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2013 SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS ARE HERE! $6.00 small, $12.00 large. Click on the image above to order yours now.

We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power!, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, and Hüsker Dü at the height of their powers. Meanwhile, their amazing photographs captured the dilapidated houses, abandoned storefronts, and disaffected youth culture of the early Reagan era. Never before seen, except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate document a uniquely fertile creative moments.
Zines & Zine-Related Books

Found Magazine #8 $5.00 – The latest and greatest issue of FOUND.
Miranda #21 by Kate Haas $3.00 – Motherhood and other adventures, in well-crafted, lively essays and reviews, covering books, life with small boys, Peace Corps Morocco, lost companions, and whatever else is on the mind of an ex-English teacher turned at-home mother/writer. Tasty recipes, too.

Everydaypants #1 by Ramsey $3.00
various zines from Providence Comics Consortium
The Simple History Series: Collection One by J. Gerlach (Microcosm) $19.95 – Included in this seven-zine, 336-page, sleeve-bound boxset is Simple History author J. Gerlach’s Nez Perce Indians, Hawaii (1778-1959) From Western Discovery to Statehood, The Spanish Civil War, Crusades: Christian Attempts to Liberate the Holy Land (1095-1229), Christopher Columbus & His Expeditions to America, The Congo: A European Invention, and The Cold War!! The Simple History zine series is an ongoing attempt to bring unrecognized or otherwise mis-told histories to a modern audience of all ages. By presenting its facts objectively, Simple History’s goal is to share history without marring the facts by editorializing.

25 Chicagoans vol 1 by Oscar Arriola $6.00 – Quimby’s store regular Oscar asked a bunch o’ people out and about to photoboothify themselves and design the back of the back. He prints both the pictures front and back, and this first volume reads like a visual Terkelian journal of a moment in Chicago history.
Night of the Fandom #5 She Was Made for Me But She Hates Me $6.00
Fragmented #1 $18.00
Lonely Inspector by Tiina Lehikoinen $7.50
Matthew Murray Oblast scifi punk bike perzines
D Tuned #2 Sep 12 $2.00
Exploitation Retrospect #51 Journal of Junk Culture and Fringe Media $4.00
Best Breakfast #2 In Town Plus Breakfast Sandwich Inside Thou Sucks Because You $2.00
Sound Record #1 Fall 12 In Facts for the Out Crowd: The truth about Louise Bourgeois Skate Parks Accordian Puffin $2.00Comics & Comix
Clutch #24 Invincible Summer #21 by Clutch McBastard and Nicole J. Georges (Tugboat Press) $2.00 – Every year old friends Nicole and Clutch team up to produce an autobiographical split zine that traces their overlapping lives as they deal with the trials and tribulations of the modern world. This year Nicole focuses on the ups and downs of her job teaching children and the struggles of caring for her two aging dogs. Clutch travels to Toronto, works on his upcoming graphic novel and sings a song about glucose meters. A sublime look at life, friendship and taking one day at time.
Demon Dust #11 Oct 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Troll On #2 The Skin of the Slarbarian and Troll On #3 by Benjamin Bergman $7.50 each
Mary Shelley vs Dracula by JP Tervamaki $7.50
Star Sounds Tahtien Aania by Amanda Vahamaki $5.00
Strata #1 Hidden in the Mountain by Bill Rusk $2.00Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road (Feminist Press) $15.95
Finnish comics ultimate overload!: Finnish Comics Annual 2011 and 2012, Koiran Kakkaa Champ Poo by Roope Eronen, Samuelin Matkassa and Second and Third Books of Hope by Tommi Musturi, Kuti Kuti Guide to Finland and more!
Crossed vol 4 by Garth Ennis and friends $24.99
Saga TPB vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $9.99
Lovecraft Anthology vol 2 Graphic Collection of Short Stories by HP Lovecraft et al. $19.95
Mattias Unfiltered: The Sketchbook Art of Mattias Adolfsson $16.99
Once Upon a Time Machine by Andrew Carl et al. $24.99
Graphic Canon vol 2 Worlds Great Literature as Comics and Visuals by Russ Kick (Seven Stories Press) $34.95 – From Kubla Khan to Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Escape to Gold Mountain:A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by David HT Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95
Gary book 3 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00Art, Design and Photo Books
Stencil Republic by aiko $29.95
Hello Cutie: Adventures in Cute Culture by Pamela Klaffke (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95
Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea by Stephen Dupont (PowerHouse) $30.00
Hall of Fame New York City $19.95 – Yes, there is a graffiti Hall of Fame. Guess where it is?DIY

Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition: A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras by Lesley M. M. Blume and Grady McFerrin $18.95
Gorilla Food: Living and Eating Organic, Vegan and Raw by Aaron Ash (Arsenal Pulp) $24.95
Boneshaker #43-300 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth by Sasha Lilley et al. (PM Press) $16.00
Transhumanism Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell and Dr. Scott D. Hart (Feral House) $19.95
Steampunk III Steampunk Revolution ed. by Ann Vandermeer $15.95
Insincerely Yours: Letters From a Prankster by Bernard Radfar $13.95
Heroines by Kate Zambreno (Semiotexte) $17.95
Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos $24.95
Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative by Lawrence Weschler (Counterpoint) $16.95
Republic Lost How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig $15.99Politics & Revolution
Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls On Life, Love and Fashion by Virgie Tovar (Seal) $16.00
Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth (Counterpoint) $22.95 – In March 1906, Emma Goldman published the first issue of Mother Earth, a “Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature.” Conceived as a forum for anarchists of every school and variety, Mother Earth laid the groundwork for American radical thought. Culled by Peter Glassgold.
Magazines
Juxtapoz #142 Nov 12 $5.99
Hi Fructose #25 $6.95
Fortean Times #293 Nov 12 $11.99
Student Publication vol 35 Transformation New Persepctives on Design Methods and Processes by the NC State Univeristy College of Design $15.00
Dwell Nov 12 $5.99
Pinstriping #34 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #14 Oct 12 $9.99Poetry, Lit Mags and Lit Journals
Gigantic Sequins vol 3 #2 $5.00
Monday Night #11 $5.00
WomenArts Quartery Journal vol 2 #4 Fall 12 $10.00
The Believer #93 $8.00
Horse Ballast by Patrick Culliton $7.00Sex & Sexy
Never Easy by Natty Soletz et al. $9.99 – Queer young cowboys.
Cheeky Spanking Stories byRachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
Seductress Erotic Tales of Immortal Desire by DL King (Cleis) $15.95
Lips Like Sugar Womens Erotic Fantasies by Violet Blue (Cleis) $15.95
Simultaneous O: A Couples Guide to Achieving the Ultimate Climax $13.95
Hot and Fast: Sexy Spontaneous Quickies for Passionate Orgasms $14.95
Adult Movie Superstars vol 1 Golden Age Photos by Jack Hunter $24.95Other Stuff
Hamburger Pocket Pouch and Keyring Combo $9.50
More Blank Moleskine journals in a variety of styles, including ones with cassettes on the cover.
U-Fizz Carbonate Anything in Minutes From Flat to Fizzy $8.00 – OK vegans, don’t miss your chance to carbonate your broccoli juice. -
Not at Quimby's: Hallow-Zine Chicago Zine Fest Fundraiser
Come get spooky at Hallow-Zine, a fundraiser to benefit the 2013 Chicago Zine Fest! This all-ages event will feature zine readings from local ghouls, some monstrous tunes, and tarot readings for a little extra cash. $5 suggested donation, October 25th, 8pm, at 2110 S Halsted (enter through the alley).
Featured readers include:
Brenton Harper-Murray (Dead of the Union: A Historical Zombie Novel)
Jim Joyce (Let It Sink)
Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix)
Dave Roche (About My Disappearance, On Subbing)
Gas Mask Horse (Start Your Own Haunted House)
Rosy Phinick (Bacterial Turned Viral),
scary songs performed by Dalice Malice (Curioddity)Want more info? Check out the Facebook event page for more details.
Want more info about Chicago Zine Fest? See chicagozinefest.org
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Off-Site event: Quimby's Co-Sponsors Karaoke Idol at the Beauty Bar Chicago 10/18

