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Today is Wicker Park & West Town Lit Day! Free only at Quimby’s: Chicago Food mini!

Zines

Multiple new zines from Jolie Ruin!

Teen Art I Have Stolen by Katie Bush $9.00

I Am Red Lexus by Anthony Weiss $3.00

Big Heart Small Brain by Nicholas Cade $5.00

Psycho Moto Zine #25 Antagonist Piece no 368 Dwellings by Ethan H. Minsker $1.00

So Tonight that I Might See: An Imaginary Pep Talk with Hope Sandoval by Rosie Accola $3.00

Blockletter #1 by Kelcey Towell $5.00

After the War A History by Dagwood Engleberg $3.00

Remnant of the Former Ocean $3.00

Five Acts for a Shade in Winter by Lulubell Pentunia $3.00

By the Reason of Numbers An Ordering of Chance by Zorensen Leverthal $3.00

Comics & Minis

Silent Show #1 by Adam Lichi $5.00

Lost Cats Part 1 by Megan Stanton $5.00

Romeo and Juliet and Guns #1 $4.99

Wendy Project #1 $4.99

Widdie Diddee $5.00

Rocket Suit $1.00

Squaby #2 The Starqueen of Sexy The Dense Issue by Elizabeth Kordeluk $5.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $22.95

2 Theo Ellsworth titles!: Understanding Monster Book 3 $21.95 & Capacity $24.95

Lose #7 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $10.00

Castro: A Graphic Novel by Reinhard Kleist (Arsenal Pulp) $22.95

Goodbye Little Pointy Teeth Cartoon Stories by Brian Moore $12.00

Beef With Tomato by Dead Haspiel (Hang Dai Editions) $14.99

Snapshots of a Girl by Beldan Sexen (Arsenal Pulp Press) $17.95

Battling Boy Fall of the House of West by Paul Pope $9.99

Sky In Stereo by Mardou (Revival House Press) $17.95

Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell $19.99

Fable Comics: Amazing Cartoonists Take on Classic Fables from Aesop and Beyond (First Second) $19.99

Schmuck by Seth Kushner (Hang Dai Editions) $19.95

Palefire by MK Reed and Farel Dalrymple (Secret Acres) $11.95

Black Rat by Cole Closser (Koyama) $15.00

Dressing by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $19.95

Art & Design Books

Art of the Contemporary Doll by Sanfra Korinchak (Schiffer) $29.99

Zona Urbana by Justin Clifford Rhody $25.00
Fiction

Marvel and A Wonder by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95

Well-Dressed Wound by Derek McCormack (Semiotext[e]) $12.95

Free Brontosaurus by David Berkeley (Rare Bird Books) $19.95

Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology Of Climate Fiction $16.99

Fake Fruit Factory: A Novel by Patrick Wensink (Curbside Splendor) $16.95

Shock Treatment by Karen Finley (City Lights Books) $15.95

Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters by Hubert Haddad (Open Letter) $16.95

Tale of the Teller of Tales: A Novel by Joshua Landsman $9.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Isis Apocalypse the History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision Of the Islamic State by William McCants $26.99

Feminist Utopia: Project Fifty-Seven Visions Of a Wildly Better Future by Alexandra Brodsky (Feminist Press) $19.95

Socialism Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books) $16.95

And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality by Mark Segal (Akashic) $16.95

Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900 by Davide Turcato (AK Press) $17.00
Mayhem

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons From the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Humor

Man The Fuck Up $14.99

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson $26.99
Music & Film Books

2 Greil Marcus titles! Real Life Rock $35.00 (collects his Real Life Rock Top 10 column from the The Believer and other places) $35.00

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise by Chris Taylor $16.99
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Ladyscaping: A Girl’s Guide to Personal Topiary Hardcover by Caroline Selmes (BIS Publishers) $14.95

