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New Stuff This Week
After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon (Breakdown Press) $34.99
Zines
Mantid Mania #3 by Mike Smith $5
Tear the Petals Off of You by Julia Eff $4.50
Hell Will Be Easy: Nine Grotesk Stories by Marina Morrissey $5
Brothers and Sisters I Am an Atomic Bomb $1
Know Your Vote: A Workbook to Get to Know your Elected Officials (Biff Boff Bam Sock #9) by Anna Jo Beck $5
Stuff from Diaspora Savant Press: BLCKMZIC #1 Black Banjo $12, Musings on Black Womyn #1 $10 & more.
Eggs by Dan Kelly $2
Critics Union #1 Fall 18 Monsters and Mirrors $6
Truly the Shittiest Archaeologist Ever by California Rachel $4
The Match #118 Fall 18 $3
Window Dressing #1 $10
I Was Born To Swim #1 $1
Trains #3 $15
You Should Hear This #1 Zine About Music by Ricky Vigil $3
Become Worry Free Right Now: 12 Meditations for Transcending Reality by Jessica Mullen & Adam Zapotok $5
Comics & Minis
2 Nate Beaty comics: Laurie and Nate 2017 $3 & Wolfman Chicago Has a Frittata In the Oven $5
Dying of Thirst by Jon Mastantuono $10
Male Tears #1 by AB Von Hell $8
Crowning in Winter by Jack Lundquist $6
Mellow Out vol 1 by Pat Boyle $6
Infinite Wheat Paste #6 by Pidge $5
What Would Happen If Atoms Lose the Ability to Bond by Pan Tong $6
Graphic Novels
Saga vol 9 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples $14.99
The Best American Comics 2018 guest editor Phoebe Gloeckner, series editor Bill Kartalopoulos $25 – Featuring Chloe Perkis, Tara Booth, Simon Hanselmann, Gary Panter & more.
Fuck Off Squad by Nicole Goux & Dave Baker (Silver Sprocket) $15
Roaming Foliage by Patrick Kyle (Koyama Press) $15
Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh $19.99
Fashion Forecasts by Yumi Sakugawa (Retrofit) $18
I Love You: Stories and Cartoons by Sara Lautman (Retrofit) $10
John, Dear by Laura Lannes (Retrofit) $8
All the Sad Songs by Summer Pierre (Retrofit) $10
270 by Maggie Umber (2D Cloud) $14.95
The First Man: The Graphic Novel by Albert Camus, illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez $25.95
I Feel Machine, edited by Julian Hanshaw & Krent Able $22.99 – Comics about tech from folks like Box Brown, Shaun Tan and more.
Art & Design Books
Grace Jones A to Z: The Life of an Icon–From Androgyny to Zula by Steve Wide $14.95
Politics & Revolution
Vote Her in: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President by Rebecca Sive $19.95
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart (O/R Books) $21
Bicycle / Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Lugo, Adonia E., Ph.D. (Microcosm) $14.95
How to Be an American: A Field Guide to Citizenship by Silvia Hidalgo $14.99
Fiction & Hip Lit
Riddance: Or: the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-mouth Children by Shelley Jackson $28
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 edited by Sheila Heti & 826 National $15.99
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana $15.95
Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Arsenal Pulp) $19.95
Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation With Allen Ginsberg $26
Outer Limits
Cemetery Maps by Amy Martin & friends $12
Music Books
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson $28.99 – Memoir by the lead singer & founder of Suede.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: An Art Book by Reinhard Kleist $29.99
Night Moves by Jessica Hopper $15.95The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music, from Cylinders and Cds to Lps and Tapes by Dave Thompson $29.95
Magazines
Razorcake #106 $4
Maximumrocknroll #425 $4.99
Bust #113 $6.99
Skeptic vol 23 #3 $6.95
Flat Out #3 Architecture Magazine $20
Glamour Girl #5 $20
Gentlewoman #18 $15.99
Women In Print #1 $8
Lit Journals
The First Line vol 20 #3 $4
For the Kiddies
Recordmania: Atlas of the Incredible by Emmanuelle Figueras by Emmanuelle Figueras & Tavernier Verhille Figueras (Little Gestalten) $24.95
Food
Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created by Patrick E. McGovern $16.95
The New Rules of Coffee: A Modern Guide for Everyone by Jordan Michelman & Zachary Carlsen $14.99
Sexxxy
Meat NAKED Special Issue Fall 18 $20
Chicago Henge: A Poem with Lusty Illustrations by Sam Logan $1
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CHIPRC’s Zine Zine Club: Mysterious and Spooky Edition, at Quimby’s! 10/16
CHIPRC’s Zine Zine Club: Mysterious and Spooky Edition, at Quimby’s!In October, we’re celebrating all things creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky! This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about the titles that send chills down our spines. Please BYOZ (Bring Your Own Zines) that get you into the Halloween spirit, and join us for a fun discussion! Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome.
