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New Stuff This Week

The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery by Rex Sorgatz $19.99 – Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley.

Zines

KerBloom #132 May Jun 18 by Artnoose $2

National Teenset Outsider #35 $1

Skating with Shes and Hers: April to June 2017: Volume 1 by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin $6 – Photos and interviews with women, nonbinary and gender fluid folks that skate.

Smudge vol 2 #6 by Clay Hickson $5

Do You Have the Time by McKenzie Carlock $7.95

Working: Makin’ Paper Without Losing Your Mind or Selling Your Soul by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $4

Lover – A Zine by Katie Wright $5

Crown Jewel of the Caucusus by Benjamin Kraco $10

Incognito #1 by Rachel Orr $10

Beauty of Rat Dreams: A Fold Out Zine About Radiators Worms and Hidden Layers by Jam $1

zines/comics by M Sabine Rear: Bending Spoons: A Field Guide to Ableist Microaggressions $3, Women Artists Zine $6, Reverse Flaneur $10 & more!

Comics & Minis

Samurai Corpse #1 by Rainier Flores $2

Paintings by Keiler Roberts $5

Demons by Emily Hutchings $6

Would’ve Been Could’ve Been Should’ve Been Never Was and Never Will Be by Yewon Kwon $20

Graphic Novels

Fab4 Mania: A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime by Carol Tyler (fantagraphics) $29.95

Fukushima Devil Fish by Katsumata Susumu (Breakdown Press) $34.99

Then It Was Dark: A Paranormal Anthology by Sarah Benkin $22

The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier (D+Q) $21.95

Hellboy 1: The Complete Short Stories by Mike Mignola $24.99 – 16 standalone stories that can be read in any order.

George Orwell Illustrated by David Smith & illustrated by Mike Mosher (Haymarket) $17

Politics & Revolution

A Nation Unmade by War by Tom Engelhardt $15.95 – Writings from TomDispatch.com.

Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship by Tariq Ali $19.95

Music & TV Books

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers $18.99

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons by Mike Reiss $27.99

I’ve Got Something to Say by Danko Jones (Feral House) $19.95 – In-your-face collection of 10 years of onstage and backstage by Canadian garage rocker Danko Jones.

Stuff That Helps

The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick: Your Guide to Crafting Charms, Rituals, and Spells from the Natural World by Judy Ann Nock $16.99

Food

Spam: The Cookbook by Marguerite Patten $9.99

Fiction & Lit

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $26.99

The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles Bukowski (City Lights) $15.95 – Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man.

Sex Culture

Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun $30

Magazines
Frankie #83 $15.95
Wire #412 $10.99
Gather Journal vol 7 #13 $19.99
Kilter Magazine #13 2018 $5
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Little Star #7 $14.95
Growing by Bridget Johnson $3.50

For the Kiddies

AlphaBots by Impossible Winterbourne $19.95

New Stuff This Week

Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin $24 – the story of a cleaning lady, an addict, a psychic
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber $27 – An anthropologist’s powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir by Michael Kupperman $25 – The story of the author’s race to understand his father’s past.

Zines

On the Art of Failure by Gabrielle Welsh $10

En3my 1550 N Milwaukee Ave Third FL, Edited by Amelia Ishmael and J. Soliday $5

Fluke Fanzine #15 with Adam Smith, Gary Floyd, Ian McKaye $4

zines by Faith G. Harper PhD (Microcosm Publishing) $3:
Sexing Yourself For Your Own Pleasure
Unfuck Your Adulting: Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don’t Be a Dick Make Decisions and Other Life Skills

How Not to Get Arrested At a Demonstration $3 – By The Times Up Environmental Organization with illustrations by Fly.

Don’t Be Retarded #1: Autistic Pride In a Neurophobic World (Microcosm Publishing) $5

CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #8 Intro to the MLK and RFK Assassination… by Joseph E. Green (Microcosm Publishing) $4

Heartburn: A Drawing Zine by Caroline Cash $5

Smudge vol 2 #5 by Clay Hickson $5

Yo Miss #6 Changes, Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides by Lisa Wilde $4