Meat #18 $20.00
Mags

Mojo #263 Oct 15 Patti Smith $10.50

Bust Oct Nov 15 vol 95 $5.99

Maximumrocknroll #389 Oct 15 Max Rock $4.99

Razorcake #88 $4.00

Cultured Fall 15 $12.00

Fuel #20 Magazine $14.95

VMan #34 Fall Win 15 $6.95

True Crime Sp 15 $9.99

In These Times Oct 15 – This issue: pregnant behind bars $3.50

Rethinking Schools vol 30 #1 Fall 15 $5.95

Nostalgia Digest Fall 15 Frank Sinatra $4.50

Skeptic vol 20 #3 15 $6.95

High Times Best of #78 15 Special Collectors Guide Guide to Great Buds $6.99

Film Comment Sep Oct 15 vol 51 #5 A Cut Above $5.95

Bomb #133 Fall 15 $10.00

Tattoo Life #96 $9.99

Witches Almanac #35 Spr 16 17 Air the Breath of Life $12.95

Cannabis Now #16 Dabbing 101 the Green Revolution $7.99

American Atheist 3rd Quarter 15 Boy Scout Ban on Atheists $4.95

Horror Hound #55 Sep Oct 15 Guillermo del Toro $6.99

Laphams Quarterly vol 8 #4 Fall 15 Fashion $17.00

Shindig #49 $12.99

Dear Dave Magazine #20 $15.00

Chap Books & Lit Journals

The First Line vol 17 #3 Fall 15 $4.00 – This issue all the pieces start with the line, “The old neighborhood was nearly unrecognizable.”

In Spite by Emily Hutchings $4.00

I Didn’t Love You But I Could Have $5.00

The Paris Review #214 $20.00

Other Stuff

New planners by Little Otsu!

Silly air fresheners! $3.50

Box of Super Awesome Birthday Mini Decorations $7.50

More Field Notes!! Most $9.95

Oh good god. The holiday season is here now:
Krampus Scarf $18.95
Introvert Christmas Ornament $14.95

Cheap poster sale at #quimbys! Many prints $5! #QuimbysBookstore

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Quimby’s Cheap Poster Sale! Many prints and posters $5.00!

ZINES

Kiernan Dunn zines that all look awesome:
YOBO: You Only Butch Once Queer Reactions to Gender Presentation,
Joy of Missing Out: A Self Care Zine To Reduce FOMO
They Call Him Spooky: X-Files Fan Zine
We Are Not Alone: A Collection of Extraterrestrials by Kiernan Dunn $16.00
…and more!

Mountains Sound Like $2.50

Oh the Places Youll Float Oregon Part 1 by Jillian Barthold $4.00

Mug Shot: A Coloring Book $5.00

Blood on the Floor by Nolan Hirsley $20.00

Cards of Ingratitude by Jay Krevens $12.00

Employee of the Month by Raziel Puma $3.00

Proof I Exist #22 31 Days of International Zine Month by Billy Roberts $2.00

COMICS & MINIS

Cherry Tomatoes by Natalie Walser $6.00

Bright Nights by Jason Martin $4.00

Super Sikh #1 Takeoff and Landing and Super Sikh #1 Takeoff and Landing $3.99 each

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

Step Aside Pops: A Hark a Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

Pleasure: A Sexual Memoir $6.66

Marvels: You Either See it or You Don’t by Brian Selznick $32.99

Island #3 $7.99 – Comics anthology

AAMA HC VOL 4 You Will Be Glorious My Daughter by Frederik Peeters (Self Made Hero) $19.95

ART & DESIGN

New Old School: Exploring the Modern Renaissance Of Old School and Neo Traditional Tattooing by Jakob Schulz $34.99

Little Book of Typographic Ornament by David Jury (Laurence King) $19.95

Cover Art: 20 Hanagable Prints For Book Nerds by Liz Emirzian $15.95

Walter Chandoha: Cat Photographer (Aperture) $29.95

Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig (Fuel) $32.50 – Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000 km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 14 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art.

 

Graffiti Murals Exploring the Impacts Of Street Art by Patrick Verel $29.99

Street Art Santiago by Lord K2 $34.99

FICTION

The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald Antrim $16.00 – Artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, have delusions of grandeur, talk and look for communion in a city. All stories that were published in The New Yorker.

Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey $25.00 – Short stories narrated by animals who have experienced atrocities from history.

Purity by Jonathan Franzen $28.00

My Wet Hot Drone Summer – New Lovers #4 by Lex Brown (Badlands Unlimited) $12.95 – Doom Generation-esque sci-fi sex romp.

Little Sister Death: A Novel by William Gay (Dzanc) $26.95

Shark by Will Self (Grove Press) $16.00

Tale of the Teller of Tales: A Novel by Joshua Landsman $9.95

New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott (Tin House Books) $15.95

OUTER LIMITS & MAYHEM

Most Evil II Zodiac Case Solved by Steve Hodel (Rare Bird Books) $16.00 – The San Francisco Zodiac Serial Killer reveals his true identity. P.S. WRITTEN BY HIS SON.

Ghostly Encounters: Confessions of a Paranormal Investigator by Jeff Scott Cole and Jonathon Robson $24.99

John Wayne Gacy, Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers In History by Judge Sam L. Amirante and Danny Broderick $14.99

UFO Dossier: 100 Years of Government Secrets Conspiracies and Cover Ups by Kevin D. Randle (Visible Ink Press) $19.95

Psychic Workbook Tools and Techniques To Develop Reliable Insight by Karen Fox (Schiffer) $24.99

Campfire Tales Great Lakes by Christopher Larson $16.99

Vampire Evolution From Myth To Modern Day by E.R. Guiley $24.99

Seeking Bigfoot by Michael Newton $24.99

ESSAYS

High Holiday Porn: A Memoir by Eytan Bayme $25.99 – Confessions of an adolescence even more awkward than yours.

Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael C. Clune $25.00 – A portrait Of the writer as a young role-player.

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays by Witold Rybczynski $27.00 – 34 essays about topics as varied as shopping malls, the rise of college towns, our fascination with vacation homes, Disney’s planned community of Celebration and more.

Tiny Taste Of Freedom by Gerd Dembowski $8.50

POLITICS & REVOLUTION

Understanding Mass Incarceration: A Peoples Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time by James Kilgore (New Pres) $17.95

Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right by Ray Raphael (New Press) $17.95

Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes $35.00

Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle $35.00

FOOD & DIY BOOKS

CCCP COOK BOOK: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine by Olga and Pavel Syutkin (FUEL) $32.50 – 60 recipes with anecdotes and images sourced from original Cold War era Soviet recipe books.

Yummy Kawaii Bento: Preparing Adorable Meals For Adorable Kids by Li Ming Lee $19.95

Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary $16.95

Brewers Tale: A History of the World According to Beer $16.95

MUSIC BOOKS

From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry by Justin Pearson (Soft Skull/Counterpoint) $14.95 – West Coast noise and punk scene musician Justin Pearson runs the independent record label Three One G. He writes about such adventures as outsmarting skinheads, getting beat up on Springer, playing in bands (The Locust, Swing Kids, Some Girls and others) and getting chased out of town by angry audiences. From the author of
How to Lose Friends and Irritate People. Don’t miss this!

Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus (Harvard U Press) $19.95

Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt by Marcus O’Dair (Soft Skull) $19.95 – As in the founding member of Soft Machine.

Tour Sucks Breakdowns, Break-Ups, Bellyaches, Bankrupts, Bringdowns, Blowouts, Bandits and Boozed-Up Berserkers by John A. Cahill $8.50

Free Pizza For Life Or, the Early Days of Plan-It-X Records by Chris Clavin $12.00

Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook $26.95

FILM BOOKS

National Treasure, Nicolas Cage: ECW Pop Classics vol 5 by Lindsay Gibb $12.95

SEXY

Elska #1 Local Boys Local Stories LVIV Ukraine $18.50

MAGAZINES

Filmme Fatales #6 One More Shot $16.00 – A quarterly zine about the places where film and feminism intersect.

