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    Zines

    Party Perfect! Queens Chicago $20

    Portage by Shulamith Shulamith $5

    Day They Hanged Billy Smiles by Kai Greenberg $12

    Too Pure by Telly $3

    Zines by Shaun Levin: Some More Than Others $20, Not a Day Goes By $12

    Escape from Bucktown by Gordon Meyer $6

    Comics

    Clamp #4 $10

    Comics by Chad Bilyeu: Chad in Amsterdam (various issues) $8 each, Re Up #1 (with Juliette de Wit) $9 each

    Graphic Novels

    Juliette or the Ghosts Return in the Spring by Camille Jourdy (D&Q) $29.95

    Grog the Frog the Book of Taurus by Davilorium and Alba BG (Silver Sprocket) $11.99

    Essay Books

    The Light Room: On Art and Care by Kate Zambreno $28

    TV Books

    Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius edited by Josh Mills, Ben Model & Pat Thomas (Fantagraphics) $34.99

    Fiction

    The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig $18

    Drifts: A Novel by Kate Zambreno $18

    Thrust: A Novel by Lidia Yuknavitch $17

    The Twilight World by Werner Herzog $17

    Sexxxy

    Elska #43 Bangkok Thailand $20

    Poetry & Chap Books

    Shadow Act by Daniel Brock Johnson (McSweeneys) $18

    Chap books by Connie Boje $6 each: Underdome #6, Big Pill #25

    Magazines

    Tape Op #156 $5.99

    The Believer #142 $16

  • Robbie Q. Telfer reads from new weird chapbook at Quimby’s 8/17

    Robbie Q. Telfer’s lonely line breaks: ChatRQT (Bottlecap Press), came about when Robbie Q. Telfer asked ChatGPT about his poetry, and it replied with entirely made up poem titles and synopses that Robbie Q. Telfer had not written. Telfer wants to defend ChatGPT’s integrity, so he has written some of the poems that it has said he has already written. Now ChatGPT is no longer a liar, but a prognosticator. This collection is proof that poetry is really very easy to write and all you need is a helpful robot to get you started. Welcome to the future of art!

    “…a creative and inventive approach to writing poetry! It’s fascinating to see how you’ve used the fictional titles and synopses generated by our conversations as a starting point for your own poetic exploration.” –ChatGPT, AI Powered Chatbot, coauthor

    Robbie Q. Telfer has performed and taught in hundreds of places in nine different countries. His work appears in places like SEISMA, Connecticut River Review, cream city review, Sinking City Review, The New Territory, and many others. He’s been an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam and has a poetry collection from Write Bloody Publishing. He currently works for The Morton Arboretum and Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves trying to protect and celebrate what’s left of our wild spaces.

    For more info: robbieqtelfer.com, bottlecap.press

    Robbie will be joined by poet and teacher Tim Stafford. His work has appeared in The Offing, Taco Bell Quarterly, and 68to05. He is the editor of the Learn Then Burn anthology series (Write Bloody Books). His debut collection “The Patron Saint of Making Curfew” was published by Haymarket Books in 2021.

    Here’s the Facebook Event Invite if you get into that type of thing.

    Thursday, August 17th, 7pm – Free Event

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    Zines

    Skinny Puppy Farewell Final Tour Fanzine by Vanessa Capshaw $13

    Photograph zines by Allan Lee Koss: 1963 $15, 1969 $20

    Rocky Mountain Buddies by Jam $2

    River Walk with Me: Reflections on Walking as a Mindfulness Practice by artsnfartsnkris $5

    The E.B.C: Excellent British Cryptids #1 Gef the Talking Mongoose by Lawrence Scales $5

    Spelunking In Basic Economy $8

    Bad Egg by Cat Chi $6

    Thoughts and Feelings on the Future of Donald J. Trump From Make America Great Again Again to the Possibility of a Former President Behind Bars edited by Tootsie Warhol $9.95

    Shipment of stuff from Microcosm:
    Your Fucking Depression by Karisa Quick $9.95
    Scents With Benefits: How to Craft Fragrances Like a Perfumer by Abigail Houston $6.95
    Flowering Plants and How to Grow Them by Parker T. Barnes $4.95
    Ferns and How to Grow Them by G. A. Woolson $9.95
    How to Mushroom by Bureau of Mushroom Industry $4.95
    How to Make Perfect Coffee by WS Quinby $4.95
    Year of the Witch: A Planner and Spellbook For the Novice Witch by Francesca Black $16.95
    Editing 101: Tips and Strategies For Working With Writers by Lydia Rogue $5.95
    Direct Action Handbook: A Guide to Organizing and Protecting Safety $4.95
    Sober Travel Handbook: Navigating the World Alcohol Free by Teresa Bergen $7.95
    How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends by Sylvia Friday $4.95
    Unfuck Your Addiction: Using Science to Free Yourself From Harmful Reliance on Substances Habits and Out of Control Behaviors by Dr. Faith G. Harper $14.95

