1. Big Questions (soft cover edition) by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out to both off-site events we sold books at for Anders, at both Lula and the Hideout!
2. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00
3. F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00
4. Bitch #52 $5.95
5. Design Bureau Sep Oct 11 $8.00
6. lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00
7. Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
8. The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00
9. We Are Wisconsin ed. by Erica Sagrans $18.00 – Wisconsin Uprising in the words of the activists writers and everyday wisconsinites who made it happen. Contributors include Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Medea Benjamin, Mike Elk, Andy Kroll, Tony Schultz, Ian Murphy, Allison Kilkenny, Billy Wimsatt, Chris Bowers, and more.
10. Archiving the Underground #1 ed. by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00
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Todd Dills and Friends Celebrate All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10 on 10/3
THE2NDHAND’s founding editor, Todd Dills, joins contributors to launch the mag’s 10th-anniversary anthology: All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10
THE2NDHAND began its life as an 11-by-17-inch block of black text on white paper peppered variously with photo-illustrations, comics, line drawings and distributed in storefronts first in Chicago, then in an ever-growing list of cities around the U.S. New writing, simply, has been its focus since editor and publisher Todd Dills (author of the novel Sons of the Rapture) founded it in 2000—a small format its physicality, but a loud mouth and a big heart its most important parts.
“And without Quimby’s, where we began hosting readings shortly after we launched,” says Dills, “we would never have built the community of writers and readers we now enjoy.”
After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised funds to print the book, All Hands On: THE2NDHAND after 10 arrived in August to lay down the best of the mag’s 10+ years of publishing writing by the budding insurgents of the American lit landscape—and others, no doubt. True to form, the book begins with a section of new, as-yet unpublished work, and follows with sections devoted to some of its best repeat writers, including those on the program for this event.
Joining Nashville, Tenn.-based Dills at this event them are Time Out Chicago books editor and Featherproof Books publisher Jonathan Messinger (Hiding Out) and longtime THE2NDHAND contributors and Chicago residents Kate Duva and Jill Summers. For more about the book, as well as the writers, visit the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books
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New Stuff This Week
ZINES!
Whore Eyes #4 by various (Drippy Bone) $11.00 – One meaty thickpack of 3 sickosauce artzines from Jessie Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw AND a 80-minutt rambunk cd compilation -EF
Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck Ups Know It Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Whos Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone) $4.00
Death Trip by Shalo P and Peter Gray Hurley $7.00 – “This new release sees the artists respectively knashing their teeth at their obsessions and desires, tearing inward into depictions of fear, isolation and charming forms of nihilism, revealing a common theme of self-defeating anxiety that propels them into “the spiritual pursuits of the street”. the images collide and play off each other, dancing in full cover spreads and stark black and white pages like twisted visions shared by dreamers on different planes of existence. DEATH TRIP is ultimately a book for those not content with conventional imagemaking but at ease in shredding beyond its basic fabric into the emotional sparseness and infinite lushness we bear as human beings ruled by strange and powerful desires.” – Shalo P on DEATH TRIP
Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00
Birdsong #15 $6.00
Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 Get Ur Magic Marker Wet Cuz This is the Jafolio $20.00
Losing Things Is Easy – A One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
You and Everyone You Know is Damaged in Innumerable Secret Ways And Most… $2.00
Wanderlust Herbal $2.00
Fiesta Del Sol 2011 by M. Miller $10.00
Sensation #1 by Gene Booth and Grace Tran $3.00
Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
Bullet Breath #1 $1.00
Jimmy #1 Greenwood $7.00
Take a Trip On a Cloud by Thad Kellstadt $8.00
KerBloom #91 Jul Aug 11 by Artnoose $2.00
DIY or Dont We #3: A Zine About Doing Things Together by Nicki $3.00
Somnambulist #17 by Martha Grover $3.00COMICS! COMIX!