The next installment of Chicago’s favorite live karaoke battle KARAOKE IDOL cheeses up the stage at Beauty Bar Chicago on Thursday, Oct 18th at 8PM! This is a bi-monthly series benefitting different cool Chicago-based companies and organizations. One singer from each the following organizations will battle it out to determine who will benefit.This month, competitors representing these fine organizations will compete:
Chicago Zine Fest
One Tail at a Time
Young Chicago Authors
Reversible Eye
& GrazeCelebrity Judges Mason Johnson, Amy Guth, & Jacob Knabb, and KJ Gods “Shameless Karaoke” will preside.
Show up at 8PM to compete in an epic hour-and-a-half long karaoke free-for-all! Sign up to sing your ass off for a chance to be chosen as the 6th contestant by our celebrity judges!
Tune in at 10PM as 2 FINALISTS are chosen from the field of 6 to compete in Chicago’s ultimate karaoke death-match.
YOU DECIDE THE WINNER! Ultimately CHICAGO DECIDES who wins based upon audience applause so come ready to cheer for your favorite performer!
Be sure to stick around afterward for OPEN KARAOKE. Just come early or stay late so you can sign up & belt out your favorite songs when your turn arrives.
KARAOKE IDOL is brought to you every other month at Beauty Bar Chicago by Curbside Splendor Publishing, Another Chicago Magazine, & Quimby’s Bookstore.
21+
$5 coverPlease note: this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Beauty Bar at 1444 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622
More info:
Click here for the FB page for the event.
Click here for the Karaoke Idol Chicago FB page.
Click here for the Beauty Bar site.
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Scott Campbell Discusses Great Showdowns

Since the beginning of time, there has been struggle. The epic clash of being against being. Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Triceratops. Giant Squid vs. the Sperm Whale. The Circle vs. the Square. The struggle is forever. It makes the world turn around. These are the struggles that make us stop what we are doing and sort of check things out… wondering what the eff. Scott C. chronicles some of the greatest confrontations in FILM HISTORY. The greatest moments of melee. These are the GREAT SHOWDOWNS. And they sort of enjoy that they are the great showdowns.With equal parts style, humor, and insight, Scott C. has delighted an international fanbase with his unique watercolor paintings, illustrations, and drawings. Amazing Everything: The Art of Scott C. is his first monograph, the best and most imaginative works of art in his emerging career.
Admirers and collectors seek out Scott C.’s appearances at such diverse venues as Comic-Con in San Diego and Galerie Arludik in Paris to see his unusual depictions of pop-culture subjects and original creations: Victorian-era dinosaurs at high tea; lumberjacks and their sometimes-awkward relationship with trees; and ninjas lounging in their living room at home. These and other reflections of Scott C.’s artistic vision have kept him on the radar of such pop-culture trend outlets as Flavorpill and Hi-Fructose.
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Weekly Top 10

