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New Stuff This Week
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis (Harvard U Press) $22.95 – An experiment in thinking that takes cues from Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland and with chapter titles like “Fifth Dimension” and “Awakening,” there is no way you’d want to pass up Unflattening, especially if you have time to kill while you’re waiting for your weed dealer. Sousanis counteracts the “flatness” of rigid thinking by suggesting that when we make meaning we incorporate and reevaluate different vantage points. He uses comics to weave together our diverse ways of seeing, drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology to discuss human perception. Humanities in da house.-LM
Zines
Visitor In Myself #4 Winter 2015 by Nichole Baiel $2.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #65 Spr 15 $1.50
The Library Project (Temporary Services) $5.00
Suburban Blight #11 Spr 15 by Stephanie B. $2.00
Comics & Minis
New “You Can’t Get There From Here” by Carrie McNinch, issue #32 in stock.
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You Don’t Get There From Here #32 by Carrie McNinch $3.00Jumping Comic #1 by Michael DeFroge, Mickey Zacchilli and Patrick Kyle $5.00
Aloof #2 by Alex Nall $5.00
Doug Hates Ghostbusters by Max Bare and Melissa Sue Stanley $4.00
Flower Grow Collected Stories by Kevin Budnik $10.00
Revenger #1 Children of the Damned by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $5.00
Streetwalker Book 1 by Dominic Warr $5.00
Morality by RA Burns $2.00
Hacksler #1 by Michael Hacker $9.00
Hacienda by Dave Ortega $5.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Angry Youth Comix Collected by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $49.99Old Gum Wrappers and Grocery Lists Book by Kevin Budnik $15.00
Nemo: River of Ghosts (from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $14.95
Mighty Star and the Castle Of the Cancatervater by A. Degen (Koyama Press) $15.00
The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis by Darryl Cunningham (Abrams) $17.95
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Tower of Babel in the “Art” World by Jonah Kingstein (Fantagraphics) $30.00 – 80 page oversized landscape-format softcover collecting Kinigstein’s political cartoons.
Gyo: The Death Stench Creeps, Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito $22.99 – Creepy manga horror about the stench of the sea in Okinawa.
Art & Design
The World’s Best Loved Art Treasures by Click Mort (La Luz de Jesus) $18.95 – Hummel goes to hell! A porcelain menagerie of crazy kitschy pop-culture chimeras.Starting from ‘I Dont Know’: Interviews on Architecture and Craft by Samuel P Smith $12.00
Film & Music Books
Theme ’70: Tackling the Beast They Call Exploitation Cinema by Mark J. Banville (Headpress) $39.95 – An exploitation movie explosion of grindhouse movie reviews, rare posters, stills, lobby cards and original fanzine pages.A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen by Liel Leibovitz $15.95
The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style by Nelson George $15.99
The Need to Feed: Recipes for Deeply Satisfying Foods, A Hedonist’s Guide by Lydia Lunch (Black Dog) $35.00 – From Musician/performer/artist/activist Lydia Lunch. Yes, it is actually a cookbook, and it includes recipes with names like “I Said Jerk that Chicken!” and “Stuff The Bull By the Horns.” Suggestive line drawing illustrations by Johan Olander.
Fiction
Narcisa, Our Lady of Ashes by Jonathan Shaw $16.99 – The first trade edition of the cult classic from the artist/author hailed by Iggy Pop as “the great nightmare anti-hero of the new age,” legendary tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw, that chronicles a scandalous, degenerative addiction between two people—a wild, brutal, passionate, and unstoppable ride into depravity and darkness through the back alleys of Rio De Janeiro and New York City.If I Knew the Way I Would Take You Home by Dave Housley (Dzanc) $14.95
DIY
How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere Survive Anywhere Under Any Conditions by Bradford Angier (Black Dog Publishing) $19.95 – Never know when you might need it!
Humor
My 1992 Diary by Dawn Luebbe (Abrams) $14.95 – 75 diary entries, organized into chapters such as Passion on the Prairie, Attempts to Be Cool, Preteen Conflict: The Art of Overreaction, and more. Now with more 90210 and Kurt Cobain!
