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  • Jeff Phillips Reads From Whiskey Pike: A Bedtime Story for the Drinking Mankind

    Much as a child draws a picture of a favorite animal, Jeff Phillips has attempted to do something similar with a favorite beverage. It is illustrated in the fashion of a child’s bedtime story book. Only this story book delves into adult themes of corruption and takes us into the land of the source of an intoxicating ingredient, offering a bedtime story not for the dozing child but the soul of a somewhat hardened drinking type. Shane Bowermaster reaps the land and sells his crop of barley to sustain the family pastime and habit; whiskey. Inspired to try his hand at brewing the beverage of choice, a new trade consumes the Bowermaster family, leading them down a path toward one wild and wicked toast.

    “Through the construction of what may be called a bedtime story, Phillips extends a hand to the drunkard and by extension, to the modern reader who looks to fiction to fill up the emotional gaps left barren by historical platitude. So Phillips imbues his text with details from an alternate history, leaping ideas of the type told by a drunken dreamer who truly believes he is awake—“I can drive! I can drive!”—; so he does drive, forward and quick, passing through a national landscape so defined and attentive that the reader instantly recognizes the semi-soft surprise of an erection unexpectedly pushing against the base of a wooden dinner table in full use and spread. However, this same reader cannot identify the story’s setting or time period—1890s? 1970s?—unless hard pressed and squeezed. This is an unusual thing. Let it be known: “Whiskey Pike” is the intoxicating mixture of a young man under many influences.” – James N. Kienitz Wilkins, director of Nature Mature and Public Hearing.

    For more info: http://www.whiskeypike.com

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  • Scott Inguito and Sandra Lim Read

    Visiting from San Francisco, poet and artist Scott Inguito will read from two poetry chapbooks along with Sandra Lim, who will read from her first book, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press).

    Scott Inguito is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His chapbook, Dear Jack, is out from Momotombo Press, and his latest chapbook, The Vernacular Sounds of Dog Noise, a collection of woofs, barks and yelps written in Mexico in January 2008, is something he is working on. His poems have appeared in Shampoo, Fence, and 1913: a journal of forms. His collage-play “Trying to Create Intimacy with a Narcissist” was performed at California College of Art, San Francisco, for Small Press Traffic, in December 2008. Scott lives in San Francisco. His paintings and pictures from his play can be seen at scottinguito.com.

    Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Stanford University, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals including Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and ZYZZYVA. Her book of poems, Loveliest Grotesque (2006), won the Kore Press First Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. She is currently the Elma Stuckey Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College in Chicago.

  • Brett Eugene Ralph and Steve Albini Read

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    Brett Eugene Ralph, whom Harmony Korine calls “a true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare” and whose work has been described by Will Oldham as “an excuse for hope . . . sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing” will read at Quimby’s from his book Black Sabbatical. When asked about his influences, Brett Eugene Ralph points to three enduring sources: growing up Southern working class in the 1970s and 80s, playing in punk rock bands, and practicing Tibetan Buddhism. Not a likely combination for a poet, perhaps, but one that has brought forth Black Sabbatical, a debut collection that sings with gutbucket colloquialisms, hallucinatory interludes, and the storytelling tradition of Kentucky. Riled and immediate, the voice that booms from Black Sabbatical is of a seeker tearing the place apart, unafraid to see things for himself, to sing what he has seen, or to say what the long road that led here has cost him.

    “[Brett Eugene Ralph is] a poet as honest and a debut collection as consistently strong as anything else currently out there.”
    -Michael O. Mayberry, Alabama Writers’ Forum

    Southern gothic meets alt-country twang, and rural hardship meets terse postpunk sophistication [as] Ralph’s troubled characters and dissonant outbursts evoke a self-destructive youth: “It’s like somebody choking on a car horn,” one poem ends, “or something metal being born.” Ralph’s rough free verse recalls the deep Ozark surrealism of Frank Stanford and the early poems of Denis Johnson, though neither precursor takes on quite the same blend of upper South present and past.” –Publishers Weekly

    For more info: http://www.sarabandebooks.org

    Also joining the bill is Chicago producer and musician Steve Albini, who will read some short fiction. He’s been writing short fiction for years. Did you know that?

