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  • Daniel Nester Showed Quimby's How To Be Inappropriate

    As if we needed to know how! HAR!

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  • Oyez Review #37 Launch Reading

    Oyez #37
    Oyez #37

    A new year, a new Oyez Review and the best issue yet. The submissions have been through the editorial gauntlet, fire-proofed, crash-tested, and are now ready for readers’ consumption. Contained between these eighty-eight pages are twenty-two inspired pieces of poetry, four ripping short stories, one moving non-fiction narrative, and ten luminous photos on which to fix your gaze.

    Oyez Review staffers and visiting authors will read from selected works. Authors for Oyez Review Volume 37, Spring 2010 include Ace Boggess, Brad Buchannan John F. Buckley, Meghan Cadwallader, Lydia Cesarz, Joanne Riley Clarkson, Okla Elliott, Robert Haynes, David James, Susan Johnson, Don Peteroy, Linda Scotto, Susan Slaviero, Joseph A. Soldati, John Surowiecki, Richard G. Sweitzer III, Mark Taksa, Suellen Wedmore, Alexander York, and photography by Prin X. Amorapanth.

    Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University. It is published annually, edited by an all-student staff under the direction of Professor Janet Wondra. Founded in 1965, Oyez Review has featured work from such writers as Charles Bukowski, James McManus, Carla Panciera, Michael Onofrey, Tim Foley, John N. Miller, Gary Fincke, and Barry Silesky, and visual artists Vivian Nunley, C. Taylor, Jennifer Troyer, and Frank Spidale.
    For more info: http://legacy.roosevelt.edu/oyezreview/

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  • Help fund publishing Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait

    Ya’ll should join us backing this part of the zine canon, yo! They need the dough so they can make it happen.

    Help fund publishing Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait
    Chloe Eudaly is raising funds for Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait on Kickstarter! Beloved by artists, crafters and designers alike, Crap Hound is a great resource and a work of art in and of itself. Come on pledgers, help publish! But do it quickly! This project will only be funded if at least $12,500 is pledged by Feb 12, 11:59pm EST.

  • Introducing Quimby's Subscription Service

    psytransHey! We’re excited to announce we’ve started a subscription service here for our customers. If you sign up for this free service, you’ll be notified when the latest issue of your favorite magazine, comic or zine comes in. We’ll hold the item for you, and you can come and pick it up, without the fear that it’ll sell out before you know it’s out.

    We’ve put just short of 50 titles on our subscription menu. These titles reflect the unique selection Quimby’s has to offer, including Big Questions, McSweeney’s, the Baffler, Conspiracy Journal, Butt and Burn Collector.

    So what are you waiting for?! Come by and check out our subscription service! It’s totally awesome.

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  • Top 10 This Week

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    1. The Baffler vol 2 #1 #12.00

    2. Juxtapoz #109 Feb 10 $5.99

    3. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

    4. Ready Made #45 Feb Mar 10 $4.99

    5. Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

    6. Loop Distro Grab Bag $3.00

    7. Bust Feb Mar 10 $4.99

    8. Maximumrocknroll #321 Feb 10 $4.00

    9. Subvert Reality by Dan Gleason $2.00

    10. The Soup and Bread Cookbook by Martha Bayne, Shelia Sachs and Paul Dolan $20.00

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  • New Stuff This Week

    Sneeze #6
    Sneeze #6

    Zines
    Sneeze #6: Wheres Waldo Nag Champa Agarbatti Satya Sai Baba Srinivas Sugandhalaya $4.00
    Lower East Side Librarian Shout Out 2009 by Jenna Freedman $2.00 – Radical Librarians: Gotta Love ‘Em!
    Bourbondandy #1 win 09: Reading Is Associated With Severe Forms of Cancer $5.00
    Untitled SCP005 Photo Zine by Martin Samson Ellery Widener $5.00
    Never Not Knowing: Feeling of 2008 by Jesse Hlebo $5.00
    Underscore Quarterly Isues #1-#4 $5.00 each
    New Rites: Drawings by Terence Hannum $5.00
    It Is Fun to Be Naked by Rachel Gontijo de Araujo $3.00
    BTFA #1 Cruising Notes 2008 $5.00 – BTFA is designation for Butch Top Fuck Anywhere, and so starts this Straight-To-Hell style anonymous homo sex rag.
    Maximumrocknroll #321 Feb 10 $4.00

