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Offsite: Field Notes Zine Night 4/27 at Field Notes Midwest HQ
Swing by and enjoy an evening of zines, prints, and self-published art from a selection of local vendors.
Beer from Half Acre and soft drinks will be on tap while you browse wares, try your hand at the “Make Your Own Zine Table,” and trade with other collectors.
VENDORS
At Field Notes Midwest HQ at 401 North Racine Avenue in Chicago (NOT AT QUIMBY’S).
Thursday, April 27th, 6pm-10pm – FREE
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Damon Krukowski Reads from The New Analog, Joined by Bob Weston and Steve Albini 5/2
Having made his name in the late 1980s as a member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered the transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers about what we have thrown away in the process: Are our devices leaving us lost in our own headspace even as they pinpoint our location? Does the long reach of digital communication come at the sacrifice of our ability to gauge social distance? Do streaming media discourage us from listening closely? Are we hearing each other fully in this new environment? Damon Krukoswksi takes this on in The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World (The New Press, April 25, 2017). He is joined at this event by musician luminaries Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black, Electrical Audio) and Bob Weston (Shellac, Volcano Suns, Chicago Mastering Service).“Millions of music-lovers have acquiesced to the shiny juggernaut of digital-age technology without asking its economic and cultural price. Damon Krukowski is an incisive, passionate, and, above all, rational critic of this new realm. No nostalgic conservative, he offers a radical defense of analog craft in the face of the digital hard sell.”—Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise and Listen to This
Damon Krukowski was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He writes for music and art journals including Pitchfork, Artforum, frieze, and The Wire. He is the recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internetand Society at Harvard University. He has also taught writing and sound (and writing about sound) at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More info: dadadrummer.com, @dada_drummer on Twitter, thenewpress.com, or for publicity brivero(at)thenewpress(dot)com.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 7pm – Free Event. Here’s the Facebook link to Share this event!
Check out that tour poster!
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Off-Site: Quimby's Freakdom Anniversary Panel at Chicago Zine Fest!
Yeah! We’re really milkin’ that Quimby’s 25th anniversary thing. Chicago Zine Fest offers the community a way to engage and learn through a selection of workshops held during the expo, and they asked us to do a panel that celebrates the way Quimby’s has contributed to the zine community. How could we resist? So during the tabling exhibition of CZF we’ll be doing a Quimby’s panel (from noon-1pm) called “Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom: A Retrospective of Quimby’s,” taking it’s name from the oral history of the same title we published last year. The panel will feature a discussion (moderated by CZF co-organizer Alex Nall) with store founder Steven Svymbersky (and owner of Quimby’s Bookstore NYC), Quimby’s Bookstore Chicago store manager and zinester Liz Mason, with special guests, Neil Brideau (former employee and founder of Radiator Comics) and artist/photographer/Quimby’s regular customer Oscar Arriola. Come for a rousing discussion of how Quimby’s Bookstore got started, how it has evolved over the years, and how each panelist played a vital role in where it is today! Here’s the Facebook event invite for this panel to share it with all your peoples.
CZF’s tabling exhibition is Sat, May 6th at Plumbers Union Hall (1340 W Washington Blvd) – NOT AT QUIMBY’S. Quimby’s will have a table, yes! Here’s the list of other exhibitors, sponsors, and guests!
Note: this is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Plumbers Union Hall (1340 W Washington Blvd).
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New Stuff This Week
Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince (Silver Sprocket) $10.00 – A collection of comics about life through a punk-rock lens. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and almost always embarrassing, these autobiographical stories are an essential addition to your LIZ-brary. Hilarious zines by Wizardskull, $10.00 each: Pussy, Gen Xtreme Toon Boners, Slimer Blowing Gum, SeX Files Go Fuck Myself by Mike Freiheit $6.00
*ZINES*
Biff Boff Bam Sock #7 Stuff We Have From Cancer by Anna Jo Beck $5.00 – In the latest issue of Biff Boff Bam Sock, Anna Beck revisits her husband’s (and in many ways her own) recent battle with Cancer. Through a series of ink drawings of medical products, food supplements, and other necessary items which they accrued throughout their year long journey she touches on different aspects of what it was like to care for, and come to terms with this increasingly common struggle. -MC
Fuggles A Beer Zine #3 Win 17 by David Nilsen $3.50
Bookstores and Baseball 9th Inning $7.00 – What started out as a child planning a family vacation has now become a family tradition for David Labounty’s family. In Bookstores and Baseball, the author talks about exactly what it says on the tin. In the 9th Inning David, along with his now college-bound children, visits the renowned book providers, and diamonds of Texas and Alabama. Strap in and join this family tradition, and don’t distract the driver or he’ll turn this car around. -MC
Learn Arabic in 25 Years #1 Inshallah and Beyond Innocuous Arabic by Zora O’Neill $4.00
You Must Always Have a Secret Plan #9 $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Comics from Cole Johnson, $3-$5: Of Course, Twigs and Stones, The Cartoonist, Never In a Million Years, Forgotten Melody At the Edge of Memory, Beige Floral Pattern
Sweet Spot by Amy Peltz $8.00
My Comic Life by Mark McGilberry $1.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Loose 2016 by Michael Deforge $20.00 – A fantastic collection of sketchbook drawings from 2016.