Papercutter #17 (Tugboat Press) $4.00 – Featuring Jason Martin, Jesse Reklaw, Corinne Mucha, Frabncois Vigneault, Calvin Wong, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, Vanessa Davis
Fungus #1 By James Kochalka (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
Gentle Soul by Lisa Vanin $6.95
Fall Is Here by Meghan Ansbach $4.00
Stars Were Exploding Meghan Ansbach $2.00
Echo Location #1 by Krystal DiFronzo $3.00
Map Makers Mansion by Kevin L Jensen $2.00
In The Woods by Kevin Jensen $2.00
You’re Not Alone: Quotes from A Letter From Katherine Collins Relatable Life… by Rachel Swanson $3.00
Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
Spirit House by Rylan Thompson $8.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Mome #22 Fall 11 $19.99
Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Seymour Chwast (Bloomsbury) $20.00
Feynman by Jim Ottaviani+var. (First Sec) $29.99
Water Wife by Rachel N Swanson $15.00
Steve Ditko Omibus vol 1 starring Shade the Changing Man (DC) $59.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 5 HC (Boom) $24.99
Any Empire by Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $19.95
Green River Killer a True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse) $24.99CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Second) $16.99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – With an awesome Ivan Brunetti cover!
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – Introduction by Aimee Bender and cover by Jordan Crane.FICTION!
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
Postmortal by Drew Magary (Penguin) $15.00DIY!
Foraging Self-Sufficiency by David Squire (Skyhorse) $12.95
Cookiepedia Mixing Baking and Reinventing the Classics by Stacy Adimando and Tara Striano (Quirk) $18.95MAGAZINES!
Bitch #52 $5.95
Mojo #215 Oct 11 $9.99
Filter #45 $5.95
Design Bureau Sep Oct 11 $8.00
Artforum Sep 11 $10.00
Backwoodsman vol 32 #5 Sept Oct 11 $4.95
Dot Connector #14 $7.95
Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 11 vol 35 #5 $4.95
Flaunt #116 $10.95
Dwell Oct 11 $5.99
Diffusion #3 2011 $12.00
Treating Yourself #30 $7.99
Scootering #302 $8.99
Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
Z Magazine Sep 11 $4.95
The Progressive Sep 11 $4.95
Skin and Ink Nov 11 $6.99LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
The Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
So Sorry To See You Go by C. McGath $12.00MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
The Master Game: Unmasking The Secret Rulers Of The World by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval (Disinfo) $24.95 – The Master Game refers to a scheme or “game” played on the world stage to bring about a world order governed by a lofty goal which, today, we term the “Masonic Ideal.” The Master Game traces the origins of this game of symbols and words and talismans from ancient Egypt all the way to modern times, and places it squarely on the elitist Scottish Rite Freemasonry, headquartered in Washington, DC, and ruled by a secretive and powerful brotherhood of men who have attained the thirty-third degree. The Master Game exposes this world order’s true purpose and, more importantly, shows how it has affected the United States of America and badly backfired on 9/11.
The Terror Conspiracy Revisited: What Really Happened on 9-11 and and Why Were Still Paying the Price by Jim Marrs (Disinfo) $17.95
Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness by Jose Arguelles (Evolver) $14.95
Half-Empty by David Rakoff (Anchor) $14.95
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by Charles Bukowski (Citylights) $16.95
Wageslave’s Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell (Biblioasis) $11.95 – With illustrations by Seth.MUSIC BOOKS!
Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation by Sujatha Fernandes (Verso) $19.95
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm (Anchor) $25.00 – No, not by Mark Arm from Mudhoney. Mark Yarm. Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, record executives, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, club owners, roadies, scenesters and hangers-on who lived through it. The book tells the whole story: from the founding of the Deep Six bands to the worldwide success of grunge’s big four (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains); from the rise of Seattle’s cash-poor, hype-rich indie label Sub Pop to the major-label feeding frenzy that overtook the Pacific Northwest; from the simple joys of making noise at basement parties and tiny rock clubs to the tragic, lonely deaths of superstars Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. “Yarm’s affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years.” —Kirkus Review, *Starred Review*
POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker (Simon) $12.00 – “The performance and identify of @MayorEmanuel, a fake Twitter account, captured the imagination nearly as much as the real politics” —The Atlantic.
We Are Wisconsin ed. by Erica Sagrans $18.00 – Wisconsin Uprising in the words of the activists writers and everyday wisconsinites who made it happen. Contributors include Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Medea Benjamin, Mike Elk, Andy Kroll, Tony Schultz, Ian Murphy, Allison Kilkenny, Billy Wimsatt, Chris Bowers, and more.