Local Quimby’s fave Corrine Mucha’s new comic is at #4
1. Lose #4 by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Tremendous! DeForge’s well-oiled line skates through the Stud File, each story shedding it’s snakeskinnery onto the next. From leather terror to royal lace to Stacyface, this issue is an ode to the body as a husk and an assault on the idea of corpus control. Flesh, rendered alternately as vampirically smooth and bacterially roccoco is bound up in narratives of contemporary methods of “information sharing” and “social networking” and the effect is straight up cut-to-the-bone sci fi plastic surgery. Witty, sly and lovely to hold exuding a warm Canadian glow. -EF2. By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) $15.00
3. King Cat #73 by John Pocellino $3.00 – Porcellino goes cuckoo for cuckoo birds, plus cats at the movies, plus a South Beloit Top 36, plus a recurring spermophile theme.
4. Buzz #4 Joke Comics by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – Funnyuns! Buzz #4 is a new collection of hilarity unleashed from Mucha’s potent joke arsenal: crazy 8-balls, breakfast shorthand, bad dates, beauty tips and ideas, all special for you.
5. The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz (Koyama) $15.00 – Three short stories or graphic novellas from the artist of Fart Party and Drinking at the movies. Filled with the sometimes messy, heartbreaking and hilarious moments that make up a life.
6. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf $17.95 – Backderf puts together a memoir of high school in the washed out suburban seventies when he was classmates and comrades with grisly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
7. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00 – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF
8. Paper Oct 12 vol 29 #2 $4.00
9. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Dave Cave and Maranda Elizabeth $3.00 – Be ironic! Buy it on our website!
10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF
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New Stuff This Week
Lose #4 by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Tremendous! DeForge’s well-oiled line skates through the Stud File, each story shedding it’s snakeskinnery onto the next. From leather terror to royal lace to Stacyface, this issue is an ode to the body as a husk and an assault on the idea of corpus control. Flesh, rendered alternately as vampirically smooth and bacterially roccoco is bound up in narratives of contemporary methods of “information sharing” and “social networking” and the effect is straight up cut-to-the-bone sci fi plastic surgery. Witty, sly and lovely to hold exuding a warm Canadian glow. -EFZines & Zine-Related Books
Zines 101 Apr 12 How to Copy on Your Own Paper $2.00
Monsters Rock – various issues $2.50 each
Jesse Wars Here by Jesse Harris (Koyama Press) $10.00 – Harris throws down on the Old School New School – spot color popaganda harkening back to when graphic design required exacto blades and you did your halftones with mesh.
Ilse Content Anthology by Alexis Wolf $14.99
Brooklyn to Mars #2 $8.00
How I Quit School #3 by Julie $3.00
Rad Dad #22 Riot Parent by Tomas Moniz $4.00
Make Your Own Ginger Ale $1.00
Permanent Vacation #2 Simulacra a Zine About the Thrilling World We Live In by Kerry Ann Lee $20.00
Slut, ed. by Jonas, Nichole and Carrie $5.00 – Zine anthology in support of Slutwalk 2012. Contributions about sexual harassment, assault and other relevant topics.
Clearance Catalogue #1 $2.00 – Stuff on clearance. For real.Comics & Çomix
Building Stories Deluxe Edition: Everything You Need to Erect Your Very Own Multi Story Building by Chris Ware (D&Q) $79.95 – Only 1000 copies of this version of the hotly anticipated Building Stories. It’s huge, expensive and awesome. Prints can be made into models. Don’t miss Chris Ware signing here at Quimby’s on Oct 14th!
Wayward Girls #2 by Michiel Budel (Secret Acres) $6.00 – It’s like the aftermath of great wars of The Realms of the Unreal plus a little more Charisma, Uniqueness Nerve and Talent if you catch my drift. -EF

Comics by Leah Wishnia: Happiness Comix #1 and #2, etc.
I Just Want to Walk Around Naked and do Whatever I Want #1 by Mary Beth Brennan $5.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Drawn Together: Complete Works from Aline Cominsky Crumb and R. Crumb $29.95 – Rumored for years, Drawn Together finally charts the daily exploits and erotic craziness of this “First Couple” of comics.

