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  • New Stuff, Including Our Website Update!

    Have you noticed some amazing changes on quimbys.com? No? Go to quimbys.com and hit your “refresh” button. Now do you see any changes? Think they look awesome? We do too. And there’s more to come. There will be kinks along the way as more changes go up. We hope you like it as much as we do!

    Also! For the second time in Quimby’s recorded history, someone bought $6.66 worth of merchandise. Here is what the number of the beast will buy you:

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    Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:

    ZINES!

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    Nnnnnnnnnn Yes vol 1 #1 $10.00 – A seven-person dispicable draw off hurtling our way from South Korea. Cut-ups, cut-opens, cut-outs, “we let our dicks and persnalities hang out.” Work by Jeff Conricode, Dillon Turner, Patrick Hansor, Morgan Dale Tepsic, Eli Taylor, Chris Elizondo, Jesse Douglas
    UndergroundUnderground by Scott and Jen Webel $10.00 – Published by Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, this zine is a lovingly illustrated catalogue of the Museum’s 2010 Underground exhibit, which takes the theme, as usual, to delightfully eccentric extremes. Practically perfect in every way, this concept allows for the full on display and linkage of Kidney Stones, Trilobytes and Blue Jeans From the Russian Black Market, as well as many more of your very favorite things. If you really want to rave in the cave, this zine pairs excellently with Underneath Providence and Muddy -EF

    Some Scraps #4 Always on Mine The Final Chapter by Jordan Rutherford $.99
    Sutdio Sweet Studio #1 by Tuesday Bassen $7.00
    Engines of Fortitude #1 by Moore Allen Keating and Bill Tucker $3.50

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    ydgtfh16You Don’t Get There From Here #16 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Daily diary comics in a Porcellin-ian vein, this issue is maybe both the wordiest issue and also the one with the most visual variations in style and content. McNinch faces numerous rattlesnakes and a mountain lion, goes to San Diego Comic Con and drinks well. Also, the accupuncture seems to be working, this issue’s a solid upper. -EF
    Devastator #1 by Geoffrey Golden (Devastator) $7.95
    Neonomicon #2 by Alan Moore etc. (Boom) $3.99
    My Life as a Smut Peddler #1 and #2 by E Charles Connell and Jim Kidonakis #1 is $2.00 and #2 is $3.00
    My Ghost Came As a Mexican by Jim Kidonakis $5.00
    Full On and Proper Sap Tastic Voyage by Jim Kidonakis $2.00
    Silk Lady Squirm Demon by Ryan Orlak and Jim Kidonakis $1.00
    Its Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Collection of Celebrity Studded Dreams by JT Yost (Birdcage) $4.00
    Pelage Fauve Tirage $5.00
    FsshmrwlFsshmrwl Baouarf by Simon Bossé $5.00 – The biggest little zine we’ve got! Each page is a shenanigan-fueled 3-layer silkscreen print from the Bébête-o-sphere. You really can’t go wrong with the Mille Putois. -EF
    Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EF

    Vortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
    Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Best American Comics 2010, ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, with guest editor Neil Gaiman (Houghton) $23.00
    Palookaville #20 by Seth (D&Q) $19.95 – Single issue in book form.
    Four Color Fear Forgotten: Horror Comics of the 1950s by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Fire and Water: Bill Everett The Sub Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Sanctuary by Nate Neal (Verso) $22.99
    14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai (Penguin) $15.00
    Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula BY Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Plume) $16.00
    Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman,Shaun Feltz, and Raighne Hogan $13.00
    Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett $10.00
    Bebete by Simon Bosse and Putois Mille $15.00
    Spirits of St. Louis: 13 Tales of Terror From the Gateway City $9.99
    Walking Dead: The Covers by Krikman, etc. (Image) $24.99
    De Tales: Stories From Urban Brazil by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Digested #2 by Bobby N. $9.95
    Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 7: Twilight by var. (Dark Horse) $16.99
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 3 HC by Philip K Dick etc. (Boom) $24.99
    Bear Nuts vol 1: The Book of Prozac by Alison Action (DMF) $18.99

