regular weekly post

  • New Stuff This Week

    Welcome to Venice Rxcx by Ric Clayton (Kill Your Idols) $45 – Book featuring the work of the guy who does the art work for the Suicidal Tendencies, lots of like-minded bands, LA skate graphics n more. All I wanted was a Pepsi, but I got this book instead. -Liz M.

    Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander (Anthology Project) $55 – A deep dive into the music used during heyday of low-budget TV and scrappy genre filmmaking, when producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Featuring histories, interviews, & visuals. Even George A. Romero used library music in Night of the Living Dead, which is why he wrote the intro to this examination of this unique genre at the nexus of art and commerce.

    Zines

    Riot Grrrl Reviews #2 June 18 by Jolie Ruin $2

    New titles from Chicago print artist Keith Herzik

    Interim by Kayle Karbowski $20

    alchemy zines by Brian Cotnoir

    Just Encased #2 Curated by Danielle Susi $7

    Comics & Minis

    My Green Tessellated Boudoir Winter by Krystal DiFronzo $15

    Like a Garment That Gapes by Jameson Skelton Doody $5

    New titles by H Tweedell

    Graphic Novels

    Dull Margaret by Jim Broadbent & Dix (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Jim Broadbent, the British actor who is in, like everything, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones (?!), collaborated with the Guardian cartoonist Dix in this book, inspired by the Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (1561) painting (aka “Mad Meg”) of a woman with a sword in one hand in front of the mouth of hell.

    Father by Gabriel M. Howell $20

    Eric by Tom Manning $24.99

    Let’s Make Comics: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons by Jess Smart Smiley $12.99

    Luisa, Now and Then by Carole Maurel (Humanoids) $29.95 – At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self.

    Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco (Self Made Hero) $24.99

    Art & Design

    The Design of Dissent: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance by Milton Glaser / Mirko Ilic $25

    Skin & Ink: Illustrating the Modern Tattoo by Sandu (Gingko Press) $39.95

    Far Fetched Inversosimilie by Jesse Jacobs (Tabularasa Edizioni) $36

    The Creature Garden: An Illustrator’s Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk / Zanna Goldhawk $25

    Politics & Revolution

    90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow $16.99 – Examines the history of women in the 1990s, during which American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up.

    Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank $25 – The founding editor of The Baffler and acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal presents a collection of scathing interlocking essays denouncing the four-decade economic battle in America that has culminated in today’s devastating levels of financial inequality.

    Outer Limits

    Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-day Use of Psychedelic Plants & Substances by Cody Johnson $24.99

    Film & Music Books

    Room to Dream by David Lynch / Kristine McKenna $32 – Part memoir-part bio, McKenna talks to people in Lynch’s life, they talk smack about him and then he refutes it! What an idea! – Liz M.

    The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s by Greg Prato $22.95

    Sex Guides & Culture

    Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson $16.99

    Magazines
    Lacunae vol 1 An Undergraduate Journal for Queer of Color Critique $12
    RFD #174 Sum 18 Amuse Us $11.95
    Fortean Times #367 $12.50
    Mojo #296 $11.25
    Shock Cinema #54 $5

    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Staind vol 2 The Shame Issue $15
    Swiping Right and Other Regrets by Noelle Pouzar $12
    Tilde # 1 $7
    Submerging #3 Where Are We In the Story $6

    …and as usual, much, much more!

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery by Rex Sorgatz $19.99 – Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley.

    Zines

    KerBloom #132 May Jun 18 by Artnoose $2

    National Teenset Outsider #35 $1

    Skating with Shes and Hers: April to June 2017: Volume 1 by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin $6 – Photos and interviews with women, nonbinary and gender fluid folks that skate.

    Smudge vol 2 #6 by Clay Hickson $5

    Do You Have the Time by McKenzie Carlock $7.95

    Working: Makin’ Paper Without Losing Your Mind or Selling Your Soul by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $4

    Lover – A Zine by Katie Wright $5

    Crown Jewel of the Caucusus by Benjamin Kraco $10

    Incognito #1 by Rachel Orr $10

    Beauty of Rat Dreams: A Fold Out Zine About Radiators Worms and Hidden Layers by Jam $1

    zines/comics by M Sabine Rear: Bending Spoons: A Field Guide to Ableist Microaggressions $3, Women Artists Zine $6, Reverse Flaneur $10 & more!

    Comics & Minis

    Samurai Corpse #1 by Rainier Flores $2

    Paintings by Keiler Roberts $5

    Demons by Emily Hutchings $6

    Would’ve Been Could’ve Been Should’ve Been Never Was and Never Will Be by Yewon Kwon $20

    Graphic Novels

    Fab4 Mania: A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime by Carol Tyler (fantagraphics) $29.95

    Fukushima Devil Fish by Katsumata Susumu (Breakdown Press) $34.99

    Then It Was Dark: A Paranormal Anthology by Sarah Benkin $22

    The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier (D+Q) $21.95

    Hellboy 1: The Complete Short Stories by Mike Mignola $24.99 – 16 standalone stories that can be read in any order.

    George Orwell Illustrated by David Smith & illustrated by Mike Mosher (Haymarket) $17

    Politics & Revolution

    A Nation Unmade by War by Tom Engelhardt $15.95 – Writings from TomDispatch.com.

    Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship by Tariq Ali $19.95

    Music & TV Books

    Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers $18.99

    Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons by Mike Reiss $27.99

    I’ve Got Something to Say by Danko Jones (Feral House) $19.95 – In-your-face collection of 10 years of onstage and backstage by Canadian garage rocker Danko Jones.