We’ll have some treats (and possibly a trick or two) for everyone, as well! Our Mystery Zine Swap was so popular last month that we’re making it a regular thing. If you’d like to participate, bring a zine (wrapped up or 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.
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
6:30-9 p.m. Tues, Oct. 16th
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New Stuff This Week
Beyond Heaven: Chicago House Party Flyers by Brandon Johnson (Almighty & Insane Books) $20 – Flyers (aka as “pluggers”) and other house music related ephemera from 1983-1989, from the collection of Mario “Liv It Up” Luna, a Pilsen DJ. Highlights from Chicago’s emerging house scene: first generation “kings of house” alongside the WBMX Hot Mix 5 and other DJs, promoters, record stores, labels, party crews and dance groups from Chicago’s house music scene.
Zines
Critical Theory Cocktails #4 by Aggie Toppins $10 – Powerful drinks that will make you think differently.
Meanwhile #6 Bad Decisions ed. by Megan Kirby & Jan-Henry Gray $5
Color Me A to Z $12
Chicago by Sam Paakkonen $15
Soul Meat by Dan Kelly $2
Comics & Minis
Various issues of Quietly by Yumi Yamaguchi & friends, $2-$5
Christina Tran minis $5-$10: Aging, Things I Cannot Say, It’s Okay That It’s Not Okay Chapter One, Release, Dear Daughter
Dust and Whiskey by Shoshannah Cohen $6
True Stories #4 by Derf $5.99
Blammo #10 by Noah Van Sciver $8
I Feel Weird #1-#3 by Haleigh Buck $5 each
Dipso Facto #1 by Mosher $10
Defenders – Stories From Armenia’s Border Villages by Cristina Araxie Cass $3
Minnows by Seamus O. Hames $5
Graphic Novels
Chlorine Garden by Keiler Roberts (Koyama Press) $12 – Don’t miss Keiler Roberts here with Jessica Roberts (XTC69) on Oct 5th!
Art Comic by Matthew Thurber (D&Q) $29.95 – Don’t miss Matthew Thurber here to present this raucous skewering of the art world on October 11th!
Space Academy 123 by Mickey Zacchilli (Koyama Press) $18 – Classroom crushes, school plays, gym class, all-knowing Grandfather Computer, maintenance guy scouring planets for resources, you know, typical school stuff.
Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution by Youssef Daoudi $24.99
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein $28
Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Disturbingly funny manga about plucky home aide tasked with caring for a series of bizarre patients, from one of Japan’s most twisted cartoonists.
Be Your Own Backing Band COLOR EDITION by Liz Prince (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $12
Robert Crumb: Sketchbook 1982-1989, edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $40
Politics & Revolution
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici (PM Press) $14
Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy — All At the Same Time by Michael Fine (PM Press) $15.95
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore $39.99
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory $15.99
Art Books
Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing Cards, edited by Damon Murray & Stephen Sorrell, text by Arkady Bronnikov (Fuel) $32.50 – Pictures of the handmade decks constructed under the radar of prison authorities and used to command respect, punishment and live by a secret prison dictate.
Pop Art by Flavia Frigeri $16.95 – A helpful guide to Warhol, Lichtenstein & the like.
Essay
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles (Grove Press) $16
Gender Studies
Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, editor Jacq Applebee $24.95
Fiction & Literature
Jerusalem by Alan Moore $24.95 – Eternity loiters between housing projects. Fiends, tunnels, slums, holy cities. Everything you expect from Alan Moore! Now in soft cover.