Offscreen #12 People Behind Bits and Pixels $22.00 – With Zendesk co-founder Alexander Aghassipour; co-creator of digital product company ustwo, Matt ‘Mills’ Miller; travelling photographer and designer Dan Rubin; science and space geek Ariel Waldman; co-founder of SaaS company Basecamp, Jason Fried; and the one and only ‘Godfather of the Web’, Jeffrey Zeldman.

Tape Op #109 Sep Oct 15 $4.95

Modern Farmer #9 Fall 15 $7.99

Harpers Magazine Oct 15 $6.99

Far Ride vol 2 Documenting Cycling Journeys Around the World $18.00

Wire #379 Sep 15 $9.99

Make vol 47 $9.99

LIT JOURNALS

Parody vol 4 #1 $5.00

 

KIDS BOOKS

Flop to the Top by Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing (Toon) $12.95

Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers (Toon) $12.95

Kelsey Brookes Psychedlic Space book. Paintings based on molecular structures of LSD and the like. Totally insane. P.S. Comes with stickers!!! I don’t think they’re laced with anything. #QuimbysBookstore #quimbys

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Kelsey Brookes: Psychedelic Space (Gingko Press) $60.00 – Kelsey Brookes is a trained biochemist, and this book consists of pieces based on the molecular structure of subatomic particles of, you guessed it, hallucinogenic drugs. Guess what else that will blow your mind? HE HAS THOSE MOLECULAR STRUCTURES MEMORIZED. My brain is falling out of my head just thinking about this. Oh! And! It has gatefold spreads, a sticker sheet, and a clear molecular overlay on one of the LSD pieces so you can see how the molecules match up with the painting. There’s another booklet bound within (books inside of books, like a fucking fractal). There’s even some glow-in-the-dark business here. If this isn’t all enough to melt your mind, there are essays by Hamilton Morris, Leoni Bradbury, Richard M. Doyle, and a visual essay by Ryan McGinness, as well as a dialogue with Kelsey Brookes by Anthony Kiedis. 

Check out them stickers!!!!

Zines

Proof I Exist #21 by Billy McCall $3.00

Self Care Zine Food $10.00

Solo #1 $5.00

Born Dead: The Artwork of Adam Niemara $10.00

Comics & Minis

Lauren Ipsum #5 by Roman Muradov $5.00

Snail Comix Presents Snail Bro #0 $4.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Saga TPB vol 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99

Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.) by Benjamin Marrs (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Terror Assaulter must defeat Terror at all costs, as long as it leaves time for steamy dates with hot chicks. The man’s codename is O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror) and he is the world’s greatest protector, and a villain’s worst nightmare. This is a hilarious satire of American foreign policy over the last decade, neocon philosophy, the state of American masculinity and sexuality, and male power fantasy in escapist entertainment.

Intro to Alien Invasion by Owen King, Mark Jude Poirier, Nancy Ahn $17.99 – Aliens on campus during spring break!

Crossed + One Hundred vol 1 by Alan Moore & Gabriel Andrade $19.99

Darth Vader and Son Vader’s Little Princess Deluxe Box Set by Jeffrey Brown $35.00

Descender vol 1 Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen $9.99

Zombies vs Robots vol 1 Inherit the Earth $19.99 – Collects issues #1–6.

Art Books

Freeman’s The 100 Helmets of The Vader Project by by Dov Kelemer & Sarah Jo Marks (Gingko Press) – A bunch of different lowbrow artists painted Darth Vador masks and then auctioned them off. Work by Shag, Gary Baseman, Ron English, Mitch O’Connell, The Pizz (R.I.P.) and more.

Urban Scrawl Notebook by Bianca Dyroff (Publikat) $12.95 – Plan out your next graffiti piece by drawing and working it out on these blank walls, boards and real-life-y backgrounds, like the one below. How did nobody think of this until now? Genius:

Danish Tattooing: Director’s Cut by Jon Nordstrom (Gingko) $59.95 – A look at the beginning of the scene in the early 1900s and following it into the 1980s with photography, profiles of artists throughout Scandinavia, characters, tattooing hotspots, flash books, custom tattooing machines, and ribald stories, all in the Danish tattooing tradition.

