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Gene Gregorits Reads With Alan Hoffmann 11/8
In Gene Gregorits’ latest, Fishhook (Monastrell Books), he takes a break from his Dog Days series, which has won him a mountain of small press support while also inviting hellish scorn since its emergence last year. Throughout this new volume’s 550 pages, we experience the notorious cult writer and well-known Facebook abuser’s oftentimes hazardous day-to-day life with both humor and a terrifying clinical detachment. Fishhook is the first book of its kind: a literary anthology comprised entirely of status updates. It works as a conceptual coffee table piece, but fans of his novels can investigate this collection as a real life companion to both Dog Days and Johnny Behind the Deuce.The work of Gene Gregorits has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years. His first 2 books, 2002’s Sex & Guts and 2007’s Midnight Mavericks: Reports From The Underground, sold less than 50 copies each, despite heavy marketing, exceptional writing, and one-of-a-kind interviews. He finds the relentless attempts to extinguish him as a writer and force of nature amusing, particularly now that with his own imprint, Monastrell, he has finally managed to discover an intelligent and informed readership that, like him, is none too happy about the current void in American literature. His rapidly growing cult of ne’er do wells, malcontents, and highly literate reprobates seems to be largely based in Chicago, and he is very excited to meet every one of them on November 8th.
Gregorits is coming all the way from Florida for this event; he will be reading from Dog Days Volume Two, Fishhook, and his current work-in-progress, Intra-Coastal: One Year On St. Pete Beach. For more info: www.MonastrellBooks.com“Gene Gregorits is the best and truest writer you have never heard of.” -Lisa Carver, VICE MAGAZINE
Alan Hoffman is a Chicago-based writer-performer who collaborates with musicians (including current-regular ambient accompanist Cinchel) to create dark sonic portraits about human nature. His current project is a recording for late 2013 which includes his own monologues, along with one each by director Christophe Honore and author Dennis Cooper. Alan will read a piece from this recording tonight and will be performing the show in its entirety (with several other local musicians) in the near future.” For more info: http://cinchel.com/
Friday, November 8th, 7pm – Free Event
In honor of Gregoritis’ love for Facebook, we’ll be giving away FREE GRAB BAGS to any customer who can prove that they shared that day’s event and tagged Quimby’s Bookstore. Social media: truly the gift that keeps on giving. Please note: customers must be in the store at the Gregorits in-store appearance to pick up their grab bags.
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New Stuff This Week
Audre Lorde – From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 5 #1 by Eloisa Aquino (B and D Press) $6.00 – Audre Lorde was such an undeniable force, I think anything that summons her life stands a good chance of making me choke up a little. Case is true of this latest installment in the Life and Times of Butch Dykes series. Hand-illustrated mini-biography, mostly through quotation – like a lucky charm for your pocket. -EFZines & Zine-Related Books
Cinema Sewer vol 4 by Robin Bougie (Fab) $24.95 – The Adults Only Guide to Historys Sickest and Sexiest Movies.”…engorged versions of CS #21-23 plus over 80 pages of spankin’ new smut-centric cinephilia.”-EF
TipWire 21 by Joel Meadows (Tripwire) $24.99
When I Was A Kid Childhood Stories by Boey $17.95
Riled Up #1 Siblings Quibblings by Pete Hassett and Mat Labotka $5.00
Honeymoon Revisited by M. Green $3.00
Anarchists on Anarchism $3.00
Work Sucks #2 The Pizza Years by Snick $3.00
Hellscreen by Bird Ehrlich $4.00
Untitled Edie Fake Silkscreened Head Zine $6.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #59 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Homodelique vol 2 by Brian Hennessey $7.00
Bodies of Water Field Guide and Audio Companion by Ethan Kraus and friends $5.00
Super Trooper #8 by Angela Roberts $2.00
Unadulterated Shark Repellent $3.00
Cult Nightmare and Other Pictures by Lie Little and Lillie West $5.00
East Village Inky #53 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Eyeball Burp #7 Clip or Copy a Survey of Collage Art by Alex and Amisa Chiu $10.00
Little Otsu Living Things vol 9 by Martine Workman (Little Otsu) $6.95
Little Otsu Living Things vol 10 by Joohee Yoon (Little Otsu) $6.95
Disposable Camera/You, Very Special Split Zine, Dedicated to the Housemartins by Vanessa Berry and Luke You $3.00
Zisk #23 $2.00Comics & Comix
Emmy by Josephine M.K. Edwards (Space Face) $6.00 – A loose crew of mythic girl frenemies lolling and LOL-ing toward textual shenanigans. JMKE’s Emmy carries in it the unexplained vibeology of a weird hang that I’d liken to Sean Christensen’s 2005 series… Expressing itself in the realm of semi-cruel and semi-tender interpersonal ridiculosities. -EF
Structures 24 34 by Michael DeForge (Uncivilized) $5.00
Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream Autoptic Mini by Laura Park $4.00
Tales of the Night Watchman vol 1 #2 by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal $5.00
Kelomokkien Mies Log Cabin Man by Aapo Rapi $5.85
Aitienpaiva Mothers Day by Amanda Vahamaki $12.10
Troll On #4 by Benjamin Bergman $10.85
Tank Girl Solid State #4 $3.99
Deep In The Woods by Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman $6.00
Picnic Ruined by Roman Muradov $6.00
Cyber Surfer #2 by Alex Schubert $5.00
Lapsos #3 by Ines Estrada $5.00
Muscles by Rachel Foss and Lauren Virnoche $2.00
Acknowledgements William Shakespeare by Robert Kelsey $3.50
Thingswamp #1 Green & Thingswamp #2 Blue $7.00 each
Animal Sex Collected by Isabella Rotman $9.00
Slurricane #6 by Will Laren $6.00
S #14 Baltic Comics Magazine $12.00
Mini Kus issues #14-#17, variety of artists $5.00 each
Abyss by Benrud Saman Bemel $8.00
Trackrabbit #4 The Folly of Beanie Boylan by Geoff Vasile $5.00
Monster Comic 2013 by Paul Lyons and Heather Benjamin $30.00
Sundogs #10 by Adam Pasion $3.00
Stranger Knights issues #2-#4 by Bill Volk & friends $5.00 eachGraphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
R. Crumb – The Weirdo Years 1981-’93 (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Widely considered to be some of his best work ever. Weirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb in 1981, which ran for 28 issues. It served as a “low art” counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow Raw. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb’s interests at the time: outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted “weirdness.”