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings, edited by Mary Ann Caws $13.95
Gone Tomorrow by Gary Indiana $16.95 – Things awry on the art film set in Colombia.
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu $9.99 – Riot grrrl revolution: Viv makes a zine to challenge gender inequality at school.
Music, TV & Performance Books
Lemon Jail: On the Road With the Replacements by Bill Sullivan $22.95 – From the roadie’s POV.
Let the Good Times Roll: My Life in Small Faces, Faces, and the Who by Kenney Jones $29.99 – A memoir by the legendary rock-and-roll drummer discuses his East End childhood, battle with dyslexia, witness to the deaths of longtime friends and creative work with several bands, including The Who after the passing of Keith Moon.
27: The Legend and Mythology of the 27 Club by Gene Simmons $27
Rap Dad: A Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation by Juan Vidal $26
Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl by Leslie Zemeckis $26
Fame: The Hijacking of Reality by Justine Bateman (Akashic) $26.95
Magazines
Tape Op #127 $5.95
Wire #415 $10.99
Put a Egg On It #15 $12
Fortean Times #370 $12.40
Mojo #299 $11.25
Kinfolk #29 $18
Offscreen #20 $20Lit Journals
Wolfman New Life Quarterly #3 $12
N+1 Fall 2018 $14.95
The Paris Review #226 $20
The Believer #121 $12
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New Stuff This Week
Happy birthday to us!
New Stuff This Week!:
Zines
Mura Press #2 Fall 18 Children of the Riot $10
zines from Erika Schnatz, $5 each: Tiny Vampire and Friends Inktober 2017, Cute KO 2017, Cute KO 2018
The Smudge vol 2 #9 $5
End by Lily Someson and Zoe Athena $8
Dootsie by Dan Kelly $2
Flotation Device #15 $2
Comics & Minis
Futile Comics #7 by Mike Centeno $8
Lily Reeves comics: Live Hot Bugs $5, Spring Diary $4
Slightly Plural: Short Comics about Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood by Marnie Galloway $10
Thiccc Offerings #2 $3
Rando by Nichole MK $5
Graphic Novels
Jim Osborne: The Black Prince of the Underground by Jim Osborne (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Now 4: The New Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $9.99 Tri-yearly showcase of new work from contemporary cartoonists worldwide.
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories by Peter Kuper $19.95
My Brother’s Husband 2 by Gengoroh Tagame $25.95
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck $28
Marilyn’s Monsters by Tommy Redolfi (Humanoids Publishing) $29.95
Home After Dark by David Small $27.95
Roly Poly: Phanta’s Story by Daniel Semanas (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal (D&Q) $24.95
Politics & Revolution
Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian-Strategies, Tools, and Models by Bruce E. Levine (AK Press) $18
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History by Howard Zinn $17
Proletarian Days: A Hippolyte Havel Reader by Hippolyte Havel (AK Press) $24
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All by Elisa Camahort Page & Carolyn Gerin $16.99
Art Books
Suggestivism: Resonance by Nathan Spoor (Gingko Press/Spoke Art Gallery) $45
Handmade Art by Sandu Publications: Explorations in Contemporary Craft (Gingko Press) $39.95
Cat Paws by PIE International $12.95
Terrariums: Bring Nature into Your Home by Mathilde Lelievre (Gingko Press) $22
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, editor John Danaher $19.95
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin $29.95
The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians by Ironfoot Jack, edited by Colin Stanley (Strange Attractor Press) $21.95
Fiction
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix $24.99
LIVEBLOG by Megan Boyle (Tyrant Books) $21.95
My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger (Fangoria Books) $15
Film & Music Books
The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together by Adam Nayman $40
David Bowie: The Oral History by Dylan Jones $18
The Last Poets by Christine Otten $17.99
Magazines
Park and Life #8 $10
Frankie #84 $16.99
Little White Lies #76 $12.99Poetry
When Rap Spoke Straight to God by Erica Dawson (Tin House ) $15.95
For the Kiddies
Collaboration: Ways We Work Together by Tomas Moniz & friends (AK Press) $14.95
Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders $17.99 – A primer for peaceful protest, resistance and activism.