Politics & Revolution Books
Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky and Daivd Barsamian (Haymarket) $18.00
Kids Books
Rad American Women A to Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History…and Our Future! by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl (Citylights) $14.95
We Dig Worms by Kevin McCloskey $12.95
Magazines
American Atheist 1st Quarter 15 $4.95
Skeptic vol 20 #1 15 $6.95
Gentlewoman #11 Spr Sum 15 $14.99
Lula #20 $19.99
High Times Best of #76 15 Special Collectors Guide $6.99
Maximumrocknroll #383 $4.99 The Comics and Art Issue!
Wire Mar 15 #373 Carter Tutti $9.99
VNA #29 $13.50
Frankie #63 $19.25
Brownbook #49 $12.95
Smith Journal #13 $20.50
Taproot #13 Song $9.00
Razorcake #85 $4.00
Monster Children #46 $11.99
Jacobin #17 Spr 15 $9.95
Delayed Gratification #17 Last To Breaking News $20.00
Dissent Win 15 $10.00
In These Times Apr 15 $3.50
Inked Apr May 15 #68 $6.99
Tattoo Society #48 $7.99
Horror Hound #52 Mar Apr 15 $6.99 The Comedy and Tragedy Issue
Poetry & Lit Journals
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, ed. by Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and Quraysh Ali Lansana (Haymarket) $19.95 – For the hip-hop generation, 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast. Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop’s musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of American poets.The Paris Review #212 $20.00
The South Loop Review # 16 Final Issue $10.00
Other Stuff:
Mickey Zacchilli Patches! $7.00 eachCurrent shots of the New Stuff Table & The New Stuff Wall:
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Available on March 31st: Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky $27.99 – The story of Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. -
Quimby's Welcomes Joyce Brabner 4/18
The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabner’s Second Avenue Caper is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found themselves on the front lines in the fight against AIDS.Struggling to understand the disease and how they could help, they made a deal with a bona fide goodfella, donned masterful disguises, piled into an “A-Team” van, and set off for the border, determined to save their bedridden friends by smuggling an experimental drug into the United States from Mexico.
With their community in crisis and the world turned against them, this impassioned gang of misfits never gave up hope as they searched for ways to raise awareness and beat the plague. Fast-paced, poignant, and beautifully illustrated by the award-winning illustrator Mark Zingarelli, Second Avenue Caper is a heartfelt tribute to the generation that faced down AIDS.
Joyce Brabner is an award-winning author of nonfiction comics about tough social issues. She frequently collaborated with her late husband, Harvey Pekar, on his American Splendor series. Her own titles include the Real War Stories series, Activists!, Brought to Light (with Alan Moore), numerous short stories, and Our Cancer Year (also with Harvey). She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and is rather more lighthearted than any of the actresses who have portrayed her in various plays or in that movie.
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Sat, April 18th, 7pm
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New Stuff This Week
Lots of Planets Have a North $15.00 – Meditations on the north of England. Fantastic!
ZinesTributaries #5 by JC $2.00
Collide #2 A Zine on Physical and Mental Illness Passing $2.50 & Collide #3 Family on Physical and Mental Illness $3.00
Consumable Waste #1 $2.50
Merge Visible #1 by Jesse Greene $5.00
Pacific Tourist Redux by Chad Rutter & Emoly Roehl (Mystery Spot Books) $15.00
Drawings Of Background Objects Seen In TV Shows (Mystery Spot Books) $8.00
Comics & Minis
Weirdo by Brett Manning $5.00 – Not your pappy’s Weirdo! More of Chicago-local Brett Manning pizza-cat candy-heart pastels. Fashion hex for the ill millenial.Lullaby Of a Dreamer by Mike Otero $3.00
Blammo #8.5 by Noah Van Sciver $6.00
Kilgore Quarterly #5 $3.00 – Anthologyincluding work from JT Yost, John Kuebler, Mister V, Sam Spina, Katrin Davis, Noah Van Sciver, Anders Nilsen, Alex Nall, and William VanDenBerg.