Signing Their Rights Away: Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution by Denise Kiernan etc. (Quirk) $19.95
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories) $15.95
9-11 Was There an Alternative by Noam Chomsky – With a new essay written after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
Story of the Iron Column Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War by Abel Paz (Biblioasis) $18.95SEX & SEXY!
SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 by Wes Crum (Eros) $3.95
Alt #3 $9.95OTHER STUFF!
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September at Quimby’s Bookstore
Here’s your September Quimby’s Bookstore news, store events and some notable things we’ve received since the last time you heard from us.And oh! Happy Labor Day. We’ll be open abbreviated hours on Monday, September 5th from noon to 5pm.Quimby’s Bookstore Temporary Tattoos Now Available
The people have spoken. And we listened. So here they are. Come in and get yours. Then take a picture and add it the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr.
Fouth Episode of the Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast Available Now
This episode features an interview and discussion with Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior talking about Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. It’s available for your listening pleasure, in a variety of formats and places for you to stream or download. And the best part? The podcast is free.
Dates Announced Fot the Chicago Alternative Expo (CAKE): June 16th-17th, 2012
Save the date! This will be the debut of CAKE next year on June 16th and 17th at Columbia College’s Ludington Building. This event is focused on celebrating independent and alternative comics of all stripes. The festival plans to feature over 100 exhibitors along with a two-day program of signings, panels, workshops and lectures. With Chicago’s long legacy as a stronghold for underground and alternative comics, the Windy City is an ideal locale to showcase some of the most wild, weird and wonderful contemporary comics talent.
Anders Nilsen Did Our Window Display
It’s true. And it celebrates his beautiful Big Questionsanthology that Drawn & Quarterly just published. Thanks, Anders!
September Events At Quimby’s Bookstore
For more info about events at Quimby’s, see quimbys.com/blog/store-events/Cindy Crabb Reads From The Encyclopedia of Doris
Sat, Sep 3rd 7pm
Cindy Crabb has been writing the influential, internationally distributed, autobiographical-feminist zine Doris since the early ‘90’s. Her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.
CCLaP Releases American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Fri, Sep 9th, 7pm
With all the talk of “hope” and “honor” that was bound to arise during the tenth anniversary of September 11th, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) thought it was important to also remind the future of what the last ten years have REALLY been like. That’s why the center put together this latest anthology, which took a dark science-fiction conceit as its core and then invited a series of writers across the nation to pen stories set within that alternative universe. Writers in attendance will be Delphine Pontvieux, Mark R. Brand and Lawrence Santoro. (Please note, this event is actually on September 9th.)
Rebekah Mercuri Reads From Weeding the Seeds of Deceit
Thurs, Sep 15th, 7pm
Many of the events experienced by the main character of Rebekah Mercuri’s debut novel echo the true-life experiences of the author, who herself, was involved in a Christian Cult.
David Shrigley Celebrates What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley
Tues, Sep 20th, 7pm
David Shrigley’s new book of illustrations, comics, photography and sculpture include crude drawings and unexpected compositions that are at once childish and clever, and each depiction oddly sincere. They capture the morbid humor of Edward Gorey, the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, and the peculiar perspective of a Charles Addams cartoon. “David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” -Dave Eggers
David Shrigley Comes to Columbia College Chicago
Wed, Sep 21st , 6:30pm–9:30pm
David Shrigley will also be at Columbia College Chicago – Stage Two 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor. Quimby’s will be there to sell books!
These David Shrigley events are co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Columbia College and AIGA Chicago.The Creative Writing Guild (CWG) Presents: Prompts/Prompted
Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm
The CWG presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper. The CWG aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.
Caroline Paquita of Pegacorn Press Reads and Shows Works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake
Mon, Sep 26th, 7pm
Caroline Paquita is releasing the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year. In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest – Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix) and Jo Dery (Quietly Sure Like the Keeper of a Great Secret). Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.”
Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh With Sara Drake
Thurs, Sep 29th, 7pm
In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, the writer and independent publisher brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Moore is a columnist for Truthout, and has written for The Progressive, Bitch, Annalemma, Tin House, the Boston Phoenix, and The Onion. The former editor of Punk Planet and the Comics Journal, Moore received a Fulbright to continue her work in Cambodia in 2010, and recently held a solo exhibition at the MCA. Moore will be joined by Chicago cartoonist and writer Sara Drake, currently planning a comics project in Cambodia.