    Stuff That Helps

    The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick: Your Guide to Crafting Charms, Rituals, and Spells from the Natural World by Judy Ann Nock $16.99

    Food

    Spam: The Cookbook by Marguerite Patten $9.99

    Fiction & Lit

    We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $26.99

    The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles Bukowski (City Lights) $15.95 – Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man.

    Sex Culture

    Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun $30

    Magazines
    Frankie #83 $15.95
    Wire #412 $10.99
    Gather Journal vol 7 #13 $19.99
    Kilter Magazine #13 2018 $5
    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Little Star #7 $14.95
    Growing by Bridget Johnson $3.50

    For the Kiddies

    AlphaBots by Impossible Winterbourne $19.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Revering Individual Posessions #2 by Elizabeth S. Tieri $1

    Bound Struggles #7 by Chicago Books to Women In Prison $10

    Sick, Sad World Zine: A Tribute to Daria by Rosmund and Megan $5

    Meanwhile #4 Mythical Creatures & #5 Whats Your Sign $5 each

    Death Lick by Corinne Halbert $12 – Full color reproductions on heavy glossy paper of 19 erotic horror paintings, limited edition of 50.

    Heuksando by Lila Lee $10

    Good Day Mi Lady: A Ren Faire Zine by Megan Kirby $5

    Contrived Critters by Aim Ren $2

    Her by Talie M. Zrihen $2

    Unguarded Conversations With Museum Guards at AIC by Shannon Hebert Waldman $5

    Mineralis by Patricia Cram $10

    Various Small Geological Controversies photo zine by Bill Daniel $12

    Wiggly World by Michael R. Heck $10

    Cognitive Dissonance for Beginners by Lita $4

    For Everard vol 7 Tony From the Bronx $5

    Annapolis photo zine by Philip Tomaru $20

    Mainland by Lila Lee $16

    Yolanda #2 Thigh Times Enterprises $5

    Comics & Minis

    You Don’t Get There From Here #47 by Carrie McNinch $3

    Short Gay Stories by HP Lehkonen $12

    Our Friends the Bees by Rachel Bard $5

    Infinite Wheat Paste #5 by Pidge $5

    Finder Pink Year by Nou 2017 $4

    Slithering Sleep by Danielle Burton $16

    Orbiters Prism by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $5

    Can’t Breathe Without Air by Angela Chen $6

    Poor Thing #1 by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $8

    Humorous Faces of Funny Cases #3 by Cynthia T. Navarro (Tiny Splendor) $12

    Dump by Matthew Carrigan $10

    Island on Fire by Yishu Wang $8

    Lingering Light: A Prequel of the Setting Sun BBB x Maki $6

    Seeker #1-#5 by Liz Valasco $5 each

    Loops by Alyssa Nelson $4

    I’m Trying by Angela Chen $4

    Ley Lines: Weird Territory by Evan Dahm $6

    Beef Jams Tournament Edition $7

    Millennials #1-#3 by Lorenzo Ghetti & Claudia Nuke Razzoli $5 each

    Manzone by Ugo Schiesaro $8

    King Cat #78 by John Porcellino $5

    Ikea by Fine OK Press $5

    Ooze by Ali Burke and Tara Hamilton $5

    At the Top of Fuller Canyon by Andrew Alexander $5

    Grievin of Mt Privado Part 1 by Andrew Alexander $10 – Teen secrets, sleuthing and reefer abound when a murdered pet rocks a small town in this expressionist noir.

    Visions by Evan M. Cohen $20

    Twilight of the Bat by Josh Simmons $10 – Unauthorized Batman comics by Josh Simmons and friends.

    Mundane Magic by Andrew Lamb Schultz (Cold Cube Press) $15

    Bursting Spicy Metal #1 by Kelly Bjork (Cold Cube Press) $15

    Sticky Sweets by Ross Jackson $10

    Thirty Miles of Crazy #1-#6 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $5 each

    But Is It Comic Aht #1 by Domino Books $5

    Graphic Novels

    Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams $24 – Features a wealth of Nobrow contributors past and present as well as a glimpse into the future of comics and illustration!

    The Complete Future Shocks vol 1 by Alan Moore & Peter Milligan $25 – This first volume of Tharg’s Future Shocks takes us back to the earliest days of the one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills strip from the pages of 2000 AD, showcasing talents of Alan Moore and friends.

    Instinct For Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeff Wilson, Illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia $13.95

    Inside Moebius Part 2 (Dark Horse) $39.99

    Marta by Alison Burke DuPey $12

    Welcome to Slimecity by Jared Gattis $12

    Fiction

    Ayiti by Roxane Gay $16

    Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet $24.95

    Food

    Superiority Burger Cookbook: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious by Brooks Headley $39.95

    Stuff That Helps

    A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson $7.99

    On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness by Roman Muradov $12.95

    How to Deal With Anxiety an Activity Book by Eugenia Viti $7

    Bio, Memoirs & Media

    All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Irmin Schmidt with Rob Young $29.95 – Part band bio, part symposium of the legendary german experimental rock band CAN from founding member Schmidt with journalist Young.

    Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel $28

    Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs by Peter Coviello $16

    Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos $32 – A biography of the photographer nicknamed after the Ouija board due to his uncanny ability to arrive at a crime scene mere moments after law enforcement, reveals a man now known as an innovator, pioneer and master crime-scene photographer.