    Comics

    Beauty Queens In 12 Inches of Death by Graye Muir Lewis (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $6

    Comics by Mia Makes It: My Body Is Mine a Comic $5 & Outer World #1 $11.11

    Flop Sweat #7 & #8 by Lance Ward (Birdcage Bottom Books) $6 each

    Graphic Novels

    Alison by Lizzy Stewart (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée & Denis Rodier $29.99

    Politics & Revolution

    Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States by Zoe Baker (AK Press) $27

    Music Books

    Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz by Eddie Piller $29.99

    Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones by Elizabeth Winder $29

    Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir by Jann S. Wenner $19.99

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Magicka: Finding Spiritual Guidance Through Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and More by Carlota Santos $20

    How-To

    The Rule-Breaking Letterer’s Workbook: Prompts and Inspiration for Embracing Imperfection by Huyen Dinh $15.95

    Fiction

    Tatami Galaxy: A Novel by Tomihiko Morimi $18.99

    Fiction by Kyle Wright: Dead Meat $12.95, In Control $9.95

    Sexxxy

    Comics by Cassidy R.:
    Dirty Office $7, Bugs and Kisses $10 & more

    Magazines & Newspapers

    Uppercase #58 $24

    Antigravity July 2023 vol 21 #7 $10

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    From Blue Cubicle Press:
    Overtime #65 The Job by Gregg Voss $2
    The First Line vol 25 #2 $6

    For the Young at Heart

    ABC Deconstructing Gender by Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham $18.99

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    Zines

    KerBloom #162 $2

    Papercore #9 International DIY Punk Zine $4

    Forgotten Rides: The Fanzine Wheel Edition by Adel Souto $6

    Dyke Mic #1 $5

    Totonanhuan Inintemictlihuan: Ce Amoxtli Cuecuetzin – Our Grandmothers, Their Dreams One Book Small #0 by Nicole Chavez & Rosa Celestino $12

    Sex Work, Sex Trafficking, & Labor Rights: A Primer for Human Service Organizations, Advocates and All Others by Evelyn V $6

    WYRD Magazine issues #2 & #3 by darkage & friends (Oblique Press) $17 each

    Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries #3 & #4 (iS Press) $10 each

    Comics

    Blood Trucker #2 by Lauren Ramsey & Ehrenreich $7

    Evergreen by Sarah Foley $15

    Thimble $10

    Sharpest Cookie in the Crayon Box by Alex F. $15

    Peyote Songs $6

    Also Thanks for the Mushrooms by Matt Shannon $4

    Graphic Novels

    Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection $25

    Motel Universe vol 3 by Joakim Drescher (Secret Acres) $23.95

    Old Caves by Tyler Landry (Uncivilized Books) $19.95

    Offshore Lightning by Saito Nazuna (D&Q) $29.95

    Art & Design Books

    Signal: 08: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture edited by Josh MacPhee & Alec Dunn (PM Press) $14.95

    Politics, Revolution & Essay

    Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States by Zoe Baker (AK Press) $27

    Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right by Brendan O’Connor (Haymarket) $19.95

    Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice edited by David Luis Glisch-Sánchez & Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe $20

    Least Silent of Men 2nd Edition by Adel Souto $9

    Crying In the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sanchez $18

    Escape From the Taliban: An Eyewitness Account of How the Taliban Retook Control of Afghanistan by Siam Pasarly $20

    Music Books

    Gospel of the Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels by Michael Hann and The Hold Steady (Akashic Books) $40

    Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 by Richard Evans (Omnibus) $36.99

    Fiction

    The Black Locomotive by Rian Hughes $27.99

    Taddle Creek Book edited by Conan Tobias $30

    Magazines

    Girls On Film: Hopelessly Devoted to ’80s Movies, $10 each:
    #17 The Games Issue
    #18 The College Issue
    #19 The Family Friendly Issue

    Cut Me Up #11 Souvenir $18

    Zeromile #14 $10

    For the Young at Heart

    Katya’s Book of Mushrooms: Fungi, Fauna, Facts & Folklore by Katya Arnold & Sam Swope $12.99

  • Quimby’s July Newsletter Available Now

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    Zines

    The Wonder of It All #12 $3

    Postcards from Irving #4 $2

    Horror Macaroni #4 $5

    zines by Erin Dorney: How to Bathroom, Accept Reject and more.

