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Quimby's Top 10 Selling Titles for August 19th-26th 2007
Not to be confused with the Top 10 Valedictorians…
1. Butt #20 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July $23.00 (Scribner)
3. Punk Planet #80 $4.95
4. Crap Hound #6 $12.00
5. Abolish Restaurants $5.00
6. XXX Scumbag Party vol II of the Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan $18.95 (Fantagraphics)
7. The Baffler #17 $10.50
8. Sin in the Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battler for Americas Soul by Karen Abbott $25.95 (Random House)
9. Beautiful Decay issue T $5.95
10. Believer #46 $8.00
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of Aug 12th – 18th, 2007
1. Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 $17.98
2. The Believer #46 $8.00 (McSweeney’s)
3. F Word #2 Spr 07 $4.20
4. Complete Do It Yourself Bike Book Everything You Need to Know – by Mel Allwood $24.95 (Marlowe)
5. Feeble Attempts – by Jeffrey Brown $5.00 (Top Shelf)
6. Participatory Autonomy by Rick Gribenas $15.00
7. Brainscan #21 by Alex Wrekk $2.00
8. Rolling Thunder #4 $6.00 (CrimethInc.)
9. Love & Rockets vol 2 #20 by Hernandez $7.99 (Fantagraphics)
10. Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman $15.00 (Scribner) -
RAGAD Event
RAGAD presents INTERSECTIONS: A READING FROM THE STREETS. Join local authors for a night of readings, both fictive and non, based on Chicago street intersections and locales. Come listen and see how the roads you travel inspire other. This event doubles as a release party for RAGAD # 4, which features a short called “The Landing” by Paul Silverman. This event is free. Copies of RAGAD’s new issue as well as back issues will be available. With readings by Pete Coco (editor of Please Don’t), Scott Stealy (editor of Please Don’t), Ben Tanzer (author of Lucky Man), CT Ballentine, and RAGAD editor Nick Ostdick. Fun for all!
Ben Tanzer’s debut novel Lucky Man was published by Manx Media this past spring – www.manxmedia.com/luckyman.htm. You can check out his blog “This Blog Will Change Your Life”
Pete Coco’s writing has appeared in The Madison Review, The 2ndhand, Econoculture, American Book Review, as a Featherproof Mini-Book and is forthcoming in Barrelhouse and Other Voices. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a founding editor of the forthcoming literary website, Please Don’t.
Scott Stealey has a mini-book out from Featherproof Books and is co-editor of the upcoming webzine Please Don’t, at please-dont.com .
CT Ballentine lives and writes in Chicago. He is the audio editor at www.the2ndhand.com
Nick Ostdick is the editor/publisher of RAGAD. His writing has appeared in Word Riot, THE2NDHAND, VerbSap, Identity Theory, Wandering Army, and others, and is forthcoming in Letter X. Visit him online at www.inthenickoftime.wordpress.com
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Quimby's Bestseller List for Aug 5th-11th
Look! It’s Quimby’s Best Sellers For The Week of Aug 5th – 11th!
Want to know what’s cookin’ in the world of this independent bookstore?
These items reflect what topics our customers are interested in. And
evidently they are interested in both learning how to be funny and learning
about female serial killers.1. Chuck Klosterman IV – by Chuck Klosterman $15.00 (Simon & Schuster)
2. Comedy By the Numbers – by Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren $14.00
(McSweeney’s)3. Book Bindery zine $1.00
4. East Village Inky #34 zine – by Ayun Halliday $3.00
5. Female Serial Killers – by Peter Vronsky $16.00 (Penguin)
6. Or Else #2 Gloriana with Glenn Ganges by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn &
Quarterly)7. Tape Op #60 $4.50
8. Constant Rider Omnibus vol 1 Stories From the Public Transportation Front
by Kate Lopresti $3.50 (Microcosm)9. Doris #23 zine by Cindy Crabb $1.50
10. Butt #19 Amazing Magazine for Homosexuals $8.95
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Wizard World Without Us!
Wow for the first time in a long time, Quimby’s is siting out Wizard World. I’m not sure where people will buy their Housewives at Play or Jack Chick Tracts…our big sellers each year, but it was time for us to move on. So if anybody out then in inter-web land makes it, get us some good shots of people in costumes and make sure to say hi to Lou and Virgil, and Bobby the Brain for us!
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New Stuff 7/28/07
Wicker Park Fest is in full effect. Crocs, ball caps and baggy tees. I think Jimmy Buffet was just in here looking at porn. Crazy! What more to say another week of new stuff. Looks like the summer lull is subsiding and hot books are starting to trickle out.
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New Stuff 7/21/07
Sorry folks, no Harry Potter for us this week? It’s a muggle house in here. When I get done I’ll tell you who dies. Guess if I had to pick a fictional character to be down with I’d take wizards over anarchists any day.
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Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, is coming to Quimby's!
Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, will be at Quimby’s, Saturday, August 11th, 7:00 pm. As usual, it is a FREE EVENT!
In Douglas Wolk’s READING COMICS: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, fans have a collection of criticism about the artists and writers they admire most: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Alan Moore and David Gibbons (Watchmen), Dave Sim (Cerebus), Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Dr. Strange), Keith Giffen (Legion of Super Heroes), and more; and newcomers have a history of how comics evolved, a diverse list of the comics worth reading, and a context for how to read, consider, and discuss comics.
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July Events!!!
There is still a mild information hangover within our newly switched over systems, so to make up for any possible data holes here is a handy post with every event for the month. There is everything from poetry to Crimethinc coming up, so don’t miss out.
