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The Rose That Grew From Concrete Video Installation Unveiled In Our Window!
Welcome to our new window installation by Chicago-based artist Vincent Hung. He’s been exhibiting this video installation The Rose That Grew From Concrete in various venues around the city including Meyvn, Jugrnaut, Maybe Sunday and more. Quimby’s is its Wicker Park venue. Come visit it and watch the TVs change!
Vincent Hung (b. 1993) received his BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. vincenthung.com
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New Stuff This Week
Garfield Solves a Rubiks Cube While Bob, Jon and Homer Have an Orgy by Wizardskull $10.00 – Make your Monday better with this hilarious lasagna platter full of different artists realizing Wizardskull’s dirty, dirty vision!
*ZINES*
Brainscan #33 DIY Witchery by Alex Wrekk $5.00
Burrs and the Beans #2 A Cherry Plucked Coffee Shop Erotica by BJ Hillis $5.00
zines by Sage Liskey (Rad Cat Press):
The Motivation to Write $5.00 – With an abridged history of advancements in writing.
The Happiest Choice: Condensed Edition $7.00 – Activities to do, foods to eat, thoughts to think, nutrients to fortify.
Do You See Any Fucks Growing In My Garden? A Poem $2.50Bohzine #1 $20.00 – The LGBTQA creative arts quarterly zine.
Australian Ugliness by Woytek Mocko $6.00 – Photos!
Free Ass Mag #4 $15.00 – As in “Free Association,” pervos. This issue: Home.
Feel Good by Nicole Jakus $2.00
119 Replies by Mike Bremmer $3.00
Death Fight by John Maggie $6.00
Sara McHenry zines, $3.00 each (These are hilarious. Don’t miss ’em!)
Listless #1 & #2
Hard to Love #1 & #2
Tom McHenry comics, $5.00 each:
Luxury #1 by
Unchecked Economics #2 by Tom McHenry $5.00Tiny Splendor zines/comics:
Kewpiedex Anthology Drawing Zine $8.00 – Kewpie illustrations by 30 artists including Cynthia Navarro, Never Brush My Teeth, Niña Piña Por Vida, Adrian Rotzscher & more!
B.I. BUKE by Michael Olivo $12.00
Old Grudge by Sanaa Khan $8.00
I Don’t Need Eyes Lindsay Anne Watson $12.00
Punks and Portraits San Francisco 1979 by John Roberts $15.00
Hunk by Lindsay Anne Watson $10.00*COMICS & MINIS*
New Comics #10 by Patrick Kyle $5.00
BGOK #1 Foodge is the Fututre by City of Giants $6.00
Casino Knights by Enrique Guerra $5.00
Dale by Kyle Howard Couture $2.00
Comics from Johnny Sampson (Slow Leak Press):
Slow Leak $20.00
Truly MADly $10.00Mini-Comics from Gabriel Martinez, $5.00 each:
Soledad
Maybe Tomorrow
Bottomed Out Brake Line Smashed Flat*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
My Pretty Vampire by Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics) $19.99
The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Comics that made Crumb famous ? against his will. First time in hardcover!
The End of The Fucking World by Charles Forsman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Fancy hardback version. Y’know, so you can say you’re cool and that you read TEOTFW before the Netflix series came out!
Ladies In Waiting by Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Fantasy Sports 3: The King in Green by Sam Bosma $19.95 – Wiz and Mug are back for another magical adventure as they continue their quests for the mighty Order of Mages!
Close Enough for the Angels by Paul Madonna (Petty Curse Books) $34.99 – Emit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it’s twenty years later, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner, stardom has found him once again. Paired with over a hundred lush and haunting drawings from Thailand to Japan.
Unreal City by D.J. Bryant (Fantagraphics) $16.99
MOONSHOT vol 2: The Indigenous Comics Collection ed. by Hope Nicholson (Alternate History Comics) $17.99 – More original comic book stories, written by Indigenous authors from across North America.
Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines, ed. by Craig Yoe and Ger Apeldoorn (Yoe Books) $34.99 – 200 pages of never reprinted material from MAD Mag from Al Jaffee, Joe Kubert, Basil Wolverton, Steve Ditko & more!
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
Art Forms in Nature Coloring Book by Ernst Haeckel $16.95 Also new!: Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature Sticker Book! $7.95 – Get yr flora n fauna on!
Edward Gorey Coloring Book $14.95
Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds Boxed Notecard Assortment $15.95 – Also in stock! Tony Fitzpatrick box of Thank You cards $8.95
Figure Artists Book of Anatomical Landscapes $24.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change by Noam Chomsky, interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket/TruthOut) $16.95
Sinister Wisdom A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal by Julie R. Enszer $12.00
Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens by Art Levine $30.00
Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance, edited by Ajamu Nangwaya and Michael Truscello (AK Press) $18.95
The Fidel Castro Reader, edited by David Deutschmann $21.95
*ESSAYS*
After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) $24.95 – The first fully authorized biography about the late iconic experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. Uses exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with colleagues and friends.
Little Boxes: 12 Writers on Television by Caroline Casey (Coffee House Press) $16.95 – What happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they’re more Magnum PI that Marcel Proust.
Against Everything: Essays by Mark Grief $17.00 – Now in soft cover.
*MUSIC & MOVIE BOOKS*
Devotion by Patti Smith (Yale U Press) $18.00 – Part of Why I Write series. An inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.
My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory by Roger Miret with Jon Wiederhorn (Lesser Gods) $26.00
The Mudd Club by Richard Bock (Feral House) $24.95 – Artist, writer and lifelong New Yorker Richard Boch was the Mudd Club’s longtime alpha doorman, the club that served as an incubator for talent. Everyone made an appearance, from Basquiat & Johnny Rotten to The Hell’s Angels, passing through, passing out, and some, passing on. Marianne Faithful and Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, and even Kenneth Anger? just a few of the names that stepped on stage.
I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan $27.00 – A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale.
Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell $27.99 – Evil Dead-famed actor’s follow up to If Chin’s Could Kill.
Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America by Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder (MIT Press) $34.95 – A discussion of nearly 150 vintage album covers such as Cocktail Time, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies and Strings for a Space Age.
It’s Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters by Daniel Finamore and Joseph E. LeDoux $30.00
*OUTER LIMITS*
The Voynich Manuscript: The Complete Edition of the World’s Most Mysterious and Esoteric Codex by Dr. Stephen Skinner (Watkins Publishing) $25.95 – An extensively illustrated codex featuring cosmological and astrological diagrams interwoven with detailed herbal illustration, relating both to the magical and alchemic view of the universe, written in a strangely beautiful cryptographic script.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood $16.00
*FICTION*
Dig by Emma Wong $8.00
*HUMOR*
Sh*t My President Says: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump by Shannon Wheeler (Top Shelf) $14.99
Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems by Adam Ehrlich Sachs $12.99 – 100+ hilarious variations of vexing relationships between fathers and sons: a famous medium becomes possessed by the spirit of his skeptical father. A pianist amputates his fingers one by one to thwart his father, who will not stop composing concertos for him. A nobleman wills his ill-conceived flying contraption–incapable of actual flight–to his newborn son. A witty look at a most serious subject.
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom’s, which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black $16.00
Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker by various $9.95 – A drinker’s crown of sorrow is remembering wetter days! Part of London Library’s ‘Found on the Shelves’ series that reprints weirdly (ir)relevant tracts of quaint days past.