All Dogs Are Dogs by Michael DeForge $3.00
2 books by Ron Rege Jr.!: What Parsifal Saw (Fantagraphics) $14.99, The Cartoon Utopia (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Audubon, On The Wings Of The World by Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer (Nobrow) $22.95
Saga TPB vol 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99
Adventure Time vol 9 Brain Robbers $14.99
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War, edited by Mark Fertig (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – An oversized compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II. a fascinating look at how legendary creators such as Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Alex Schomburg, Will Eisner, and Lou Fine entertained millions of kids on the home front and buoyed the spirits of GIs fighting overseas by using Adolf Hitler as a punching bag.
*FICTION*
Pain Center: The Novel by David G. Cookson $5.00
Hippies by Gary Gautier $10.99
Placement of Character by Brian Polk $15.00
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey by Bob Boilen $16.99
*MAGAZINES*
Hi Fructose #43 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95
Tom Tom Magazine #29 Digital Issue $10.00
International Review #158 International Communist Current Spr 17 $3.00
Gentlewoman #15 Spr Sum 17 Sofia Coppola $15.99
Mojo #281 Apr 17 $10.99
Fresh Meat #8 Of The City $15.00
Tapas #11 Spr 17 Kyle McLachlan $19.99
*POETRY & CHAP BOOKS*
On to the Next Dream by Paul Madonna $17.95
The First Line vol 19 #1 Spr 17 $4.00 – In the 58th issue of this literary journal, the premise remains the same: Nine Writers are given the same first line to a story, and the rest is up to them. Seeing way these stories branch out in infinitely disparate ways, even though they stem from the same 14 word sentence is always a treat. Pick a copy of today, and think of what you would do with that first line. -MC
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PHD Comics’ Jorge Cham & Particle Physicist Daniel Whiteson talk what we don’t know about the universe at Quimby’s 5/18
PHD Comics’ Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson are experts at explaining things. Together they bring that expertise to a book about all the things we don’t know about the universe: WE HAVE NO IDEA: A GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE (Riverhead Books). You can think of WE HAVE NO IDEA as a handy guide the universe’s biggest unknowns. Cham and Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmic knowledge armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and highly entertaining and lucid explanations of science to explore some of the biggest unknowns in the universe. Why does the universe have a speed limit? What (or who) is attacking earth with tiny, super-fast particles? What exactly is Dark Matter? And for that matter…what is matter?A delightful combination of comedy and cosmology that is as charming as it is informative.
—Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal“Accessible and hilarious (the two best things it is possible for a book to be), We Have No Idea not only explores WHAT we don’t know, but WHY we don’t know it. You’d think that’d be plenty, but Cham and Whiteson also provide the most credible and up-to-date scientific explanations as to what some of the answers to these huge (and hugely important) questions might possibly be, PLUS puns.”
—Ryan North, author of Romeo and/or Juliet and To Be or Not To BeIn WE HAVE NO IDEA, Cham & Whiteson explore why a vast portion of our universe is still a mystery, and what a lot of smart people are doing to understand it. Along the way, and with over 400 incredible, original illustrations, they illuminate everything from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes.
You may recognize Cham and Whiteson from their video about gravitational waves that went viral earlier this year, or from their individual careers. Jorge Cham is the creator of the popular online comic Piled Higher and Deeper, popularly known as PHD Comics and earned his PhD in robotics at Stanford. Daniel Whiteson is a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of California, Irvine, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He conducts research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Thurs, May 18th, 7pm – Free Event
For more info:
phdcomics.com
To interview Jorge & Daniel, contact: Al Guillen at aguillen(at)penguinrandomhouse(dot)com
Invite your friends with the Facebook event invite here!