Dimethyltryptamine by John Campbell $15.00 – DMT to you and me. From the artist of Pictures For Sad Children.
Rebetiko by David Prudhomme (Self Made Hero) $22.95
We Wont See Auschwitz by Jeremie Dres (Self Made Hero) $22.95
Walking Dead 100 Project Covers Collection by Robert Kirkman et al. (Image) $12.99
In Love with Art: FranCoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer (Coach House) $13.95
Freud by Corinne Maier and Anne Simon (Nobrow) $19.75
Pachyderme by Frederick Peeters (Self Made Hero) $19.95
Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend And Other Classic Comics by Charles Rodrigues (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Adventures of the Gremlin by DuPre Jones and Edward Gorey $17.95
Ukkometsola Kuvakertomus Stanmaitotuotannosta by Jarno Latva-Nikkola (Huuda Huuda) $36.70 – An Illustrated Story on Pig Dairy Farming, in Finnish (with English translation). Pig’s milk, capitalism, greed, racism and depression, but also a story of perseverance, hope, and charity. Beautiful red and blue duotone, hardcover.
Kuningas Toffee by Aapo Rapi $16.70
Iron Bound by Brendan Leach (Secret Acres) $21.95
Viimeinen Toiven Kirja – The Last Book of Hope by Tommi Musturi $20.90
Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland by Bill Willingham $14.99
Unexpected: 18 Tales of Fright and Terror by Paul pope, David Lapham and more. (Vertigo) $14.99
JLA Earth 2 Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly (DC) $24.95
Out of Hollow Water by Anna Bongiovanni $10.95
Strong Eye Contact by Christopher Adams $14.95
Art & Design
Object 10 Works by Kilian Eng (Floating World Comics) $30.00
Star Trek Original Topps Trading Card Series (Topps) $19.95-This is a book, but it does come with a few cards!
Dishu: Ground Calligraphy In China by Francois Chastanet (Dokument) $39.95
Wild At Heart by Miss Van (Drago) $38.00
Colour Me Good Arrggghhhh – Cool Colouring Book by Mel Simone Elliott $13.00
Aphorismyth a Collection of Art and Design by Ragnar (Baby Tattoo) $24.95
Soul of Science by Daniel Martin Diaz (Last Gasp) $40.00
Drawings of Laurie Lipton (Last Gasp) $39.95
Mark Schultz Carbon by Mark Schultz $24.95
Hi-Fructose Collected Edition vol 3 ed. by Annie Owens (Last Gasp) $39.95 – Compiles and expands original material from issues 9-12 of the best-selling magazine Hi-Fructose.
Mexican Wall Painting Bardas De Baile by Patricia Cue (Ghost and Co.) $34.95
Graffiti School a Student Guide by Chris Ganter $24.95
Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod by Brian Kesinger (Baby Tatoo) $29.95Druuuuuuuugs
Weed Runners: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America’s Medical Marijuana Trade by Nicholas Schou (Chicago Review Press) $16.95
Cannabis Insanity: Cool Coloring Book by Re (Last Gasp) $9.95 – 20 Cool Images to Color. This extra-large coloring book features cannabis inspired pictures selected for their challenging nature and complexity. From “Chronic Christ” to “Dinostonar” and “Cannadragon,” Rockin’ Re’s wild cannabis-inspired images will give you hours of meditative coloring activity.
Food
Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. by Liz Crain, John Gorham and David Reamer (McSweeneys) $35.00 – At the heart of Portland’s red-hot food scene is Toro Bravo, a Spanish-inspired restaurant whose small plates have attracted a fiercely loyal fan base.Film & TV
Hollywood Said No: Orphaned Film Scripts Bastard Scenes Abandoned Darlings by Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Brian Posehn and friends $17.00 – from the creators of Mr. Show and related folks. Coming soon: we’re getting an audio book version of this! Give us a buzz at 773-342-0910 if you want us to reserve you a copy.
Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen $24.95
Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodean’s Golden Age ed. by Mathew Klickstein $20.00
Jim Henson – The Biography by Brian Jay jones $35.00
The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz $40.00 – We can’t sell you this until the 8th (only 3 days from now!) but call us at 773-342-0910 to reserve your copy.Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer $18.00
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt (Chicago Review Press) $29.95
In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran by John Taylor $17.00
A Rose By Many Other Names: Rose Cherami and the JFK Assissination by Todd C. Elliott (Trine Day) $12.95
Steampunk Magic: Working Magic Aboard the Airship by Gypsey Elaine Teague (Weiser) $16.95
How To Rap 2 Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques by Paul Edwards $12.95
Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Joseph P. Farrell (Feral House) $19.95
The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic by Peter Levenda (Ibis) $35.00
Invisibility: Mastering the Art of Vanishing by Steve Richard (Weiser) $14.95
Among the Mermaids: Facts, Myths and Enchantments from the Sirens of the Sea by Varla Ventura $15.95
Banshees Werewolves Vampires and Other Creatures of the Night by Varla Ventura $16.95 – Facts Fictions and First Hand Accounts!
