Category: store news

  • New Issue of The Baffler Here!

    We’re told that we’re the ony store in Chicago right now to have this!

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    This issue is The Baffler vol 2 #1, and you can get it here on the web or here in the store!

    It features essays by Michael Lind on the emerging American oligarchy; Yves Smith on the mountainous self-regard of the American finance industry; Chris Lehmann on libertarianism’s willful failure to understand the economic crisis; Naomi Klein’s reflections on “branding” in American politics 10 years after her magnum opus, No Logo; Matt Taibbi on the howler of a memoir just published by a certain doltish Midwestern governor; plus ruminations on the ruination of Detroit, a very funny fantasy about rumbling with the personnages of the Western literary canon, and a clever story by Paul Maliszewski.

  • Granta #109: The Work Issue Now In Stock!

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    Peoples! The new Granta is here! It’s Granta #109, the Work issue!

    This issue of Granta is The Work Issue. It is edited by John Freeman, and in spite of the fact that it has “Winter 2009” in the title, it actually is just barely out in 2010 as we post this. We were told that we’re the first store in the U.S. to sell this issue! And after the success of Granta #108 The Chicago Issue, we are proud to be given this honor.

    From www.granta.com:

    Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Industrial Revolution is, for better or for worse, our inclination to define who were are by what we do, and this essential new issue of GRANTA will lay bare the intrinsic link between work and identity.

    From the jobless to the workaholics, from the hard work of dying to the landscape work has created out of office parks and suburbs, GRANTA 109 will tell the story of how and why we work in the twenty-first century. Joshua Ferris returns to the mind-numbing world of office work in America in a new piece of fiction, while Steven Hall visits the world’s pre-eminent robot lab to see what machines will do for us next. Caroline Moorehead explores the trafficking of workers into the United Kingdom and Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the world of book pirating in Peru. Salman Rushdie contributes a surprising essay on sloth.

    GRANTA 109 gives us a glimpse of ourselves at our most primordial, in a day and age when work has become the most invisible (at least in literature) and yet all-encompassing aspect of human life.

  • Quimby's History Made: A Marriage Proposal!

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    Saturday, February 21st sure was a memorable evening here at Quimby’s. Living Proof zinester Andrew Mall asked his girlfriend to marry him during his reading! And she said yes! Thanks to Aaron Cynic of Diatribe Media and Billy Da Bunny Roberts of Loop Distro for organizing and hosting a good ol’ fashioned Old School Zine Reading featuring Matt Fagan (Meniscus), ReyRey (Stream of Consciousness) and more!

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  • New Quimby's Bookmarks! Hot Off the Press!

    I know many of you are fans of the little bookmarks we make with illustrations by different artists, so without further ado I introduce our newest bookmark designed by Leif Goldberg. For those of you unaware of Leif’s work he is the brain behind National Waste, maker of those awesome silk screened calendars we get every year, and one of the mighty muscles behind the infamous Paper Rodeo. So next time your in the store scoop one up and keep your collection complete!

    I wonder if any of you can name all the artists who have made bookmarks for us?

  • New Shipping Rates in Effect

    Well its been a little while but the post office has increased the rates on priority mail again so Quimby’s has had to follow suite and raise our shipping charges. So for delivery within the contiguous USA Quimby’s shipping charges are now:

    • $5 for orders $30.00 and under,
    • $8.50 for orders between $30.01 and $79.99,
    • $12.00 for orders of $80.00 and above.

  • Props to the Chicago Decider for featuring us!

    It’s true! Steve Heisler conducted a silly interview with a Quimby’s staff member written up on the Onion-related website, chicago.decider.com, in their Defend Your Taste section here. And we talked about one of our favorite best-sellers: Roy Orbison in Clingfilm, which you can purchase here!

  • Animation, Art and More with Jo Dery

    Saturday January 3rd 7PM

    Join us for an evening of storytelling! Come see short animations, hear live radio plays, check out zines and books from the Ocean State, lil’ Rhody! Jo Dery will show several short animated films and Walker Mettling will read and perform stories and radio plays from the new audio issue of his zine “The Sparkle.” Get your hands on the recently published book by Jo Dery, titled Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret (Little Otsu, publisher).

    Click the Link for a sneak “Peek” of Jo’s Animation

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    I am so glad Jo could stop by the store and help us kick off 2009 with this great event. Don’t miss out!

  • Trubble Club Puts 'em on the Glass

    Its been so holidaze! around here we forgot to tell everyone how awesome our new window display is! Done by the collective of Chicago comic artists Trubble Club, it has a little bit of something for every one: food as people, gore, animals with fire arms.

    Trubble Club Vol 1 & Vol 2 available now

    And be sure to check the Trubble Club Blog for more collaborative comic madness

  • Packages by X-mas

    Naturally, the shipping Elves at Quimby’s will still do their best to keep your mail orders shipping out as soon as they come in! However, if your order is placed after today (December 17), we cannot promise that your order will arrive before December 25. While the elves ship everything via USPS Priority Mail, there is a small chance orders will arrive in time, but please do not count on it.

    Happy Holidays,

    Logan B- The Shippng WIZZARDD

  • Stop Smiling Give Good Blog Love

    Stop Smiling Magazine wrote up a nice piece about us. Check it out!