    Molotov College Zine Edition an RPG by WH Arthur $15

    Self Harm – A Zine about NSSI by Sharaya O $3

    Comics

    Smoke Signal #41 Keiichi Tanaami (Desert Island) $12

    Glass Chamber #0 by Tia Roxae $5

    Delia by Quinn Thomson $5

    By the Moonlight by Mae Lyne $15

    Comics by Carmen Johns $10 each: Diva World #1 + #2, How to Lose a Friend In Seventh 7th Grade #1-#3

    Comics by Clara Brubaker $10 each: In Between Some Thoughts on Place, Bein’ Weird With Plants
    Plus Sticker Sheets: Native Wildflowers of Illinois $12, Moths of North America $15

    Graphic Novels

    Dear Mini vol 1 A Graphic Memoir by Natalie Norris $29.99

    The Comics Journal #309 $16.99

    The Planetoid And Other Stories by Joe Orlando + Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $35

    Big Ugly by Ellice Weaver (Avery Hill) $19.95

    Film & Music Books

    Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander $27.95

    Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood – The Official Biography (Revised and Updated Edition) by Nina Antonia $24.95

    Book of Days by Patti Smith $28.99

    Outer Limits Stuff

    Hellebore magazine: A Summoning of Ancient Terrors, issues #1-#9, $15 each
    +
    The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland, edited by Maria J. Perez Cuervo $34.95

    Fiction Books

    New Directions Storybook series:
    Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg $18.95
    In the Act by Rachel Ingalls $18.95

    Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh $18

    Stray Dogs by Richard John Parfitt (Third Man Books) $16.95

    Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink vol 1 the Opal and Other Stories $13.99

  • New Stuff This Week

     

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    Zines

    East Village Inky #68 by Ayun Halliday $3

    Affordable Housing In Avondale by Marc Fischer (Half Letter Press) $6

    Scenes From the L #2 Drawings CTA by R. Hendricks $3

    Marionette Lines: A Family History of Patriarchy and Puppetry by Mandy Shunnarah $6

    zines by Eli Bishop: Nine Faces of Nothing Depression Comics, Spinnerrackreverie Comic Covers Redrawn Wrong, San Francisco Neo Futurists Chapbook #7 2022 Selected Plays From The Infinite Wrench by the San Francisco Neo-Futurists

    Alarming Mutations by Jason White $10

    Teen Beat #1 Assorted Collages by Telly $3

    Cuties: A Zine by Matteo Montero Murillo & friends $1

    These Are All Inadequate issues #5 & #6 $3 each

    Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #1 Cemetery at the Mall by Eric Kammerer $4

    Memoirs of a Baby Bootblack #0 & #1 by Lore $1 each

    Comics

    You Don’t Get There From Here issues #57 & #58 by Carrie McNinch $4 each

    Hobo Law #1 Spr 23 by Pat Rooks $6

    TSA PSA by Issa Saldana $2

    Dailies #4 Quarantine and Beyond 2020-2022 by Athena Naylor $15

    Puddles issues #3-#5

    Graphic Novels

    Jacob Newman’s Coffee Table Book $24.99

    Minami’s Lover by Shungiku Uchida (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76 by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis (AK Press) $23

    Fiction

    The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean $17.99

    Chicago Stories by Joe Carducci (Redoubt Press) $19.95

    Eyes and the Impossible (Knopf Edition) by Dave Eggers $18.99

    Unreliable Narrator Meets the Public Domain vs the Public Domain vs Jesus H Christ by Jesse Mack $5.99

    Magazines & Lit Journals

    The Grind #3 Perspectives on Stripping From the Dancers Themselves $10

    Portable Gray vol 6 #1 Spring 2023 $15

    Qwerty Quarterly: The Official Publication of Qwertyfest MKE #1 We Built Milwaukee on Beer and Typewriters by Molly Snyder and Tea Krulos $5

    Antigravity June 2023 vol 21 #6 $10

    DIY Books

    2 books by Sage Liskey:
    You’re a Snarky Darkness: Illustrated Poems for Radical Empowerment $15
    Radical Self-Care: Inclusive Tools for Overcoming PTSD, Heartbreak, Conflict, Anger, Discrimination, Addiction, Anxiety, and Other Trapped Emotions (illustrated by Tara Chavez) $24

     

  • billy woods & m. musgrove sign A is for Anarchist: An ABC for Activists 7/29

    A is for Anarchist: An ABC for Activists is a a sardonic spin on the ABC book, a sharp knife in a drawer full of safety scissors.

    Wryly written by critically acclaimed rapper billy woods and sublimely illustrated by artist m. musgrove, A is for Anarchist upends the traditional ABC format with earnestness that belies its irreverence. Anarchist takes modest ideas, like E is for Energy and G is for Ghosts, and flips them into incisive commentary on modern life and the state of the world. Also, it has to be the only alphabet book with annotated footnotes and a Nas reference.

    woods is a writer, rapper, and father who needed something cool to read to his children. The child of a Jamaican intellectual and a Zimbabwean revolutionary, woods’s childhood spent between the U.S., Africa, and the West Indies leaves its imprint on all his work.

    musgrove is a Brooklyn-based painter, illustrator, and amateur animator. She is inspired by Wimmen’s Comix, William Morris, and tumult.

    billy woods & m. musgrove

    sign A Is For Anarchist

    Quimby’s Bookstore

    1854 W. North Ave, Chicago

    Sat, July 29th, 2pm

    Facebook event invite here.

