Monthly Archive for August, 2009

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New Stuff This Week

Fifth Estate vol 44 #2 #381 Sum Fall 09 $4.00

Id Start a Revolution But I Dont Have Time $1.00

Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 $3.00

Ellis Island vol #1 to vol 4 #12 by Robert Viscusi $15.00

Chris Ware Paper Musician by Edward Choy Moormin $1.00

Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by S. Green and R. Valencia (Cleis) $14.95

Rasskazy New Fiction From a New Russia edited by M. Lossel and J. Parker (TinHouse) $18.95

Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler (Featherproof) $14.95

Tiki Magazine Vol 5 #2 Sum 09 $4.99

Maximumrocknroll #316 $4.00

Geek Monthly #31 Sep 09 $5.99

Hip Hop History Flocabulary Study Guides by B. Harrison and A. Rappaport (Cider Mill) $18.95 – With CD!!

Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects Magical Worlds (Cider Mill) $24.95

AD New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon) $24.95

Housewives At Play TPB Working Moms by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95

Collected Essex County TPB by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $29.95

Direct Action An Ethnography by D. Graeber (AK) $25.95

Rogue Economics by L. Napoleni (Seven Stories) $16.95

From CBGB To The Roundhouse: Music Venues Through The Years by T. Burrows (Marrion)

Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox (AK) $17.95

Whos To Say Whats Obscene by Paul Krassner (Citylights) $16.95

Out Of Exile: Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan by C. Walzer (McSweeneys) $16.00

Sex World by Dan Gleason $2.00 – All you want it to be and more from a local weirdo fave.

Graffiti World Updated Edition by N. Ganz (Abrams) $35.00

Indie Rock Coloring Book by the Yellow Bird Project (Chronicle) $9.95

Jeffrey Brown Cat Journal (Chronicle) $9.95 – For your own work, with some of his. See it to believe it.

Toon Treasury Of Classic Childrens Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (Abrams) $40.00

Lotsa new moleskines!

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #2 $3.99 – A comic of the original Philip K. Dick story that inspired Bladerunner. Now with extra material!

Noise Vs Subversive Computing: Computationally Infeasible Records 001 The Flash Drive Versus $20.00 – Ummmmm, a flash drive zine!

Monsters In Love #1 by Phil Forsyth $1.25 – Great mini comic!

How I Fell In Love With Punk Rock by Duncan Wilder Johnson $4.00

One Hit Wonder Collection $2.00 – the zine for you.

Reality Mom Vol 6 #3 Sum Fall 09 $3.00

Women In Hats by Richard C. Miller $25.00 – Some crazy photo work. For real? Guess you’ll have to see it!

Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95

History of German Porn: From the Gretchen Kraut Collection (Goliath) $29.95

Best Buy Comics by R. Crumb $2.50 – Unearthed and waiting to be taken home with you for sweet lovin’.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00 – Now in soft cover. A meditiation on running and creativity.

Inner Swine vol 15 #2 $2.

My Secret Cockupation #2: Private Journals Of A Prostitute by Lil Princess, Hugo and Robin Bougie – $4.00

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-19

  • Back in stock for a very limited time… The Believer Issue 64: The Music Issue (that would be the one with the CD). http://w67tb.tk #

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Off-Site Event: 50th Anniversary Celebration of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch

Aug ’09
28
5:30 pm

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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE PETER WELLER & WARHOL SUPERSTAR PENNY ARCADE

HEADLINE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS’ THE NAKED LUNCH

Chicago joins Paris, London, New York & San Francisco tributes to Burroughs with new documentary & art exhibition

WHAT: Academy Award nominee Peter Weller will host a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch by legendary Beat author and American icon William S. Burroughs.

Featuring an art exhibition at Th!nkArt Salon of William S. Burroughs’ paintings and drawings on paper and never-before-seen footage of his turbulent life in a trailer of the feature-length documentary: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within by Yony Leyser. The documentary features exclusive interviews with John Waters, Genesis P-Orridge, Laurie Anderson, Peter Weller, Iggy Pop, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, James Grauerholz, and Sonic Youth.

This star-studded evening catered by Chef  David Leigh will feature live music by Maya Jensen with readings, happenings, and performances by authors, poets, and Beat scholars.

WHY: William S. Burroughs, often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the twentieth century, was a seminal figure of the Beat generation.

WHO: Featured authors, poets, Beat scholars include:
· Peter Weller, star of David Cronenberg’s film Naked Lunch (1991)
· Penny Arcade, Andy Warhol Superstar, Performance Artist, Writer
· Anne Waldman, Poet, Co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
· John Giorno, Poet, Giorno Poetry Systems
· Hal Willner, Musical Director, Saturday Night Live, recorded Burroughs, Dead City Radio (1990)
· James Grauerholz, William S. Burroughs Estate Executor
· John Long, author, Drugs and the Beats
· Kurt Hemmer, author, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
· Tony Trigilio, author, Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics
· Dr. Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

WHERE/WHEN:
Star-studded Art Exhibition 5:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. Friday, August 28, 2009 Th!nkArt Salon 1530 N. Paulina St., Suite F Chicago, IL. Admission $60 online and $75 at the door includes After-Party. After-Party 9:30 P.M. until it ends Featuring: David Daniell & Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, Thrill Jockey), Penny Aracde & DJs STOP SMILING Storefront 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL. Admission at the door $10.

Donations accepted online at www.cimmfest.org for $60 or at the door for $75, price includes both events. For more information call 773.252.2294 ext. 304.

Quimby’s is proud to be on hand at Th!nkArt Salon to sell books, including Naked Lunch, The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Grove Press).

Top 10 For Last Week

1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00
3. Adbusters #85 $8.95
4. Journalsong #6 $2.50
5. Trubble Club vol 1 $3.00
6. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
7. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Otsu) $12.95
8. FOUND #6 $5.00
9. Wax Poetics #36 $9.99
10. Trubble Club vol 2 $3.00

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-13

  • Walking Dead Vol. 10 is here. A herd of roamers approaches… #

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