Amerizine Lol IDK $5

Mother Nature Is a Lesbian $10

Cat Party #2 Stories and Comics About Our Favorite Cats by Katie Haegele $3

Mind the Gender Cycling Gap by Tiffany F. Lam $4

Aversion: A Zine of Therapeutic Vignettes Chapter 2 Canine by Aaron Eischeid $5

Comics & Minis

Diary Comics 2018-2019 by Lane Milburn $4 – Join me as I read articles on my phone, despair over climate change, fret about my artwork, and record my dreams. This is a sampling of diary comic strips I started posting on Instagram in the summer of 2017. -Lane

Visualizing by Lane Milburn $6 – A man and woman on an interstellar voyage awaken from sleep. They “visualize” their dreams for each other, using holograms to show their fragmented knowledge of the past and their apocalyptic visions of the future. Black and white interior with risograph covers printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

Cartoon Dialectics vol 3 by Tom Kaczynski & Clara Jetsmark (Uncivilized) $6

I’m So Punk #2 by Caroline Cash $5

Graveless by S.E. Stohler $5

3005 by Fushuheng, illustrating the song by Childish Gambino $6

Nouvelles #2 by outsidewolves $3

by Meghan Turbitt: Your Pal $5 & Turbz: How to Eat Chips $5

Astray #1 a Series of Starts by Daniel McCloskey $4.50

Fae Archaic #8 The Final Issue by Kurt Burdick $10

Real Deal #8 Psyops by Lawrence Rawdog Hubbard (Fantagraphics) $8

Graphic Novels

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (D&Q) $27.95 – Don’t miss Nick Drnaso at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 24th to release this book about the aftermath of a disaster about a missing woman, the videotape that surfaces and the conspiracy theorists that interpret events to fit their own narratives.

Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Don’t miss Georgia Webber here at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 31st to celebrate this book about coping with challenges that come with voicelessness. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.

Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – In a follow-up to the 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, the author presents a survival guide for people with bipolar disorder that is filled with tips, tricks and tools.

Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel (D&Q) $17.95 – A whimsical look at mushroom hunting.

Animus by Antoine Revoy $16.99 – Two friends resolve to investigate the paranormal forces in their quiet Kyoto neighborhood.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (Abrams) $17.99

Cautionary Tales of Childhood by Bee Lavender $5

Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn by Ryan Heshka (Nobrow) $20.95

Art Books

The Classic Bicycle Coloring Book by Taliah Lempert (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Trump / Russia: A Definitive History by Seth Hettena $27.99

May Day Manifesto 1968, edited Raymond Williams $17.95 – Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto that brought together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband, and R. D. Laing.

1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser (Grove Press) $18

Fiction

Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations, edited by Sarah Cleave (Deep Vellum Pub) $14.95 – Work by writers from the seven nations included in Trump’s original “Muslim travel ban.”

Empire of the Senseless, 30th Anniversary Edition by Kathy Acker $16 – Two terrorists (one part human/part robot, the other a pirate) in a dystopian Paris search for a mysterious drug that maintains one’s ability to love, in Acker’s “twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms.”

How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans (Dzanc) $16.95

The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink (Soft Skull) $16.95

Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard $27

Mayhem & Outer Limits

The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder by Nikki Meredith $26 – From a journalist that visted Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel in prison to see how they changed in their incarceration for the murders they committed on the orders of Charles Manson.

The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs by Edward Rosenfeld $17.95

Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander $20

The Witch’s Spellbook: Enchantments, Incantations, and Rituals from Around the World by Sarah Bartlett $19.99

Century of Moon Phases Pacific Standard Time 2001-2100 by Sage Liskey $11

Essays & Interviews

Thank You For Asking Me That Question: Collected Interviews by Wilfred Brandt $25

The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, by Allen Ginsberg and edited by Bill Morgan (Grove Press) $20 – Based on Ginsberg’s lectures!

Humor

How to Be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S*** by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (Icon) $14.95 – Well, we guess cool CAN be taught.

Music & Film Books

The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles by Francoise Hardy (Feral House) $24.95 – Beautiful 1960s “Yé-Yé” chanteuse Françoise Hardy shares her iconic life and memories in this brutally honest memoir of love, loss, and wisdom.


Creative Quest by Questlove $27.99 – Co-founder of The Roots offers a guide to creativity composed of creative philosophies, stories, inspiration, and advice.

Cathode Love: an Irregular Collection of Irregular Pleasures by Matthew Brendan Clark $15

It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls by Adam Nayman (ECW) $12.95 – Now updated with a bonus interview with director Paul Verhoeven.