    FICTION!
    What Is All This: Uncollected Stories HC by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton) $13.95
    The Bicycle Diaries SC by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00
    To Slow Down The Time Stories by Matthew Allard and Ian Dingman $20.00
    Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Otherworld) $14.95 – Come see Richard Thomas read from this disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty at Quimbys on Sat, Oct 16th, with Otherworld authors including Laura Griffith, David Rosenstein and Nik Korpon.
     Remember by Lynn Griffith (Otherworld) $14.95
    Price of Life by Greg McCarty (Otherworld) $19.95
    Silk Worm by David Rosenstein (Otherworld) $14.95
    Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate (Seven Stories) $13.95
    Entangled the Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock (Disinfo) $16.95
    Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Small Beer Press) $16.00
    My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me – Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) $17.00 – With stories from Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson and more.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Roosevelt by Jose Roosevelt (Fantasmus) $59.95
    Art Toys by Brian McCarty (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
    Rubber Duck by Karen Hsiao (Baby Tattoo) $35.00
    Quadrant Fantasy (Fantasmus)$19.95
    Tokyo Underground 2: Toy and Design Culture in Tokyo by var. (Super 7) $19.95
    cover_gulagDrawings From The Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (Fuel) $32.95 – Brutal. Completely brutal.
    Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse (Abrams) $19.95
    Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio (Rizzoli) $35.00
    Muralismo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism In Contemporary Urban Art (From Here) $34.95
    SABE: Fys Crew by Sabe (From Here) $14.95
    Ghost: Ris Crew by Ghost (From Here) $14.95
    Jepsy: The Real Deal by Jepsy (From Here) $14.95
    Sten and Lex (Drago) $33.00
    Wizards and Dragons Tattoo Flash CD Rom and Book Electronic Clip Art (Dover) $19.95 – 119 Royalty Free Designs
    Classic Tattoo Designs CD Rom and Book Full Color Electronic Designs (Dover) $19.95 – 230 Royalty Free Designs, in Color and Black and White for Mac and Windows

    MAGAZINES!
    Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
    ArtForum Oct 10 $10.00
    High Times Dec 10 $5.99
    BlackBook #79 Oct 10 $4.50
    Fader #70 Oct Nov 10 $5.99
    Mojo #204 Nov 10 $9.99


    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 10 $10.00
    Creative Nonfiction #39 Fall 10 $10.00
    The Believer #75 Oct 10 $8.00
    Effigy #8 by Matt Whispers $4.00
    The Toucan #8 Fall 2010 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00

    CHILDRENS!
    Mud Pies and Other Recipes by var. (NYRB) $14.95
    Alternative ABCs by 13thfloor (Ammo) $14.95
    Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative Kid (From Here) $8.95


    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
    Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Knopf) $26.95
    Occult America: White House, Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic by Hitch Horowitz (Bantam) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    World Gnosis the Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95


    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Funk and Soul Covers by Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99 – As in album covers. Not like a book of pictures of people covering funk and soul songs. Which would be hilarious.
    Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths by Simon Goddard (Plume) $30.00
    Bowie, A Biography by Marc Spitz (Three Rivers) $17.00 – In soft cover.
    Touchable Sound A Collection of 7 Inch Records From the USA by var. (Sound Screen) $45.00
    American Hardcore: A Tribal History Second Edition by Steven Blush (Feral House) $22.95 – Don’t miss Stephen Blush here at Quimby’s on Dec 3rd. Stay tuned for more details!
    Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You & Your Grandma Can Understand (Abrams) $12.95

    HUMOR!
    100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00

    MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
    Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
    Animalisticus Fantasticus: 600 Amazing and True Facts About Animals (Nicotext) $9.95
    Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams by var. (Coffee House) $22.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Freefall America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Jospeh E Stiglitz (Norton) $16.95 – now in soft cover.
    The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali (Verso) $16.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    sth67Straight To Hell #67 by Billy Miller $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me. -EF
    Private 1980 to 1989 Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine (Taschen) $39.99 – 5 volume box set collection.
    Kinky Nature (Goliath) $24.95
    Pissy Pussy Girls by Gordon Denman (Adventures Unlimited) $59.00
    50 Years of the Playboy Bunny by Hugh M. Hefner etc. (Chronicle) $35.00
    Coley – Eros vol 40: Running Wild Book 3 Hard Throb (Eros) $19.95