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
I Hope This Finds You Well: The Collected Handwritten Interviews 2003-2014 $12.00Spinadoodles vol 5 Know Me Now the Fifth Collection by Sam Spina (Tinto) $10.00
Complete Collection of Tragedy Series by Benjamin Dewey $17.99
Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie by James Kolchalka (First Second) $12.99
Prophet TPB 4 Joining by Brandon Graham and friends $17.99
Art & Design Books
The Art of Lee Brown Coye’s Final and Darkest Era, ed. by Mike Hunchback and Caleb Braaten (Feral House) $39.95 – No other artist working in mid-century pulp fiction created work as twisted as Lee Brown Coye. His eerie cover art and illustrations graced many Arkham House books, most notably those by H.P. Lovecraft. By the 1970s, after surviving a life-threatening illness, Coye would outdo himself, creating lurid illustrations exclusive to rare privately published books and fanzines. With nearly one hundred gloriously rendered Coye-penned images, Pulp Macabre showcases Coye’s final and darkest era, containing some of the most passionately ghoulish artwork ever made.Mystery Spot 2 by Lex Thompson & friends $20.00
It Is What It Is: Tattooing the Brooklyn Way by Peter Caruso (Schiffer) $34.99
Fiction
I Will Love You For the Rest Of My Life: Breakup Stories by Michael Czyzniekewski (Curbside Splendor) $14.95
Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes (Curbside Splendor) $17.95
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra (McSweeneys) $15.00 – Eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers.Mermaids Child by Jo baker $15.95
Changers Book Two: Oryon by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper (Akashic/Black Sheep) $11.95
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown and Sheree Renee Thomas (AK) $18.00
Outer Limits
Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama by Larry Holcombe $27.99
Music Books
Born To Drum: The Truth About the Worlds Greatest Drummers From John Bonham and Keith Moon to Sheila E and Dave Grohl by Tony Barrell $25.99
Politics & Revolution
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe (Haymarket) $11.95
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington $14.99 – Arianna Huffington likens our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we’re going to topple over. We need a third leg — a third metric for defining success — to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving.
Kids Books
Her Idea by Rilla (Flying Eye) $19.95 Beastly Verse by Joohee Yoon (Enchanted Lion) $18.95
Magazines
Bust Apr May 15 vol 92 $5.99
Dazed and Confused vol 4 Spr 15 $10.99
Tape Op #106 Mar Apr 15 $4.95
Harpers Magazine Apr 15 $6.99
Shots #127 Spr 15 Dreams $7.25
Make vol 44 $9.99- Now with more drone racing.
Two Magazine #1 $6.00
Monocle vol 9 #81 15 $12.00
Four Two Nine #4 $12.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
The First Line vol 17 #1 $4.00
Oyez Review #42 Spr 15 $6.50
On the River Down Where They Found Willy Brown by Theodore Wheeler $3.00
Plus: More Field Notes products!
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New Stuff This Week
Zinester Trading Cards by Bunny Ears Distro $3.00 – You get 9 full color cards printed on glossy cardstock paper (randomly selected from the series of 32), plus one sticker of another card. Each card measures 2.75″ X 4.25″. Front of the card shows the person or place, back of the card tells stats and contact information. Folks like Cristy C. Road, Alex Wrekk, Billy Da Bunny, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bradley Adita, Adam Gnade and more! Collect them all!
Zines
Pizza Libs #1 by Dave Roche and the CHIPRC $1.00 – Made for a Chicago Zine Fest fundraiser at our local Dimo’s by Dave “On Subbing” Roche, brought ot you by CHIPRC, the Chicago Publishing Resource Center. Get a PIZZA this!
Destroy Your Body: A Stick N Poke Guide by David Beltran $10.00
Brooklyn To Mars #8 $7.99
Incandescent: A Color Film Zine, issues #6 & #7 by Marissa Csanyi and Helen Jones $14.00 each
Life Made Easier #2 Fed Up by Mikie Poland $5.00
Full Frontal: A Coloring Book For Pervs by Jane Lily $4.00
Body Building Mar 15 $1.00
One Euro Coin: What Is It Worth – A Memoir by Maddie Wells $5.00
Desire vol 1 #2 by the Marxist Book Club $2.00
Comics & Minis
Teaching Robots How to Recognize Their Own Bodies vol 1 by M. Flaherty and T Massa $3.00
Screamin Mad Squatchies by Hannah Rutigliano $4.00
Floormallow #1 by Vanessa Treacle $3.00
Masculine Feminine by Tim Peters $4.00
Circuity by Quintin Caldwell $2.00
Mindfulness Comics by Jondrawdoer $5.00
Comic Stripper, issues #0 and #1 by Megan Rose Gedris $3.00 each – The comic diary of florence of alabia. Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.