    TRI-X-NOISE – Photographs 1981-2016 by Bill Daniel $20 – From master railroad and freight tag historian behind the Mostly True: The West’s Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine and the filmmaker of “Who is Bozo Texino?” TRI-X-NOISE includes three decades of subterranean countercultural hijinks recorded on black and white film. Beginning with early the 80s Texas skatepunk scene, the book is a sprawling visual journal of a life lived on the road and after dark. Punk shows high and low, crusty experimental cinemas, freight train adventures, Mission School graffiti, impossibly obscure house shows, and art exhibits in the shadowy margins. It’s a mash up of subcultural documentation, from San Francisco to Shreveport, from Texas to Braddock Pennsylvania, a flash-lit scrapbook of an invisible vanguard, all shot on Tri-X film. Including: Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, Black Flag, City Museum, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Misfits, David Yow and more.

    Magazines

    Even #10 $18

    Lula #25 $15.99

    Man About Town #22 $29.99

    Palmss #3 by Chinwe Okona $10

    Nostalgia Digest Sum 18 $4.50

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    The Believer #119 $12

    The Literary Review vol 61 #1 Chemistry $15

    Spent Seasons Poetry by Liza Edwards Levin $3

    Year of the Dogs: Poetry and Illustrations by Anita Olivia Koester by Anita Olivia Koester $3

    If You Are Unable to Help Just Say So by Jennifer Williams $15

    Brick #101 $16

    Gathering Views by Jack C. Buck $15

    For the Kiddies

    Furqan’s First Flat Top, El primer corte de mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo $15.95

    Other Stuff

    Baphomet Babe sticker by Corinne Halbert $3

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Carnivore #1 Jun 2018 $5

    Folrath pt 2 by Zak Sally $9

    Yolanda #2 Thigh Times Enterprises $5

    Mysterious Characters of Mars by Ed Blair $3 – Ed’s favorite Mountain Goat recordings!

    Venus by Anneli Sanaye Henriksson $2

    Buffet Life #1 A Zine About all you Care to Eat by Kristopher Pollard & friends $9

    Words that Form Sentences That Almost Represent Ideas by Rob Steinberg $4

    Comics & Minis

    CAKE Digest 2018 Anthology – Edited by Chicago artist JJ McLuckie, this year’s edition is a 24-pager printed in blue riso. Some really cool contributions here from locals and not-so-locals showing a diverse spectrum of work: diary comics, surreal jokes and gags, art comics and design work. -Lane

    White Supremacists Are Human Farts by Jenny Schmid and Sinee (Uncivilized) $8

    Pump Station: A Zine About One Woman’s Experiences Breastfeeding and Pumping by Allison H. Lowe Fotos & Adam Fotos $3

    Jump vol 1 Stories and Art by Caroline Cash $15

    Coin Op #7 Doppler Issue $19.95

    Morsel by James Stanton (Silver Sprocket) $5

    M.S. Harkness, $4 each: Normal Girl, Savage Journey to the Heart of an Anime Convention

    What a Irregular Jargon Zine by Adeleido Olea $2

    Field Guide to Domestic Insects — first Edition by Lucie Van Der Elst $12

    Ukraine Diaries by Nick Jackson $20

    Graphic Novels

    Weaver Festival Phenomenon by Ron Rege Jr. $20

    A Western World by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $22.95 – Strange stories!

    Everything Is Really Hard Today by Kevin Budnik (Tinto Press) $12

    The Clandestinauts by Tim Sievert (Uncivilized Books) $17.95

    Winter’s Cosmos by Michael Comeau (Koyama Press) $20

    Somnambulance by Fiona Smyth (Koyama Press) $29.95

    RM by Josh Bayer (Tinto Press) $14

    Art Books

    Rockabilly Psychobilly: An Art Anthology by Jamie Kendall (Schiffer) $34.99

    Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora by Jessica Nydia Pabón-colón (New York Univ Pr) $30

    Politics & Revolution

    Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty & Linda E. Carty (Haymarket) $18

    As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoe Samudzi & William C. Anderson (AK Press) $16

    Music Books

    The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel $17.95

    POC History vol 1 #4 People of Color Then and Now and Art by Vital Vessel $10.99

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Justice Howard’s Voodoo: Conjure and Sacrifice by Justice Howard & Voodoo Queen Bloody Mary $24.99 – Peer behind the curtain and journey into Voodoo’s hidden world.

    Fiction

    A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal $27

    Magazines

    Bitch #79 $7.95

    Juxtapoz #206 Sum 18 $9.99

    Bust #111 $6.99

    Raw Vision #97 Spr 18 $14

    Jacobin #29 $12.95

    Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Lyrics and Poetry #1 A Journal of Songwriting as Prose $10

    Every Circle is a Moon Complete Poems of Wyatt Red $7

    Fields Magazine #9 Spr Sum 18 $16

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines & Zine-Related

    Fixer Eraser #3 and #4 by Jonas $3 each

    from Scott Miller: Strange Tapes #1 $7 – Film oddities zine! & Printsploitation #4 $10 – with contributions from Corinne Halbert, Putrid and more!

    Sticker Collection Logan Square 2018 $1

    Shira Mario #5 $2

    Scurvy – A Zine by Zack Bly $2

    My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 4 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths $1

    It Only Gets Worse From Here: Fifteen Uninspirational Messages to Ruin Your Day by Zachary Auburn $2

    Myth or Maybe a Lie About my Father by Margarita Kruchinskaya $10

    Fairy Tales for Cynical Girls vol 4 by K8 $2

    This is Not Happening the X Files Zine by Lynne Monsoon $12

    Fat Sweaty Guyz: A Fanzine by Chris Davis $3

    Rumpy Pumpy #6 by Milo $3

    uplifting zines from Chris Davis, $3 each: People I’ve Met and Hated, All the Cusses From My Older Sister Kate’s Copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, Creepy Craigslist: A Journey into Private Lives Compiled & more

    Kimchi Babe #1 & #2 The Mixtape by Kimchi Babe $4 each

    TMRWLND issues #1-#3 $15 each

    Vacation – A Sketchbook Zine by Cam del Rosario $8

    Living Southerners #7 by J Wu $3

    Twist: A Brief History of the Song and Dance by Billy Roberts $1

    Whipper Snapper Nerd: Selections from the Zine, featuring Artists of Creativity Explored, edited by Harrell Fletcher & Elizabeth Meyer (Manic D Press) $15.95 – Collects all 8 issues of this San Francisco zine from the 90s, each devoted to a different artist.