    Other Stuff!
    Grime Time Keychain Bottle Opener $1.50
    Funkyfonic Cassette Tape Speaker $15.00
    Uncle Archies Box O’Fun $13.00 – 25 Fabulous Prizes in Each Box!
    Smells Like Teen Spirit 7 inch by Woody Sullender (Dead CEO) $6.00 – This clear 7″ lathe-cut record, pressed as part of a limited edition series of only 100, was cut one at a time by Peter King in New Zealand. It contains “erased” versions of two Nirvana songs, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Polly.” Both songs were run through a series of band-pass filters, which removes most of the frequency spectrum from an audio recording. “Polly” was erased based on the principle melody of the classic murder ballad.

  • 2011: The Revenge of Print

    Revenge of PrintWe’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).

    So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.

    Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.

    Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.

  • THE EXQUISITE BOOK Authors and Contributors at Quimby's on 11/5!

    EXQUISITE CORPSE [also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse] is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds a composition in sequence…

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    THE EXQUISITE BOOK

    100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game

    By Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe

    THE EXQUISITE BOOK reinvents the classic surrealist drawing game The Exquisite Corpse for a new artistic generation. In these pages, one-hundred of today’s hottest indie artists each adorn a single page with brand new work, having only seen the page of the artist immediately prior. Each of the book’s ten chapters resides on a ten-page according fold-out that lets you enjoy the artwork in an interconnected stream, as it was originally created by the artists themselves. It includes work from contemporary illustrators, indie artists, and cutting-edge creates such as David Shrigley, Jill Bliss, Jordan Crane and more.

    About the Authors: Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe are partners in Also Design, a design firm based out of Chicago and New York that has won several awards, including the ADC Young Guns award. Julia is author of the popular blog BookByItsCover.com, which showcases the design and layout of obscure books.

    So far the artists who will be in attendance at this event will be the authors, Anders Nilsen, Lillie Carre, Paul Hornschemeier, Isaac Tobin, Lauren Nassef and Susie Ghahremani.

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  • Charles Burns Discusses X'ed Out At Quimby's on 11/3!

    From Charles Burns, the creator of Black Hole, comes X’ED OUT, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.

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    Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow. What’s going on? To say any more would spoil the freaky, Burnsian fun, especially because X’ED OUT, unlike Black Hole, has not been previously serialized, and every unnervingly meticulous panel will be more tantalizing than the last. Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Hergé and William Burroughs, Charles Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream—and a comic-book masterpiece.

    Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, with an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992, he designed the set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He has illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003.

    “A haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder…Masterful…it will leave you begging for the rest of the story.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

    “Like an apocalyptic hallucination…the visionary artistry of Burns exists beyond the bounds of time and constraints of conventional narrative.” –Kirkus starred review

    “Long awaited first chapter in what promises to be a trippy, wildly experimental and typically disquieting epic.” –NPR.org

    “Anything by comics master Burns is a big event and this is no exception.”—Comics Beat

    For more info: www.pantheonbooks.com

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Peters Muscle by Michael DeForge $1.00
    2. Believer #74 Sep 10 $8.00
    3. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
    4. Giant Robot #67 $4.99
    5. Bicycle Diaries (soft cover) by David Byrne (Penguin)
    6. Beautiful Decay Book 4 Exquisite Corpse $20.00 – The Beautiful/Decay takes on the human body, in all its swollen blood-filled suck-sack glory. Local Swamplord Rachel Niffenegger has a throbbing, gristly portfolio in here that pretty much qualifies as a biohazard, and there’s some nice work from paper-powered Karen Sargysan and some of those hypnotic Leigh Bowery manuevers Nick Cave’s been pulling these days.