Photo Books

Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970 by David Wills $30

Projections In the Last Greenhouse by Roxana Azar $12.50

Magazines

Antelope Magazine: Flight $12

True Detective May 18 $9.99

Internationalist #51 $1

Offscreen #19 The Human Side of Technology $20

Disruptor #5 $5

Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan (O/R Books) $14.95

Bride by Andy Hood $8

Wolfman New Life Quarterly #2 Spr 18 by Jacob Kahn $12

New Stuff This Week


Impulse shopping has never been so fun! Mark Ryden Friendly Animal Stickers $5.00 Mark Ryden Friendly Animal Plates $99.00 – Set of 6 plates, 10″ each. Beauties! Stay Fresh Air Fresheners $5.00 each: Reaper in Musk, Honey Bear Bong in Lavender, Usugrow Skull Rebel Ink in Pineapple, Usugrow Skull Inked For Life in Sandalwood Death by Coffee Air Freshener $4.00 Chub Rub Club Patch $5.00 Thrillhaus Patches $6 each

*ZINES*

Visitor in Myself #6 Win 17 $3.00

Should I Get Bangs by Lauren Spencer King $6.00

Bloody Brains by Zeus Fondanarosa $1.00

Trucks by Wesley Willis $19.00 – You missed buying his paintings at the 6 corners down the street when he was alive. Now buy a $19 zine of his work.

*COMICS & MINIS*

Personal Space by Anna Mielniczuk $10.00

Neon by Aubrey Fisch $2.50

All Time Comics Crime Destroyer #2 by Josh Bayer $3.99

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Pizzeria Disgusto by Michael Hacker $20.00 – An absurd-comic insight into Italian cuisine. Ugly band noodles, pizza cuts with revenge rags and violent potato balls — 84 pages of cartoons and illustrated jokes about pizza, pasta and other culinary delights from Bella Italia. Buon Appetito!

Coady and the Creepies by Liz Prince and Amanda Kirk $14.99 – Punk’s Not Dead! But the lead singer of Coady and the Creepies is! And the drummer is a ghost. How do you become the greatest band that’s ever lived if you have to fight your way through lood-sucking promoters, fanboy zombies and ghoulish rival bands?

Michael Chabon’s The Escapists by Michael Chabon & Brian K. Vaughan (Dark Horse) $19.99 – Inspired by The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon teams up with Saga-Y The Last Man superstar Brian K. Vaughan (Dark Horse) $19.99 – Discovering his late father’s decades-spanning vault of Escapist memorabilia, a fan looks to relaunch the forgotten Golden Age hero with his friends.

Cartoon Clouds by Joseph Remnant (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Sugartown by Hazel Newlevant (Alternative Comics) $10.00 – A bisexual, polyamorous love story for the modern era.

Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman with art by John Bolton $12.99 – Back in print, the legendary Commedia dell’arte has been beautifully redesigned for a new hardbound edition, the classic tale of clown woos girl and girl drags clown’s heart around town. But a charming surprise awaits the pair before the end of their journey!

Rat Queens vol 4 High Fantasies by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Owen Gieni $14.99 – Collects vol 2 #1-5

*ART & DESIGN*

The Art of Tiki by Sven Kirsten and Otto von Stroheim (Last Gasp) $35.00 – A vivid, visually arresting portrait of the art form of mid-century Polynesian pop. In conjunction with the 20th Anniversary Tiki Art Exhibition at La luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles.

Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast Skateboarders by Jenny Sampson $45.00

Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums by Maryam Omidi (Fuel) $32.50 – Combo medical institution and spa, Soviet sanatoriums were visited by millions of citizens every year, and the buildings are the most innovative of their time. Crude-oil baths, radon water douches and stints in underground salt caves, many are still in operation!

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy by Lewis H. Lapham $14.95

*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*

Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti $18.95 – Autobio from musician of Throbbing Gristle/Chris & Cosey/COUM Transmissions fame, and includes the the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality, erotica, and art.

The Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies (Dark Heart of Cinema) by Mike Gingold (Fab Press) $24.95

When The Screaming Stops: The Dark History Of The Bay City Rollers by Simon Spence $30.00

More of a Guideline than a Rule: The Bill Murray Connect the Dots (Sugoi) $9.00 – Yeah, yeah, milkin’ that Bill Murray activity book trend. It’s a thing. Give us your money!