Save the date! Alison Bechdel comes to Quimby’s 10/8. She’s guest editing The Best American Comics 2011.
And here’s some news from our sister store, Chicago Comics…
(Just Some of the)New Stuff This Month at Quimby’s Bookstore
For weekly updates, see quimbys.com/blog/ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
Xerography Debt #29 $3.00 – “The review zine with perzine tendancies.
My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00
Whore Eyes #4 by Jesse Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw. Comes with comes with Whore Eyes Comp Govmnt Acid compilation CD (Drippy Bone Books) $11.00
Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck-Ups Know-It-Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Who’s Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00 – Can I just say that this is on the cover?: “Fuck You Buy It It’s Cheap”? Is that reason enough? No? Maybe this will sell you on it if you know this next fact: One page has a picture of Emo Philips with a trombone around his neck and it says “I still believe Emo Philips is a genius.” What else do you need to know? -LM
Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb (Doris) $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement. Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on 9/3.
Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00
Underground Music Fanzines From the Late 1980s-Early 90s by Marc Fischer and Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $5.00 – Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
Wanderlust Herbal $2.00COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Eye of the Majestic Creature #5 by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Larrybear moves back to New York after having lived in the countryside. Life back in the big city! This issue was featured in outer limits mag Bizarre. First new issue since Fantagraphics compiled #1-#4. And yes, we have that too.
Comics by Leda Zawacki: Fauna $3.00 and Puddles of Cute: A Comics Collection by $6.00 – Puddles reprints “Monster in the Mansion” from Goat Girl #1 plus 3 other stories: “Fireflies”, “Ladybird” and “Killer Whale People” drawn with a Nicole J. George-ish eye for the strangely cute. -EF
One Time Only by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – How do you sneak out from a shameful one night stand while the other person is asleep? What if they have really bad wall tapestries? Is hitting rock bottom both depressing and somewhat exciting because that makes you one step closer to resembling Vince Neil? Written by the hilarious Cassie J. Fine Fine Music Sneider and drawn by Nick Rhode. Um no, not Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. Just Nick Rhode. FYI. -LM
Cebolla Con Chocolate by Ines Estrada and Rodrigo Simancas (Cafe Con Leche) $8.00 – Absurd burds, wurds, turds and nurds! Inés’ drawings are brillbrilliant and Rodrigo’s writing is smartgood and it also features a lovely contraption from the future. In español.
various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)
Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
Losing Things is Easy a One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 $20.00
Stars Were Exploding by Meghan Ansbach $2.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Mome #22 Fall 11 (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – This issue jampacked with Jospeh Lambert, Lilli Carre, Anders Nilsen, Laura Park and more!
PS Magazine: Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95 – It’s a lot like watching Disney WW2 educational army cartoons. -EF
3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99
Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Includes every issue! And there’s a fancy hard cover version as well for $69.95
Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Sec) $16.99ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Beautiful Decay Book 6 Future Perfect $20.00 – 300 artists riffed on what their ideal future would be and one Grand Prize winner was selected. Over 100 finalist’s work are featured throughout the publication.The book also includes a feature length article with notable, emerging, New York artist, Robin Williams whose surreal paintings give us a view into her very own Future Perfect. Only 1,500 copies were made, all of which are ad-free and hand numbered.”
Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
Criminal Class Review vol 4 #2 $15.00 – CCR searches for gritty, hard luck tales from all walks of life. This issue, guest editors identical twins Kent and Keith Zimmerman (who teach literary endeavors at prisons like San Quentin) curate this “Prison Issue.” And the cover is a beauty, designed by Chicago print artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
Despite Moments of Clarity There Is No -Ism In This Book: 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin (Laurence) $39.95
Lets Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars (Laurence) $19.95
General Idea Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz (Afterall) $16.00
Human Nature by Daikichi Amano (Bongout) $50.00 – This book makes me feel sort of throw-uppy but I can’t take my eyes off it, and I kind of want to own it. Marilyn Manson said it best: “Daikichi Amano’s art is a combination of Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau.” -LM
Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95FICTION!