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    7. Doris #15 DIY Antidepression Guide by Cindy Crabb $2.00
    8. Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95
    9. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00
    10. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!
    zineworld29Zine World – A Readers Guide to the Underground #29 $4.00 – All the news about all the news fit to print with a copy scam.-EF
    Judas Goat Quarterly #47 Fall 10 $1.50
    Turbochainsaw #5 Parental Advisory $7.50
    Underneath Providence Findings So Far by Alex Lukas (CANTAB Free News Projects) $4.00
    May Lay #2 (CANTAB Free News Projects) $10.00
    Your Guide to the Patron Saints of Regret by Michael Whittier and Carolee Gillian Wheeler $5.00 – Saint Elspeth of the Remnant: Patroness of Ill-Chosen Relationships? Saint Bob the Reluctant: Patron of Introverts? Saint Tammy of Memphis: Patron of Unfortunate Hair Appointments? I tell you, it’s saints like these that really make me question papal infallibility. Sewn binding with magnifying glass and embossed ink cover -EF
    You Are Here by Carolee Gillian Wheeler, Maureen Forys, Michael Whittier and more $5.00
    Artyfucked #7 Heft 2 $9.00
    cowansgap2Cowans Gap #2 Sep 10 by Nate East $4.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    John Porcellino pack of King Cat Sketchbook Postcards $3.00
    Adventures of Miss Girl Comic by Jeffrey Brown and Joe Lewis $3.00 – We have both the DVD and the comic, or you can buy the DVD that has the comic!

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    RIP MD by var. (Fantagraphics) $12.99
    Make Me A Woman by Vanessa Davis (D+Q) $24.95
    You’ll Never Know. A Graphic Memoir: Book Two Collateral Damage by C Tyler (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Swedish Comics History by Fredrik Stromberg (Swedish Comics Asociation) $19.95
    Ultimate Iron Man: Armor Wars TPB by Warren Ellis and Steve Kurth (Marvel) $14.99
    Howl – A Graphic Novel by Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker (Harper) $19.99 – Including Art From the Major Motion Picture
    Barney Google – Gambling, Horse Racing, and High Toned Women by Billy DeBeck and Craig Yoe (IDW) $39.99

    FICTION!
    Bummer and Other Stories by Janice Shapiro (Soft Skull) $14.95

    STEAMPUNK!
    The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot) $7.99
    The Clockwork Man by William Jablonsky (Medallion) $14.95
    Dreadnaught by Cherie Priest (Tor) $14.99 – A follow up to the book Boneshaker.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Beautiful Decay Book 4: Exquisite Corpse $20.00
    Lincoln In 3D: Amazing and Rare Stereoscopic Photographs of His life and Times by var. (Chronicle) $35.00 – Comes with the glasses for the full experience.
    Thinking With Type: Critical Guide For Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students, A Design Handbook, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded by Ellen Lupton (PAP) $24.95

    DIY & CONSUMPTION (Um, Consumption As In Food and Drugs)
    Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Forgotten Remedies and Recipes by var. (Pavilion) $29.95
    Absinthe Cocktails: 50 Ways to Mix With the Green Fairy by var. (Chronicle) $19.95
    Larvets Original Worm Snax $2.50 – Yes, theyre edible! In multiple flavors including Cheddar Cheese, BBQ, and Mexican Spice. Impress your friends with your bravery.
    Crickettes Snax $2.50 – Also edible! In Sour Cream and Onion, Bacon and Cheese, and Salt N’ Vinegar. Delish!
    Drink Deck Playing Cards – The Bar Enthusiasts Travel Guide to Chicago $30.00

    MAGAZINES!
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #3 $6.25
    Klack vol 2 $15.50
    3×3 #15 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $16.00
    Tattoo Revue #149 $6.99
    Skeptic vol 16 #1 $6.95
    Sovereign #16 Oct 10 $3.95
    Taps ParaMagazine vol 6 #5 $5.95
    Buds and Babes #4 $7.99
    Skateboard Mag #80 $3.99
    Shindig vol 2 #18 Sep Oct 10 $9.99
    Wax Poetics #43 Sep Oct 10 $9.99
    Z Magazine Oct 10 $4.95
    Progressive Oct 10 $4.95
    Amass #37 $4.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Bunk Rhymes Over Patterned Happenstance by Macallister Armstrong $2.00
    Redivider vol 7 #2 $6.00
    Granta #112 Fall 10 Pakistan $16.99
    Bomb #113 Fall 10 $7.99
    Slice Fall 10 Win 11 #7 Villains $8.00