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Quimby's Welcomes the Authors of Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock, New Wave & Noise In Milwaukee 4/29
In late-1970s Milwaukee, a compact circle of locals drew from their city’s cultural heritage, as well as the examples of New York, London and Los Angeles, to embrace the new in the form of a dynamic punk rock scene. Drawing on influences from 1960s garage rock and early ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll, Milwaukee punks created a formidable body of work. A new book published by Brickboys/Splunge Communications, Inc., tells the story in the words of the pioneers and participants.
Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock, New Wave & Noise in Milwaukee, 1964-1984 chronicles a small number of people who made history in a setting that produced internationally recognized bands such as the Violent Femmes, Die Kreuzen, Plasticland and Oil Tasters. Original interviews with such visionaries as the late Mark Shurilla and Richard LaValliere tell stories of imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and sacrifice. Compiled from hundreds of hours of interviews, Brick Through the Window brings vividly to life a short-lived period of creativity and excitement in a heartland American town that was home to a musical subculture more prolific and diverse than that of many larger cities.
And guess what? The last Saturday in April is Independent Bookstore Day (IBD), so enjoy it here with this extraordinary book! Click here for more info about taking the #MyChicagoBookstore challenge for an opportunity to get discounts on books!
“For the men and women who created the world of music in Milwaukee, the most American of cities, this book is not just an important historical document; it’s critical. Their story is told, and told well. In interviews with the players, and fantastic photos, the adventures and misadventures are chronicled with more gusto than the beer that made Milwaukee famous.” –Wayne Kramer, singer/guitarist/activist, founder, the MC5
Co-authors Steven Nodine and Eric Beaumont will celebrate the release of Brick Through the Window with a discussion and book signing, with recordings of music mentioned in the book.
For more info:
e_beaumont(at)yahoo(dot)com
Invite your friends with the Facebook invite for this event!
Sat, April 29th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
*ZINES*
Last Night at the Casino #12 Mar 17 by Billy $3.00
Absolute Hyperbole by Elora Williams $20.00
Great Catholics zine #1 by Matt Runkle $10.00
Allergy Season #3 by Tanner Ballengee $5.00
Manic Abstract Photo Zine $6.00
New stuff from Pioneers Press:
Donald Trump Almost Ate My Brain by Kurt Morris $4.00
Are You There Brian, It’s Me Moisturizer: Skincare For Spooky Kids by Julia Eff $3.00
Zine Design: Intro Tips for Comic Zines by Rayne Klar $2.50
Witch Tips For Spells or Whatever by Rayne Klar $5.00
Get Shit Done a Week Long To Do List and Planner $3.00
Gayzette #2 Women Loving Women an MHS GSA zine $3.00
Lady Bits: A Zine for Vagina Havers Anatomy Menstruation Birth Control by Rachel Rolseth $7.50
Endometriosis Its the End of the World As We Know It $2.00
Wherever We End Up a Pioneers Press Exclusive by Billy Roberts $1.00
Hex Your Ex: A Collection of Spells to Get Back At Or With That Fucker $5.00Barely Legal #2 The Daily Drawings of a Law Firms Desk Jockey by Hannah Chavez $3.00 – The second installment! Post-it notes and lined paper filled with perfectly crude ball point pen drawings of melting eyeballs and existential pontifications. Chavez shares darkly humorous vignettes of the crushing monotony of the cubicle workers day to day experience. ~CH
Femme Frick Part 1 the Bare Beginning by Laramie Moser $3.00
Sonic Meditations by Ten Deep Listeners (Temporary Services) $6.00
CHIPRC zines $2.00 each
Spooky Comics #1 by CHIPRC Drink n Draw
Why Bother A CHIPRC Drawing Zine*COMICS*
Sugar Sweet Stars By Yuliya Kholodenko $5.00
Fifty Flip Experiment #19 Mar 17 by Dan Hill $6.00
I’m So Punk a Comic About Shitty Punk Boys by Caroline $4.50
Slang Pictorial #1 & #2 by Nick Prolix $4.99 each
Spectress #0 Preview Issue $3.00
Our Fair City comics, issues #1-#5 $10.00 each
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
A Treasury of XX Century Murder Compendium I: Including The Lindbergh Child, The Axe-Man of New Orleans, and Madison Square Tragedy by Rick Geary $27.99
The Interview by Manuele Fior $24.99 – Weird triangles appear, a group of young cult types, a psychic. What else could you ask for in Italy in the year 2048?
Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story by Peter Bagge $21.95
A Process of Drastically Reducing One’s Expectations by Gabby Schulz $14.99
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui $24.95
White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh, with a Foreward by and Seth Tobocman $19.95
Nat Turner by Kyle Baker $18.95
The Draw Of Sport by Murray Olderman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
*ART & DESIGN*
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto by David Shrigley $35.00
*MAYHEM*
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe $26.99
Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi $26.99
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie by Sean Egan $18.99 – Now in soft cover.
Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles by William McKeen $26.99
Damn Son Where Did You Find This?: A Book about US Hiphop Mixtape Cover Art by Tobias Hansson and Michael Thorsby $40.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone $35.00
Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual by Jeremy Brecher (PM Press) $12.95
Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections on Navigating the Climate Crisis (PM Pamphlet) by Joshua Kahn Russell and Hilary Moore
*ESSAYS*
Book of Mutter (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents) by Kate Zambreno $17.95
*MAGAZINES*
Bust #104 Apr May 17 $6.99
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Fields Magazine #7 Spr Sum 17 $14.00
Ninth Letter vol 13 #2 Fall Win 16 $14.95
The Point #13 Win 17 Midwestworld A Contry Is A Country $14.99
Sobotka Literary Magazine #5 Fall Win 16 $10.00
Mighty Stranger by Daniel Pujol $10.00
Gutterboy Rides Again by CT McGaha $8.00
*SEXXXY*
Meat Berlin Issue $20.00
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In the Big Apple? See Jenna Citrus Release Party at Quimby's Bookstore NYC 4/8
Quimby’s Bookstore NYC is at 536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, (718) 384-1215. @quimbysnyc
Jenna Citrus is traveling to Quimby’s in Brooklyn, New York to release two new books: The Hand Painting Series and An Opened Book End on Sat, April 8th at 2pm.
According to the artist:
“The Hand Painting Series showcases a selection of the best images from my hand paintings. I worked with a variety of individuals to create three finished pieces: a photograph of their hand, a completed 11×14 canvas painting, then a digitally created pattern for use on clothing or other surface design pieces. These images are exhibited in this full color book with over 40 images from the series.”
An Opened Book End weaves a fabric of dreamlike streams into fragmented realities. Pursuing memories from the past and turning experience into verse, Jenna Citrus recounts her years from 15 to 22. Allusive references are made to relationships, trust, heartbreak, family, technology, women, art, culture, creativity, society, inner being, sexuality, and culture’s influence on current existence through internal thought and reflection.Jenna Citrus has always been a hands-on type of painter. When she first started creating her painted designs in 2007, she rarely used brushes. Instead she used her fingers, palms, and sometimes pallet knives. As her work progressed, she found herself pulled toward splattering paint from the paint that pooled in the palm of her hands, creating mixes of colors that were pure and bold. Citrus has worked in a variety of media including graphic art, photography, and portraiture. Jenna wanted to find a way to incorporate the process of how the hands could sometimes be more of a masterpiece than the canvas they were working on. She created a series of images utilizing hands as her canvas. From the age of 10, Jenna enjoyed writing short stories, around 14 her interests shifted to poetry and painting, in a few years she added photography to her craft. She graduated from the University of Southern Indiana in 2015 then was awarded the Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship in 2016. She is currently working as a full time creator.
To see a preview of the books, check out her Kickstarter.Here’s the link for the Facebook invite for this event!
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New Stuff This Week
2016 Dollhouse Gig Posters (Starshaped Press) $85.00 – Tiny gig posters for dollhouses! The idea stems from Starshaped Press wanting to create tiny works of art from the smallest pieces in their metal type collection as well as their longtime passion for music. Operating like an old school record club, subscribers received a new 2×3″ poster each month for a year featuring a different musical style (12 in all). Here’s the reel-shaped box which houses all of the posters.
But wait… there’s more! It includes a flexi disk from John and Mark of The Coctails, temp tatts from Dan Grzeca, and a retro futuristic letterpress print from P22 Analog!Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock New Wave and Noise in Milwaukee 1964-1984 by Steve Nodine, Eric Beaumont, Clancy Carroll, & Dave Luhrssen $20.00. Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko (N+1) $20.00 – A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Eartha by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $29.99
*ZINES*
Light Is a Better God #7 & #8 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each
House of Nicoletti by Franziska Andonopoulos and Michael Morrill $12.00
*COMICS*
Death In Oaxaca #3 Sex and Death in Oaxaca by Steve Lafler $4.99
Tan N Loose Press stuff:
We Are the Cosmos by Gabriel Alcala $10.00
Happy by Jeffrey Cheung $15.00
Fruit Hoops by Leesh Adamerovich $10.00
Vignettes by Clay Hickson $8.00
These Are the Ways in Which I Have Tried to Tell You by Nathaniel Russell $10.00
Lozlifstyle by Lawrence Slater $10.00
Los Angeles Drawings by Liana Jegers $10.00Chaos Theory by JJ McLuckie $17.00
*ESSAYS*
American Junkie by Tom Hansen (Soft Skull) $16.95 – Should be subtitled Selling Drugs in Seattle. “Heavy like the dark stuff itself.” – Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees.