The New View Over Atlantis: The Essential Guide to Megalithic Science, Earth Mysteries, and Sacred Geometry by John Michell $19.95
Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music by Rickey Vincent $19.95
Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal vol 2 $19.95
Visual Music by Brian Eno $50.00
Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young and Sport Murphy $39.95
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack $16.95
Self-Portrait of a Chicken: Young Man For Rent by David Henry Sterry (Soft Skull) $15.95
Create Your Own Religion: A How To Book Without Instructions by Daniele Bolelli (Disinformation) $19.95
The Shaman’s Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In by Sandra Ingerman $16.95
The Secret History of the United States: Conspiracies, Cobwebs and Lies by Peter Kross $19.95Politics & Revolution
The Law of Superheroes by James Daily and Ryan Davidson $17.00 – An intriguing and entertaining look at how America’s legal system would work using the world of comic books. Are members of the Legion of Doom vulnerable to prosecution under RICO? Do the heirs of a superhero who comes back from the dead get to keep their inherited property after their loved one is resurrected? Does it constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” to sentence an immortal like Apocalypse to life in prison without the possibility of parole?
Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook (PM Press) $12.95
We Do!: American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality by Madeleine M. Kunin and Jennifer Baumgardner (Akashic) $15.95Fiction
Alternative Histories of the World by Matthew Buchholz $25.00
Cazzarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki (PM Press) $18.00 – Cazzarola! spans 130 years in the life of the Discordias, a fictionalized family of Italian anarchists.
And Every Day Was Overcast: An Illustrated Novel by Paul Kwiatkowski (Black Balloon Publishing) $29.95
End of Love by Marcos Giralt Torrente (McSweeneys) $22.00
The Importance of Being Ernest by Ernest Cline (Write Bloody) $15.00
Bagman vs The Worlds Fair Tales of the Bagman vol 2 by BC Bell $15.00
Beyond Folly by Emil DeAndreis $12.95
Dog Days vol 1 by Gene Gregortis $16.00
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson $16.00
Rage Is Back by Adam Mansback $16.00Sex & Sexy
Big Book of Orgasms – 69 Sexy Stories ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
Kinky Bondage Obsession – Best of Bondagecafe ed. by Jim Weathers (Goliath) $39.95
Wild Lolitas by Mikhail Paramonov (Goliath) $34.95
Strictly Bondage by Lightworship (Goliath) $24.95
Sirens: The Pinup Art of David Wright $34.95
The Posh Girls Guide to Play Fantasy Role Play and Sensual Bondage – Because Little Black Handcuffs Go With Everything by Alexis Lass $16.00
Bedded Bliss: A Couples Guide to Lust Ever After by Kristina Wright $15.95
God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis by Tom Hickman (Soft Skull) $15.95
Meat #10 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
Meat SF by Adrian Lourie $20.00 – The San Francisco Treat!Magazines
Cabinet #50 Money $12.00
Wilder Quarterly vol 1 #7 Sum Fall 13 $18.95
Makeshift #7 Fall 13 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00
Randy #4 $8.00
Hi Fructose #29 $7.95
Tom Tom Magazine #15 Magazine For Female Drummers $6.00
Bizarre #206 Nov 13 $10.50
Cemetery Dance #70 $9.50
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 30 #3 $6.95
Purple Fashion vol 3 #20 $50.00
Hunter Fashion Magazine #23 $24.99
Gentlewoman #8 Fall Win 13 $14.99
Skunk vol 9 #3 $5.99
Meatpaper #20 Fall 13 $9.95
Paper Oct 13 vol 30 #2 $4.00
Wax Poetics #56 $11.99
Mojo #239 Oct 13 $9.99
Maximumrocknroll #365 Oct 13 $4.00
Monocle vol 7 #67 Oct 13 $12.00
In These Times Oct 13 $3.50
AdBusters Nov Dec 13 $12.95
Tattoo Society #40 $7.99
RFD #155 Fall 13 $9.95 – The James Broughton IssuePoetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Believer #102 Oct 13 $8.00
McSweeneys #44 $26.00
Bruit #2 and #3 $7.00 each
The Chicago Review vol 58 #1 $10.00
Geist Fact Fiction #90 $6.95
Gaudy Verse by Orla Foster and Peter Martin $2.00
Cityside Coochie Coo by Shaina Hoffman $2.00Kids Stuff
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists (First Second) $19.99 – Featuring such artists as Craig Thompson, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Vanessa Davis and more.
Moomin and the Comet by Tove Jansson (D&Q) $9.95
Moomin and the Sea by Tove Jansson (D&Q) $9.95Other Stuff
Edward Gorey Sticker Book $7.95 – Featuring more than 150 reusable stickers.
Tons of wrapping paper! Holidays are comin’ up faster than ya think!
Tiny Size Author-Illustrator Starter-Kit – Contains Five Completely Blank Little Books to be Filled by You (McSweeneys) $19.95
More cards from, Buy Olympia, varying prices. Put a bird/bike/animal in fancy clothes on it!
Annual Weekly Planner vol 8 by Lizzy Stewart (Little Otsu) $18.00 – Fill in your own dates and customize it as you need to.
In Case We Die Audiobook of the Novel by Danny Bland $15.75 – Featuring readers such as Aimee Mann, Wayne Kramer, John Doe and more. -
Laydeez Do Comics October Edition: Beth Hetland and Jaclyn Miller 10/31
Laydeez do Comics is a unique salon with a focus on graphic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic, and the everyday. Invited guest speakers have 10-20 minute slots to present works/ideas followed by a Q&A. Launched in London in July 2009, the group has now expanded to other cities, including Chicago. Quimby’s hosts the Chicago chapter and it is usually the last Thursday of every month.