*MAGAZINES*
Fortean Times #356 Aug 17 Featuring the Cottingley Faries $12.50
Frankie #78 $14.95
Wire #402 Aug 17 Circle $10.99
AdBusters #133 vol 25 #5 Sep Oct 17 $14.95
Cabinet #63 The Desert $12.00
*LIT JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*
The Point #14 Sum 17 Darkness Enlightened $14.99
Escape From the Hood IV by Lita $3.00
Having Given Up Poems by Emily Hutchings $5.00
Flowers of Anti Martyrdom by Dorian Geisler (McSweeneys) $22.00
Chatter Box, various issues by Pulp Labs $5.00 each
Bushwick Review #7 $10.00
*CALENDARS*
Rally 2018 Nikki Mcclure Calendar $18.00
Moleskine 2018 planners! Different variations, sizes, colors and prices!
*STICKERS*
Skull Romance Sticker by Corinne Halbert $3.00
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Quimby's Opens Wicker Park Lit Fest: 3 Songs with Jonas, Marc Lazar, Kathy Moseley & The Blue Ribbon Glee Club 9/14
Quimby’s is proud to to open this year’s Wicker Park Lit Fest with 3 Songs, the reading series that combines words and music, during a festival that celebrates this neighborhood’s rich legacy of literature and entertainment in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. WP Lit fest continues through the 17th at a variety of venues around Wicker Park!
Three writers read one piece each, and each song is performed by Chicago’s only a cappella punk rock group The Blue Ribbon Glee Club. BRGC regularly performs songs by Fugazi, Gang of Four, the Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks and more.
Readers featuring their work at this performance:
Jonas, zinester – “Words and Guitar” by Sleater-Kinney
Marc Lazar, performer – “Glad Girls” by Guided By Voices
Kathy Moseley, zinester – “Dress” by PJ Harvey
Jonas writes zines and stuff. He wrote a long zine about punks and parenthood called Cheer the Eff Up, and a whole lot of other zines he probably can’t remember at the moment. They’re all probably also about punks and parenting in some stupid way. He also wrote a novel called The Greatest Most Traveling Circus. He lives here in Chicago with his wife and two little minions. He likes music a whole lot. The song he picked is “Words and Guitar,” but he almost picked David Bowie’s “Suffragette City” because aaaaaawwwwwwwww WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA’AM!
Marc Lazar works with adults with autism, and is a storyteller, former journalist, and member of BRGC. He is a fan of books, TV shows, and music about outsiders and misfits (including The Misfits), and recently discovered the joys of vegan elote pizza. (It’s better than it sounds, but kind of messy!)
Kathy Moseley has been publishing the zine SemiBold since the last century, is a 15-year-old girl living in the body of a 50-year-old woman. She blogs at semibold.wordpress.com.
Here’s the Facebook event invite to SHARE that you’re coming!
#WPLITFEST
#mychicagobookstore
facebook.com/blueribbongleeclub
Read local + shop small!
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Coco Picard presents "Autobiography with Stones" from The Chronicles of Fortune 9/22
On Friday, September 22nd at 7pm, Coco Picard presents “Autobiography with Stones” a diagrammed artist talk about rocks, foreign encounters, and possible futures. This performative lecture is based on a dream Picard had in which the protagonist of her graphic novel, The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017), is hired by the government to psychoanalyze non-human kinds in a post-apocalyptic world. Picard explores the potential of this prospective narrative in relation to famous rocks she has encountered and Dr. Rock, her exhibition at Franklin Gallery where visitors were invited to tell their troubles to a stone. Following the lecture, Picard will sign copies of her graphic novel.
Originally published as a series of minicomics, The Chronicles of Fortune is a quirky and idiosyncratic adventure of Fortuna, the greatest superhero who could do anything to improve the world (and her alter-ego, Edith-May) but is tragically stricken with ennui, as they learn to cope with loss and recruit a team of friends along the way. At once charming, sad, funny, poignant, and bizarre, The Chronicles of Fortune includes a temperamental stove, a nosy mountain, a goofy crocodile, a loner moth, and a singing goldfish as they lead Fortuna on her greatest adventure.