    Comics & Minis

    No Cops by Alisha Rae $5

    Outo Queer Identities by HP Lehkonen $10

    Sporgo #3 $5

    Love and Rockets Magazine #5 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $5.99

    Italian American Mushroom and Plumbing Enthusiast #1 & #2 by Blake Sims $2 each

    Bluescale by Kaitlin Kostus $7

    Rabbit Who Fights #3 by Tim Hamilton $6

    Grow by JJ McLuckie $10

    Unplug by Steve Schaberg $5

    Awkwardly Long Book of Auto Bio Comics About Being an Anxiety Ridden Depressed Person $5

    Simple Things by H. Goodspeed (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $10

    Dust Bunnies by Thomas H. Boeing $7

    Lips: Family of Ursel Belgium by Jason Lips $3

    Watch Dog #2 by Saxon Kotowski $5 each

    Spirit Prison Fanzine by Dylan Chadwick $8

    Bad Day by Ryan Consbruck $7

    Laskimooses #41 by Taivaan Lapset & Tohori Matti Hagelbergin $7

    Butter Fingers by Emeline Mele $10

    Hypochondria by Erika $3.50

    Minor Leagues #5 by Simon Moreton $6

    Out of the Deep: A Comic Anthology, ed. by Melissa Sayen $15

    Graphic Novels

    Tinderella by M.S. Harkness (Kilgore) $12 – Don’t miss M.S. Harkness at the CAKE Kick-off Event here at Quimby’s next Friday!

    Lempo by Sara Valta $17

    XTC69 by Jessica Campbell (Koyama) $12 – Explorers from an all-women planet have found men to breed with, but have they found studs or duds?

    Prison Pit vol 6 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $14.99

    The Ideal Copy by Ben Sears (Koyama) $12

    The Troublemakers by Baron Yoshimoto (Retrofit Comics) $20

    Winner by Karl Stevens (Retroit) $18 – Contemplations and sci-fi fantasies of a museum security guard.

    2 Cow House Press titles: Point of You Where Do You Want to Be by Nathaniel Osollo $10, Wicked and The Tired: A Comic Anthology of Surreal Horror and the Anxiety of Living, edited by Sheika Lugtu $15

    Coin-op Comics Anthology 1997-2017 by Maria & Peter Hoey (Top Shelf) $29.99

    Hasib & the Queen of Serpents: A Thousand and One Nights Tale by David B. (NBM) $24.99

    Grip vol 1 by Lale Westvind (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $25

    Politics & Revolution

    Modern Science and Anarchy by Peter Kropotkin (AK Press) $28 – Assembled in English for the first time, an unabridged gem from anarchism’s famous theorist.

    Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment, ed. by Angela J. Davis $16 – A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.

    Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up by Kelli María Korducki $14.95 – From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.

    Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great by Charlie Leduff $27

    State of Exception by Chase Carter $15

    Art Books

    The Mermaid Handbook: An Alluring Treasury of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects by Carolyn Turgeon $35 – Brrrring! Brrrring! The phone’s ringin’! Siren calling! Illustrated and packed with lore, legends, facts and trivia, beautiful illustrations, and numerous step-by-step projects and recipes.

    Music Books

    To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine $24.95 – Follow-up to memoir from member of the Slits, touching on the death of her mother, ageing, feminism and other conundrums that characterize the 21st century life.

    Austin Punk Invasion by David Ensminger (Left of the Dial Books) $10 – A survey of Austin’s first wave punk and hardcore eras.

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Torture: Persuasion at Its Most Gruesome by Geoffrey Abbott $13.95 – A classic account of the history of torture, from chilli powder punishment to needles under nails, with a style both chilling and full of dark humor.

    Psychedelic Revolutionaries: LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research by P. W. Barber $27.95 – Recounting research on hallucinogenic drug treatments during the 1950s and 60s, this book shows how public fears, stoked by partisan politics, can hold back scientific advancements.

    The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke $28.99 – Lavishly illustrated accounts of history’s most despicable people ever to walk the earth, including serial killers, desperate criminals, and socially mobile people with a much darker double-life. Courtesy of the producer of the podcast Lore.

    Tesla: Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson $26.95

    Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult by Chris Bennett (Trine Day) $34.95 – Cannabis and other psychoactive plants held an important role in the Occult arts of Alchemy and Magic, as well as being used in ritual initiations of certain secret societies. Could cannabis have been the Holy Grail?

    How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan $28 – “Mental travelogue” of research done via both research and participatory journalism. That means he was dosing, dude.

    Humor

    Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman $16

    Essays

    Status Quont by Katilyn Pulcher $15

    2 David Sedaris titles: Calypso $28 + Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) $17.99

    Fiction

    Death and Facebook by Iphgenia Baal (We Heard You Like Books) $15.95 – a true account of a dysfunctional love affair that ends in disaster, posthumously pieced together from threads from Facebook and other social media.

    Cocktails

    Cocktails Across America: A Postcard View of Cocktail Culture in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s by Diane Lapis & Anne Peck-davis $24.95

    The Cocktail Book by The British Library Board $12.95 – Reprint of the book from 1900, with early recipes for the Whisky Sour, Mint Julep, Manhattan, and many more.

