Charles R. Childs Panoramas: A Panoramic Construction of the Images of Charles R. Childs by Perry Casalino $20 – From 1907 to 1912, Charles R. Childs produced over 5,400 individual photographic views of Chicago for use as picture postcards. Charles R. Childs Panoramas is a collection of whimsical panoramic views using Childs’ postcards. These constructions give a sense of place never before seen in vintage Chicago photography.
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Music Men Ruined For Me by Alison Lang $10
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BYOC Build Your Own Chimera: A Guide to Creature Invention by Jam $1
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Every Drop Counts by Tori Holder $5
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Nothing Nice to Say: Complete Discography by Mitch Clem (Silver Sprocket) $24.99
Mort Gerberg on the Scene by Mort Gerberg (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Journey Into the Unknown by Randi Drozd $20
Through a Life by Tom Haugomat (Nobrow) $18.95
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The Anarchist Encyclopedia edited by Sébastien Faure (AK Press) $22
Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson (Haymarket) $21.95
Don’t Shoot I Want to Live: Gun Violence In America by Tyshondra Barnes $5.99
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Unnatural Selections: The Artwork of Tiffany Bozic by Tiffany Bozic / Mary Ellen Hannibal (Gingko) $45
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Up Up, Down Down: Essays by Cheston Knapp $16
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Same Same by Peter Mendelsund $17.95
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Charlie Jane Anders & A. Merc Rustad (One World Classics) $17
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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever by Geoff Edgers $27
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On Drinking by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto $26.99
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Paper Animals: Fox, Deer, Meerkat and Bear Family by Paperwolf (Gingko) $24.95
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Bloom Magazine Aug 18 $12
God Made Dirt Dirt Don’t Hurt by B. Traverse $3
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Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $14.95
In Is This How You See Me?, Maggie and Hopey get the band back together — literally. Now middle-aged, they leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to reluctantly attend a punk rock reunion in their old neighborhood. The present is masterfully threaded with a flashback set in 1979, during the very formative stages in Maggie and Hopey’s lifelong friendship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is expertly juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. The result is no sentimental victory lap, however — this is one of the great writers of literary fiction at the peak of his powers, continuing to scale new heights as an artist.
In Christina Ward’s new book