Coco Picard is an artist, writer and curator based out of Chicago where she founded The Green Lantern Press and co-founded Sector 2337. Her critical writing appears under the name Caroline Picard in Art21, Artforum, Artslant, and Hyperallergic. Astrophil Press recently published her long-form cat essay, The Strangers Among Us and forthcoming novel, TSK, is due out from Goldwake Press in 2019. cocopicard.com
The Chronicles of Fortune is the first book published by Radiator Comics, a comics distributor run by former Quimby’s employee Neil Brideau, also a founding member of Chicago Zine Fest and CAKE [the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo]. radiatorcomics.com
Praise for The Chronicles of Fortune
“In the guise of a fantastical hero comedy, The Chronicles of Fortune is a story about succumbing to and triumphing over loss and grief in all its forms…” – Hyperallergic
“…each facet of [The Chronicles of Fortune’s] publication illustrates how, when publishers, distributors, and creators are truly invested in a work, the result will be wonderful.”-Women Write About Comics
“The Chronicles Of Fortune stands as a confirmation of the misfit’s path in life. Not only is it okay to be different, it’s okay to look like a failure in the eyes of others. Who cares? Just you, you’re the only one who needs to care. And are you happy? That seems to be what Picard is asking.” – Comics Beat
“Edith May/Fortuna’s urban adventures are reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland’s vignettes. With the appearance of Death as the ultimate foe, Picard creates a superhero with emotional resonance and a deeply empathetic story of one woman re-entering the world.” – Chicago Artist Writers
“You should buy The Chronicles of Fortune, read it, then share it with someone you love.” – Entropy
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Poet Carrie McGath Reads From Her New Chapbook, Dollface: Poem-Songs 9/7
Carrie McGath’s new chapbook, Dollface: Poem-Songs (self-published), is comprised of lyrical strains representing conversations between Surrealist artists, Hans Bellmer and Unica Zürn. After studying the work of these artists and their tumultuous love affair that ended with Zürn jumping out of the window of Bellmer’s Paris apartment, these poem-songs started to come to life for McGath. In addition to the poems that make up Dollface, collage emerged as well as an amalgam of work by Bellmer and Zürn commingled with McGath’s.
“Dark, playful, and startling, these poems read like a lucid dream hovering at the edge of nightmare; no, not nightmare. Ecstasy. They feel their way around staircases, ribcage muscles, gray smoke, rolling pins – oh, the “hard, cold, beautiful” rolling pin. McGath invites us to the recesses wher e bodies revise, scatter, retrograde, reify: ‘Touch,’ she writes, ‘Your hearts are hot.’ Indeed, there is much to feel, face, and reface in these irresistible pages.” –Kathleen Blackburn, Essayist and PhD in the UIC Program for Writers
Carrie McGath’s first collection of poetry, Small Murders (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2006) was followed by several handmade chapbooks including So Sorry to See You Go and Ward Eighty-One. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Chariton Review, Barrow Street, The Hiram Poetry Review, Nude Bruce Review, and others. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is at work on her second full-length poetry collection, The Luck of Anhedonia. She is also an arts contributor to Chicagoist and resides in Chicago.
For more info: carriemcgath.com
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Thurs, Sept 7th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Mike Diana: RIP by Mike Diana (Divus Adventure) $44.00 – A new book of horror, fun, unexpected adventure and disaster from Mike Diana?an internationally known underground cartoonist, and the only artist in America to have received a criminal conviction for artistic obscenity. His run-ins with the law have seemed to have the opposite of the intended effect; since first arriving on the scene in the 1990s with his (in)famous Boiled Angel magazine, Diana has only refined and expanded his vision of a culture engorged and overloaded on greed and violence.
*ZINES*
Xerography Debt #41 $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies!