Tuki #3 Enter Kwarell Save the Humans by Jeff Smith $3.99
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection by Julia Wertz (Atomic) $24.00
New Julia Wertz book Museum of Mistakes now in stock.
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Zenith Phase Two by Grant Morrison & Steve Yeowell $25.00
Just So Happens by Fumio Obata $17.95
Humans vol 1 Humans for Life by Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller $9.99
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson $12.99
Final Incal by Moebius and Jodorowsky (Humanoids) $34.95
Comics Crit
Peter Bagge: Conversations (UP of Miss) by Kent Worcester $40.00
Art & Deisgn Books
F Scott Hess $34.95
Fiction
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham $26.00
Trivia
AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit & Greg Brown $23.99
Film
Memoirs Of a Ninety Year Old Hippie by Lillian Darr $10.95
Politics & Revolution
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin (Candlewick) $12.99
Magazines
Bitch #66 $5.95 – Cyber Crime Law and Order Issue
Juxtapoz #171 Apr 15 $6.99
The Baffler #27 $12.00
Drift vol 1 $24.00 – A new coffee culture mag. This issue: New York!
Cabinet #55 Fall 14 Love $12.00
Skeptical Inquirer vol 39 #2 Mar Apr 15 $4.95
Gothic Beauty #46 $7.99
Flaunt #140 The Location Issue $15.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 8 #2 Spr 15 $17.00
Nostalgia Digest Spr 15 Jack benny $4.50
High Times May 15 $5.99
Dark Side #164 $11.99 – Girls of our Screams!
Fader #96 Feb Mar 15 $5.99
Decibel #126 Apr 15 $5.99
Mojo #256 Mar 15 $10.50
Ghetto Blaster # 40 $4.50
Lit Mags & Journals
Catamaran Literary Reader vol 2 #4 Fall 14 $10.00
Public Space #22 Win 15 $12.00
Other Stuff
Flash Tattoo Tech Decals $9.95 – Tweet tweet! Add some humor to your gizmo. WI-FI OR DIE!
Back in stock!Girl In a Band by Kim Gordon $27.99
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A Night of Cartoonists: Keiler Roberts, Gina Wynbrandt, and Special guest Nicole J. Georges 3/26
Nicole Georges will reading from her book, Calling Dr. Laura and discuss the process of making it, and will talk about her senior citizen zine project, Tell It Like It Tiz. Keiler Roberts (Powdered Milk) and Gina Wynbrandt (Big Pussy) will read from their comics.
Info about Keiler Roberts here and Gina Wynbrandt here.
Nicole J. Georges is a writer and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. Her Lambda Award winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and “disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at one” by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home. She has been publishing her own zines and comics for almost twenty years; and has toured the country extensively, including two appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit tour. Nicole’s diary comic zine, Invincible Summer, has been collected into two anthology books. Nicole was the 2013 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she was also on faculty. She won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Arts Education in 2012, and currently teaches at California College for the Art’s MFA in Comics Program.
In her spare time, Nicole writes an advice column for Bitch Magazine, publishes a yearly animal calendar, and volunteers with senior citizens at Portland’s Marie Smith Center (she publishes a zine about these seniors, called Tell It Like It Tiz). She is currently at work on a graphic memoir called Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home. It will be out with Mariner books in 2017.? More info: nicolejgeorges.tumblr.com.
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New Stuff This Week
Do Plants Feel by Cortney Cassidy $6.00 – Non-linear story about plants told through an archive of photographs. / Cars with Stuff on Top by Paul Windle $10.00
Zines & Zine-Related
Straight To Hell #68 $8.00 – Now in it’s 5th decade of publication, this issue of Straight to Hell (aka The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts) features true sex histories/research from STH readers as well as raunchy photos/artwork from contributors. We know what you’re doing tonight!