    Magazines

    Soiled #7 Animatescrapers $15

    Apartamento #21 $24

    Mojo #295 $11.25

    Tape Op #125 $5.95

    Wire #411 $10.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    You Are Coming Going by Keith Helt $2

    Brain Fever #4 Spring 18 Edited by Mike Goodman $12

    Long Day Press Journal #2 $8

    Overtime Hour 48 Graveyard by Kyle Bilinski $2

    Always Crashing vol 1 $12

    Sex & Gender Culture Studies & Guides

    The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century by Jim Elledge (Chicago Review) $29.99

    Women’s Health Vagina University: A Complete Owner’s Manual from Sex and Periods to Health and Body Image…And Everything in Between by Sheila Curry Oakes $16.99

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  • New Stuff This Week

    Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin $24 – the story of a cleaning lady, an addict, a psychic
    Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber $27 – An anthropologist’s powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
    All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir by Michael Kupperman $25 – The story of the author’s race to understand his father’s past.

    Zines

    On the Art of Failure by Gabrielle Welsh $10

    En3my 1550 N Milwaukee Ave Third FL, Edited by Amelia Ishmael and J. Soliday $5

    Fluke Fanzine #15 with Adam Smith, Gary Floyd, Ian McKaye $4

    zines by Faith G. Harper PhD (Microcosm Publishing) $3:
    Sexing Yourself For Your Own Pleasure
    Unfuck Your Adulting: Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don’t Be a Dick Make Decisions and Other Life Skills

    How Not to Get Arrested At a Demonstration $3 – By The Times Up Environmental Organization with illustrations by Fly.

    Don’t Be Retarded #1: Autistic Pride In a Neurophobic World (Microcosm Publishing) $5

    CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #8 Intro to the MLK and RFK Assassination… by Joseph E. Green (Microcosm Publishing) $4

    Heartburn: A Drawing Zine by Caroline Cash $5

    Smudge vol 2 #5 by Clay Hickson $5

    Yo Miss #6 Changes, Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides by Lisa Wilde $4

    Amerizine Lol IDK $5

    Mother Nature Is a Lesbian $10

    Cat Party #2 Stories and Comics About Our Favorite Cats by Katie Haegele $3

    Mind the Gender Cycling Gap by Tiffany F. Lam $4

    Aversion: A Zine of Therapeutic Vignettes Chapter 2 Canine by Aaron Eischeid $5

    Comics & Minis

    Diary Comics 2018-2019 by Lane Milburn $4 – Join me as I read articles on my phone, despair over climate change, fret about my artwork, and record my dreams. This is a sampling of diary comic strips I started posting on Instagram in the summer of 2017. -Lane

    Visualizing by Lane Milburn $6 – A man and woman on an interstellar voyage awaken from sleep. They “visualize” their dreams for each other, using holograms to show their fragmented knowledge of the past and their apocalyptic visions of the future. Black and white interior with risograph covers printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

    Cartoon Dialectics vol 3 by Tom Kaczynski & Clara Jetsmark (Uncivilized) $6

    I’m So Punk #2 by Caroline Cash $5

    Graveless by S.E. Stohler $5

    3005 by Fushuheng, illustrating the song by Childish Gambino $6

    Nouvelles #2 by outsidewolves $3

    by Meghan Turbitt: Your Pal $5 & Turbz: How to Eat Chips $5

    Astray #1 a Series of Starts by Daniel McCloskey $4.50

    Fae Archaic #8 The Final Issue by Kurt Burdick $10

    Real Deal #8 Psyops by Lawrence Rawdog Hubbard (Fantagraphics) $8

    Graphic Novels

    Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (D&Q) $27.95 – Don’t miss Nick Drnaso at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 24th to release this book about the aftermath of a disaster about a missing woman, the videotape that surfaces and the conspiracy theorists that interpret events to fit their own narratives.

    Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Don’t miss Georgia Webber here at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 31st to celebrate this book about coping with challenges that come with voicelessness. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.

    Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – In a follow-up to the 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, the author presents a survival guide for people with bipolar disorder that is filled with tips, tricks and tools.

    Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel (D&Q) $17.95 – A whimsical look at mushroom hunting.

    Animus by Antoine Revoy $16.99 – Two friends resolve to investigate the paranormal forces in their quiet Kyoto neighborhood.

    The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (Abrams) $17.99

    Cautionary Tales of Childhood by Bee Lavender $5

    Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn by Ryan Heshka (Nobrow) $20.95

    Art Books

    The Classic Bicycle Coloring Book by Taliah Lempert (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Trump / Russia: A Definitive History by Seth Hettena $27.99

    May Day Manifesto 1968, edited Raymond Williams $17.95 – Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto that brought together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband, and R. D. Laing.

    1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser (Grove Press) $18

    Fiction

    Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations, edited by Sarah Cleave (Deep Vellum Pub) $14.95 – Work by writers from the seven nations included in Trump’s original “Muslim travel ban.”

    Empire of the Senseless, 30th Anniversary Edition by Kathy Acker $16 – Two terrorists (one part human/part robot, the other a pirate) in a dystopian Paris search for a mysterious drug that maintains one’s ability to love, in Acker’s “twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms.”

    How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans (Dzanc) $16.95

    The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink (Soft Skull) $16.95

    Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard $27

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder by Nikki Meredith $26 – From a journalist that visted Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel in prison to see how they changed in their incarceration for the murders they committed on the orders of Charles Manson.

