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  • TEEN MOVIE HELL Author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden & Infernal Guests Blaze Hot on the History of Youth Cinema Gone Wild!

    Teen Movie Hell: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Films From Animal House to Zapped! (Bazillion Points) by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden is the ultimate guide to outrageous, anarchic, over-the-top adolescent film farces of the drive-in and VHS eras. 

    Porky’s. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The Last American Virgin. Risky Business. Revenge of the Nerds. Valley Girl. Sixteen Candles. Pretty in Pink. These and more than the 300 other vintage party-hearty puberty flicks get reviewed in Teen Movie Hell, in a style befitting their bombastic nature, but also with an eye on how they’re perceived in contemporary culture. 

    Teen Movie Hell also features essays by renowned film scholars that include Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women), Kat Ellinger (British Film Institute), and Samm Deighan (Diabolique magazine), as well as a chapter by the movie nerd king, Eddie Deezen (Grease). 

     “I heartily hurrah this hormonal hagiography!” – Patton Oswalt

    For this event, Mike McPadden will present a multimedia history of teen cinema, as well as readings by several Teen Movie Hell contributors: Katie Rife (A.V. Club); Wendy McClure (The Wilder Life); Christina Ward (Feral House); and Liz Mason (Quimby’s, a million zines). 

    For more info, contact: mikemcpadden(at)gmail(dot)com

    Here’s the Facebook Invite for this.

    Saturday, June 22, 7pm – Free Event

  • CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Fest Finds Edition, at Quimby’s!

    Fest season is upon us, so let’s share our best finds from Chicago Zine Fest, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), and other self-publishing events around the region! This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about our favorite titles we’ve discovered at festivals. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.

    If you’d like to participate in our Mystery Zine Swap, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot!

    This event will be led by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.

    Free Event, Tues, June 25th, 7pm

    Here at Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

    Facebook Event Invite Here.

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Midcentury Kitchen: America’s Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape, 1940s-1970s by Sarah Archer $24.95

    Propter Nos vol 2 #1 (new edition): Insurgency/Exhaustion & Propter Nos vol 3 Anti Non, $15 each

    Zines

    Zine For Cool Kids Like You $1

    Highway Hypnosis by Jessica Brewer Prugh $12

    Comics & Minis

    Comics by Holly English: Curious Places I’ve Made Love $5, Octopus and Lamb by Holly English $10

    So Damned Lazy by J. Bladder $4

    The First Time I Got Pulled Over by Kayla McClain $20

    Graphic Novels

    NOW #6: The New Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Featuring: Theo Ellsworth, Mariana Pita, M. Dean, Amandine Meyer, Aseyn, Tim Lane, José Quintanar, Veronika Muchitsch, Disa Wallander, Julian Glander, Jesse Reklaw, Zohar Lazar, Steven Weissman, and Nick Thorburn, under a cover by Juxtapoz artist Koak.

    Windowpane Collected by Joe Kessler (Breakdown Press) $29.99

    Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell $17.99

    Blossoms in Autumn by Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh (Self Made Hero) $24.95

    Art & Design

    KIKANETSU: The Art of DaisukeRichard (PIE) $30

    The Art of the Sketchbook: Artists and the Creative Diary (Gingko/Sandu) $35

    Outer Limits

    The Secret History of America: Classic Writings on Our Nation’s Unknown Past and Inner Purpose by Manly P. Hall and Mitch Horowitz $18.99

    Essays

    Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber $17

    Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir by H. Jon Benjamin $16

    Fiction

    Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk $15.95

    Census by Jesse Ball $16.99

    Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum $26

    Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang $25.95

    Film, TV & Music Books

    Little White Lies’ Close-Ups Books: Book 1: Wes Anderson by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Book 2: Vampire Movies by Charles Bramesco, $10.99 each

    VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave by all the VJs from MTV with Gavin Edwards $17

    Magazines

    Wire #423 May $10.99
    Shindig #90 April $13.99
    Monthly Review May $6
    Skeptical Inquirer vol 43 #3 May/June $5.99
    Fantastic Man Spring/Summer $15.99
    Film Comment May June $6.95
    Fortean Times April $12.40

    Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Many Happy Returns by Sonny $10

    Granta #147 Spring 2019 $16.99

    For the Kiddies

    Kintaro by Kentaro Okawara $22.95

    Everything All At Once (CHORDUROYS AND TOO MANY BOYS) by Ivy Cayden $19.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Good Vibez Only by Michaela Washington $8

    Every Mountain Goats Song Is Gay $8

    Government Seeks to Destroy the Safety and Visibility of the Sex Worker Community $5

    Netlabeler #1 Pan Y Rosas Discos $1

    No Bad Whores Just Bad Laws Support Hose Year Two $5

    Red’s Review of Revolting Prostitutes Originally Published in Monthly Review $5

    We All Scream by Ben Chlapek $10

    Raw #1 by Alkebuluan Merriweather $2

    Typing Pool/Para no sentirme solo zine $3

    Tell Your Own Story: A Zine About Writing Perzines $3

    Pocci #6 $3

    Sigils for Self Care $2

    Witchy Zinesters Pocket Book Of Spells $2

    Comics & Minis

    You Don’t Get There From Here #48 & #49 by Carrie McNinch $4 each

    Gonzalo by Jed McGowan (ShortBox) $11

    Adventures of Glorbos the Gender Neutral Alien by Jesse Milne $4

    Graphic Novels

    Clyde Fans [Box Set] by Seth (D&Q) $54.95

    Motel Universe by Joakim Drescher (Secret Acres) $21.95

    I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib $16.99

    House of the Black Spot by Ben Sears (Koyama Press) $12

    Politics, Revolution & History

    Enemies in the Backyard: An Overview of Mid-America World War II Axis POW Camps by David A. Ensminger $12

    The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library $18 – For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.

    Dissidents of the International Left: Interviews by Andy Heintz $16.95

    Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter (AK Press) $15

    Art Books

    Art Forms in Nature: 22 Pull-Out Posters: by Ernst Haeckel, edited by Kira Uthoff $29.95

    Music Books

    This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage $28

    Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman $17.95

    Weeping Gang Bliss Void Yab-Yum Paperback by Devendra Banhart (Featherproof) $17.95 – Poetry written through trials, tribulations and the making of their eighth album.

    Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. by David Ensminger $10

    Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone by Melissa Chemam $20

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life by Ian Cutler (Feral House) $17.95

    From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaelogist by Trevor Paglen (Primary Information) $20 – Commemorative coins, patches, mugs and other ephemera from the shadowy world of US military aviation and aerospace.

    Fiction

    The Republic: A Novel by Joost de Vries $16.99

    Sexxxy

    Meat – The Berlin Bruisers $15

    Magazines

    The Baffler #45 May June 2019 $14

    She Shreds #17 $12

    Create Magazine #14 $15

    For the Kiddies

    Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $17.95

    Trip to the Top of the Volcano With Mouse by Frank Viva $12.95

  • May Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available

    The May Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter is available at this link here!

    Sign up to get our monthly missive in your e-mail inbox every month at quimbys.com

  • CAKE FRIDAY EDITION of Drink n' Draw at Quimby's

    Quimby’s is proud to help co-sponsor CAKE — The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (June 1st & 2nd at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted), a weekend fest featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more. The night before the fest join comics artists for a special edition of Drink n’ Draw where comics artists and educators, Aaron Renier (author of Spiral-Bound, Walker Bean, and Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon) and Alex Nall (author of Teaching Comics, Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours, Lawns) will lead a series of drawing games and activities! Come out for a fun time featuring refreshments, socializing and secret prizes!
    More info:
    Drink n’ Draw at Quimby’s CAKE FRIDAY EDITION
    Fri, May 31st, 7pm

  • Off-site: CHIPRC’s Zine Club at Chicago Zine Fest 2019: Baby’s First Zine Edition!

    CHIPRC’s Zine Club at Chicago Zine Fest 2019: Baby’s First Zine Edition!