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Welcome to Christopher Boucher’s zany literary universe, a place where metaphors shift beneath your feet, familiar words assume new meanings, objects talk, trees attack, and time actually is money. Modeled on the cult classic 1969 hippie handbook of the same name.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00
Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
Zero History by William Gibson (Berkley) $16.00 – Now in soft cover. From the author of Neuromancer.LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00 – Their quarterly concern.
N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95
Pageboy Magazine III 11 $10.00
Exact Change Only Sum 11 $10.00
Granta #116 Sum 11 Ten Years Later $16.99
So Sorry To See You Go by Carrie McGath $12.00
Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00DIY!
In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99 – rom the All-Ages Movement Project comes this fantastic guide to finding a space, apeasing the neighbors, raising money, and getting a scene off the ground. DIY or die!
Mission Street: Food Recipes and Ideas From an Improbably Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz (McSweeneys) $30.00
SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Gettin’ It On – Sexy Stoner Advice From Cannabis Columnist by Mamakind (Quick) $14.95
Cannabis Indica vol 1 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Greg Green (Green Candy) $20.00
Marijuana Recipes and Remedies for Healthy Living by Mary Jane Stawell (Ronin) $14.95
Baked: Over 50 Tasty Marijuana Treats by Yzbetta Sativa (Green Candy) $18.00
Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons Yakuza Skull and Bones Worlds Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds (Arcade) $14.95 – A smart and surprising behind-the-scenes exploration of the tales confirmed and fabricated that surround the best known and often least understood secret societies.
UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean and John Podesta (Three Rivers) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands For a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff with illustrations by Leland Purvis (Soft Skull) $14.95 – From the author of Media Virus, Coercion and Life Inc. Will the internet rule us? Or will we rule the internet? And which is better?
Fashion Cats: Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry. As originally featured in Vice Magazine.
Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00
Fxxxing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00
Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99MAGAZINES!
Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
Bitch #52 $5.95
Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99SEX & SEXY!
Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 $3.95
SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00OTHER STUFF!
Inherit 2012 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00 – Since we started getting Nikki McClure’s calendars in 2004 it’s been a bestseller. And when you see it, you’ll understand why.
Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame.
Annual Weekly Planner vol 6 (Little Otsu) $18.00 – 12 Months, 54 Weeks, undated.
2012 Space Garden Claendar by Apak (Little Otsu) $14.00Quimby’s Bookstore is located at:
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Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Cambodian Grrrl With Sara Drake 9/29
In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, the writer and independent publisher brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge.“1000000000000000% punk rock.” –The Jacksonville Public Library
“The best travel book I’ve read this year.” -USA Today
Moore is a columnist for Truthout, and has written for The Progressive, Bitch, Annalemma, Tin House, the Boston Phoenix, and The Onion. The former editor of Punk Planet and the Comics Journal, Moore received a Fulbright to continue her work in Cambodia in 2010, and recently held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her book Unmarketable was said to offer “something distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism: a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist culture” by the LA Times; deemed “a work of honesty and, yes, integrity” by Kirkus and called “sharp and valuable muckraking” by Time Out New York. It was also named a Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. See more at: anneelizabethmoore.com
Moore will be joined by Chicago cartoonist and writer Sara Drake, currently planning a comics project in Cambodia. Find out more here: http://iydcpc.wordpress.com
Thurs, Sep 29th, 7pm
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Weekly Top 10
1. SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
2. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00
3. McSweeneys #38 $18.00
4. The Lonely Hippopotomous by Leslie Perrine $2.00
5. Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $5.99
6. Yiddishkeit Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (Abrams) $29.95
7. Big Questions by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95
8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
9. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Briggs (Microcosm Publishing) $7.00
10. SPS #7 Sad People Sex by heather Benjamin $3.00
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Caroline Paquita of PEGACORN PRESS, reads and shows works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake
Caroline Paquita will be in Chicago to release the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year.
In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest- Edie Fake and Jo Dery. Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.” The result is a scintillating cornucopia of hilarity and social commentary, printed in an assortment of colored ink and paper-stock. Paquita’s yearly calendar features ”Womanimals” and other fanciful creatures gallivanting in jolly and curious environments. Wolves wearing wigs howl at the full moon, while tribes of Womanimals live in the trees with snakes and sloths- in 2012, anything is possible!
