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New Stuff This Week

Published on October 21, 2011 0 Comments

Slingshot 2012 Planners are here! $6.00 for pocket-sized small ones and $12.00 for the larger spiral-bound edition. In a variety of colors. Get organized for 2012 with the help of Berkeley’s Slingshot anarchist collective.

Zines
East Village Inky #48 by Ayun Haliday $3.00 – The all music issue!
Your Secretary #1 Playing Victim #3 by Jami Sailor $1.00
Norent #1 a Guide to Life and Such by Sn@cki $8.00
Legends of the Silver Screen #1 by Owen Ashworth $3.00
Biking-related zines from Elyse Bennett Devan (from Microcosm): How Do You Bring the Souls of Black Folk Up From Slavery $1.75 Fascinating History of Nail Polish $1.50 Natalie and the Virgin a Tragic Tale of Love From the Annals of Time $2.00
Dirty Love and Fiberglass Smiles #4 Memphis A Rewriting of the Crew Change by Rust $10.00
2011 Twin Cities Zine Fest Encyclopedia $5.00
Hack This Zine #12 Spr 11 Exploit Code Not People by hackbloc $2.00
Transmissions From the Emperors Heavenly Ford vol 1 Notes on Life as an American by Thomas Kenning (Microcosm) $4.00
Taking the Lane vol 3 Unsung Heroes by Elly Blue $3.00
Taking the Lane vol 4 Sexy on the Inside by Elly Blue $3.00
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save the Economy if We Let It by Elly Blue $5.00
Hack Sketches From a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov $16.00

Comics & Comix
Monster Dudes #1 written by Dave Scheidt and drawn by Matt “Meniscus” Fagan $3.99 – Made by our buddies down the street at Brainstorm! Hilarous and charming. Well, what did you expect?
Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics) $7.95 – The fourth issue of Kevin H.’s Glenn Ganges series, drawn with appetizing minimalism, written with mystical mind expansion. How is that possible? It just is. Part of Fantagraphics’ Ignatz series.
Crass Sophisticate #27 $2.00
Feedback #10 by John Isaacson $2.00 – Another stellar issue from John “DIY Screenprinting” Isaacson about shows he goes to. And he goes to a lot! How does he find time to do comics about them?
Short Stories of Lives Cut Short by Mitch Munster and Bryan Kotwica $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Neonomicon TPB by Alan Moore (Avatar) $19.99 – Issues collected in one volume of Moore’s Lovecraftian epic series.
Walking Dead Survivors Guide by Robert Kirkman etc. (Vertigo) $12.99
Unwritten vol 4 Leviathan TPB by Mike Carey (Vertigo) $14.99
Underwire by Jennifer Hayden (Top Shelf) $9.95

Art Books
Print and Pattern vol 2 by Bowie Style (Laurence King) $29.95
A to Z of Visual Ideas How to Solve and Creative Brief by John Ingledew (Laurence) $30.00
DIY Furniture: A Step By Step Guide 30 Unique Projects from Designer Makers by C. Stuart (Laurence) $24.95

Fiction
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New book from the author of Fight Club. Here’s what the internet has to say about it: “Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned. She died, goes to Hell and is joined by characters that are not unlike the characters in the Breakfast Club. They go on a quest to confront Satan in his citadel. Coming of age book? Like maybe the same way Dead Like Me was a coming of age TV show? We shall see.

Dear Sun I am Real by SG Rainbolt $8.99
Facts of Winter by Paul Poissel (McSweeneys) $13.00 – New soft cover edition.
Mid Life by Bojan Pavlovic $9.95 – From the publishers of The First Line lit journal.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, mEssays
Tylenol Mafia Marketing Murder and Johnson and Johnson by Scott Bartz $18.00
50 Funniest American Writers by Andy Borowitz (Penguin) $27.95
Why Am I a Five Percenter by Michael Muhammad Knight (Tarcher) $14.95 – Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell’s Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi- Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and went on to impact the formation of hip-hop. References to Five Percent language and ideas are found in the lyrics of wide-ranging artists, such as Nas, Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, and even Jay-Z.
Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers – An American Tale of Sex by Mike Edison (Soft Skull) $15.95 – wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind them, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! is the first book to rip the sheet off of the sleazy myth-making machine of Hugh Hefner and Playboy, and reveal the doomed history of Hefner’s arch rival, Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, whose messiah complex and heedless spending — on a legendary flop of a movie paid for with bags of cash, a porn magazine for women, and a pie-in-the sky scheme for a portable nuclear reactor —fueled the greatest riches to rags story ever told. From the writer of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go.