Koyama Press graphic novels: Big Team Society League Book of Answers by The Team Society League (A. Costain, J. Martz, S. Wolfhard, Z. Worton), Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz
Stupid Dreams: The Complete Five Minute Comics Collection by Joey Alison Sayers (1984) $12.00
Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Naked Cartoonists by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Buz Sawyer vol 2 Sultrys Tiger (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Adventures of Leeroy and Popo Louis Roskosch (Nobrow) $13.95
Little Death by Thomas Kriebaum $14.99
Hipster Hitler by James Carr & Archana Kumar (Feral House) $16.95
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 2 TPB by Alan Moore et al. $19.99
Walking Dead Book Eight HC by Robert Kirkman et al. $34.99Art, Design & Photography
Where the Why and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science ed. by Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman and Matt Lamothe $24.95
Hip Hop Apsara Ghosts Past And Present by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Green Lantern Press) $20.00 – Following on the heels of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, Anne Elizabeth Moore compiled photographs that document Cambodia’s bustling nightlife, the nation’s emerging middle class, and the ongoing struggle for social justice in the beautiful, war-ravaged land. Thanks to everybody that came out for this wonderful event last night, for a night of slides, discussion and Cambodian electronic bleepblops from Peter and Jessica Speer.Fiction
Narrows by M. Craig $12.00
Mexico in the Rearview Mirror: A Psychedelic Travelogue by Michael Tassone $14.99
Lava in My Bones by Barry Webster (Arsenal Pulp) $16.95
When the Drumming Stops by Steven Wishnia (Manic D Press) $15.00
Inside The Whale: A Novel in Verse by Jospeh G. Peterson, with illustrations by Michael Brehm (Wicker Park Press) $16.00Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks $20.00 – Revised with new Interviews and in soft cover. Wubba wubba wubba.
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan $16.00
Dead Roam the Earth: True Stories of the Paranormal From Around the World by Alasdair Wickham $15.00
Several Ways to Die In Mexico City: An Autobiography by Kurt Hollander (Feral House) $22.95
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elana Passarello $15.95 – From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of “Johnny B. Goode” affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean’s “BYAH!” and Marlon Brando’s “Stella!” and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought’s incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello’s essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are—the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves.
Anxiety is a Rambling Dagger by Ian Kahl $10.99
Never Leave Your Block Adventures in Urban Living by Scott Jacobs (Wicker Park Press) $14.95 – In this intimate portrait of his neighbors, Jacobs weaves his own experiences with a bright, funny look at how urban communities like Bucktown are shaping the future of Americas cities. Don’t miss author Scott Jacobs here at Quimby’s on Nov 15th!Politics & Revolution
We Are Many: Critical Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation by Kate Khatib, Margaret Killjoy, Mike McGuire and David Graeber (AK Press) $21.00
Revolt and Cirsis In Greece Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou (AK) $18.00
19 & 20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism: An 18th Brumaire for the 21st Century, Translated by Nate Holdren & Sebastián Touza (Autonomedia) – On December 19th and 20th, 2001, when in the heat of an economic and political crisis, people in Argentina took to the streets shouting “¡Qué se vayan todos!” These words – “All of them out!” – hurled by thousands banging pots and pans, struck at every politician, economist, and journalist. These events opened a period of intense social unrest and political creativity that led to the collapse of government after government.
Justice Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda by Ezra Berkley Nepon $13.00
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon (Haymarket) $17.95
Message to the Movement by Jamal Mumia Abu (Zuccotti Park Press) $7.00 – part of the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series.Sex Guides, Culture & Gender Theory
On Being Different: What It Means to be a Homosexual by Merle Miller $13.00Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #353 Oct 12 $4.00
Bust Oct Nov 12 $5.99
Kinfolk vol 5 A Guide For Small Gatherings $18.00
IdN vol 19 #4 $17.50
ArtForum Oct 12 $10.00
Creative Review Sep 12 $14.99
Paranoia #53 $7.00
Bizarre #193 Oct 12 $10.50
Hunter Fashion Magazine #21 $24.99
Little White Lies #43 $9.99
Camera Obscura #80 Feminism Culture and Media Studies $12.00
Camera Obscura vol 5 Fall 12 $12.95 – Yes, there are 2 different magazines called Camera Obscura.
Cinema Retro vol 8 #24 $11.99
Empire Oct 12 $9.99
Uncut Paul Weller Ultimate Music Guide $13.99
Signal to Noise #64 Fall 12 $4.95
Decibel #97 Nov 12 $4.95
Mojo #227 Oct 12 $9.99
Wire Sep 12 #343 $9.99
In These Times Oct 12
Z Magazine Oct 12 $4.95Poetry, Lit Mags and Lit Journals
2 Sonnet Youth chap books by Jeffrey Lewis. As in sonnets about Sonic Youth albums. One is about Confusion Is Sex Plus Kill Yr Idols and the other is Goo. Bizarre and hilarious. $1.00 each