    Comics/Comix/Mini-Comics
    RASL #6 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
    Smoo Comics #2 by M. Simon $3.00
    Wonder Wear #4 by Douglas Nelson
    How to Survive Working in Retail by Ronnie Gorham, Lissandro Di Psquale, and Markell Wilson (Three Guys Making Comics) $2.00

    Graphic Novels
    Hotwire Comics #3 (Fantagraphics) $22.99
    Rose TPB by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $19.95 – The prequel to the Bone series.
    Wonderful Wizard of Oz comic HC by Baum, Shanower and Young (Marvel) $29.99
    Pride and Prejudice Comic HC by Jane Austen, Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus (Marvel) $19.99
    Dresden Files HC Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf (Del Ray) $19.95

    Essays, Muckraking and Revolution
    500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill (PM Press) $10.00
    Remnants: 21 Undeniable Accounts of Life as we Know It, A Collection, by Christopher Guiterrez etc. $15.00
    Bakunin, The Creative Passion: A Biography by Mark Leier (Seven Stories Press) $17.95
    SNCC The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn (South End Press) $17.00
    War Before the True Life: The Story of Becomning a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith In Prison, and Fighting For Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari and Laura Whitehorn (Feminist Press) $15.95

    Mags’n’Lit Journals
    Giant Robot #63 $4.99
    Wallpaper Feb 10 $9.50
    Creative Review Jan 10 $14.99
    Baby Baby Baby #11 Fall Win 09 $15.00
    Mojo Feb 10 #195 $9.99
    Make vol 21 $14.99
    Sovereign #8 Feb 10 $3.95
    Bust Feb Mar 10 $4.99
    Ready Made #45 Feb Mar 10 $4.99
    Black Velvet #63 $6.25
    UFO Magazine #152 vol 23 #11 $5.99
    Harpers Magazine Feb 10 $6.95
    Radical History Review Win 10 $14.00
    Dissent Win 10 $10.00
    Tattoo Scout #15 $8.00
    Monkey Puzzle #8 Win 10 $12.95
    Internationalist #30 Nov Dec 09 $2.00
    One Night Only #1 Audio: Arts and Literature Magazine $10.00

    DIY
    Alchemy Arts: Recycling Is Chic by Kate MacKay and Di Jennings (Marion Boyers) $22.00
    Sew Liberated 20 Stylish Projects For the Modern Sewist by Meg McElwee (Interweave) $24.95

    Mayhem
    Life Under the Jolly Roger Reflections of Golden Age of Piracy by G. Kuhn (PM Press) $20.00

    Apocalypse Cakes 10-Card Recipe Card Set
    Apocalypse Cakes 10-Card Recipe Card Set

    Apocalypse Cakes Recipe Cards by Shannon OMalley $18.00 – Who has time to bake when the shit hits the fan? You do, with this handy desert card file! The attractive set features 10 mouthwatering recipes for disaster. Consider it the icing on your world’s-been-turned-upside-down cake. Set of 10, 4″x5.5″ cards, color. Sepia-toned!

    Fiction/Poetry
    Lives Less Valuable by Derrick Jensen (PM Press) $18.00
    Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Alyson) $14.95
    Persistent Voices Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS by Philip Clark and David Groff (Alyson) $15.95
    Searching for Suzi A Flash Novel by Nancy Stohlman (Monkey Puzzle Press) $11.95

    Arty Farty
    Spectrum 5 the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner etc. (Underwood) $27.95
    Generation 1.5 by Tom Finkelpearl etc. (Queens Museum of Art New York) $24.95
    Totalities Sept 4 to Oct 18 2008 Can You See My Totality by Chris Johnson (Deitch) $45.00

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