If You See Something Sketch Something #1 by Jason Das $10.00 – 56 pages of beautiful sketchbooking in a variety of media. Featuring images from life drawing class, the Chicago L, cafes, restaurants, the woods, and the beach. -Lane
Spirit House #3 by Rylan Thompson $10.00
Anything that Can Go Wrong #3 by Mia Cruz $3.00
My Fav Comics: A drawing zine by CHIPRC $1.00
What Had They Done by Baillie Vensel $5.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Slasher #3 by Charles Forsman $4.99
Love and Rockets Magazine #3 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99
Comic School USA, various issues, by Kevin Huizenga and his comics classes, $5.00 each
Blind Justice #1 All Time Comics by Josh Bayer and Benjamin Marra (Fantagraphics) $3.99
Stripburger #69 $8.00 – The latest issue of this Slovenian anthology delivers 96 pages of comics from fascinating creators around the globe! Spanish and Brazilian artists are featured most prominently in this issue, plus a 12-page miniature fold-in zine with an in-depth interview with Kus! Much of the text in this issue is in Slovenian, but the comics and the Kus! interview are in English. -Lane
Gas Water Nothing, various issues by Jason Das, $2.00-$4.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Not My Small Diary #19 Unexplained Events by Delaine Derry Green $7.00 – Comics anthology with 43 artists on UFOs, ghosts, curses, superstitions, coincidences too strange to believe, and more! Work from Carrie McNinch, Liz Prince, J.T. Yost, John Porcellino, MariNaomi & more!
The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond (D+Q) $29.95 – A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism, in the confines of restaurant culture composed of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps of Oakland in the late 70s.
Education by John Hankiewicz (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00 – A father and son road trip as depicted in a surreal and experimental graphic novel.
A Castle in England by Jamie Rhodes (Nobrow) $19.95 – Inspired by Scotney Castle in Kent, this is a collaboration between writer Jamie Rhodes and five different artists (Isaac Lenkiewicz, Briony May Smith, William Exley, Becky Palmer, and Isabel Greenberg).
Paper Girls vol 3 by Brian K. Vaughan & friends $12.99 – Now in paperback!
Otherworld Barbara vol 2 by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Conclusion of the shojo manga pioneer’s sci-fi mystery.
*ART & DESIGN*
Just to Cover the Cost of Printing: My First Coloring Book by Aaron Romaine $15.00
Metal Cats Coloring Book by Alexandra Crockett $9.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie $21.00
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny $27.00
*ESSAYS*
I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman $16.00 – From the daughter of Francoise Mouly (and Art Spiegelman).
*FICTION*
Eat Only When You’re Hungry: A Novel by Lindsay Hunter $25.00
Grip of It: A Novel by Jac Jemc $15.00
One Night by Deanna Cabinian (Timpi Publishing) $12.99
*MUSIC BOOKS*
From the Inside by John Henry Timmis IV (Featherproof) $14.95 – Writings about his time in the famed Menninger Foundation psych clinic, from the late troubled Drag City musician (of J.T. IV) and filmmaker. With a foreward by Steve “Plastic Crimewave” Krakow.
*DIY*
How to Change the World Pocket Guide $4.00
Power of the Seed: Your Guide to Oils for Health & Beauty by Susan M Parker (Process) $19.95
*SEXXXY*
Phile #1 The International Journal of Desire and Curiosity $20.00
Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez Purnell (Feminist Press) $17.95 – He’s a slut. He’s a nerd. He’s a waiter, bored at work. This is his diary. A dirty cult-classic!
*FOLKLORE n GHOST STORIES*
Sea Girl: Feminist Folktales from Around the World, edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps & illustrated by Suki Boynton (Feminist Press) $14.95
Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities by Hamish Steele (Nobrow Press) $22.95 – Incest! Decapitation! Suspicious salad! Fighting hippos! All illustrated!
Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age by Various $22.95
*MAGAZINES*
Maximumrocknroll #410 Aug 17 $4.99
Juxtapoz #200 Sep 17 $6.99
Razorcake #99 Bad Sports $4.00
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New Stuff This Week
So What If It’s True from the Notebooks of Lorri Jackson (Thrice Publishing) $10.95
*ZINES*
PWF Pro Wrestling Feelings #5 by Ed Blair $5.00 – A fanzine devoted to articulating and unpacking the emotional resonance of the greatest sport of all time.
Drome #1 Win 16 $15.00
Lady holistic healing zines:
Queen Anne’s Lace as Herbal Fertility Management $6.00
Holistic Healing After a Miscarriage by Samantha Zipporah and Molly Dutton-Kenny $9.00
Holistic Healing after Abortion $9.00Sick Muse #8 Jul 17 by Noah Jones $5.00
At Work with Thomas Kong by Dan Miller with Illustrations by Ruby T (Half Letter Press/Temporary Services/Self-Reliance Library) $8.00 – Visual display, documentation and writing about back room of a food stuff in Chicago that houses the many projects of collaborative artists. Collages of business cards, shopping baskets and more!
*COMICS & MINIS*
Mutations #3 by Elsa Trash $5.00
Trick by Burn Bjoern $2.00
In This by Marie Vermont $5.00
Hang On by Perk Up $5.00
Nachste Seite by Max Freuno (Soybot) $4.00
Frankie Comics #4 by Rachel Dukes $3.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Upgrade Soul #3 by Ezra Claytan Daniels $15.00
Sharkman vol 1 Sharkman Vs the Illuminati by Leo Mancini $14.00
*ESSAYS*
Cursed in Cairo by Chris Clavin $13.00
*SEXXXY*
Re Marks Remarks by Dutes Miller $8.00
*MAGAZINES*
Lula #24 Sum Fall 17 Girl of My Dreams $18.99
Mojo #285 Aug 17 Jimi Hendrix $10.99
Offscreen #17 The Human Side of Technology $20.00
True Crime Detective Monthly Jul 17 $9.99
*POETRY & CHAP BOOKS*
Gold Leafing by Hannah Aenene $10.00
Sea Shells Soulful Journeys by Archita Buch $10.00
Omen Amen by Morgan Eldridge (Monster House Press) $12.00
Golden Wedding Whiskey by Suzanna Zak $15.00
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Quimby’s Welcomes Four Midwest Authors: Berg, Fouts, Krecklow, & Tanzer 8/25
Four Midwest Authors to Read From Their Most Recent Work at Quimby’s 8/25:
Berg, Fouts, Krecklow, & Tanzer Converge in ChicagoIn Lee L. Krecklow’s debut novel The Expanse Between when former writer and social recluse Thomas Stone witnesses through his window a violent fight between his neighbor and her boyfriend, the scene ignites memories that, years earlier, inspired his only celebrated novel.
With Seth Berg’s Aviary, written with Bradford Wolfenden II, two poets enter, one voice exits. Collaborative poetry is a conversation and when it’s done right it feels both unique to the individual poets and a comfortable fit with their solo work.
From Ben Tanzer comes a memoir about one of life’s true complexities: being cool. Written in touching vignettes, like snapshots of history, Tanzer eloquently illuminates his past with humor and resolve. Be Cool is a confession to a generation of readers, done so with acute precision and utmost trust.
Seth Berg is a hatchet-wielding forest-dweller who digs tasty hallucinatory literature. His second book, Aviary, was released by Civil Coping Mechanisms in January of 2017.
Tasha Fouts poems have appeared in Salt Hill, Bateau, and Birds Piled Loosely. She currently co-hosts the Soundcloud podcast Adventures in Television.
Lee L. Krecklow is the author of The Expanse Between (Winter Goose Publishing, 2017). He won the 2016 storySouth Million Writers Award for his story The Son of Summer and Eli.
Ben Tanzer is the author of the newly released book Be Cool – a memoir (sort of), among others. He also oversees the lifestyle empire This Blog Will Change Your Life.Here’s the Facebook invite for this event!