After vol 1 #1 Van Dyck by MES $5.00
Justice Under God #1 Mar 15 by Justice Undergood $2.00
Serio #2 Social Justice Zine Based In Chicago by Luz Magdaleno and Alvaro Zavala $3.00
Comics & Minis
Escape Plan by Willard Herman $1.00
True Adventures of Jep Comix #4 $2.00
Acknowledgements #4 Mary Shelley by Robert Kelsey $3.50
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Y The Last Man Book Two by Brian K. Vaughan and friends $19.99
Bone Out from Boneville – Tribute Edition by Jeff Smith $14.99
Other Side of the Wall by Simon Schwartz $9.99
Adventure Time vol 6 by Pendleton Ward and Ryan North $14.99
Art & Design
Banksy in New York $29.95
Camper and RV Humor: The Illustrated Story of Camping Comedy $24.99
Fiction
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link $15.00
Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov $18.95
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Was Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas $22.95
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy $24.00
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh $26.00
Five Hundred Sirens by Jay Shearer $15.00
Know Your Beholder by Adam Rapp $26.00
The Sellout by Paul Beatty $26.00
Act of God by Jill Ciment $24.00
Outer Limits
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident by Nick Pope & friends $16.99
Music Books
Beats to the Rhyme: A Collection of Instrumental Hip-Hop Records for the Beat Connoisseur by Albert D. Patterson $24.95
Essays
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson $16.00
Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels by HUCK Magazine and Douglas Coupland $14.95
I’m Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark (Semiotext[e]) $13.95
Food Books
FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant by Kelly Hudson, Mizretti Brothers and friends $20.00
Magazines
Kinfolk vol 15 Entrepreneurs Issue $18.00
Bizarre #224 Feb 15 $10.50
Wire #372 Feb 15 Mica Levi $9.99
Lit Journals
After Hours #30 Win 15 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art Afterhours $10.00
Kids Stuff
In by Nikki McClure $16.95
Plus, out on March 10th!:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson $28.00 – New book from the author of The Devil in the White City.
Songs Only You Know: A Memoir by Sean Madigan Hoen $16.00
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk by Melinda Chateauvert $20.00
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell $24.95
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Kristy Bowen reads from Major Characters in Minor Films 4/3
“Get ready: Kristy Bowen’s major characters in minor films casts our favorite muse du jour in a ‘white-hot, white dress.’ Through poems that are lyrical, irreverent, and a little bit naughty, we discover the swanky, labyrinthine interior of her straight-to-DVD universe: remember, she tells us in ‘movie of the week,’ ‘Everybody loves a victim, especially the blonde, pretty kind.’ Through scathing missives to James Franco and sensual harangues directed at the moon, our wine-stained diva tempts us through vivacious non sequiturs to the ‘poem within a movie within a girl-shaped world’ in all of us.” -Sara Henning, author of A Sweeter Water“I want to be best friends with the ‘I’ of this book. She’s hilarious. She’s heartbreaking. She’s more than a little bit dangerous. Whether she’s writing about crying on the bus or hiding a knife under the sink, she deals out her words like a card shark—fast, sure, sly. What’s not to love about such a deft performance of wit, skill, and heart?” -Sara Biggs Chaney, author of Ann Coulter’s Letter to the Young Poets
“In Kristy Bowen’s major characters in minor films, language moves like a camera, cutting from image to image, leaving impressions that form intriguing fragmented narratives of love, intrigue, mystery and damage. Populated with both the familiar and the strange, with rabbits and birds as well as whiskey and fire, the journey through the scenes these poems create is a wild and rich ride.” -Donna Vorreyer, author of A House of Many Windows
A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book, chapbook, and zine projects including the shared properties of water and stars (Noctary Press, 2013) and girl show (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). Her work has appeared most recently in Birdfeast, Diode, and Eratio. She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio. For more info: kristybowen.net
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Fri, April 3rd, 7pm, Free Event
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Offsite: Quimby's Night at LiveWire Lounge: 3 Songs, 3 Writers Reading About Those Songs 3/22