Politics & Revolution
Inside This Place Not Of It: Narratives From Womens Prisons ed by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi (McSweeneys) $16.00 – People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suffer in relative anonymity. Women Inside addresses this critical social justice issue, empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women to share the stories that have previously been silenced. Among the narrators include a woman sterlized without her consent and a woman undergoing toxic treatment for a HIV positive diagnoses she didn’t have and more. Part of the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness Series.

Magazines
Bizarre #181 Nov 11 $10.50
Wallpaper Nov 11 $10.00
True Crime Oct 11 $8.99
Make vol 28 $14.99 – Not the lit journal, but the DIY project mag.
Gentlewoman #4 Fall Win 11 $12.99
Another Man #13 Fall Win 11 $14.99
Color Skateboards vol 9 #3 $7.99
Harpers Magazine Nov 11 $6.99
Wire #332 Oct 11 $10.99
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory vol 13 #1 a Movement by The Insititute For Anarchist Studies (Microcosm) $6.00 – With contributions from folks like Josh MacPhee, Chris Borte and more.
Inked Nov 11 $7.99

Music Books
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family Disco and Destiny by Nile Rodgers (Spiegal) $27.00 – By the architect of the “Chic Sound” that dominated the late seventies, but was also a hitmaker in the 80s for artists like David Bowie, INXS, Duran Duran, Madonna, and more.

Sex & Sexy
Handbook vol 5 #4 2011 The Masked Issue $6.00
Model Men Gay Erotic Stories by N. Placky (Cleis) $14.95
Women in Lust Erotic Stories by RK Bussel (Cleis) $14.95
Ellen Von Unwerth Fraulein (Taschen) $69.99
Big Book of Pussy ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99 – Editor Dian Hanson delves into the historical significance of this humble os, to show how the yoni has been coveted, feared, reviled, and worshipped by civilizations worldwide, from New Guinea to old Ireland. The text is supported by playful photographs of women exposing their vulvas, from 1900 to the present day, images both naturally furry and stylishly groomed. Interviews with Vanessa del Rio, squirter Flower Tucci, vaginal performance artist Mouse the singular Buck Angel and more.

Other Stuff
More Moleskine blank journals and 2012 planners. In a variety of sizes, colors, lined, unlined, week at a glance, day at a glance etc.
2 new Build Your Own Postcards from Matt Bergstrom (artist of the Build Your Own Chicago and New York Postcards): *Build Your Own San Francisco Postcard and Build Your Own St. Louis Postcard. $2.00 each

Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition

Published on September 30, 2011 1 Comment
Oct ’11
28
7:00 pm

Kick-off your weekend with the Reads: Halloween Edition! Grab your pumpkin beers and trick-or-treat bags and prepare yourself for the spooky, scary and creepy as read by: , , and others!

The Logan Square Literary Review is a not-for-profit quarterly journal based in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, IL. This publication aims to facilitate expression and add to the thriving community of arts and ideas in Logan Square. The Logan Square Literary Review is dependent upon submissions from the public. This event is to celebrate issue VIII Fall 2011.

Long live 60647!

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Caroline Paquita of PEGACORN PRESS, reads and shows works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake

Published on August 28, 2011 0 Comments
Sep ’11
26
7:00 pm

Caroline Paquita will be in Chicago to release the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year.