October’s edition features artists Beth Hetland (cartoonist, teacher, lover of sharks) & Jaclyn Miller (cartoonist, Chicago Zine Fest organizer).
Beth Hetland was raised in the rolling hills of Wisconsin. After earning her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, where she started making comics, she packed up and moved to White River Junction, VT to attend a graduate program at The Center for Cartoon Studies. She graduated with an MFA in 2011 and accepted a position teaching comics at her alma mater, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been teaching there ever since, bringing comics and cheer to eager young minds. She has been self-publishing since 2006 with over 50 titles to her name. She has been the recipient of the both the Best Small Press Stumptown Award and Nerdlinger. Her longest auto-bio work, “Fugue,” is a three part story that traces the generational repetitions and relationship of her family utilizing music as a metephor. She frequently collaborates with her best friend, Kyle O’Connell, on fiction work–the current ideration of which is the first volume of their new series titled “Half Asleep.” For more about Beth and her work, visit her blog: beth-hetland.com.
Jaclyn Miller is a cartoonist living and working in Chicago. Her work deals primarily in autobiography, daydream, and memory. Her current project, “Rememberies,” is a minicomic series centered around childhood folly and reflection. When she’s not working her day job or surrounding herself with good people and good comics, she spends her time as an organizer for the Chicago Zine Fest. More info at fortfootcomix.tumblr.com.
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Off-Site Book Release Event for Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey at the Hungry Brain 10/16
Join us at the Hungry Brain on Oct 16th for the release of Fred Minnick’s book Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey (and yes, the book will be available for purchase, courtesy of Quimby’s). Special discussion panel guests will be Monique Huston, whisky specialist at Stoller Wine & Spirits, “Still Stoker” Karen Sisulak Binder of Southern Sisters Spirits, Meg Bell – brand ambassador for Death’s Door Spirits and one of Chicago premier female distillers Sonat Hart from Koval Distillery.
About the book:
Shortly after graduating from University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth “Bessie” Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process, and winning them over with her knowledge of Scottish whisky. After the owner of Laphroaig passed away, Williamson took over the prestigious company and became the American spokesperson for the entire Scotch whisky industry. Impressing clients and showing her passion as the Scotch Whisky Association’s trade ambassador, she soon gained fame within the industry, becoming known as the greatest female distiller. Whiskey Women tells the tales of women who have created this industry, from Mesopotamia’s first beer brewers and distillers to America’s rough-and-tough bootleggers during Prohibition. Women have long distilled, marketed, and owned significant shares in spirits companies. Williamson’s story is one of many among the influential women who changed the Scotch whisky industry as well as influenced the American bourbon whiskey and Irish whiskey markets. Until now their stories have remained untold.Please note: This event it NOT at Quimby’s. It is at The Hungry Brain, 2319 W Belmont Ave Chicago, IL 60618 (773) 709-1401.
The Hungry Brain on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehungrybrain
The Facebook Post for this event.
Wednesday, Oct. 16th
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New Stuff This Week
Henry and Glenn #3 Forever and Ever by Igloo Tornado and friends $5.00
Zines
KerBloom #103 Jul Aug 13 by Artnoose $2.00
Collide On Physical and Mental Illness by Maranda Elizabeth, Synthia Nicole et al. $2.50
Aint Shit, A Punk Zine $3.00
Dayburner #2: Information that is useless, “unless, of course,” you are an electrician by Frank Clark (Microcosm) $3.00
Rad Dad #24 $4.00
Wildlifoodin #2 by Phlat $3.00
Simple History Series #12: Mongolian Empire by J. Gerlach $4.00
SeXXX Files $6.00
Moist Ladies #3 We Shall Never Bathe by Nathan Veach $5.00
Francis Photo Zine $5.00
Pu Ro Mi Su by Francis Kulikowski $5.00
Warmth #2 by S. Ostrowski $6.00
One Time I Saw This Stuff by Kvnly $6.00
The Match #112 Fall 13 $3.00
New Ayers Rock City by Kevin Tadge $12.00Comics & Comix
The Plot #3 Stolen Minds by Neil Brideau and Kenan Rubenstein $5.00 – What do you get if you mix a coming-of-age story in a weirdo forest mixed with a less sinister Logan’s Run? You get The Plot. It’s by Quimby’s Mini-Comics Sommalier Neil. Kenan Rubenstein drew 5 pages for him.
Phase 7 #018 by Alec Longstreth $3.00 – The incredibly cute adventures of Alec’s adventures being a Weezer fan. This issue’s album: Pinkerton.
Tough Cats by Burkholder and Mathewuse $2.50
Spiros Greek Myths #5 by Spiro Dousias $5.00
Mess by Andy J. Hood $5.00
Midwestern Cuban Comics vol 1 #6 and #7 by Odin Cabal $5.00 eachGraphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
School Spirits by Anya Davidson (Picturebox) $19.95 – The story of Oola, a high school student with an unusual connection to the supernatural.
Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps by Art Spiegelman (D&Q) $39.95 – a comprehensive career overview of the output of legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
Reggie 12 by Brian Ralph (D&Q) $21.95
Pompeii by Frank Santoro (Picturebox) $19.95
Lost Vegas TPB Welcome to Fabulous Lost Vegas by Jim McCann and Janet K. Lee $14.99
World Map Room by Yuichi Yokoyama (Picturebox) $19.95Art & Design
Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy the Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist by Jim Elledge $29.95
How Are You Feeling? At the Centre of the Inside of The Human Brain’s Mind by David Shrigley $19.95 – Take a look around this guy’s brain. He’s nuts! And we love him for it.