    The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs by Edward Rosenfeld $17.95

    Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander $20

    The Witch’s Spellbook: Enchantments, Incantations, and Rituals from Around the World by Sarah Bartlett $19.99

    Century of Moon Phases Pacific Standard Time 2001-2100 by Sage Liskey $11

    Essays & Interviews

    Thank You For Asking Me That Question: Collected Interviews by Wilfred Brandt $25

    The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, by Allen Ginsberg and edited by Bill Morgan (Grove Press) $20 – Based on Ginsberg’s lectures!

    Humor

    How to Be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S*** by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (Icon) $14.95 – Well, we guess cool CAN be taught.

    Music & Film Books

    The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles by Francoise Hardy (Feral House) $24.95 – Beautiful 1960s “Yé-Yé” chanteuse Françoise Hardy shares her iconic life and memories in this brutally honest memoir of love, loss, and wisdom.


    Creative Quest by Questlove $27.99 – Co-founder of The Roots offers a guide to creativity composed of creative philosophies, stories, inspiration, and advice.

    Cathode Love: an Irregular Collection of Irregular Pleasures by Matthew Brendan Clark $15

    It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls by Adam Nayman (ECW) $12.95 – Now updated with a bonus interview with director Paul Verhoeven.

    Photo Books

    Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970 by David Wills $30

    Projections In the Last Greenhouse by Roxana Azar $12.50

    Magazines

    Antelope Magazine: Flight $12

    True Detective May 18 $9.99

    Internationalist #51 $1

    Offscreen #19 The Human Side of Technology $20

    Disruptor #5 $5

    Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan (O/R Books) $14.95

    Bride by Andy Hood $8

    Wolfman New Life Quarterly #2 Spr 18 by Jacob Kahn $12

  • New Stuff This Week

    Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists and Other Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg (Uncivilized Books) $16.95 – Understand repetitive drawing injuries from the perspective of a committed drawer: explore R.I.C.E. Therapy, avoid worsening your injuries, preventive tips, and more!

    Zines

    Skyking Skyking Do Not Answer #1 A Zine on the Paranormal $3.50 – Like a zinester Fortean times!

    Circus Drawing Zine $5

    Cuba Cultura by Ricardo Montana $10

    Comics

    DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket) $6

    Peehole #16 Mythological Pals $3

    Graphic Novels

    The New World: Comics from Mauretania by Chris Reynolds $34.95 – A surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidien frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.

    Young Frances by Hartley Lin (Adhouse) $19.99 – First collection from Pope Hats, a study of work chaos and close friendships over time.

    Showtime by Antoine Cossé (Breakdown Press) $22.50

    All Summer Long by Hope Larson $12.99

    Politics, Revolution, Activism & Essay

    Wars and Capital by Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)) $27.95 – A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968.

    Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. by Roxanne Gay $16.99

    Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie $8.95

    Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea $18.95 – Tea’s first-ever collection of journalistic writing, turning investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career?memoir?and considers the price that art demands be paid from life.

    Vintage & Retro

    The Little Book of Bettie: Taking a Page from the Queen of Pinups by Tori Rodriguez $22.49 – A lifestyle guide inspired by the Queen of Pinups — Bettie Page, advice on fashion, makeup, fitness, and more!

    Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill $16.99 – Featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, learn all about the arsenic in your face cream and the pot of cold pee that sits under your bed.

    Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear by Kat Jungnickel $29.95 – An illustrated history of the evolution of British women’s cycle wear.

    Outer Limits

    The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments by Dr. Lynne Kelly $16.95

    Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin $16 – Tao Lin discovered the work of Terence McKenna and wrote a kind of a gonzo memoir/journalistic exposé a la The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, asking questions about why we create art and perception and all the stuff you ask when you get into psychotropic drugs and go on pilgrimages.

    Get Baked: Space cakes, pot brownies and other tasty cannabis creations by Dane Noon $9.99

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    Fiction

    Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami $16

    Zodiac: A Novel by Sam Wilson $15.95 – In a volatile society ruled and divided by its citizens’ zodiac signs, a serial killer is on the loose: is it a misguided revolution or something more sinister?

    Mister Memory: A Novel by Marcus Sedgwick $15.95 – In Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. A dazzling psychological puzzle that reveals the strange connection between memory and fate. Now in soft cover.

    Magazines

    The Baffler #39 $14

    Fortean Times #365 $12.50

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    N+1 #31 Spr 18 Out There $14.95

    The Point #16 $14.99

    Born High by E.E. Greer $5

    Sexxxy

    Elska #17 Perth Australia $18.50

    Other Stuff

    New sticker and patches from Gatosaurio, with such artists as Abraham Diaz, Inechi, Michael DeForge, Tara Booth!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

    Zines

    Brush Master – Deeply Rooted, Featuring Jasper Mississippi Travis $10 – An epic collaboration honoring the work of the Indianapolis sign painter known as the Brush Master!

    Library Excavations #8 Therapy Art by Marc Fischer (Half Letter Press) $6

    Cuspian #2 by Jami Sailor $4

    Highlights from the End Drawings and Collage By Ben Chlaplek $15

    Nightmares to Dreams by Jessica and Maria Tapia $3

    Muff #1 In the New Age $10

    5to9zine #2 $5

    Comics

    All Girl Band by Flannery Cashill $7

    Pneuma In the Land of Limbic Dead by Julia Hornedo $5

    Everything About the Fridge by Shuheng Fu $8

    Sorry You Couldn’t Make It by Jayme Brodie $5

    Graphic Novels

    Now vol 3 The New Comics Anthology, ed. by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Featuring 100+ full color pages of short comics fiction from established and up-and-coming artists from around the globe such as Anna Haifisch, Ben Passmore, Eleanor Davis & more. Cover by Al Columbia.