The LiveWire Lounge (3394 N Milwaukee) asked Quimby’s if we wanted to curate a night at their lounge. And we said yes. So this is what we’re bringing, a themed mix of reading and music with a very specific focus:Quimby’s Night at LiveWire Lounge: 3 Songs, 3 Writers Reading About Those Songs
Original Readings by:
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, reading about Kiss Me Deadly by Generation X
Celia Forrest, reading about Black and White by the DBs
Dan Kelly, reading about X Offender by BlondieAll 3 songs performed by The Blue Ribbon Glee Club
Celia Forrest is a writer, director, teacher and actress who was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is a new mother and couldn’t shut up about it if she tried. She is well-known in Minnesota for her work teaching theater to kids and her award-winning turn in Neil Labute’s Fat Pig. In Chicago she is mostly known for her sketch comedy writing and directing, as well for her work on The People’s Republic of Edward Snowden. Celia is also famous in a subset of radical activists as a co-host of Morning Damnit, the morning news and talk show on Q4 Radio, and the weekly program The Celia and Erik Show, which features comedy, commentary and interviews with local artists. Find her on Twitter at twitter.com/thatcelia
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden is the author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever! (Bazillion Points, 2014) and the upcoming Going All the Way: The Ultimate Guide to Teen Sex Comedy Films of the VHS Era (Bazillion Points, 2016). You will love him. More info at mcbeardo.com.
Dan Kelly is the author of Hilaretic. He is not to be confused with the Australian judoka and mixed martial artist Dan Kelly. He occasionally writes for The Baffler and Gapers Block. He blogs at mrdankelly.com/blog.
The Blue Ribbon Glee Club is Chicago’s punk rock a capella glee club, and regularly performs songs by Fugazi, Gang of Four, the Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks and more.
Please note: This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the LIVEWIRE LOUNGE | 3394 N MILWAUKEE AVE, CHICAGO, IL
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New Stuff This Week
$pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution ed. by Audacia Ray, Eliyanna Kaiser & Rachel Aimee (The Feminist Press) $24.95 – Stories from and about $pread, published by and for sex workers, from 2005-2011.Zines
Notorious RBG A Fanzine $2.00 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg in da house. Contains poems by Amber Nelson, illustrations by Neil Brideau, and a comic by Colleen Frakes.
Worst Breakup Ever ed. by Nicki Yowell $4.00 – A Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC) anthology. Featuring work from Tony Jeswald , Victoria Harley, Liz Mason, Rachael Zalutsky, Brett Manning, Alex Nall and more. Compzine all about the demise of relationships from the folks of Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC). Contains tales of woe ranging from post-coital fish attacks, school dance dumps, ill-timed apartment leases and the urban phenomenon of “ghosting”. If you’ve ever dropped a zero for not loving your favorite late ’90s Keanu Reaves movie, this zine is for you. This dose of catharsis goes well with a box of chocolates and a middle finger for that ex that you just can’t shake. Comics, essays, haikus, illustrations and more all with plenty of high school notebook style scrawlings.Pray Fuck Drive by Johnny Murdoc $8.00
Proof I Exist #19 by Billy Roberts $2.00
KerBloom #112 Jan Feb 15 by Artnoose $2.00
My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 2 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths by Zach $1.00
Useless Records #1 $2.00
228 Labels #1 by Joe Cunningham $2.00
Mescaline Story by Karl Noyes & David Ball $2.00 – Form follows function down the rabbit hole in this instructional nonfiction tale about a group of young friends, a spring day in Minnesota, and some happy pink pills of artisinal synthetic mescaline. Contains many trip-tips on what to do, and what to never, ever to do, if & when you find yourself down a shady lane rolling dice with Satan & hunting down The Berzerker. Includes color collages by the author. -GS
Comics & MinisTop of the Line (various issues) by Daniel McCloskey, various prices
Me Nut Nut Nut #0 by Jason Murphy $5.00
Stripburger #64 $8.00
Cosmic Death Trip Funnies #1 by Charlie Fogel, Plastic Crimewave and Dawn Aquarius $4.00
Graphic Novels & Trade PaperbacksWhitman Illuminated: Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and Allen Crawford (Tin House) $28.95
Totally Awesome Adventures of Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship #1 $10.00 – Comics anthology.