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints From the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris $29.95 – Skeletons with bling. That shit isreal.
Far Woods by Sarah Burwash (Conundrum) $20.00
Fantasy Tattoo Art: Artistic Illustrations by Xiaobai $35.00
Flood of Sunshine by Al Palmer $10.00
Doorjams: Amazing Doors of New York City by Alan Markman $39.99 – This sounds like it would be sublimely boring, but you’d be surprised at the street and outsider lowbrow art you see on NY doors!Fiction
Everything Flows by James Greer (Curbside Splendor) $15.95 – Guided By Voices former bassist does words, GBV singer songwriter Robert Pollard does collage illustrations.
Tomorrowland by Joseph Bates (Curbside Splendor) $14.95
Suiciders by Travis Jeppesen (Semiotext[e]) $16.95
Seven Deadly Plays and thensome by Joe Janes $10.00Magazines
Bust Oct Nov 13 $5.99
Laphams Quarterly vol 6 #4 Fall 13 $16.00
Dodo Magazine #1 $21.00
True Crime Sep 13 $8.99
Skeptic vol 18 #3 $6.95
Open Minds Oct Nov 13 $6.50
Pop Magazine #29 Fall Win 13 $18.99
Fangoria #327 $10.99
Video Watchdog #175 $8.95
Cinema Retro vol 9 #27 $11.99
The Paris Review #206 $15.00
Razorcake #76 $4.00
Tape Op #97 Sep Oct 13 $4.95
Radical Philosophy #181 $13.00
Against the Current #166 Sep Oct 13 $5.00
GLQ vol 19 #4 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
Freshly Inked vol 3 #5 $6.99
Harpers Magazine Oct 13 $6.99
Wire Sep 13 #355 $11.25Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Slice Fall 13 Win 14 #13 $8.00
Satellite Toronto $11.00Sex & Sexy
Contact High by Richard Kern $29.95
Sweets Magazine vol 7 #22 $7.99
Temptress #4 $6.99Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Midwest UFOs and Beyond by Tom Baker (Schiffer) $16.99 – No, not THAT Tom Baker. Tom Baker the writer.
Nick Drake: Dreaming England by Nathan Wiseman-Trowse (The Reverb Series from Reaktion Books) $25.00
Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter by S. Bear Bergman (Arsenal Pulp) $18.95
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow by Andy Sturdevant (Coffee House Press) $22.00 – Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant’s essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target Field, and alleyways all open up with possibilities for measuring cultural time and the resonance, not provincialism, of spaces closely observed.
Meaty by Samantha Irby (Curbside Splendor) $15.95DIY
Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling by Kelli Refer (Elly Blue Publishing) $9.95 Incorporate basic yoga exercises, breathing, and philosophy into your daily bike ride, from breathing their way up hills to dealing with achey knees and tight hips to overcoming road rage.Politics & Revolution
Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes: Raw Writings from the Notebook of an Early 1970s African-American Radical Activist by Modibo M Kadalie (One Quest Press) $28.95Kids Stuff
Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman and Skottie Young $14.99
Making of the Platypus Philharmonic Orchestra by Eliana Joy Barnett $20.99
Big Wet Balloon a Toon Book by Liniers (Toon Books) $12.95Other Stuff
A wallet! It looks like a bagel! $11.00
Socks! They say “Fuck This Shit!” on them! $9.99Want to see what’s new to order in our web store? See quimbys.com/store.
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New Stuff This Week
Heavy Hangs the Head by Taryn Hipp $10.00 – The first book from long-running zinester Taryn Hipp (Sub Rosa, Lady Teeth). “This is a memoir novella about a woman with an addiction, a mental illness & a feminist identity. This is the story of one woman’s journey from anxiety-ridden child to delinquent teenager to divorced alcoholic & how she turned all those years of experience into a beautiful existence.” -Sweet CandyZines & Zine-Related
Visitor In Myself #2 by Nichole $1.00
Pieces #8.5 Flip Side a Split Twenty Four Hour Zine Made With My Mother by Nichole and Laura $1.00 – OMG zine freaky friday!
Baroque Genitalia book #51 by Dan Gleason and Jenny Inzerillo $3.00
Slut #2 by Jonas and friends $3.00
Sync Machine Part 1 Disco Revolution by Kamilah Jones $9.99
City of Maps Navigations in Paris France by Delphine Bedient $4.00
Symbols of American Opulence #1 by Glenna Fitch $5.00 and karl Walker $5.00
The American Association of Patriots Presents: How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety $2.00
Parts Of My Body by Molly B. $1.00Comics & Comix
The Magic Whistle #13 by Sam Henderson $3.99 – Popular Among People Aware of its Existence for twenty years! Cheap! Hilarious!
Cartoon Picayune #5 Sum 13 $4.00
Lou #16 by Melissa Mendes (Oily Comics) $1.00
Teen Creeps #1 by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $1.00
Real Rap #3 by Benjamin Urkowitz (Oily Comics) $1.00
Noise #2 by Billy Burket (Oily Comics) $1.00
Tiger Man #2 by Gabriel Winslow Yost and Michael Rae Grant (Oily Comics) $1.00
Various Comics Rich Tommaso, including Dry County #1 a Lou Rossi Comic $5.00
You Were Swell #1 by Sophie McMahon $5.00 – Elegant drawings with weirdo pop culture. A good companion for fans of Lisa Hanawalt.Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Louis Riel, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Comic Strip Biography by Chester Brown (D&Q) $21.95
Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me and Other Astute Observations by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – This is the expanded hard cover verion of this title, which encompasses a decades worth of reporting for Reason Magazine.