Fri, Aug 25th 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Infernal Grotesque: Classical Paintings Of Hell, Demons, Witchcraft & Death by Gianfranco Sodoma (Deicide Press) $34.95 – From the Illuminated Masters series that collects images from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, steeped in beautiful horror, swirling with bizarre and hallucinatory nightmare. These images from 1400-1700 feature landscapes of Hell populated by demons, twisted monsters and the bloody tortures of the damned; saints tormented by infernal visions of devils, sin and the corruption of the flesh; witches’ sabbats of baby-eating, corpse resurrection and bestial fornication; and, finally, grim evocations of death, scattered with skulls, as a warning against earthly avarice and pride.
*ZINES*
Library Excavations #6 Notice to the Trade $6.00
East Village Inky #58 Harlem by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Kaleidoscope of Flies #1 $10.00
Momlove by Matan Oren $8.00
Purple Myrtle Squeegy, various issues, $1.50 each
Absurdly Yours #3 $1.00
Urban Guerrilla #19 $10.00
Razorblades and Aspirin #1 $8.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Comics by Rachel Bard $5.00 each: Burning Out, Changelings
Sweaty vol 2 by Caroline Cash $12.00 – The second collection of hilarious short comics from local favorite Caroline Cash. Come for the examination of shoujo manga tropes, stay for the hilarious misuse of Hulu’s one-month free trial policy (a helpful takeaway!). Also features cool exploded anatomical renderings and creepy-cute corgis. -Lane
Comics by Conor Stechschulte: Fence $5.00, Tintering $8.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven & Ben Nadler (Princeton University Press) $22.95 – Delightful intro to 16th-century philosophy by local father-son duo!
Architecture of an Atom by Juliacks (2dcloud) $44.95
Demon vol 3 by Jason Shiga $19.99 – The continuing adventures of Jimmy Yee, who finds immortality is dull.
Black Science TPB vol 6 Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera $16.99
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
Feeling is Mutual by Rebecca Memoli $15.00
*FICTION*
The Empty Ones: A Novel by Robert Brockway $14.99 – In The Vicious Circuit series about mysterious angel-like creatures and cult activity.
*OUTER LIMITS*
Ancient Alien Ancestors: Advanced Technologies That Terraformed Our World by Will Hart $20.00 – Explores evidence for the theory of directed panspermia–that life on Earth and the landscape of Earth itself was engineered by extraterrestrials.
The Noble English Art of Self-Defence by Ned Donnelly (Pushkin Press) $9.95 – From The London Library series that reprints hilarious older books with outdated preposterousness. This one: 19th century boxing instructor with charming illustrations of a slightly paunchy boxer.
*MAGAZINES*
Bust #106 Aug Sep 17 Gina Rodriguez $6.99
Offscreen #17 The Human Side of Technology $20.00
Make vol 58 Aug Sep 17 The Community Issue $12.95
Fortean Times #355 Jul 17 $12.50
Fader #110 July Aug 17 Summer Music Issue $6.99
*CHAP BOOKS*
Golden Wedding Whiskey by Suzanna Zak $15.00
I Miss You With All 8000 Nerves of my Clitoris by Kay Kron $3.00
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Off-site! Humboldt Park Mini-Com
And Quimby’s will be tabling!
Come one come all to the Humboldt Park Mini-Con! This all-day event will feature tables, lectures, workshops, crafts, games, story times, screenings, and so much more, all about your favorite comics, shows, movies, and fandoms. Come dressed up as your favorite character, and be prepared to have fun!
Featuring:
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Corinne Mucha
Brown and Proud Press
Zach Lehner
Quimby’s Bookstore
Challengers Comics
LMC Chicago
Oliv Roe
Patrick Chengand more!
Note: It’s at the Humboldt Park Library, NOT Quimby’s. The Humboldt Park Library is located at: 1605 N Troy St, Chicago, Illinois 60647.