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  • Librarian Zinesters and Zine Librarians at Quimby’s

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    Four card-catalog-holding librarians will ride into Quimbys on their book carts, zines in hands on April 23rd. These self-professed print culture nerd zinesters will read at what promises to be an entertaining evening stereotype busting. What, you thought all librarians shushed? Well, shush to you.

    Zinesters reading include:

    Celia Perez, author of the perzine I Dreamed I Was Assertive and mamazine Roots & Wings;

    Library school student Jami Thompson of the long-running No Better Voice;

    Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out and Reading Log publisher Jenna Freedman

    Nell Taylor, zine contributor and Executive Director of the Chicago Underground Library

    There may even be limited references to Boolean operators. You won’t want to miss this chance to get your library geek on!

    For more info: http://zinelibraries.info/2010/03/28/zine-librarians-zine-reading-at-quimbys

  • Props to Time Out Chicago!

    That’s right! Time Out Chicago did a feature with Neil Brideau, our comics sommelier, in their March 11-17th issue, about zines and the Zine Fest, which is this weekend, Fri 3/12 and Sat 3/13 at various places around Chicago. Click here to read the full article in Time Out Chicago. Click here for more info about this year’s Chicago Zine Fest.

    Zines Fer Sale!
    Zines Fer Sale!

  • New Stuff Week of January 31, 2010

    Check out these new things before anyone else does. Then take their eyeballs, so they can’t check them out ever!

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    ZINES

    Fluke Magazine #8 $2

    COMICS/COMIX/MINIS

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32 By Joss Whedon $2.99

    Crass Sophisticate #23 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crass Sophisticate #24 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crestfallen #2 by Sandra Sierra $3

    Franz Kafka’s Poseidon by Jarod Rosello $4

    Stories vol 2 Copy Matthew and Buster Swimming Free Hugs by Martin Cendreda $3

    Tales From The Crypt #13 $3.95

    Tank Girl Skidmarks #3 by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo $3.99

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

    Crogan’s March by Chris Schweizer $14.95

    Fables vol 13 the Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, and Mark Buckingham $17.99

    Teenage Timberwolves Lust for Lightning by James Havoc & Daniele Serra $14.95

    MAGS

    Against the Current #144 Jan Feb 10 $5

    Altercation #24 $3.95

    Car Busters #40 $5

    Dwell Mar 10 $5.99

    Earth First vol 30 #2 Jan Feb 10 $4.5

    Extra Feb 10 vol 23 #2 $3.95

    Grafik #181 Jan 10 $19.99

    Hails and Horns #16 WIn 09 $4.95

    Haunted Times vol 4 #3 Win 10 $6.5

    Hip Mama #45 $5.95

    In These Times Feb 10 $3.5

    Monocle vol 3 #30 Feb 10 $10

    Namaste Vol 11 #2 $9.99

    Nexus vol 17 #1 Jan Feb 10 $5.95

    Progressive Feb 10 $3.95

    Tattoo Life #62 $6.99

    Tattoo Society #20 $7.99

    Time Out Chicago Feb 4 10 $2.99

    Trace #86 $5.99

    Transworld Skateboarding Mar 10 $3.99

    Vman #17 Spr 10 $5.5

    Winq Win 10 $7.95

    Z Magazine Feb 10 $4.95

    LIT JOURNALS

    826 Quarterly #10 Sum 09 $15

    McSweeneys #33 $16

    Pleiades vol 30 #1 $8

    FICTION ‘N’ POETRY

    Failure By James Greer $15.95

    Orange Crush By Simone Muench $14.95

    MUCKRAKING, MEMOIRS, AND MISCELLANY

    Complaint, From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini $15.95

    Madame Curie Complex, the Hidden History of Women in Science By Julie Des Jardins $16.95

    DIY/HOW TO BOOKS

    Artist in the Office, How to Creativel Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week By Summer Pierre $13.95

    Little Green Book of Absinthe, an Essential Companion with Lore Trivia and Classic Recipes By Paul Owens $18.95

    FINE, LOW BROW, AND GRAFITTI fART BOOKS

    Cholo Writing, Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles By Francois Chastanet $24.95

    Autumns Come Undone By Shag $40

    Open Book Drink and Draw Collaborations $24.95

    Shadowplay by Mark Wilkinson $39.95

    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS

    Strange Case of Dr HH Holmes, World’s Fair Serial Killer by John Borowski $20

    Hollow Earth, the Bizarre 60s Classic Back in Print By Raymond Bernard $16.95

    Homage to Pan, the Life Art and Sex Magic of Rosaleen Norton By Nevill Drury $24.95

    MUSIC

    Band Crime Punk77 Revisited, a Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk By James Stark $14.95

    Radiohead Hysterical and Useless By Martin Clarke $19.95

    POLITICS

    World Report 2010 By Human Rights Watch $25

    PORN BOOKS

    Season of Infidelity, BDSM tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan $14.95

    Exhibitionism for the Shy, Show Off Dress Up and Talk Hot By Carol Queen $15.95

  • 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!