I Am 1UP One United Power (Gingko Press) – The work of 1UP (aka One United Power) has appeared all over Berlin in small subway tags as well as large-scale blockbusters and pieces on walls, skyscrapers and trains; nothing has been safe from this crew since! The public demanded a reprint of this 140 page self-published book.

In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist’s Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector by Jessica Hische (Chronicle) $29.95

Film Book

The Modern Japanese Movie Poster For American and European Films by Karlheinz Borchert (Gingko Press) $35.00 – Includes over 400 posters dating from 1960 to modern day.

Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV by Boyd McDonald ((Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) $17.95 – A newly updated version of this classic 1985 text, reviews of movies by the the editor of the Straight to Hell paperback series, originally published in the Christopher Street series. Writing against the bleak backdrop of Reagan-era America, McDonald never ceases to find subversive, arousing delights in the comically chaste aesthetics imposed by the censorious Motion Picture Production Code of 1930-1968.

Politics & Revolution

Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century by Nato Thompson $23.95

Humor

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Part the Third: Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge by Ian Doescher (Quirk) $14.95

Magazines

Hello Mr #6 About Men Who Date Men $20.00

Purple Fashion vol 3 #24 Fall Win 15 16 $40.00

V Magazine #97 Fall 15 $8.50 – This issue: Lana del Rey

Heed Magazine Sep Oct 15 $5.99

Design Anthology #6 $9.95

Fashionable Lampoon #2 $24.99

Man of the World #13 $20.00

Upping The Anti  #17 Journal of Theory and Action $13.00

Other Stuff

Green: A Marijuana Journal by Dan Michaels $10.95 – Designed for a new generation of pot connoisseurs, the Green journal allows the momentarily forgetful to keep track of marijuana strains sampled and enjoyed. This handy journal features a primer on pot basics, fill-in diary pages, and “top ten” lists to inspire new experiences. Smorgasbord!

Native Trees of Canada Postcards box by Leanne Sharpton (D&Q) $14.95

Perish Plains vol 3 by Keith Jones & Seth Scriver (Perish Publishing) $12.00 – A drawing focused series that pairs two contemporary artists to collaborate on 20-30 pages of abstract landscapes or environments.

Welcome to the Dessert of the Real! Delivered by hand from Toronto, this gorgeous latest volume of Perish Plains drops you in a post-environment shitscape, spins all your candy into glass, and smokes it up in your favorite childhood meth stem. Wander and get lost, step on a rusty nail, get riso-dot lockjaw, drop your sherbet in the sludge. It’s sundown on a garbage-dump world where the DNA’s all effed and the only constant is decay. Give your highbrow a Brazilian wax and let the dregs carry you downstream with a turd for a paddle. ~GS

 

Zines

Tarot Card Zine $2.00

Pac Man Ate Me by Marlon Dionisio $3.00

No Friends #1 $8.00

Feminist Theory Is for Everybody: A Brief Primer on 6 Feminist Theorists We Should Know by Naomi Powers $3.00

Abstract Door #5 Spr Sum 15 Chicago by Vicky Lim $3.00 – The front doors of this smartly assembled little perzine open up & grant you access into the quiet, diary-like ruminations of a lone rando waiting for a bus. Text, photos, drawings, baby hedgehogs. Like tagging along in Lim’s brain for a few stops! ~GS

Oldies 85 by Flannery Cashill $4.00

Embody: A Zine About Navigating Spaces as A Female Identifying Human by Rosie Accola $3.00

Primitive Beast, Language by Mike Olson (Perish Publishing) $10.00

Robert Pizzos Amazing Animal Alphabet Coloring Book $8.95

Hot Bath Cold Whiskey #2 by Maggie Coughlin, Katie Rice & Drew Katchen $5.00

Dirty Art Magazine issues #1 & #2 by Justin Richardson $10.00 each – Graffiti zine.