    Sat, May 18th, 4:30-5:30pm

    Chicago Zine Fest Exhibition Day at Plumbers Union Hall, 1340 W. Washington Blvd. in the West Loop

    Free!

    We’re bringing Chicago’s only book club-style event for people who read zines to CZF2019! This month, we’ll be talking about our early steps into the world of zines. Bring one of the first zines you made or read and join us at Chicago Zine Fest’s Exhibition Day for a fun discussion and snacks!

    Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts are welcome. First 25 attendees will receive a special-edition Chicago Zine Fest notebook!

    This event is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin. Sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, which is proud to be sponsor of CZF.

    FB link event link here.

    chicagozinefest.org

  • Tarot Readings by Sarah Luczko at Quimby’s May 12th

    Quimby’s is proud to welcome back  readings by  Sarah is a poet, dancer, performance artist, bookstore owner, and Tarot reader. Her readings are down to earth, while still keeping one foot in the other world. Sarah works with querents to produce a reading through collaboration with the cards. She embraces the traveling tradition of party readings. She prefers to read in loud bars, outdoors, in a garden, at art openings, or anywhere away from more traditional settings. Follow Space Oddities bookstore & gallery on Instagram: @5paceoddities

    Facebook invite for this event is here.

    Sunday, May 12th, 1pm-6pm

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Women In Print #2 $8

    KerBloom #137 March/April 2019 by Artnoose $2

    Just Make Pictures Zine #10 Poetic Behavior $7

    Funny Looking Dog Quarterly Spring 2019 $10

    Weirdo Du Jour #2 $5

    Nerve – The Illustrated Manifesto Neo-Environmental Radicalism for Visionary Enforcers by by Glenn Cannon $4

    We’re Doomed Robot Book by the Blockwatch $6

    Comics & Minis

    Bad Day for Melvin by Aaron Zvi Feder $8

    I Think Our Friend Dan Might Be a Dolphin by James The Stanton (Silver Sprocket) $5

    Graphic Novels

    Alienation by Inés Estrada (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    Death Threat by Vivek Shraya & Ness Lee (Arsenal Pulp) $14.95

    Memoirs of a Book Thief by A. Tota and P. Van Hove $24.99

    The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself edited by Tahneer Oksman & Seamus O’Malley $30

    Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia by Brian Cremins (U of Miss) $30

    Mayhem

    Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal; Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death by Christopher Berry-Dee $15.95

    Art & Design

    Peep Hole People by Spencer $15

    Fiction

    Samalio Pardulus by Otto Julius Bierbaum, illustrated by Alfred Kubin $12.95

    Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor $16.95

    The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager (Dzanc) $16.95

    A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig $14.99

    Middle School Dance 2000 by Jonathan Blake Fostar $9.99

    Music & TV Books

    David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock $18

    Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss with Mathew Klickstein $16.99

    Sexxxy

    Hot Stuff – A Queer Erotic Music Zine $5

    Magazines

    Maximumrocknroll #432 May $4.99

    Bust May/June $6.99

    In These Times May $4.95

    Shots #143 $10

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    Beast Grrl #12 Renaissance $5

    The Chicago Review vol 62 #1-#3 $20

    BGMPDG #3 $6

    Young Professional Poems by Nick Rossi $10

    For the Kiddies

    The White Snake by Ben Nadler (Toon) $9.99

  • CHIPRC’s Zine Club Special Event: Zinemaking Hangout, at Quimby’s!

    CHIPRC’s Zine Club Special Event: Zinemaking Hangout, at Quimby’s!

    Tuesday, May 7th, 7pm

    Here at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

    Free Event

    Chicago Zine Fest is just around the corner, so let’s get together to finish our zines (or make a brand-new one) before the fest! Join us at Quimby’s for a special zinemaking event. Bring your work in progress, create a mini-zine on the spot (we’ll have supplies on hand), or learn a new zine-binding technique from Zine Club member Heather Anacker.

    Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are invited to hang out, make zines, and enjoy snacks!

    This event is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.

    Facebook link here.