*OUTER LIMITS*

Cinema Sewer Volume 6: The Adults Only Guide to History’s Sickest and Sexiest Movies! by Robin Bougie (Fab Press) $19.95 – Issues 27 to 29 of Robin Bougie’s celebrated independent magazine are revisited in this sixth wild FAB Press volume, along with an additional 80 pages of never-beforeseen interviews, rants, comics, hard-to-find classic movie advertising, and graphic illustrations by Bougie and his talented friends from both the comic book and animation industries.

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer, with illustrations by Dame Darcy $15.99

Robert Anton Wilson books back in print, courtesy of Hilaritas Press! $15.23 each: Cosmic Trigger vol 1 Final Secret of the Illuminati, Email to the Universe and Other Alterations of Consciousness. Prometheus Rising, Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

American Freemasonry: Its Revolutionary History and Challenging Future by Alain de Keghel $30.00

*FICTION*

In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus, ed. by Stephen Jones $17.95 – 24 electrifying tales of cursed creation, both contemporary and vintage. Now in soft cover.

*FOOD*

Cherry Bombe, The Cookbook by Kerry Diamond & Claudia Wu $35.00 – From the editors of the popular indie mag of the same name.

Beer Is for Everyone!: Of Drinking Age by Em Sauter $18.95 – Learn the diff between a pils and an IPA! Look here if you’re thirsty, but not sure where to start.

*MAGS*
Gentlewoman #16 Fall Win 17 Simone Biles $15.99
Uppercase #35 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18.00
Record Culture Magazine #3 $20.00 – Contains Beats in Space Photo Book
All In Magazine #3 with Marfa Journal #69 $20.00
AnOther Magazine vol 2 #6 Fall Win 17 $19.50
RFD #171 Fall 17 Happy Place $11.95
Fortean Times #358 Scary Bikers $12.50

*CHAP BOOKS*

Dollhouse #1 Oct 17 Everything You Need to Know $4.00

New Stuff This Week

Garfield Solves a Rubiks Cube While Bob, Jon and Homer Have an Orgy by Wizardskull $10.00 – Make your Monday better with this hilarious lasagna platter full of different artists realizing Wizardskull’s dirty, dirty vision!

*ZINES*

Brainscan #33 DIY Witchery by Alex Wrekk $5.00

Burrs and the Beans #2 A Cherry Plucked Coffee Shop Erotica by BJ Hillis $5.00

zines by Sage Liskey (Rad Cat Press):
The Motivation to Write $5.00 – With an abridged history of advancements in writing.
The Happiest Choice: Condensed Edition $7.00 – Activities to do, foods to eat, thoughts to think, nutrients to fortify.
Do You See Any Fucks Growing In My Garden? A Poem $2.50

Bohzine #1 $20.00 – The LGBTQA creative arts quarterly zine.

Australian Ugliness by Woytek Mocko $6.00 – Photos!

Free Ass Mag #4 $15.00 – As in “Free Association,” pervos. This issue: Home.

Feel Good by Nicole Jakus $2.00

119 Replies by Mike Bremmer $3.00

Death Fight by John Maggie $6.00

Sara McHenry zines, $3.00 each (These are hilarious. Don’t miss ’em!)
Listless #1 & #2
Hard to Love #1 & #2

Tom McHenry comics, $5.00 each:
Luxury #1 by
Unchecked Economics #2 by Tom McHenry $5.00

Tiny Splendor zines/comics:
Kewpiedex Anthology Drawing Zine $8.00 – Kewpie illustrations by 30 artists including Cynthia Navarro, Never Brush My Teeth, Niña Piña Por Vida, Adrian Rotzscher & more!
B.I. BUKE by Michael Olivo $12.00
Old Grudge by Sanaa Khan $8.00
I Don’t Need Eyes Lindsay Anne Watson $12.00
Punks and Portraits San Francisco 1979 by John Roberts $15.00
Hunk by Lindsay Anne Watson $10.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

New Comics #10 by Patrick Kyle $5.00

BGOK #1 Foodge is the Fututre by City of Giants $6.00

Casino Knights by Enrique Guerra $5.00

Dale by Kyle Howard Couture $2.00

Comics from Johnny Sampson (Slow Leak Press):
Slow Leak $20.00
Truly MADly $10.00

Mini-Comics from Gabriel Martinez, $5.00 each:
Soledad
Maybe Tomorrow
Bottomed Out Brake Line Smashed Flat

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

My Pretty Vampire by Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics) $19.99

The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Comics that made Crumb famous ? against his will. First time in hardcover!