Drawing Blanks In Front of Your Date at a Poetry Slam by Latenitedraw $3.00

Visual Consequences by Andy Rench $4.00

 

Comics & Minis

You Don’t Get There From Here #34 by Carrie McNinch $3.00

2 Comics from R. Flagg $10.00 each: Lords of Destiny & Masters of Eternity

Ain’t No Use by Kat Tuesday $8.00 – A story of boy-girl unrequited love in an accordion-fold style reminiscent of the formalistic trapeze acts of Scott McCloud or Jason Shiga — only drawn nicer! Welcome to the dollhouse. ~GS

So Far Collected Works 2012 to 2015 by Mark Conway $2.00

Adventures of my Life #3 by Adam Matthew Roob $4.00

Bad Touch #1 by Corinne Halbert and Scott R. Miller $5.00

Little Vegan #1 Feb 13 by Kane Lynch $8.00 – Vermont vegans have created some cruelty-free cartoon crusaders for your consumption. It’s like Dell Comics with dietary restrictions! Like a lactose-free Little Lulu! Like Richie Rich meets Rod Coronado! When the CCS meets the ALF, the TVP really hits the fan. ~GS

Hate Baby #4 15 $8.00

 

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Gigant by Rune Ryberg (Adhouse) $14.95

Chum 25 Artists Go Fishing For Meaning In Fishing $25.00

Dharma Punks by Ant Sang (Conundrum Press) $25.00 – A metaphysical exploration of life, love, friendship, punk rock, blowing things up… and the art of meditation.

Ann Tenna by Marisa Acocella Marchetto $30.00 – An extremely successful but shallow celebrity gossip columnist has an intervention from her cosmic double in a realm beyond our own to make Ann realize the full cost of the humanity she has lost.

 

Art Books

Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969 ed, by Dan Nadel (Matthew Marks) $50.00

Drawings Of Various Chairs, In No Particular Order by Dan Chainer $10.00

Magic of Lines: Line Illustrations by Global Artists $39.95

Surface by Søren Solkær (Gingko Press) $49.95 – International street art and graffiti. Artists featured include COPE2, ELLE, DabsMyla, Shepard Fairey, LISTER, and more.

Artists Magazines an Alternative Space For Art by Gwen Allen (MIT Press) $24.95

Harper Ever After: The Early Work by Charley & Edie Harper (Pomegranate) $45.00

Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design by Steven Heller (Pomegranate) $40.00

Wuggly Ump and Other Delights Coloring Book by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $7.95

Charley Harper’s Animal Alphabet by Zoe Burke $10.95

 

DIY

Paper Dandys Horrorgami: 20 Scenes to Cut and Fold by Marc Hagan-Guirey $16.95

Cyclopedia: It’s All About The Bike by William Fotheringham (Chicago Review Press) $18.95 – Now in paperback.

Sketch City: Tips and Inspiration for Drawing on Location by by Dopress Books $29.95 – Citified sketchers will be guided through techniques for capturing frenetic street scenes as well as the rare moments of peace found in metropolitan centers with the aid of sections that include basic sketching knowledge, architecture and landscape sketching, common tools and materials, and FAQs about landscape sketching.

Get Up Stay Up: Concise Graffiti Writers Handbook by Danny Croft (Publikat) $19.95

The Culinary Cyclist: A Cookbook and Companion for the Good Life by Anna Brones (Microcosm) $9.95

 

Fiction

Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle $16.00 – John from the Mountain Goats writes fiction. Now in soft cover.

Consumed by David Cronenberg $17.00 – Now in soft cover.

Defiant by M. Quint (McSweeneys) $18.99

Tables without Chairs #1 by Brian Alan Ellis $10.00

When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy (Semiotext(e)) $17.95

Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley (Elephant Rock Books) $12.95

Vile Men by Rebecca Jones-Howe (Dark House Press) $15.95

You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman $25.99 – A missing-person mystery and an exorcism of modern culture. A woman lives with her roommate and boyfriend who wants her to join him on a reality show about eating, watching TV. Adventures, fixations and searches for meaning ensue.