Kick Ass vol 3 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. $24.99
Dripping with Fear the Steve Ditko Archives vol 5 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula by Andi Watson (First Second) $14.99
Walking Dead Book Eleven by Robert Kirkman and friends $34.99
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud SIGNED EDITIONS! (First Second) $29.99 – For the same price as non-signed. Comes with a bookplate!
Comics Crit
Comics and Narration by Thierry Groensteen (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Insightful reflections in comics crit about such topics as how the conventions of the medium function, narration in autobiographical comics, rhythm in comics and the relationship of comics to contemporary art. Uses examples from Chris Ware and Crumb, among others. Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form ed. by Hannah Miodrag (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Suggestions for a more nuanced way to interpret comics. Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art ed. by Jane Tolmie (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comics.Fiction
Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover (Dzanc Books) $17.95 – The 1966 classic back in print! The survivor of a small twn coal-min explosion is aopted as a prophet by a cult that awaits the apocalypse atop the site of the disaster. The novel thatwon the William Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel and instantly established Robert Coover’s fictional mastery. Coover went on to win fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 
Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins (Soft Skull ) $15.95 A “save the rec center” style novel about a dying video store against the big Blockbuster down the street. Like Breakin’ 2, but about a video renting instead of dancing. -LMSomething Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty: Stories by Brian Alan Ellis $10.00 – A dude jumps out of a window, drunk Harry Dean Stanton look-a-likes dressed as Santa Claus, floating Mickey Mouse T-shirts, and lawn gnomes on fire and more!
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio) $16.00
Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem $24.95
Music Books
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man by Holly George-Warren $18.00Food
Rappers Delight: The Hip Hop Cookbook by Joseph Inniss and friends (Dokument) $15.95 – 30 recipes inspired by hip hop icons, from Wu-Tang Clam Chowder to Public Enemiso Soup, Run DM Sea Bass and Busta Key Lime Pie.Politics & Revolution
Governing By Debt: Semiotext[e] Intervention Series by Maurizio Lazzarato $13.95Outer Limits
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows, ed. by Marjorie Sandor $21.99 – Tales of doppelgangers, automatons, the supernatural, and an unstable sense of self, home and planet. Vintage Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft but also contemporary folks like Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Joyce Carol Oates and more.Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: The First English Translation of a Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection by Malcolm C. Lyons $30.00
Kids Stuff
Where is it Coming From? Stories Written by The Students of Boggs School, Detroit and illustrated by Dave Eggers (826Mich) $17.99Books by Melissa Rohr: Aquatic Coloring Book, Woodland Coloring Book $10.00 each
Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales by Willard Mullin & friends (Fantagraphics) $9.99
Magazines
#LuckyPeach issue 14 here at #QuimbysBookstore
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True Crime Feb 15 Dectective Monthly $8.99
Purple Fashion vol 3 #23 Spr Sum 15 $55.00
Love Magazine #13 Kendall on Cara $17.99
Shindig #45 $12.99
Harpers Magazine Mar 15 $6.99Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Zizobotchi Papers vol 1 Win 15 $10.00
Fields Magazine #3 Win 15 $12.00
Tijuana Book of the Dead Poems by Luis Alberto Urrea (Soft Skull) $15.95
Court Green #12 $10.00
Any Other Time #1 by Nick Kuntz $2.00Sexy
Distracting Ghosts #1 by Johnny Murdoc $8.00 – Queer smut photo zine. -
Oyez Review Issue 42 Launch Reading Featuring Donna Vorreyer& Friends 3/20
The Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s award-winning literary journal, has been in publication for over forty years. Among other readers relevant to issue #42, Donna Vorreyer will read a selection of her poems including “Compline with a Dream of Folded Arms,” which is also featured in this issue.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as six chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbook (released in April 2015). She has been a repeat nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as Sugar House Review, Sou’wester, Rhino, Linebreak, and Cider Press Review. She is an assistant poetry editor for Extract(s), and her second collection is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2016.
For more info:
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oyezreview(at)roosevelt(dot)edu
Friday, March 20, 7pm – Free Event