Also joining the bill is Edie Fake and Jo Dery. Both will be presenting work at this event, including some of Jo’s stunning animations.
Caroline Paquita is an artist/musician living and working out of Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown and distributed internationally and printed in such publications as Maximum Rock and Roll and Cometbus. A longtime creator of zines (Brazen Hussy, Zine Libs and most currently, WOMANIMALISTIC), a printmaker, and in general, a lover of all things made by hand, she began compiling heavy printing equipment in the hopes that one day she might begin a small publishing venture. PEGACORN PRESS is the result of this and her desire to create an environment where artists, particularly women and queers, are able to have the luxury to make work that will get printed and distributed to a larger audience. When she has spare time, she tends to her bees and hangs out with the chickens in her backyard.
Jo Dery is an artist who experiments with narrative form, using both traditional and new media. Her works include short films/videos, drawings, prints, illustration, installation, and artist/small-press book publications. Through the playful invention of characters and events, she investigates her relationship to the built environment, natural phenomena, history and current events, as well as aspects of cognition and consciousness. She currently lives in Chicago.Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He’s received a Critical Fierceness Grant for queer art and was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in Hot and Cold, Creative Time Comics, and LTTR. Gaylord is his first full-length book. Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books.
For more info:
http://pegacornpress.blogspot.com/
www.carolinepaquita.com
http://www.jodery.com/
http://vimeo.com/jodery
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Quimby's Podcast Episode #4 is up!
This episode features a discussion with Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior talking about Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries (Bazillion Points Publishers). Jon started it in Norway in 1985 and put out 20 issues over the span of 25 years. The zine covered a variety of extreme metal bands, including Emperor, Slayer, Kreator, Nihilist, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Cathedral, Entombed, Morbid, Napalm Death, and more. The Onion AV club called Slayer zine founder Jon Kristiansen “one of the best primary sources for facts and stories about Mayhem, Varg, and what really happened back in the day.” The Chicago Reader called this book “a chronicle of death and black metal at their births but also a personal coming-of-age story.” It’s an awesome 744 page hardcover with tons of pictures and reproduction pages from every issue, and there’s even material from the precursor Live Wire zine. It’s also part memoir. Co-editor Tara interviewed Jon all about his experiences with the zine, and then together they decided what to include.Yes, we have Metalion: The Slayer Mag at Quimby’s. It is $39.95. You can come and get in the store or order it here on line!
Jon and Tara were at Quimby’s for a Chicago release event for the book on 6/8/11. But we conducted this interview in our dark and creepy basement beforehand.
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The CWG Presents: Prompts/Prompted Here at Quimby's 9/23
The Creative Writing Guild presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper.
The Creative Writing Guild aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.
Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm
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New Stuff This Week
Human Nature by Daikichi Amano (Bongout) $50.00 – This book makes me feel sort of throw-uppy but I can’t take my eyes off it, and I kind of want to own it. Marilyn Manson said it best: “Daikichi Amano’s art is a combination of Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau.” -LM
ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
Xerography Debt #29 $3.00
My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00
Whore Eyes #4 by Jesse Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw. Comes with comes with Whore Eyes Comp Govmnt Acid compilation CD (Drippy Bone Books) $11.00
Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck-Ups Know-It-Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Who’s Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00 – Can I just say that this is on the cover?: “Fuck You Buy It It’s Cheap”? Is that reason enough? No? Maybe this will sell you on it if you know this next fact: One page has a picture of Emo Philips with a trombone around his neck and it says “I still believe Emo Philips is a genius.” What else do you need to know? -LM
Death Trip by Shalo P. and Peter Gray Hurley (Drippy Bone) $7.00
Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00COMICS & MINI COMIX!