The End of The Fucking World by Charles Forsman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Fancy hardback version. Y’know, so you can say you’re cool and that you read TEOTFW before the Netflix series came out!

Ladies In Waiting by Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Fantasy Sports 3: The King in Green by Sam Bosma $19.95 – Wiz and Mug are back for another magical adventure as they continue their quests for the mighty Order of Mages!

Close Enough for the Angels by Paul Madonna (Petty Curse Books) $34.99 – Emit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it’s twenty years later, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner, stardom has found him once again. Paired with over a hundred lush and haunting drawings from Thailand to Japan.

Unreal City by D.J. Bryant (Fantagraphics) $16.99

MOONSHOT vol 2: The Indigenous Comics Collection ed. by Hope Nicholson (Alternate History Comics) $17.99 – More original comic book stories, written by Indigenous authors from across North America.

Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines, ed. by Craig Yoe and Ger Apeldoorn (Yoe Books) $34.99 – 200 pages of never reprinted material from MAD Mag from Al Jaffee, Joe Kubert, Basil Wolverton, Steve Ditko & more!

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Art Forms in Nature Coloring Book by Ernst Haeckel $16.95 Also new!: Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature Sticker Book! $7.95 – Get yr flora n fauna on!

Edward Gorey Coloring Book $14.95

Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds Boxed Notecard Assortment $15.95 – Also in stock! Tony Fitzpatrick box of Thank You cards $8.95

Figure Artists Book of Anatomical Landscapes $24.00

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*

Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change by Noam Chomsky, interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket/TruthOut) $16.95

Sinister Wisdom A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal by Julie R. Enszer $12.00

Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens by Art Levine $30.00

Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance, edited by Ajamu Nangwaya and Michael Truscello (AK Press) $18.95

The Fidel Castro Reader, edited by David Deutschmann $21.95

*ESSAYS*

After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) $24.95 – The first fully authorized biography about the late iconic experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. Uses exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with colleagues and friends.

Little Boxes: 12 Writers on Television by Caroline Casey (Coffee House Press) $16.95 – What happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they’re more Magnum PI that Marcel Proust.

Against Everything: Essays by Mark Grief $17.00 – Now in soft cover.

*MUSIC & MOVIE BOOKS*

Devotion by Patti Smith (Yale U Press) $18.00 – Part of Why I Write series. An inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.

My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory by Roger Miret with Jon Wiederhorn (Lesser Gods) $26.00

The Mudd Club by Richard Bock (Feral House) $24.95 – Artist, writer and lifelong New Yorker Richard Boch was the Mudd Club’s longtime alpha doorman, the club that served as an incubator for talent. Everyone made an appearance, from Basquiat & Johnny Rotten to The Hell’s Angels, passing through, passing out, and some, passing on. Marianne Faithful and Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, and even Kenneth Anger? just a few of the names that stepped on stage.

I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan $27.00 – A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale.

Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell $27.99 – Evil Dead-famed actor’s follow up to If Chin’s Could Kill.

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America by Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder (MIT Press) $34.95 – A discussion of nearly 150 vintage album covers such as Cocktail Time, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies and Strings for a Space Age.

It’s Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters by Daniel Finamore and Joseph E. LeDoux $30.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

The Voynich Manuscript: The Complete Edition of the World’s Most Mysterious and Esoteric Codex by Dr. Stephen Skinner (Watkins Publishing) $25.95 – An extensively illustrated codex featuring cosmological and astrological diagrams interwoven with detailed herbal illustration, relating both to the magical and alchemic view of the universe, written in a strangely beautiful cryptographic script.

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood $16.00

*FICTION*

Dig by Emma Wong $8.00

*HUMOR*

Sh*t My President Says: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump by Shannon Wheeler (Top Shelf) $14.99

Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems by Adam Ehrlich Sachs $12.99 – 100+ hilarious variations of vexing relationships between fathers and sons: a famous medium becomes possessed by the spirit of his skeptical father. A pianist amputates his fingers one by one to thwart his father, who will not stop composing concertos for him. A nobleman wills his ill-conceived flying contraption–incapable of actual flight–to his newborn son. A witty look at a most serious subject.

Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom’s, which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black $16.00

Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker by various $9.95 – A drinker’s crown of sorrow is remembering wetter days! Part of London Library’s ‘Found on the Shelves’ series that reprints weirdly (ir)relevant tracts of quaint days past.

*MAGAZINES*

Fortean Times #356 Aug 17 Featuring the Cottingley Faries $12.50

Frankie #78 $14.95

Wire #402 Aug 17 Circle $10.99

AdBusters #133 vol 25 #5 Sep Oct 17 $14.95

Cabinet #63 The Desert $12.00

*LIT JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*

The Point #14 Sum 17 Darkness Enlightened $14.99

Escape From the Hood IV by Lita $3.00

Having Given Up Poems by Emily Hutchings $5.00

Flowers of Anti Martyrdom by Dorian Geisler (McSweeneys) $22.00

Chatter Box, various issues by Pulp Labs $5.00 each

Bushwick Review #7 $10.00

*CALENDARS*

Rally 2018 Nikki Mcclure Calendar $18.00

Moleskine 2018 planners! Different variations, sizes, colors and prices!

*STICKERS*

Skull Romance Sticker by Corinne Halbert $3.00

New Stuff This Week

Infernal Grotesque: Classical Paintings Of Hell, Demons, Witchcraft & Death by Gianfranco Sodoma (Deicide Press) $34.95 – From the Illuminated Masters series that collects images from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, steeped in beautiful horror, swirling with bizarre and hallucinatory nightmare. These images from 1400-1700 feature landscapes of Hell populated by demons, twisted monsters and the bloody tortures of the damned; saints tormented by infernal visions of devils, sin and the corruption of the flesh; witches’ sabbats of baby-eating, corpse resurrection and bestial fornication; and, finally, grim evocations of death, scattered with skulls, as a warning against earthly avarice and pride.

*ZINES*

Library Excavations #6 Notice to the Trade $6.00

East Village Inky #58 Harlem by Ayun Halliday $3.00

Kaleidoscope of Flies #1 $10.00

Momlove by Matan Oren $8.00

Purple Myrtle Squeegy, various issues, $1.50 each

Absurdly Yours #3 $1.00

Urban Guerrilla #19 $10.00

Razorblades and Aspirin #1 $8.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Comics by Rachel Bard $5.00 each: Burning Out, Changelings

Sweaty vol 2 by Caroline Cash $12.00 – The second collection of hilarious short comics from local favorite Caroline Cash. Come for the examination of shoujo manga tropes, stay for the hilarious misuse of Hulu’s one-month free trial policy (a helpful takeaway!). Also features cool exploded anatomical renderings and creepy-cute corgis. -Lane

Comics by Conor Stechschulte: Fence $5.00, Tintering $8.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven & Ben Nadler (Princeton University Press) $22.95 – Delightful intro to 16th-century philosophy by local father-son duo!

Architecture of an Atom by Juliacks (2dcloud) $44.95

Demon vol 3 by Jason Shiga $19.99 – The continuing adventures of Jimmy Yee, who finds immortality is dull.

Black Science TPB vol 6 Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera $16.99

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Feeling is Mutual by Rebecca Memoli $15.00

*FICTION*

The Empty Ones: A Novel by Robert Brockway $14.99 – In The Vicious Circuit series about mysterious angel-like creatures and cult activity.

*OUTER LIMITS*

Ancient Alien Ancestors: Advanced Technologies That Terraformed Our World by Will Hart $20.00 – Explores evidence for the theory of directed panspermia–that life on Earth and the landscape of Earth itself was engineered by extraterrestrials.

The Noble English Art of Self-Defence by Ned Donnelly (Pushkin Press) $9.95 – From The London Library series that reprints hilarious older books with outdated preposterousness. This one: 19th century boxing instructor with charming illustrations of a slightly paunchy boxer.

*MAGAZINES*

Bust #106 Aug Sep 17 Gina Rodriguez $6.99

Offscreen #17 The Human Side of Technology $20.00

Make vol 58 Aug Sep 17 The Community Issue $12.95

Fortean Times #355 Jul 17 $12.50

Fader #110 July Aug 17 Summer Music Issue $6.99

*CHAP BOOKS*

Golden Wedding Whiskey by Suzanna Zak $15.00

I Miss You With All 8000 Nerves of my Clitoris by Kay Kron $3.00