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    Zines

    Portland Rappers #1 by Ross Jackson $5

    Zines by Rowan Rohwer:
    Aromantic Semantics: a Cottage Zine
    Notesapp Entries That I Wrote While Under the Influence #1
    Genderventures: A Zine Where I Contemplate Gender for However Many Pages This Is
    & more.

    Even the Introverts Are Out Here: Six Ways to Get Involved by Jamie Kadas $1

    Comics

    Vacuum Decay #6 A Horror Anthology by Harry Nordlinger & friends $10

    Flowery isues #50-#52 by Mel Stringer $10 each

    Comics by Jake Slingland, $5 each: Funland (with Midjourney), Habitat (with Dream Misa Kabashima)

    Comics by Matt MacFarland & friends: Scenes From a Marriage, My Troubles with Crumb & more.

    Gutter Presents Noir: A Collection of Thrilling and Comedic Graphic Stories by Meg Scribner & friends $12

    No More Than 10% by Laurel Hauge $12

    Playtape by Ana Two $8

    Play for Keeps #1 by Fox Graham $5

    Elizas Wish by Tiff Zhang $4

    Chained Male by Connor Tapscott $5

    Drawing Bridges by Eva Carrillo $10

    Comics by Clint Williams:
    QPs and the Magic Fruit
    Netar Aquatic World Builder #1
    Vile Shift Horror Anthology
    & more.

    Comique #2 $2

    Comics by AnneMarie Rogers $6 each: Diver: A Pearl, Groundskeepers

    Enjoy the Cake by Jamie Kadas $7

    Graphic Novels & Related

    Live Rock vol 1 Aquarium Life by Ross Jackson $20

    Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix by Brian Doherty $18

    Vessel by Henry Fernau $15

    LSBN by Emma Jayne (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

    Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket) $24.99

    Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham $17.99

    Art & Design Books

    Welcome to the Peculiar Antique Shop: The Art of Makura Kurama $29.99

    20th Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads: One Hundred Years of Stimulating Ads by Jim Heimann and Steven Heller (Taschen) $30

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor $19.95

    Essays & Some Other Stuff

    Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris $29.99

    Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton $28.99

    Pregnancy Test by Karen Weingarten (Object Lessons Series) $14.95

    Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw $17

    Boom Chicago Presents: The 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History edited by Andrew Moskos and Pep Rosenfeld $20

    Music & Film Books

    Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne $32

    Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner & Adem Tepedelen $27.95

    More 33 1/3 books:
    Dance-Punk (33 1/3 Genre Series) by Larissa Wodtke, Living Colour’s Time’s Up by Kimberly Mack
    BBC Radiophonic’s Workshop: A Retrospective by William L. Weir,
    Madvillain’s Madvillainy by Will Hagle Madvillain
    ESG’s Come Away With ESG by Cheri Percy

    BFI Film Classics:
    Lost In Translation by Suzanne Ferriss
    Eraserhead by Claire Henry

    Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head by Alex Wheatle $28.95

    Fiction & Poetry

    City of Unspeakable Fear by Jean Ray $15.95

    Tisa: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani $36.95

    Girls They Write Songs About: A Novel by Carlene Bauer $19

    Sexxxy

    various new Tom of Finland books!

  • Off-Site: Quimby's at Shred the Shed Portable Gray Release Celebration at the Salt Shed, 6/21

    The Salt Shed presents Shred the Shed, their four day skatepark pop-up coming June 21-24, four days of DJs, food and drink vendors, guest skaters, and a skatepark designed and built by Chicago artist and skater Juan Chavez. It kicks off National Go Skate Day (June 21) with a Portable Gray release celebration, which Quimby’s will be there to sell, as well as other relevant items from 4pm to 9pm.

    What does this UChicago Press arts & ideas journal have to do with skateboarding, you ask? This spring issue of Portable Gray is the Family Issue, and Brent Heyl of the Empty Bottle and The Salt Shed appears in the issue with his brother Shane (a professional skateboarder).

    In addition to the skateboard park, music and refreshments, Bad at Sports will be streaming conversations with contributors to this issue.

    The Fairgrounds will be open to all to come and skate, though they require participants to sign a waiver (and if you’re under 18, your parent/guardian must sign a waiver). RSVP at this link.

    We hope to see you there! 

    The Salt Shed is accepting donations at this event to donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund, which you can donate to online here, and donations will be accepted on site as well.

    (very sick drawing by @agrapedope!)