In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest- and Jo Dery. Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.” The result is a scintillating cornucopia of hilarity and social commentary, printed in an assortment of colored ink and paper-stock. Paquita’s yearly calendar features ”Womanimals” and other fanciful creatures gallivanting in jolly and curious environments. Wolves wearing wigs howl at the full moon, while tribes of Womanimals live in the trees with snakes and sloths- in 2012, anything is possible!

Also joining the bill is Edie Fake and Jo Dery. Both will be presenting work at this event, including some of Jo’s stunning animations.

Caroline Paquita is an artist/musician living and working out of Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown and distributed internationally and printed in such publications as Maximum Rock and Roll and Cometbus. A longtime creator of zines (Brazen Hussy, Zine Libs and most currently, WOMANIMALISTIC), a printmaker, and in general, a lover of all things made by hand, she began compiling heavy printing equipment in the hopes that one day she might begin a small publishing venture. PEGACORN PRESS is the result of this and her desire to create an environment where artists, particularly women and queers, are able to have the luxury to make work that will get printed and distributed to a larger audience. When she has spare time, she tends to her bees and hangs out with the chickens in her backyard.


Jo Dery is an artist who experiments with narrative form, using both traditional and new media. Her works include short films/videos, drawings, prints, illustration, installation, and artist/small-press book publications. Through the playful invention of characters and events, she investigates her relationship to the built environment, natural phenomena, history and current events, as well as aspects of cognition and consciousness. She currently lives in Chicago.

Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He’s received a Critical Fierceness Grant for queer art and was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in Hot and Cold, Creative Time Comics, and LTTR. Gaylord is his first full-length book. Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books.

For more info:
http://pegacornpress.blogspot.com/
www.carolinepaquita.com
http://www.jodery.com/
http://vimeo.com/jodery
http://www.ediefake.com/

Burn Collector #15 Zine Release Event with Al Burian, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield on 3/22

Published on February 24, 2011 0 Comments
Mar ’11
22
7:30 pm

Celebrating fifteen years of publication as well as the appearance of issue number 15, returns to Quimby’s to present a new installment of his long-running personal zine . Burian began distributing his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene in the mid-nineties. Burn Collector caught on because of its unusual content—in a scene rife with dogmatic diatribes and bland record reviews, Burian presented his readers with humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, nuanced descriptions of odd locales and curious characters. Burn Collector #15 is the “Berlin vs. Chicago” issue: contents include an essay on the Berlin Wall by Chicago’s , and an interview with Chicago zine hero , who debunks the myth of the endless techno party.

Al Burian was a Chicago resident from 2000-2008. His book, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine has just been republished by PM Press. He currently lives in Berlin.

“Al Burian is one of our generation’s great storytellers, a wily and insightful observer of the human condition.”      -Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine and This American Life

“Al Burian has become one of the most cultishly adored figures in the American punk underground. Burn Collector pairs existential dread with rapacious wit.” -Jessica Hopper, Chicago Reader

“Al Burian produces zines with a stubborn refusal to write dumbly.” -Sam McPheeters

Also joining the bill will be BC#15 contributors Liam Warfield (War Against the Idiots, The Skeleton, Secret Beach) and Anne Elizabeth Moore (Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity, former editor of now-defunct Punk Planet)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:30 pm

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Mildred Pierce Magazine Issue #4 Release Party 2/26

Published on January 25, 2011 0 Comments
Feb ’11
26
7:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate ‘s fourth issue, the theme of which is “Comedy and the Grotesque.” A number of Chicago artists and writers are featured in this bad boy, with a cover designed and screenprinted by .

The evening’s program will feature readings and performances by MP contributors (Artifice Magazine), Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix), (Or Let It Sink), (Dear Jaguar), (editor/publisher, Ghost Comics), and writer/artist .

Mildred Pierce is a (maga)zine, co-founded in 2005 by and and co-edited by the same. It is a somewhat annual zine dealing in art, writing and countercultural cultural criticism.

Refreshments will be provided. A limited edition zine will be sold.

For more info: http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com

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