    It’s Cold in the River at Night by Alex Potts (Avery Hil) $12.99

    Carnet De Voyage: A Travel Diary, New Expanded Edition by Craig Thompson (D&Q) $21.95

    Fiction

    Adjustment Day: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk $26.95 – People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

    A Secret Histroy of Witches: A Novel by Louisa Morgan $15.99

    Beautiful Music by Michael Zadoorian (Akashic) $16.95

    Politics & Revolution

    Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History by Brandon Weber (Haymarket) $19.95

    Kinda Essay-ish

    Philosophical Beer: Philosophy from Plotinus to Paglia in the form of an IPA by Aaron Wooten $12.99 – The history of philosophy through the eyes of beer.

    Rebel Publisher: Grove Press and the Revolution of the Word by Loren Glass $13.95

    Music & Film Books

    Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones $16.99

    Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty $26.99

    The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir by Robert K. Elder $14.99 – Don’t miss Robert K. Elder sharing this book here at Quimby’s on Thurs, Mat 10th! More info about the event here!

    Magazines

    Little White Lies #74 Mar Apr 18 $12.99

    AdBusters #137 $14.95

    Common Literary Journal #15 $14

    Poetry, Lit Journals, Chap Books

    How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody Publishing) $15

    The Chicago Review vol 61 #2 $15

    Ima Badass by Hadass Bar Lev $1.50

    Diary of a Filthy Woman by Noor Hindi $8

    Sinister Wisdom #108 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal $18.95

     

     

  • New Stuff This Week

    Dave Sheridan: Life With Dealer McDope, The Leather Nun, And The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Dave Sheridan and Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics Underground) $35 – Dave Sheridan collects the best of the legendary underground cartoonist’s tripped-out comic strip hilarity. It includes Sheridan’s solo comics, many reprinted for the very first time, and his collaborations with Fred Schrier and Gilbert Shelton (who writes the foreword), along with his record covers, beer labels, and advertisements for more…cough, cough…organic products. The book includes a biography and reminiscences from fellow artists, friends, and family members.

    Zines

    Mineshaft #35 $9 – Mineshaft #35 is now available! This is the Jay Lynch Memorial issue with new work by Jay and front cover art and design by Robert Crumb. And more!!!

    Work in Progress by Dan Gleason $3 – He might be a work in progress but by God, what a piece of work. – M.C.

    Junk Drawer #10 Guide to Time Travel $5

    KerBloom #131 Mar Apr 18 by Artnoose $2

    Loud and Queer: Queer Voices of Now, various issues $10 each

    zines by Kara Comegys: Plump Up For Hibernation #3 A Vegan Bears Baking Guide $5, Clumsy #11 $3 & more!

    Smudge vol 2 #4 by Clay Hickson $5

    Portion of the Lincoln Highway Through Illinois by Jessica Brewer Prugh $8

    Rain Drops and Broken Hearts by Leanna Perry $15

    Comics & Minis

    Wakaikami by Kyle Arends $3

    Quarter Vomit Version 2.0 by Otto Splotch $10

    Patchwork by Steve Schaberg $8

    Graphic Novels

    Land Of The Sons by Gipi (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Two brothers try to discover the secret of their father’s diary.

    Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Fior showcases his versatility and mastery of the form in this collection of short literary comics fiction.

    Die Laughing by Andre Franquin (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – A collection of visual gags and gag-inducing visuals by a trailblazer of Belgian comics.

    Godhead vol 1 by Ho Che Anderson (fantagraphics) $24.99 – Chaos ensues after a powerful corporation creates a device to communicate with God. Is this humanity’s salvation or the equivalent of a Doomsday machine?

    Art & Design Books

    Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America by Bonnie Siegler $17.95 – 240 images from British rule and women’s suffrage to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War; from women’s equality and Black Lives Matter to the actions of our forty-fifth president and the Women’s March and more!

    The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women’s Liberation by Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers $34.95 – Collection of essays, oral histories, and illustrations depicting the feminist revolution.

    Love Sucks: The Truth About Romance From the World’s Greatest Cynics, Written by Daria Summers, Illustrated by Emma Munger $12.95

    Politics & Revolution

    A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray $16.99 – Executive Women’s Editor at HuffPost interweaves personal experience and journalism to offer how to info on choosing good media sources, instructions on getting involved, how to creat female centric work spaces, how to stay involved without exhaustion, numbers to call, orgs to contact, scripts for reaching out as well as interviews with activists.

    Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) $16.95 – An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today’s hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.

    Music & Film Books

    More 33 1/3 books! $14.95 each:
    Fugazi’s In on the Kill Taker by Joe Gross – Features new interviews with all four members of Fugazi and members of their creative community.
    Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy by Ronen Givony – Touches on issues such as toxic authenticity, the question of “selling out,” and asks whether we today are enriched or impoverished by that debate becoming obsolete.
    Lou Reed’s Transformer by Ezra Furman – Explores Reed’s and Transformer’s unstable identities, and the secrets the songs challenge us to uncover.

    That Movie Book: Awesome, Weird and Wonderful Flicks for Every Weekend of Your Year by Marc Fennell $19.99 – From the very funny film critic on triple j, chat show The Circle & reporter on ABC1’s Hungry Beast! 260 movies to fill every weekend of the year, each with a theme – a genre, filmmaker, actor or trend. Disney’s most racist characters! The many disturbing faces of Santa! You get the idea.

    Runnin’ with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by Noel Monk (with Joe Layden) $19.99 – By Noel Monk, the manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom.

    Fiction

    The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland $17.99 – Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world “jams” the “frequencies” used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.

    Census by Jesse Ball $25.99

    Guardian Angels and Other Monsters by Daniel H. Wilson $16 – Stories that explore complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.

