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  • Crimethinc's Middle West Cloak & Dagger Tour

    Crimethinc’s Middle West Cloak & Dagger TourThurs. July 19th 8pm

    Crimethinc presents the “Crimethinc Middle West Cloak and Dagger Tour”, members of the Crimethinc collective will be visiting various Midwest cities (Davenport, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Columbus, etc) with puppet shows, workshops, and more. They’ll be presenting about Security Culture, Consent, Animal Liberation, and possibly Queer/Trans Awareness. The final destination of our tour is the Crimethinc Convergence, which is to be held in Athens, OH this year from July 25th-31st. There we will have many workshops on just about everything, all the while camping and enjoying the company of others in a community-oriented setting.

    A group of 5 young activists from all over the US. with various activist backgrounds make up the Crimethinc members on this tour. There’re all anticapitalists, antifascists, and animal liberationists

    More information is available at www.crimethinc.com

  • Its a Galactic Zoo out there!

    Galactic Zoo 7

    Wow the magical Drag City Space ship just double parked in the bus stop to deliver a box of the brand NEW hot off the presses Galactic Zoo Dossier #7. Over 100 pages, more trading cards and yet another double CD compilation of crazy jams you would never hear otherwise. What a way to start the week!

  • Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, is coming to Quimby's!

    Reading Comics

    Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, will be at Quimby’s, Saturday, August 11th, 7:00 pm. As usual, it is a FREE EVENT!

    In Douglas Wolk’s READING COMICS: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, fans have a collection of criticism about the artists and writers they admire most: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Alan Moore and David Gibbons (Watchmen), Dave Sim (Cerebus), Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Dr. Strange), Keith Giffen (Legion of Super Heroes), and more; and newcomers have a history of how comics evolved, a diverse list of the comics worth reading, and a context for how to read, consider, and discuss comics.

  • Adult Beverages!!!

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    Don’t bring a drink in a book store unless you know how to keep it from damaging stuff! 4 REAL!! Wet plastic cups set atop books is not a good look! Check Yourself!!!

  • New Stuff 7/17/07

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    Wow its Pitchfork weekend and the hood is extra jumping. Carloads of bandannas wearing bandannas pouring out into the streets to shop, eat and drink. Midwest masses we welcome you! Some nice new stuff! New Ganzfeld and in our free area along with the new Skeleton News, is the new ANP Quarterly which just landed so come get your free copy before they disappear!!!!

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  • Dancing Girl Press Presents Poetry

    Dancing Girl Press Presents Simone Muench, Brandi Homan & Erin BertramSaturday, July 14th, 7:00 PMfree
     
    Dancing Girl Press presents an evening of poetry with:
     
    Simone Muench is a poet, editor, assistant professor, and horror film fan. She is the author of *The Air Lost in Breathing* (2000) and *Lampblack & Ash* (2005) recently released from Sarabande Books. Her chapbook, Orange Girl, is due out from dancing girl press in July.
     
    Brandi Homan\’s chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, is available from Dancing Girl Press . Her work has appeared in magazines like Salt Hill, North American Review, Fugue, CutBank, Natural Bridge, and others. She recently completed her first book-length manuscript.
     
    Erin M. Bertram is a fellow in the MFA Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes for The Vital Voice and edits shadowbox press, which publishes progressive writing, always by hand, and often by underrepresented writers, with a tendency toward poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias , and Ugly Accent. Two chapbooks are forthcoming: Alluvium (dancing girl press, 2007), and, with Sarah Lilius, Here, Hunger (NeO Pepper Press, 2007).

  • Comedy By Numbers Event

    This event was super fun. Thanks to everybody that came! Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren reenacted/read from their book Comedy By Numbers, to scientifically enlighten us how to be funny. Special guest Bob Odenkirk acted as the obnoxious college circuit comedian, and as you would expect, was hilarious.

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  • July Events!!!

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    There is still a mild information hangover within our newly switched over systems, so to make up for any possible data holes here is a handy post with every event for the month. There is everything from poetry to Crimethinc coming up, so don’t miss out.

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  • Dancing Girl Press Event

    Dancing Girl Press Presents Simone Muench,
    Brandi Homan & Erin Bertram at Quimby’s!

    Saturday, July 14th, 7:00 PM
    FREE

    Simone Muench is a poet, editor, assistant professor, and horror film fan. She is the author of *The Air Lost in Breathing* (2000) and *Lampblack & Ash* (2005) recently released from Sarabande Books.  Her chapbook, Orange Girl, is due out from dancing girl press in July.

    Brandi Homan’s chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, is available from Dancing Girl Press . Her work has appeared in magazines like Salt Hill, North American Review, Fugue, CutBank, Natural Bridge, and others. She recently completed her first book-length manuscript.

    Erin M. Bertram is a fellow in the MFA Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes for The Vital Voice and edits shadowbox press, which publishes progressive writing, always by hand, and often by underrepresented writers, with a tendency toward poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias , and Ugly Accent. Two chapbooks are forthcoming: Alluvium (dancing girl press, 2007), and, with Sarah Lilius, Here, Hunger (NeO Pepper Press, 2007).

  • New Stuff 7/7/7!!!!!

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    Wow, its been awhile. Well here is the update to all the stuff that you may have missed since our last update. Luckly with summer holidays kicking in too full gear, the mail has been a bit slower. Perfect time for us to catch our breath, fix up our servers and plan any last minute summer conquesting that needs to get done. Next weekend is Pitchfork-fest so I suspect some of our far away readers might be poping in the store pre or post concert. Hope you do. Happy Summer Time!!!

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