    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
    Comfort and Critique by Peter Sotos $12.00
    Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD, and The Politics of Ecstasy by Mark Christensen (Schaffner) $26.95
    Worlds Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You by James Marrison (JB) $12.95
    Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Jeff Coen (Medallion) $16.95
    Real Monsters: Gruesome Critters and Beasts From the Darkside by Brad Steiger (Visible Ink) $19.95
    Witches Almanac #30 Spr 2011 to Spr 2012 $11.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Listen To This by Alex Ross (Tor) $27.00 – Alex Ross as in the music critic at The New Yorker who wrote The Rest Is Noise. Not the comics artist, geek.
    GirlsFrontGirls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (Harper) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s to talk about her book on Sat Oct 23rd, 7pm with Jessica Hopper, author of The Girls Guide to Rocking.
    Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials by Neville Staple and Tony McMahon (Aurum) $16.95 – Autobio from the singer from The Specials offers his inside take on the 2 Tone era, his experiences producing such bands as No Doubt and Rancid, and the current Specials reunion.
    Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla by way of the Copacabana, Madison Avenue, The Fillmore East, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and the Police by Cherry Vanilla (Chicago Review) $24.95

    MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
    Reality Bites: Back The Troubeling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer L. Pozner (Seal) $16.95
    They Live by Jonathan Lethem (Soft Skull) $13.95 – Yes, about the movie. And yes, that same Jonathan Lethem.
    Pocket Book of Boosh by Dave Brown (Canongate) $19.95
    Adderall Diaries – A Memoir by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (SMP) $15.99
    When Miners March: The Story of Coal Miners In West Virgina by var. (PM) $21.95
    Creating a Movement With Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade by Daniel Burton Rose and Ward Churchhill (PM) $24.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Urban Girls by Howard Huang and Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Sexy ladies.
    Kustom Graphics II: Hot Rods, Burlesque, Rock N Roll by Yahya Eldroubie (Korero) $44.95
    Dear John I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men For Women by var. (Seal) $16.95
    Front #146 Sep 10 $9.99

    Click here for new stuff quimbys.com since last week.

  • Work In Progress October Meeting

    Work In Progress is our social gathering on the last Wednesday of every month. Bring what you’re working on to fiddle around with, and if you need help from somebody, give a holler and maybe somebody’s got some helpful info. Or maybe you can help somebody else with imput if you’ve got it. Or just come and hang out and meet folks. Past folks have been comics artists, zinesters, poets and screenplay writers. Or maybe you want to meet somebody who can skill share with you. Or maybe you’re good at giving advice. We’ll provide the snacks.

  • Carol Novack, Joseph Suglia, Garrett Cook and Eckhard Gerdes

    Eckhard Gerdes’s new 2-in-1 book of novels is “The Unwelcome Guest” plus “Nin and Nan” and is published by Enigmatic Ink (http://enigmaticink.com/) and Carol Novack’s collection of stories “Giraffes in Hiding” is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press (http://carolnovack.blogspot.com/). Garrett Cook is the author of “Jimmy Plush, Bear Detective,” published by Eraserhead Books (see http://jimmyplush.blogspot.com/). For info about Joseph Suglia, see josephsuglia.com.

    Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, an occasional publication dedicated to the furthering of forefront fiction. He has published criticism in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Review of Books, Electronic Book Review, and other magazines. His fiction has appeared in Fiction International, Notre Dame Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, Coe Review, Oyez Review, Rampike, and in many other fine magazines and journals. Gerdes’s previoius novel, My Landlady the Lobotomist, was a top five finisher in the 2009 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll and was nominated for the 2009 Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel of the Year. His The Million-Year Centipede was selected as one of the top ten mainstream novels of 2007 in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll and was nominated for the 2008 Wonderland Award. He has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award for excerpts from Przewalski’s Horse, has also been a finalist for both the Starcherone and the Blatt fiction prizes for his unpublished manuscript White Bungalows, and for Cistern Tawdry he was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Fiction Category. He lives near Chicago and has three sons, to whom this new book is proudly dedicated.