  • Top 10 Last Week

    This is the Quimby’s Top 10 for the week of 8/16/09-8/22/09

    1. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $5.95
    2. Stop Smiling #38 $6.99
    3. Everything Is Terrible DVD $20.00
    4. Big Questions #6 Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany by Anders Nilsen $6.00
    5. Cabinet #34 Testing $12.00
    6. Clothesdick vol 2 #3 $3.00
    7. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
    8. Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75
    9. Mixed Reviews by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
    10.  Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth TPB by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $19.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Fifth Estate vol 44 #2 #381 Sum Fall 09 $4.00

    Id Start a Revolution But I Dont Have Time $1.00

    Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 $3.00

    Ellis Island vol #1 to vol 4 #12 by Robert Viscusi $15.00

    Chris Ware Paper Musician by Edward Choy Moormin $1.00

    Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by S. Green and R. Valencia (Cleis) $14.95

    Rasskazy New Fiction From a New Russia edited by M. Lossel and J. Parker (TinHouse) $18.95

    Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler (Featherproof) $14.95

    Tiki Magazine Vol 5 #2 Sum 09 $4.99

    Maximumrocknroll #316 $4.00

    Geek Monthly #31 Sep 09 $5.99

    Hip Hop History Flocabulary Study Guides by B. Harrison and A. Rappaport (Cider Mill) $18.95 – With CD!!

    Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects Magical Worlds (Cider Mill) $24.95

    AD New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon) $24.95

    Housewives At Play TPB Working Moms by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95

    Collected Essex County TPB by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $29.95

    Direct Action An Ethnography by D. Graeber (AK) $25.95

    Rogue Economics by L. Napoleni (Seven Stories) $16.95

    From CBGB To The Roundhouse: Music Venues Through The Years by T. Burrows (Marrion)

    Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox (AK) $17.95

    Whos To Say Whats Obscene by Paul Krassner (Citylights) $16.95

    Out Of Exile: Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan by C. Walzer (McSweeneys) $16.00

    Sex World by Dan Gleason $2.00 – All you want it to be and more from a local weirdo fave.

    Graffiti World Updated Edition by N. Ganz (Abrams) $35.00

    Indie Rock Coloring Book by the Yellow Bird Project (Chronicle) $9.95

    Jeffrey Brown Cat Journal (Chronicle) $9.95 – For your own work, with some of his. See it to believe it.

    Toon Treasury Of Classic Childrens Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (Abrams) $40.00

    Lotsa new moleskines!

    Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #2 $3.99 – A comic of the original Philip K. Dick story that inspired Bladerunner. Now with extra material!

    Noise Vs Subversive Computing: Computationally Infeasible Records 001 The Flash Drive Versus $20.00 – Ummmmm, a flash drive zine!

    Monsters In Love #1 by Phil Forsyth $1.25 – Great mini comic!

    How I Fell In Love With Punk Rock by Duncan Wilder Johnson $4.00

    One Hit Wonder Collection $2.00 – the zine for you.

    Reality Mom Vol 6 #3 Sum Fall 09 $3.00

    Women In Hats by Richard C. Miller $25.00 – Some crazy photo work. For real? Guess you’ll have to see it!

    Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95

    History of German Porn: From the Gretchen Kraut Collection (Goliath) $29.95

    Best Buy Comics by R. Crumb $2.50 – Unearthed and waiting to be taken home with you for sweet lovin’.

    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00 – Now in soft cover. A meditiation on running and creativity.

    Inner Swine vol 15 #2 $2.

    My Secret Cockupation #2: Private Journals Of A Prostitute by Lil Princess, Hugo and Robin Bougie – $4.00

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  • Top 10 For Last Week

    1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
    2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00
    3. Adbusters #85 $8.95
    4. Journalsong #6 $2.50
    5. Trubble Club vol 1 $3.00
    6. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
    7. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Otsu) $12.95
    8. FOUND #6 $5.00
    9. Wax Poetics #36 $9.99
    10. Trubble Club vol 2 $3.00

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-08-13

    • Walking Dead Vol. 10 is here. A herd of roamers approaches… #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-08-12

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    • Bullet point from one publisher's Spring 2010 catalog: "Author is well-connected scenester" #

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