Pank #7 $15.00
Matrix #93 $8.00
The Paris Review #202 $15.00
Fourteen Hills vol 18 #2 2012 $9.00
Zoetrope All Story Fall 12 vol 16 #3 $8.00
Poetry Oct 12 $3.75Childrens
Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse by Frank Viva $12.95Other Stuff
“Prepare” 2013 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
A whole mess o’crazy novelties!:
Dashboard Eyeball Wiggler $6.00 – Yes, it has a fez. It’s like if the Residents joined the shriners. On your dashboard!
Snake Oil Soap $6.00
Bendable Party Mustache $2.50
Bigfoot Air Freshener $2.00
Tipsy Squirrel Old Fashioned Moonshine Thermos $12.00
Emergency Google Eyes Stick On Adhesive $7.50
Octopus Porcelain Mug $9.50
Little Otsu Annual Weekly Planner vol 7 $18.00 – Fill in your own dates!Notable Restocks
Blank cards and Planners from Buy Olympia and Little Otsu.
Charles H. Kerr titles like Memoirs of a Wobbly Haymarket Scrapbook, etc.
Crap Hound #5 Hands Hearts Eyes $12.00
Reading Is Sexy stickers and buttons
Zombie and Monster Finger Toys $.75 each
finger tentacles $2.00
Punkademics The Basement Show In the Ivory Tower by Zack Furness $20.00
CrimethInc titles like Work Capitalism Economics Resistance, Expect Resistance etc.
The Baffler #19 and #20
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 5 $14.99
‘Za The Pizza Zine by Nicki Yowell $4.00
…and more!The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.
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Jobie Hughes Celebrates Release of At Dawn
Based on Jobie Hughes’ own life journey, Jobie Hughes’ new novel, At Dawn, presents a raw and gritty coming of age tale that powerfully captures the angst and big questions of today’s generation. Set against the background of the recent American recession, former high school wrestling champion Stratton Brown, escapes a dark past in his small Ohio hometown for a new beginning in the Windy City. Beneath the gruff labor of building a new life, he eventually discovers a way past the ghosts of his past and a new path to the American dream.“Hughes combines coming-of-age tale, portrait of the artist as a young man, and father-son saga in a well-crafted novel…[with] pathos, wit and insight into the relationships that define our lives.” ––Publishers Weekly
Jobie Hughes is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He made national headlines as “Pittacus Lore,” the mysterious co-author of the # 1 New York Times science-fiction bestsellers I Am Number Four (co-written with James Frey) and The Power of Six which have sold over a million copies worldwide. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages and published in forty-eight countries.
For more information on Jobie Hughes, visit jobiehughes.com
Thurs, Oct 25, 7pm
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Thomas Frank Reads From Pity the Billionaire 10/23
From the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?, this witty and highly provocative book asks a simple question: How is it possible that the disastrous collapse of the free market economy in 2008 could have heralded a popular revival—of the right?
In Pity the Billionaire, a brilliant, funny, and disturbing tour de force, Thomas Frank analyzes the sleight of hand involved in the right’s resurgence—all the upside-down grievances that have transformed economic suffering into valentines for the rich and powerful. This great chronicler of American paradox dissects the contradictions at the heart of the country’s politics, and in this “dazzling” book once again shows himself as “one of the best left-wing writers America has produced” (The Guardian).
Founding editor of The Baffler, Thomas Frank is the author of One Market Under God, The Conquest of Cool and other titles. He is also a contributor to Harpers, The Nation, and the New York Times op-ed pages.
Tues, Oct 23rd, 7pm