    Carol Novack is the former recipient of a writer’s award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in NYC, and the publisher of Mad Hatters’ Review http://www.madhattersreview.com/. She immigrated to a mountain ridge in Asheville in May, and will be launching her collection of fictions, fusions, and poems, “Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack” (Spuyten Duyvil Press), due to emerge this October. Works may or will be found in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Literature, LIT, Notre Dame Review, and Otoliths, and in many anthologies, including “The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets,” “Diagram III,” and “The &Now Awards: the Best Innovative Writing.” Writings in translations may or will be found in French, Italian, and Romanian journals.  See her blog http://carolnovack.blogspot.com/

    Garrett Cook, a 27-year-old author of horror and Bizarro fiction, is the winner of the First Annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. He has four exciting pulp novellas in print, including the first two books in his infamous and destined-to-be cult classic trilogy Murderland.

    Joseph Suglia earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. His other books include Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice, Years of Rage, and the first edition of Watch Out . What will become of him is anyone s guess. In Suglia’s Watch Out, Jonathan Barrows is a perfect being. He’s arrogant, defines pompous and is arguably the first human to benefit from Body Deity Morphia (confidences that oneself has a Godly physical existence). Knowing JB is like kissing your lover on the lips and tasting your own sexual flavors. Familiar, exotic and taboo.

  • Pawn Works Sticker Machine Debuts at Quimby's!

    Nicholas Marzullo, owner of the West Side’s Pawn Works gallery and creator of the Pawn Works Sticker Club with New York based partner Seth Mooney, have developed an artist network program using sticker vending machines as the conduit. “We align the images we select with our own history as lifelong street- and graffiti-art aficionados,” he says. ” We believe the sticker is true to the accessibility and visceral nature of street/low-brow art. While it appeals to an age submerged in kitsch, the medium and the vending machines offer ways to deconstruct our childhoods and make the art of established artists from around the world accessible in a cool, cheap way.”

    Just a few of the artists participating include: C215, a prolific Paris-based stencil artist and muralist whose splashes of color and meticulous representation of social outcasts, British luminary Eelus, whose dark sense of humor and surreal images bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Banksy, Chicago’s Joe Padilla, as well as The Grocer, who is an an enigmatic street artist with his bold images of, appropriately enough, produce, help make the city Chicago an even bigger component to the project.

    Machines can also be found in various venues in New York City such as Brooklynite Gallery.

    For more info: www.pawnworkschicago.com

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  • Van Gogh's Ear volume 7 Release Event

    VGE1.7International prose & poetry anthology series VAN GOGH’S EAR will hold an event to celebrate the launch of its SEVENTH volume. Van Gogh’s Ear is a joint publication of French Connection Press (Paris) and Committee On Poetry (New York), a non-profit organization created by Allen Ginsberg.

    Van Gogh’s Ear is among the most popular of international books in the field of creative writing at the moment and is also an affluent resource for teachers and a library basic. Since its début in 2002, Van Gogh’s Ear has gained international acclaim for its original work by more than eighty celebrated and emerging talents per volume including Yoko Ono, James Dean; Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Charles Manson, Xaviera Hollander, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Taslima Nasrin, Carolyn and Neal Cassady.

    The event will be hosted by four local Chicago readers and contributors of Van Gogh’s Ear: Marc Smith, Carlos T. Mock, Larry Sawyer, Joel Craig, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, and Larry Sawyer.

    Volume 7 includes work by Jorge Artajo, Camille Feinberg, Fern C.Z. Carr, Saint James Harris Wood, Imani Tolliver, Reginald T. Jackson, Jayanta Mahapatra and many more!

    For more info: www.frenchcx.com