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Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet in Convo with John Porcellino at Quimby’s 11/1
In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (Uncivilized Books), long considered one of the most influential women in American independent comics—although she left the field, and is Canadian—Julie Doucet finally receives a full-length critical overview of her work, from Anne Elizabeth Moore, a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender theorist. Sweet Little Cunt is the first book-length critical analysis of a female cartoonist by a female theorist in the English language. It is a landmark production, both in Moore’s unique and defiant analysis of Doucet’s work, and the significance of a woman reorienting the entire dialogue around Doucet and comics in general, in a field that is so thoroughly and toxically dominated by men.
Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, best-selling comics anthologist, internationally lauded cultural critic, and called “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake, a ‘general phenom’ by the Chicago Reader, and “a critic” by the New York Times. She is the former editor of Punk Planet and the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, as well as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Her book Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. Body Horror is on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award and was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College for Creative Studies. Quimby’s would like to congratulate Ms. Moore on her new position as editor of the Chicago Reader!
John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989 and still running, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. He lives in Illinois. His most recent book is From Lone Mountain, which collects stories from King-Cat Comics.
About Body Horror by Anne Elizabeth Moore:
“[D]evastating in its unwillingness to flinch … Body Horror is an incredible, touching, intelligent collection that looks beyond what’s comfortable to examine what is true.”
– Foreword, Five Star ReviewSat, Nov 1st, 7pm – Free Event
For more info:
emma(at)uncivilizedbooks(dot)com
Facebook Invite for this Event
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Matthew Thurber Reads From Art Comic 10/11
In his new book Art Comic (Drawn & Quarterly), Matthew Thurber skewers the hot mess that is the art world. From sycophantic fans to duplicitous gallerists, fatuous patrons to self-aggrandizing art stars, he lampoons each and every facet of the eminently ridiculous industry of truth and beauty. Follow Cupcake, the Matthew Barney obsessive, Epiphany née Tiffany Clydesdale, the divinely-inspired performance artist, Ivanhoe, a modern Knight is search of artistic vengeance, and his Squire, Turnbuckle. Each artist is more ridiculous than the last, yet they are tested and transformed by the even more absurd machinations of Thurber’s fantastical art world.
“If there is such planet as the Art World, then Matthew Thurber is an intergalactic ranger and Art Comic is the trippy travelogue… Take me there!”—Jim Drain
Matthew Thurber is the author of 1-800-Mice and Infomaniacs. As Ambergris and in other ensembles he has performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Hammer Museum, the Fumetto Festival, Abrons Art Center, and in an eyeglass store. He co-founded Tomato House, an art gallery in operation from 2012-2015, with Rebecca Bird.
Thursday, October 11, 7pm – Free Event
For more info:
Heres the Facebook Invite For This Event.
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New Stuff This Week
More Mini Kus! $5 each: #70 Worms, Clouds, Everything by Lote Vilma V?tina + #69 Maud by Marlene Krause + #68 Weekend by Erlend Peder Kvam + #67 Day Tour by Mariana Pita
š! Baltic Comics Magazine #32: Japan $12
Zines
Pencils and Erasers $8
Grimaldi by Dan Kelly $2
Wanderer #5 Perzine About Home Mental Health Self Care and DIY music $5
Shoes Fanzine #8 $3
End Times Time Travelers by JK Donahue $2
Drunk in My Pants #1 $1
To From by KZW $3
Grrrl Power by Kevynne $5
Body Like Mine on Being Queer Poly and Fat by Jared Rourke $5
Says Who? zines, $2 each – famous compiled quotes from various folks like RuPaul, Angela Davis, Jello Biafra and more!
