1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910
1. Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
2. Believer #56 $8.00
3. Stop Smiling #36 $5.95
4. Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead) $14.00
5. McSweeney’s #28 $24.00
6. Giant Robot #55 $4.99
7. Mojo Oct 08 #179 $9.99
8. Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne (Process) $16.95
9. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
10. Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00
When did Chicago become Seattle? I hope this clears up and out so Renegade Craft Fair gets some shine tomorrow. Don’t forget if you are in the neighbor hood the poster sale is still going and there are some zines on the last chance pile that you may never see again! So stop in, escape the rain, and check the shelves!
| Oct ’08 |
| 17 |
| 7:00 pm |
Join Laurie Lindeen, author of Petal Pusher for a reading and book signing.
Laurie Lindeen’s obsession with music was immediate. But launching a successful career in rock and roll would take more guts and determination than she ever realized she could muster. Lindeen grew up with The Monkees, The Partridge Family, and singing tunes from Rogers and Hammerstein musicals. However, when her parents divorced, Lindeen began to understand that life may be a little less sweet than the sugar-coated soundtrack of her youth let on. If she was to discover that it was a wonderful life after all, it would have to be on her own terms.
As one of the “lost girls of Generation Why,” Lindeen questioned all the conventions that confronted her. Why should she bother finishing school on time? Why should she push for a corporate career that would never make her happy? Why bother with a serious relationship? Why were all the moms that she saw so unhappy? But one thing she never wanted to wonder was, “What if…?”
Moving from Madison, Wisconsin to Minneapolis, Minnesota, a musical hot-bed of the 1980s, Lindeen packed light, with only the dream of playing music and a steeled will to succeed. But, before she could play a note, Lindeen came face to face with the disease that silently stalked her every step of the way. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that left her nearly blind in one eye and completely paralyzed on one side of her body, Lindeen’s passion to make it big on the local, national, and international rock scene became her driving force.
Forming the all-girl alternative rock band, Zuzu’s Petals, Lindeen and her best girl friends Coleen (“former cheerleader gone off the deep end”) and Phyll (“Annie Oakley meets Patsy Cline”) struggle to survive the many challenges of making it as a female underdog in the male centric rock world including practicing in an abandoned box car, being scammed by slimy music industry agents on under-funded European tours, and watching other, newer female bands selling out and having greater success.
Ultimately, Laurie’s falling in love with singer/songwriter Paul Westerberg of Replacements fame and her first sense of having a true home since childhood cause her to revaluate her determination to “make it big.” With this new stable foundation in her life, Lindeen is able to truly see the negative aspects of her life in the band for the first time, and she ultimately realizes the difference between her dream and reality.
About the author:
Laurie Lindeen holds an M.F.A. in creative writing, a subject she currently teaches. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone’s Anthology Altrarockorama and on NPR. She lives with her husband Paul Westerberg and their son in Minnesota. Visit her online at www.laurielindeen.com
| Oct ’08 |
| 18 |
| 7:00 pm |
Join Nate Powell as he reads his new book Swallow Me Whole.
SWALLOW ME WHOLE is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one’s unraveling. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest nugget of hope that the heart, that sanity, that order itself will take shape again
| Oct ’08 |
| 16 |
| 7:00 pm |
McDonald’s has Fast Food Nation, the fish industry has Cod, but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. In Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores, technological dependence and personal interaction.
The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto, and how politics, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms. “From TiVo to Google to Match.com, technology is now part of our everyday lives,” Brown says. “Technology is officially sexy now.”
Fans of pop culture, technology and modern sexual history will be addicted from page one. Author and regular CNN tech correspondent Scott Steinberg calls it “A stimulating look at two of today’s most controversial subjects,” while Playboy Senior Editor Scott Alexander says “…Brown shows the pivotal role erotic content has played in the evolution of this new medium, as well as the furor and controversy it inevitably stirs up.”
Author Damon Brown covers sex, music and technology, but he is first and foremost a pop culturist. A Northwestern grad, he regularly contributes to Playboy, SPIN, the New York Post, Inc., AARP The Magazine and Family Circle. Damon also writes the Inspector Gadget column for PlanetOut, the largest gay and lesbian website.
An in-demand tech commentator, Damon has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, G4 and BBC World, and has spoken at several conferences including the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association and Chicago Magazine Writers One-on-One. In 2006 he helped moderate the first annual sex in video games conference in San Francisco. Porn and Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture, is being released by critically-acclaimed indie publisher Feral House.
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