 

Politics, Revolution & Current Event Books

Wikileaks Files the World According To the US Empire by Julian Assange (Verso Press) $29.95

 

Essays

Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style by Cintra Wilson $27.95

 

Film, TV, Comedy & Music Books

Yes Please by Amy Poehler $16.99 – Now in soft cover!

The History Of Rock N Roll Songs In Ten Songs by Greil Marcus (Yale U Press) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyonce by Bob Stanley $17.95 – Now in soft cover.

X Files FAQ: All That’s Left To Know About Global Conspiracy, Aliens, Lazarus Species and Monsters Of the Week by John Kenneth Muir (Applause Publishing) $24.99

The Bollocks: A Photo Essay of the Sex Pistols by Dennis Morris, Billy Idol & Shepard Fairey (Zero+ Publishing) $49.95

A Little History: Photographs of Nick Cave and Cohorts 1981 – 2013 by Bleddyn Butcher (ALLEN & UNWIN) $42.95

 

Outer Limits & Mayhem

Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos (Yale U Press) $40.00 – Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book looks at the dictator’s three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg. Author Despina Stratigakos reveals the previously untold story of Hitler’s interior designer, Gerdy Troost.

Strange Light Afar: Tales Of the Supernatural From Old Japan by Rui Umezawa (Groundwood Books) $18.95

The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates by Nick Redfern (Visible Ink Press) $19.95

Corpses Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman $12.99

Maggies Hammer How Investigating the Mysterious Death of My Friend Uncovered a Netherworld of Illegal Arms Deals, Political Slush Funds, High-Level … Secret Role as America’s Hired Gun by Geoffrey Gilson (Trine Day) $19.95

 

Druuuuugs

Cannabis Regeneration a Multiple Harvest Method For Greater Yields by JB Haze $16.00

 

Sex Guides, Culture & Erotica

Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships by Mark A. michaels (Cleis Press) $15.95

Goddess Of Love Incarnate: The Life Of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr by Leslie Zemeckis $28.00

Johnny Would You Love Me If…by Brontez Purnell $13.00 – As an HIV+ writer trapped in the Bay Area’s hipster-food-service purgatory, Brontez Purnell (aka Junx from the legendary Gravy Train) is “privy to some pretty tawdry bullshit” — and he’s dishing the whole hot mess up for you ala carte, with a side of tossed salad, and a generous portion of his own soul for dessert. Purnell is a Shaolin monk of shade, with a perzinester’s unblinking addiction to confession, and the kind of razor-in-shoe sense of humor that a writer can only bless you with after signing a couple long-term leases in hell. He can dredge humor from the lowest of lows and the highest of gallows: his positive diagnosis (“I was feeling rather AIDS-y”), a 12-step program (“As part of our treatment process in Barebackers Anonymous we had to complete weekly assignments. Assignment #1: Go buy some condoms you dirty whore”), therapy (“I scheduled an appointment with my therapist even though that bitch is my worst enemy”), bad days at the bath house (“Like if you put every dude shopping at Target on any given day in towels and put them in this sex maze”). Purnell takes life’s lemons and makes a damn good mimosa. He can make you laugh through the horror, and throw in a santaria death-curse recipe at no extra cost. ~GS

Magazines

Bitch #68 $6.95

Juxtapoz #177 Oct 15 $6.99

Mojo #262 Sep 15 $10.50

Relix Sep 15 $6.99

High Times Nov 15 $5.99

Monocle vol 9 #86 Sep 15 $12.00

COSPLAY CULTURE MAGAZINE #22 $5.99

Shots #129 $7.25

The Cleaver Quarterly #5 $17.00 – The latest quarter of Cleaver is stuffed like bao with new glimpses at the many ways Chinese culture & cuisine are translated and permutated across this weird, hungry globe. Tea eggs, Hakka heritage, Mexican Chinese eats, a slice of Hawaiian-Chinese food history, Taiwanese breakfasts, the Shanghai Soup Dumpling Index. Learn that “sweet & sour chicken skeleton” is a street food that exists — then do your best to burn the image from your delicate mind. ~GS