Never Out Hustled by Anja Morell $4
Comics
Paper Cinema #1 & #2 by Pip Craighead $2, $4
Hacksler #2 by Michael Hacker $8
Captivity by Xiang Yata $10
Graphic Novels
Lost in the Fun Zone by Leif Goldberg (2D Cloud) $19.95
Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels (Lions Forge) $19.99
Nocturne by Tara Booth (2D Cloud) $14.95
Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly) $49.95 – The collected edition!
or perhaps you already have the first 2 collected volumes…
Berlin 3: City of Light by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95 – The conclusion!Super Weird Heroes: Preposterous but True!, ed. by Craig Yoe $39.99
Beaverton 2200 Part One Night Time Science by Charlie Bewer $15
Ankle Biters by Ali Alongi $20
Art & Design
That Was the Answer: Interviews With Ray Johnson by Julie J. Thomson (Soberscove Press) $20
Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan $19.99
Politics, Revolution & Essay
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totaltarianism: The Manifesto Series vol 1 by McSweneeys $9.99 – 22 pieces from various enraged poets, novelists, actors, activists and more.
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young $18
The Failure of Nonviolence by Peter Gelderloos (Left Bank Books) $16
Letters of Insurgents, as Told by Fredy Perlman by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vachek (Left Bank Books) $20
Music Books
Rock’n’Roll Decontrol: A Punk Pic and Flyer Collection by David A. Ensminger $10 – Flyers and photos spanning as far back as the 80s of bands like SNFU, Bad Religion, Against Me!, MDC, Agent Orange, 7 Seconds, Snapcase, the Freeze, TSOL, Suicidal Tendencies, Off! and dozens more, compiled by the editor of Left of the Dial.
Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices by Matthew Cutter $27 – An authorized bio.
Drugs
Weed All About It: A Guide to Growing, Rolling, Smoking, and Eating Your Green by Danny Mallo $12.95
Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #423 $4.99
Bitch #80 $7.95
Hello Mr #10 $20 – The final issue!
Juxtapoz #207 $9.99
The Baffler #41 $14
Shindig #82 $13.99
Nostalgia Digest Fall 18 $4.50Poetry & Lit Journals
Drenched Poems by Cynthia Gallaher $12
Buddy #2 $10
Chirp by Greg Zorko $10
Sexxxy
Elska #19 London $18.50
Other Stuff
The Verso Radical Diary 2019 Weekly Planner $19.95
Hate Baby Comix Stickers Satanas Sheet by Corinne Halbert $10
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New Stuff This Week
Looky all these new gifty things. Perhaps you want to start your holiday shopping now?
Brooklyn Joe Lieber: American Tattoo Master by Don Ed Hardy (Hardy Marks) $50 – Brooklyn Joe Lieber (1888-1953) was a mentor for Sailor Jerry Collins. Though born in Brooklyn, Lieber moved to the S.F. Bay area and spent most of his career there. Sharing a powerful near-identical drawing and painting style, he and Collins originated and traded hundreds of designs. This book features Lieber’s brilliant and influential flash and drawings, equal in scope to those of Sailor Jerry.Zines
Black Bean Zine #4 $5
Handmade Nothings by Michael Seidenfeld and Rachel R. Adler $5
Comedy Cult by JK Donahue $.85
updated versions of Kelly Dessaint’s Behind the Wheel/Pitdownlad zines $7 each, about being a Lyft/Uber/cab driver
TBMR #4-#6 by Vice Lesley $4-$5
Weather Reports vol 2 Cold Snaps by Veronica Graham $15
Comics & Minis
This is My Second Diary Comic by Michaela Washington $5
Graphic Novels
Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge $22.95 – Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.Tumult by John Harris Dunning (Selfmadehero) $25.99
RX by Rachel Lindsay $28 – The cartoonist behind Rachel Lives Here Now draws on her experiences with bipolar disorder in a graphic memoir about how mental illness treated as a commodity.
The Whistling Factory by Jesse Mcmanus (Uncivilized Books) $29.95
Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. the Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Penguins by Nick Thorburn (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – By The Unicorns singer.
Permanent Press by Luke Healy (Avery Hill) $14.99
H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness by Alex Nikolavitch / Gervasio $25.95 – As in the life story of.
Other People: Days of the Bagnold Summer & Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart $25
Tank Girl: The Wonderful World of Tank Girl by Alan Martin $22.99 – From the latest in the series.
Life on Earth 1: Losing the Girl by MariNaomi $11.99 – Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest.