In The Wake of Heroes #1 by Lee Kolinsky and Sham Arifin #3.50
Product of Society Aug 11 $3.99
Comics by Leda Zawacki: Fauna $3.00 and Puddles of Cute: A Comics Collection by $6.00 – Puddles reprints “Monster in the Mansion” from Goat Girl #1 plus 3 other stories: “Fireflies”, “Ladybird” and “Killer Whale People” drawn with a Nicole J. George-ish eye for the strangely cute. -EF
One Time Only by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – How do you sneak out from a shameful one night stand while the other person is asleep? What if they have really bad wall tapestries? Is hitting rock bottom both depressing and somewhat exciting because that makes you one step closer to resembling Vince Neil? Written by the hilarious Cassie J. Fine Fine Music Sneider and drawn by Nick Rhode. Um no, not Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. Just Nick Rhode. FYI. -LM
Cebolla Con Chocolate by Ines Estrada and Rodrigo Simancas (Cafe Con Leche) $8.00 – Absurd burds, wurds, turds and nurds! Inés’ drawings are brillbrilliant and Rodrigo’s writing is smartgood and it also features a lovely contraption from the future. In español.
Viisitoista Paivaa Meksikossa by Ines and Muura $8.00
Kim Gee Comics #4 by Kim Gee $5.00
Brendan Wells Presents: Mickey Comics #1 – Featuring the story Mouse Secrets by Walt Disney Jr. $2.00
Ring Wraiths at Home Xenia James O’Keefe $4.00 – New comic from the artist of Spider Who Had Arachnophopia of Patton Oswalt-Tweeting-about fame!GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (Abrams) $29.95
PS Magazine Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95
Blackjacked and Pistol Whipped Crime Does Not Pay Primer by Dennis Kitchen etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
Bouncer the One Armed Gunslinger by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Francois Boucq (Humanoids) $29.95
Okie Dokie Donuts Open For Business by Chris Eliopoulos (Top Shelf) $9.95
Male Call: Complete Newspaper Strips 1942-1946 Starring Miss Lane by Milton Caniff (Hermes) $39.99
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden (Vertigo) $19.99
Nogoodniks by Adrian Norvid (D&Q) $24.95
Malinky Robot Collected Stories and Other Bits by Sonny Liew (Image) $16.99
Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod (Top Shelf) $24.95ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Whole Car Poetry by Frank Veleno and Hepo (Whole Train) $29.95
Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
Twinkles by Miss Van (Drago) $50.00
Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
Art of Big City by Ragnar (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Book of Skulls by Faye Dowling (Laurence) $14.95LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Criminal Class Review vol 4 #2 $15.00 – CCR searches for gritty, hard luck tales from all walks of life. This issue, guest editors identical twins Kent and Keith Zimmerman (who teach literary endeavors at prisons like San Quentin) curate this “Prison Issue.” And the cover is a beauty, designed by Chicago print artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
Monday Night #10 vol 1: Journal of New Literature $5.00
Paper Darts vol 3: A Magazine of Lit and Art $14.00
Inhuman by Hillary Basile $1.00DIY!
Teeny Tiny Mochimochi by Anna Hrachovec (Potter Craft) $19.99 – More than 40 itty bitty minis to knit wear and give.MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Workin’ Mime to Five by Dick Richards (WriteBloody) $17.00 – Thoroughly silly!
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation by Trevor Norton (Pegasus) $24.95
Gris Grimlys Atrium Secretum: 13 Years of Hidden Truths (Baby Tattoo) $44.00
Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons Yakuza Skull and Bones Worlds Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds (Arcade) $14.95 – A smart and surprising behind-the-scenes exploration of the tales confirmed and fabricated that surround the best known and often least understood secret societies.
Who Am I?: And If So, How Many? by Richard David Precht (Spiegel & Grau) $16.00 – This book has been talked about as being a philosophical view on topics like morality, happiness, and the soul with insights gleamed from biology and the neurosciences. Sounds like an episode of Radiolab to me. -LMCHILDRENS BOOKS!
Pirate Penguin Vs Ninja Chicken Troublems With Frenemies by Ray Friesen (Top Shelf) $9.95POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad Tariq Ali (Verso) $12.95
True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School by Susan Gubar (Norton) $29.95
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00MAGAZINES!
Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
Flaunt #116 $10.95
Clutter #15 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99
Paper Sep 11 vol 28 #1 $4.00
Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
Tattoo Society #29 $7.99SEX & SEXY!
Inamorata: The Erotic Art of Michael Manning (Last Gasp) $24.95 – Finally back in print and available in soft cover.OTHER STUFF!
Inherit 2012 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00 – Since we started getting Nikki McClure’s calendars in 2004 it’s been a bestseller. And when you see it, you’ll understand why.