Wire #378 Aug 15 $9.99

Fader #99 Aug Sep 15 $5.99

Noble Rot #8 California Special $18.50

Backwoodsman vol 36 #5 Sep Oct 15 $4.95

True Crime Aug 15 $8.99

Smith Journal #15 $20.50

 

Chap Books

On the Stairs by Dan Ivec $15.00

Muscles Involved by Erin Kautza $7.00

Mirrors for Princes by Lesley Dixon $7.00

 

Kids Books

Gryphons Arent So Great by James Sturm, ?Alexis Frederick-Frost, ?Andrew Arnold (First Second) $14.99

Charley Harper’s Count the Birds (Pomegranate) $10.95

What Is This by Tamara Shopsin (The Ice Plant) $9.95

 

Other Stuff

Heed 2016 Nikki Mcclure Calendar $18.00

The Helpless Doorknob: A Shuffled Story by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $9.95 – 20 black-and-white cards to shuffle into a story in a small, decorative 3” x 4” box.

Cheers Bitches: 15 Coasters with Cocktail Recipes by Calligraphuck $14.95

Zines

When the Crash Meets Something Solid #13 And I Had to Start Somewhere So I Started Right Here by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00

Hardcore Architecture Photo Zine $8.00

Hardcore Architecture Les Evans Cryptic Slaughter $5.00

Hardcore Architecture Bill Daniel $5.00

KerBloom #115 Jul Aug 15 by Artnoose $2.00

 

Comics & Minis

32 Drawings by Dylan Jones $7.00

Molasses vols 1 & 2 The Worlds Finest Funny Animal Anthology $5.95 each

Laid To the Bone by Mike Burridge $10.00

Son Of a Glitch by Guillaume Artis $5.00

Time to Decorate Your Squat by Mary Lucile Miller $10.00

Comics Machine #1 by Gene Kannenberg Jr. $3.00

 

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

My Wife, the Tinder Spam-bot by Alec Robbins $6.00

So Buttons: Man of Like A Dozen Faces by JOnathan Baylis $20.00

 

Fiction

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (McSweeneys) $16.00

Anglerfish Comedy Troupe Stories From the Abyss by Colin Fleming (Dzanc Books) $15.95

Rising Stories by Don LePan (Broadview Press) $16.95

 

Politics & Revolution

Trouble In Paradise by Slavoj Žižek (Melville House) $24.95

 

Music Books

Underground the Subterranean Culture Of DIY Punk Shows by Daniel Makagon (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95 – Don’t miss author Daniel Makagon here at Quimby’s on Tues, September 15th at 7pm with Photographers Patrick Houdek and Craig Kamrath!
Smiths FAQ All Thats Left To Know About The Most Important Band of the 1980s by John D. Luerrsen (Backbeat Books) $24.99

 

DIY Culture

Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories by Elly Blue (Microcosm Publishing) $9.95

 

Mayhem

Naked At Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures In the Clothing-Optional World by Mark Haskell Smith (Grove Press) $25.00

 

Drugs

Homegrown Marijuana: Create a Hydroponic Growing System In Your Own Home by Joshua Sheets $24.99

Sex Guides, Culture, Erotica

Bondage Bites 69 Super Short Stories Of Lust and BDSM by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95

 

Politics & Revolution

Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky (Open City Books) $15.95

 

Magazines

The Point #10 Sum 15 What is Travel For $12.00

Harpers Magazine Sep 15 $6.99

Little White Lies #60 Truth and Movies $12.99

Majestic Disorder #5 $18.99

Kinfolk vol 17 Family Issue $18.00

Chap Books, Lit Journals & Poetry

Overtime Hour 37 Something LA by R Dean Johnson (Blue Cubicle Press) $2.00

Rattling Wall #5 $18.95

 

 

Other Stuff

TOPPS 2015 30TH Anniversary GARBAGE PAIL KIDS Packs $2.95 each