Is This the Right Color to Prove I Don’t Have a Shitty Life by Jon Michael Frank $20
Politics, Revolution, Essay
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale $17.95 – The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself.
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $15.95 Among other things, explores the way name-changing shapes the perception of political life, electoral politics, police shootings, gentrification, climate change and more.
A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement With Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women by Phyllis Chesler $27.99 – A pioneer of Second Wave Feminism describes her relationships with her fellow world-changers as they filed lawsuits on economic discrimination, opened shelters for battered women, and held marches and sit-ins for abortion rights.
Time and Time Again by John Zerzan (Detritus Books) $12
Art Books
Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet Era Postcards from the Eastern Bloc, ed. by Damon Murray (Fuel) $32.50
Glorious Attitude / Fra32 by Domenico De Girolamo / Andrew Dale (Whole Train Press // GLOBCOM) $37.95 – About FRA32, one of the most prolific Italian graffiti writers.
The Land of Stone Flowers: A Fairy Guide to the Mythical Human Being by Sveta Dorosheva $29.95 – Fairy tales with a satirical twist.
Far Near vol 1 On Movement by Lucia Gioiello $24.99
Music & Film Books
The Bollocks Diaries 1977: Never Mind the Bollocks by Pat Gilbert $34.99 – To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s the inside story of the year that changed everything – as told by the Sex Pistols, filled with first-hand stories of secret gigs, fights, meltdowns and a media storm unlike no other.Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Mondo Film Lens by Mark Goodall (Headpress) $22.95 – Featuring Gualtiero Jacopetti, J.G. Ballard, rare photographs, stills, posters, record sleeves and more.
America 51: A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside “the Greatest Country in the World” by Corey Taylor $15.99 – The guy from Slipknot and Stone Sour skewers the way America sees itself, and likewise takes a look at how the world views us.
Outer Limits & Mayhem
Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms by Brad Steiger (Visible Ink Pr) $19.95
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow $19.99
The Practical Witch’s Spell Book: For Love, Happiness, and Success by Cerridwen Greenleaf $17
Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City by Phil Stanford (Feral House) $17.95 – Portland’s biggest dirty little secret: The untold story behind the Great Portland Vice Scandal of 1956-57.
Bigfoot Nation: The History of Sasquatch in North America by David Hatcher Childress (Adventures Unlimited) $22
Ancient Aliens & JFK: The Race to the Moon and the Kennedy Assassination by Mike Bara (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
DIY
99 Ways to Make a Pipe: Problem Solving for Pot Smokers by Brett Stern $10.95
This Is Your Brain on Depression: Creating a Path to Getting Better by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $9.95
Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard by Madrone Stewart (Microcosm) $9.95
Unfuck Your Adulting: Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don’t Be a Dick, Make Decisions, & Other Life Skills by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $9.95
Fiction
Americas New Order by SD Johnson $15
Magazines
Record Culture Magazine #5 $20
Fashion Projects #5 $10
Poetry
Evolution by Eileen Myles (Grove Press) $25
Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri (Haymarket) $16
Smile of a Crocodile by Vice Lesley $12
Humor
The Wrong Book by HuskMitNavn (Gingko Press) $12.95
For the Kiddies
We Are All Me by Jordan Crane $12.95
Hilda and the Hidden People by Stephen Davies (Flying Eye) $13.95
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September Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available
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CHIPRC's Zine Zine Club: Postmarked Edition, Meets at Quimby's Sept 11th!
CHIPRC is closing, so Zine Zine Club is moving to Quimby’s for the September meeting!
Long before the Internet was a thing, far-flung zinesters exchanged zines via postal mail. For many of us, the thrill of finding zines in our mailbox is just as potent as ever.
This month the book club-style event for people who read zines will be talking about zines received in the mail. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are invited to bring your favorite titles that you’ve bought or traded online from an individual zinemaker, distro, or zine shop. BYOZ and join the discussion about which zines are worth paying extra for postage!
There will also be a Blind Zine Swap, so please bring a zine (wrapped up or concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot this month.
This event will be led by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia Elizabeth Hanifin.
Tuesday, September 11th, 6:30pm
Here’s the Facebook invite for this event!