2 books by Gene Luen Yang: Saints and Boxers (First Second)
RASL – The Color Complete Graphic Novel by Jeff Smith $39.95 – In hard cover.Art & Design
Surf to Skate vol 1 Evolution to Revolution by Stanton Hartsfield and Jason Chin $29.95
Alec Goss Cold Lightning $24.99
Print Collect by Jennifer Coster et al. $10.00
Taxidermy by Alexis Turner $35.00
Airline: Style at 30,000 Feet by Keith Lovegrove $14.95
Dew Dew Dew Its Photo Book by Hiro Tanaka $20.00 – With an introduction by Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Freehand Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn From Art by Helen Birch $18.95Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk by D.H. Peligro $18.00 – By the legendary Dead Kennnedys drummer (and um, the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, King of the B Movie by Chris Nashawaty $35.00
Rap Coloring and Activity Book by Shea Serrano and Bun B $12.95
Barracuda In the Attic: A Memoir By The Latest Member Of A Comedic Dynasty (Fantagraphics) $26.99 – Whether shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playing doctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kipp Friedman, the youngest son of celebrated writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, led a colorful childhood.Politics & Revolution
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk (Seven Stories) $13.95
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano $17.00
High Rise Stories: Voices From Chicago Public Housing by Audrey Petty (McSweeneys) $16.00 – From the Voice of Witness Series. Don’t miss Audrey Petty, editor of High Rise Stories, at the Hull-House 9/24, in conversation with WBEZ’s Natalie Moore. Join us! https://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/high-rise-stories/
Diary of a Combatant by Che Guevara (Ocean) $23.95DIY
The Vegan Stoner Cookbook: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes to Munch by Sarah Conrique and Graham I Haynes $16.99Fiction
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem $27.95
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson (Two Dollar Radio) $16.00
You Are Make Very Important Bathtime by David Moscovich $12.00Kids Stuff
The Exorcism of Mr. Squiggles: The Adventures of Sexy Sam Captain Calamari and Mr Squiggles by Matthew Gindling $15.00
Crazy Creatures and Cute Characters Coloring Book by Melissa Rohr $10.00
Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley $16.99Magazines
Shots #121 Fall 13 by Russell Joslin $6.95
Ancestry Quarterly #1 $18.95
Modern Farmer #2 Fall 13 $7.99
Tattoo Collection #58 $7.75Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Booth, A Journal, issues #2-#5 $8.00 each
The First Line vol 15 #3 Fall 13 $3.00
The Iowa Review vol 43 #2 Fall 13 $9.95
23 Skidoo: 23 Form Fitting Poems by Eckhard Gerdes $12.00
Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave) $18.95Want to see what’s new to order in our web store? See quimbys.com/store.
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Q&A with Tonight's Reader David Moscovich
David Moscovich David Moscovich, author of You Are Making Very Important Bathtime, is no stranger to cross-country jaunts. The New York resident will be journeying here to Quimby’s for a reading with fellow writer Eckard Gerdes tonight. Nicki Yowell, Quimby’s Outreach and Communications Coordinator, caught up with David to chat about clumsy Japanese translations, the perils of teaching and the many iterations of his performances.
Quimby’s: You’ve resided in quite a few places during your life: Portland, New York, Boston, Japan. Would you say your personal well-rounded sense of place factors strongly into your work?
David Moscovich: My sense of place is probably more lopsided because of my personal geography — but being a Nebraska boy at root keeps me humble enough. Growing up in my own personal iron curtain as a Romanian-American in Nebraska gave me a sense of aloneness that didn’t disappear until I visited the old country as an adult. How does that translate into my work? I think it keeps experiences relative, and my attempt with Bathtime is to fuel misunderstandings between characters with even greater misunderstandings, to pose the assumptions of American and Japanese cultures in comical juxtaposition with each other. I try to expose the narrator’s biases and preconceptions in Bathtime by allowing him to gaff and to faux pas his way through most situations. In a sense, I tried to create a character who has committed a spiritual crime, a kind of culture-cide, but does not have the conscience to realize it. It torments him but not in the way a Raskolnikov is tormented.
Q: Flash fiction is a literary medium that seems to fit well with our times. Short, punchy, quick to get your attention. What draws you to shorter narratives? Are they more approachable in our temporally fractured culture?
DM: The way the story tells the story has to be more immediate in short fiction. I want to say more with less, and I also revise obsessively. It’s not that I am always drawn to the short form, but often I’ve cut back more than fifty percent of the words. You Are Make Very Important Bathtime is a complete rewrite of a much longer novel that I threw out to rework the voice. I wanted it to be about the voice. I also think of short fiction like punk rock. Put together fifty fast-paced songs and there is a concentrated performance that tells a longer story.
Q: The title of your latest book, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, reminds me of a dubiously named website, Engrish.com. Translating Japanese to English can be a tenuous, problematic proposition, indeed. How does the central problem of language factor into the story?
DM: You Are Make Very Important Bathtime plays with the notion of weird, broken, unconventional and/or unaccepted grammar as a cause for celebration. Usually without thinking we accept grammar as a set of patterns that are “correct” in any given language without acknowledging that “correct” grammar might be viewed as merely another aesthetic.
Throughout the work is the comma splice, which came from a desire to intentionally circumvent the rules of punctuation and give the sense of reading each story in one long breath. The Japanese language also allows for females to refer to themselves by name. A character, Kimiko, says to the narrator: Kimiko loves okonomiyaki. These types of peculiarities fascinate me, like the fact that it’s possible to hold an entire conversation in Japanese without the use of a subject.