    Books by by Brian Alan Ellis (House of Vlad) $10-$12: Something To Do With Self Hate, Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week: The First Three Books

    Outer Limits

    I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara $27.99 – An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author’s determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice.

    Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler $17 – A trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly.

    Magazines
    Another Man #26 $18.50
    Tom Tom Magazine #33 $10
    Mojo #294 $11.25

    Chap Books & Poetry

    Your Glass Head Against the Brick Parade of Now What’s a Beautiful Nice Poem by Sam Pink (House of Vlad) $10 – You might have thought you didn’t like poetry but you’ll like Sam Pink: thoughtful musings, wistful superheroes, different types of eye contact and the grace of the beat-down. At turns elegant and hilarious. -LM

    Survival Guide 2018 by R. Browning $25

  • New Stuff This Week

    Goblinko patches, stickers & wrapping paper!

    The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein $26.99 – Remember Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction? Pankhurst is like that. But before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.

    Zines

    Chickfactor #18 $15 – Issue #18 is here of the legendary indie nerd fanzine edited by Gail O’Hara, who cofounded CF with Pam Berry in 1992 (yes, Belle & Sebastian wrote a song about it). This issue features big, fun interviews with Kendra Smith, The Softies, Alvvays, Lindy Morrison & Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens), Girl Ray, Frances McKee (the Vaselines), Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub, Lightships), Governess, Marisa Anderson, Tanita Tikaram, A Jukebox Jury with Kathy Foster, Rebecca Cole & Joanna Bolme; and the usual polls, loads of reviews & other stuff!

    Awesome Things #2 by Liz Mason $3 – A continuation of the list all things awesome: Einstein-Rosen bridges, loop libraries, nudging the cat’s belly so it pendulum swings, or co-worker quotes like, “That guy seems like a warlock. Not like a cool warlock. Like an alcoholic warlock.”

    Old Haunts #1 by Dan B $2

    Chomp #5 A Hard Man is Good to Find $15

    Inspect Connection $5

    Trauma Is Really Strange by Steve Haines, art by Sophie Standing $13

    Rick Astley Zine by Allison Felus $3 – Allison decontructs “Never Gonna Give You Up” and the Stock Aitken Waterman production team behind a few of Astley’s hits, and includes a testament in personal defense of his oeuvre (for the first two albums anyway). Rickroll this zine into your life. You had to know someone was going to make that joke, right? -LM

    Punk Around #1 Nizhny Life $3

    Comics & Minis

    Moonlight by Cole Johnson $5 – Delicious fragments and tidbits of an artist’s life, or anyone’s life really. Each strip possesses a magical, pensive nostalgia full of familiarity and mystery all at once. It’s easy to get swept away in the dreamlike narratives Johnson weaves for us. ~CH

    Revolution Channel #1 Towers on the Moon by Erik Thompson $10

    Phantasmagoria by Rafael Huerta $10

    Black Bean Zine #0 by Simone Simone $1

    Malcolm-10 by Turtel Onli $2

    Migratory Patterns by Kane Shirley $10

    Exes #1 Comics by Dave K and Cole J $2

    Isle of Flotsam #2 by Caleb $3

    Moments of Adventure #1 & #2 by Colin Mathieson $4.95 each

    Just Encased vol 1 $7

    Graphic Novels

    R. Crumb Sketchbook Jan 1975-Dec 1982 (Taschen) $40 – Combines volumes 5 and 6 from the second R. Crumb Sketchbook boxed set. 444 pages about his move to CA, his marriage to Aline, birth of his daughter, further adventures of Mr. Natural, mischievous Snoids, Arcade comics strips and more!

    The Art of Edena by Moebius (Dark Horse) $34.99 – A companion to the World of Edena graphic novel, this collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a motherlode of Moebius illustrations.

    Big Planet Comics Red anthology (Big Planet/Retrofit) $6 – Anthology featuring artists from or working in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, such as Robin Ha, Jared Morgan & more.

    The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie (Rosarium Publishing) $6.95 – Semi-autobio of a childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America.

    Dark Garbage by Jon Michael Frank $15

    Forward by Lisa Maas (Arsenal Pulp) $18.95 – Two women, both of whom are unable to move “forward” and put the pieces of their lives back together.

    Prisoner 155 Simon Radowitzky by Agustin Comotto (AK Press) $ 26 – The first English-language book devoted solely to the Ukranian expat, assassin, prisoner, and Spanish Revolution veteran, who died a factory worker in Mexico City.

    Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age 2 by Jeffrey Brown $7.99 – Paleo pranks between neanderthal siblings!

    The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter J. Tomasi $24.99 – Would you jump off a bridge if we told you to? Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge? Would you buy this book about the making of it?

    Algeria Is Beautiful Like America by Olivia Burton $24.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor (AK Press) $20

    Outer Limits

    How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide by Stephen Wildish $14.95 – Fuck yeah! This visual guide to this fine art employs quick-read charts, diagrams, explications and strategies while offering guidance, history and etymology, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more.

    Fiction

    The Disco Days Trilogy books by by David F. Ross – Adventures about music in Scotland in the 80s and 90s.

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    McSweeney’s 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement edited by Nyuol Lueth Tong $26

    Breakbeat Poets vol 2: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds & Jamila Woods (Haymarket) $19.95 – Anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #37 $5 – New issue of the occasional outburst of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and chocolate.

    Paper Darts vol 7 $20

    Mags
    RFD #173 Spr 18 First Time $11.95
    Taproot #26 Heal $12

    Local Interest

    West by Southwest to Stickney: Draining the Central Area and Exorcising Clout by Richard Lanyom (Lake Claremont Press) $21.95