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon $17.00
*FICTION*
Mrs. Houdini: A Novel by Victoria Kelly $16.00
*DIY*
Collecting Ourselves: A Cooperative Entrepreneurship Curriculum $20.00
*MAGAZINES*
Tape Op #118 Mar Apr 17 $4.95
RFD #169 Spr 17 Mark Thompson $9.95
Make vol 56 Apr May 17 Don’t Try This At Home $9.99
Shots #135 $7.25
*POETRY & LIT JOURNALS*
A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval (Haymarket) $17.00 – Seventy-seven poems (for the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods) honoring the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.
Midwestern Gothic #24 Win 17 $12.00
*SEXXXY*
For Your Eyes Only #1 $15.00
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New Stuff This Week
Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders ed. by Jessica Caponigro $20.00 – A collection of essays from Chicago that address feminism and equality. With Essays from Meredith Adams-Smart, Soheila Azadi, Charlene Carruthers, Jessica Caponigro, Leslie Deckard, Sarah Frier, Chiara Galimberti, Scott Hunter, Tanuja Jagernauth, Sharlene King, Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal, Jennifer Reeder, Jes Skolnik, Vanessa Sheridan, Sydney Stoudmire, Christen Thomas, Benita Ulisano, and Latham Zearfross.
*ZINES*
KerBloom #124 Jan Feb 17 by Artnoose $2.00
Double Exposures Womens March $2.00
I Think There Is a Human City Growing In My Stomach by Duncan Figurski $2.50
Good Days Gone Cold Days by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones $12.00
Incandescent #10 & #11 A Color Film Zine $14.00 each
Happy Tapir #2 A Summer of Five Almost Deaths by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Too Much Fun Too by Logan Kruidenier $10.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this raucous event!
Comics by Inechi Ines Estrada Gatosaurio:
Southwest Roadtrip $6.00
Alienation #2 & #3 $10.00 eachFae Archaic #5 To My Dear Lucifene by Kurt Burdick $4.00
Wait It Gets Worse #1 & #2 by Gideon Kendall and Doug Latino $5.00 each
Laskimooses #34 Sytykkeiden Kokoaminen $7.00
Goddamn Motherfuckers by Hans Nissen $3.00
Well #2 by Martin Kralovec $2.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Micheal Deforge (D&Q) $21.95 – Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here on 3/25 with Sadie Dupuis to celebrate the release of this graphic novel with a celebratory lo-fi comics night!
Terms and Conditions by R. Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.99 – I-Tunes terms and conditions but as comics parodies. Started as a mini and is now a book. Each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets or Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Totally unauthorized. Totally hilarious.
Impatience by Inechi Ines Estrada $24.00
California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas and the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu $24.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $17.00 – From founding editor of The Baffler, about how the American Democratic Party has changed to support elitism in the form of a professional class instead of the working class.
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin $16.00
*FICTION*
Chicago: A Novel by Brian Doyle $16.00
Hourglass Factory: A Novel by Lucy Ribchester (Pegasus Books) $15.95 – Tomboy Frankie George is sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, who disappears. Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks, society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?
*OUTER LIMITS*
The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White $17.99 – The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies, The Chaos Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your life should matter and you’re not going to let something as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.
Spiritual Alchemy: Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom by Donald Tyson and Jenny Tyson $19.99
*ESSAYS*
All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill $25.00
*FOOD*
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealo $30.00 – Revolution! Gluttony! Cannibalism! The gloriously illustrated (120 full color illustrations, many from the collection of the British Library) history of food, including mythical origin stories, unusual recipes and more!
Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts by Amy Bizzarri (History Press) $21.99
*MAGAZINES*
VMan #37 Spr Sum 17 $6.95
Monocle #101 Mar 17 10th Anniversary Special $12.00
Wire #397 March 17 Aine O’Dwyer $10.99
*LIT JOURNALS*
Sheriff Nottingham’s Holiday Herald #9 vol 3 #1 Fat Tuesday $10.00
*OTHER STUFF*
Gatosaurio & friends stickers! by Ines Estrada, Heather Benjamin, Wakana Yamazaki, Koyamori, Simon Hanselmann & more $9.00 each – New and restocks! And did we mention we got some patches too? $6.00 each.