Language teachers might berate a student for collocational fumbles or syntactical mishaps but language itself loves errors and to me it sounds like poetry. Japanese is a very flexible tongue. Switch around verbs and nouns and leave out subjects, still we are understood. Languages are transforming, living beings, the long tentacles of cultures they are attached to. My attempt is to embrace all of it, to fully love the flexible grammar out there.
In one of the stories, a certain beer menu reads, “Please Choose the Drunk.” It’s incredible how much impact a single letter can have. And that is part of the book, this enormous potential that lies within the playing and shifting of letters.
Q: How has teaching shaped your point of view of writing? Do you ever picture your students as your audience or are you their audience?
DM: The goal for me is to marry writing and teaching by channelling them in a state of urgent transmission. Writing happens from a necessity of expression, as Rilke would have it. The delineation between teaching and the performance behind the writing disappears. That is the ideal — to share completely and selflessly what has worked for me as a writer, and equally so, what has not worked.
Q: Much of your work has a performance or performed component. You’ve done radio broadcasts and musical collaborations in addition to your live readings. Do you consider these performances to be separate and complete or a necessary companion to the written work you make?
DM: I like to think they compliment each other but ideally each stand alone. They are also different mediums. If a person prefers reading without the social aspect necessary for performance they can read instead. What I’m trying to do with the live performance is to offer something from my work that a reader cannot get just holding the book. But even within reading a written story to oneself there are so many possibilities. Any book could be read in a non-linear fashion as well as the traditional way from the first story to the last. You Are Make Very Important Bathtime was designed as a book to be read in any and every order whatsoever. The sequence offered in the book as published could be thought of as a “serving suggestion.” The reader sets the table.
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ellie june navidson Reads From Spider Teeth With AJ Durand and KOKOMO
In ellie june navidson’s new zine Spider Teeth, she attempts to encompass the complicated emotionality surrounding her recent surgery, “the surgery.” It’s a messy and gorgeous work that she couldn’t be more excited to share. The opening will feature performances by several trans women/goddesses. Face it, she says, we’re absolutely everything, come celebrate with us.
ellie june navidson is your everyday subversive tranny faggot. She is a blogger, poet, workshop facilitator, dressmaker, and all around crafty radical. Much of her work explores gender, normativity, radical visibility, and self-awareness. She works to incorporate vulnerability and non-violence into her life while striving for social justice. She’s all about empowerment, brave honesty, and growth. She is perparing to release her fabulous new zine, Spider Teeth, that encapsulates all the complicated emotionality surrounding “The Surgery.” Some essays and contact information can be found at her personal blog can be found at invisiblyqueer.tumblr.com.
She will be accompanied by AJ Durand and KOKOMO.
For more info: ellie(dot)june(dot)navidson(at)gmail(dot)com
Thursday, October 10th, 7pm – Free Event
Click here to find the Facebook event posting for this event.
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New Stuff This Week
Little Fish: A Memoir From a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer $15.99 – If you’ve been shopping at Quimby’s regularly checking out our zines and comics, you might be famililiar with the zine List (one of our best-selling zines) by former Chicago zinester and screen-printer Ramsey “Everydaypants” Beyer (one of the original founders of Chicago Zine Fest). Ramsey took some of her zines from when she was 18, just starting college (years and years ago!), and put parts of them in her book, along with commentary about those pieces, that are really the by-products of the introspection that comes with age. The zine-y and mini-comics-y stuff in the book (which by the way, were better then any zine I could do at the age), appeals to the scrappy aesthetic readers have come to enjoy in Ramsey’s work, but then also it’s a thoughtful and compelling narrative about growing into a person. Recommended. -LMZines
Rumpy Pumpy #2 by Milo $2.00 – Remember that manic-y girl with the bob from Real Genius? I’m pretty sure I saw her in this zine. Sold! -LM
On Struggling #3 Bodies by Monica Trinidad $8.00
Panic Zine: A Guide to Recovering From Panic Attacks With Resources for Managing Long Term Anxiety by Corina $2.00
Philly Dudes Collective Year 1 and a Half $2.00
Abstract Door #2 by Vicky Lim $2.75
Black Metal of the Americas vol 5 $5.00
Cell Phone Drawings vol 1 $8.00
Ella Funt #1 May 13 by Ciara Xyerra $5.00
From a Short Pleasure Comes a Long Repentance by Gina Pierce $5.00
Ghost Lungs #1 sum 12 by Em Rose $2.00
Kayfabe Strategies Against Slideshows Reviews 2011-2013 by Michael T. Fournier $3.00
Miso Soup for the Armchair Activist’s Soul by Ashlee Green $2.00
See No Speak No Hear No: Articles and Questions about Sexual Assault $2.50
Stay Cool in the Evil Zone #3 Wait It Gets Better $4.00
Think About the Bubbles, various issues, various prices. By Joyce Hatton.Comics & Comix
Once Twice by Chloe Wilson $18.00
Stranger Two Stranger #5 by R. Hendricks $2.00
Milk Teeth #1 by Kate Lacour $5.00
Sam O Ed in Siren Song vol 4 by Benjamin Wacks $5.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Love and Rockets: The Covers by the Hernandez Bros (Fantagraphics) $35.00 – For the first time, these iconic comic book covers from the original Love and Rockets comic book series (and the earliest trade paperbacks) have been restored and collected in a gorgeous, oversized art book.
The Walking Dead Book Nine by Robert Kirkman et al. $34.99
In Pieces by Marion Fayolle (Nobrow) $23.00
Ambedkar: The Fight For Justice by by Srividya Natarajan et al. $27.50 – A beautiful graphic novel about the activist Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, born into India’s “untouchable” caste, went on to draft the Constitution of India, becoming one of the country’s foremost revolutionaries.
Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95 – The original graphic novel adapted into the award-winning French film about a young woman who discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire.
Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2, ed. by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99Art & Design
Queens of Hearts: The Art of Marya García (Schiffer) $34.99 – Classic pin-up concepts converge with contemporary aesthetics in this enticing collection of images from Spanish photographer Marya García. In more than 100 arresting images, her love of 1950s pin-up and cinema combine with her alternative aesthetic to offer elegant and sensual images of gorgeous, tattooed women.
Outside The Lines: An Artists Coloring Book For Giant Imaginations by Souris Hong-Porretta $18.00 – For anyone who loves creativity and contemporary art, or who simply loves the joy of coloring, comes Outside the Lines, a striking collection of illustrations from more than 100 creative masterminds, including animators, cartoonists, fine artists, graphic artists, illustrators, musicians, outsider artists, photographers, street artists, and video game artists. With contributions from Keith Haring, AIKO, Shepard Fairey, Exene Cervenka, Keita Takahashi, Jen Corace, Ryan McGinness, and more, Outside the Lines features edgy and imaginative pieces ready for you to add your own special touch.
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual by Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh $25.00 – Yes, for real, by the founders of the UCB. With fun illustrations! Read more about it here.
Initiatic Eroticism and Other Occult Writings from La Fleche by Maria de Naglowska $19.95
Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too: A Guidebook for Men and Their Cats by Michael Showalter $14.95
Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation by Dave Hill $14.95
Lost In the Darkness: Life Inside the Worlds Most Haunted Prisons, Hospitals, and Asylums by Benjamin S. Jeffries (Schiffer) $19.99
Glam: The Performance of Style by Darren Pih $40.00Politics & Revolution
The Feminine Mystique: 50 Years by Betty Friedan $17.95Sexy Stuff
Fat Girl by Carlos Batts (Cleis) $29.95
Big Man on Campus: Fresh Gay Erotica by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
Dark Secret Love: A Story of Submission by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $16.95Magazines
Tiki Magazine vol 9 #2 Sum Fall 13 $6.99
Bitch #60 $5.95
Juxtapoz #153 Oct 13 $5.99
Kinfolk vol 9 Discovering New Things to Cook Make and Do $18.00
Offscreen #6 $22.00 – The People behind bits and pixels. In print! Wait, what? You read that right.
Dwell Oct 13 $5.99
Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 13 vol 37 #5 $4.95
Backwoodsman vol 34 #5 Sep Oct 13 $4.95
Gothic Beauty #41 $6.95
High Times Nov 13 $5.95
Treating Yourself #42 $7.99
Mass Appeal #53 $9.99
In These Times Sep 13 $3.50
Tabu Tattoo #54 $6.99Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Sorry Tree by Eileen Myles (Wave Books) $14.00
Lemonworld and Other People by Carina Finn $15.00
Within Mutiny by Holms Troelstrup $15.00
Mosaic Sum 13 $6.00
The Oxford American #82 Fall 13 $5.95
Vademecum vol 1 #2 $5.00
Filter #53 $5.95
Under the Radar #47 $5.99Fiction
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
Sad Robot Stories: A Novella by Mason Johnson (The Chicago Center For Literature and Photography) $24.99
Women Float: A Novella by Maureen Foley (The Chicago Center For Literature and Photography) $24.99
Long Live Us: Stories by Mark R. Brand (The Chicago Center For Literature and Photography) $24.99
The Portable Edgar Allen Poe $20.00
Revitalized: The High Arc by Jessica Cage $14.99
Haunted Dolls House and Other Ghost Stories by MR James (Penguin) $16.00
In The Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany $16.00Kids Stuff
Hilda and the Troll by Luke Pearson (Nowbrow/Flying Eye) $18.95
Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown $12.99
Ottos Orange Day by Jay Lynch and Frank Cammuso (Toon Books) $4.99Other Stuff
Incredible Sonic Wallet Drum Machine $15.00 – Open it and it makes drum noises. Forget that sonic screwdriver. You want a sonic wallet!
Shot Into Space Animal Pioneers Shot Glasses $16.00 – Eight of ’em.
Hell Passport Blank Pocket Notebook and Utopia Passport Blank Pocket Notebook $3.00 each.
Monty Pythons Wafer Thin Mints $3.00 – They’re waaaafur thin.
Old School Iron Ons $14.95Notable Restocks
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royco (Penguin) $16.00 – As heard on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift book club.
Field Notes notebooks, different sizes and prices.
Cock Cessaries #1 by Brian Hochberger $2.00Want to see what’s new to order in our web store? See quimbys.com/store.
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Tea Krulos Reads From Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement 10/5
In Tea Krulos’s new book, a creative non-fiction titled Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement (Chicago Review Press), he explores the “Real Life Superhero” movement, a sub-culture of people who adopt their own costumed personas and hit the street to battle injustice. Like in the comic books…but not really.
Through historical research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking on patrol in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. He shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well.
“Krulos combines solid journalism with colorful storytelling to shed light on this bizarre and utterly human subculture… Heroes in the Night is a great example of the promise of creative non-fiction.” –Matt Hlinak, Pop Mythology.com
The work of Tea Krulos has been featured in such places as: The Guardian, Boston Phoenix, New York Press, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee Magazine and Third Coast Digest. He’s been a featured guest several times on WUWM’s Lake Effect.
For his appearance at Quimby’s, Krulos will read an excerpt from the book, run through a slideshow of some of the colorful characters he’s met, and feature an appearance from a surprise guest.
For more info: http://heroesinthenight.blogspot.com
Click here for the Facebook event post.
Or contact Mary Kravenas, mkravenas(at)chicagoreviewpress(dot)com, 312-676-4226
Saturday, October 5th, 7pm – Free Event