Yearly Archive for 2011

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Hear Ye: Display Your Zine, Journal or Book at The Chicago Cultural Center

Published on May 6, 2011 2 Comments

ChicagoPublishes.com is the online home of the Chicago Office of Tourism & Culture’s publishing and literary programs.  It provides up-to-date articles on the state of the publishing industry both in Chicago and beyond, resources for publishers and writers, a comprehensive calendar of Chicago’s literary events, and information on our programs.

DISPLAY YOUR BOOK, JOURNAL, OR ZINE AT THE CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER. We have a collection box here at Quimby’s to make it easy for you.
One of their main projects is the Chicago Publishers Gallery, a collection of over 2000 books and periodicals from over 125 Chicago-area publishers and hundreds of authors, housed in the Chicago Cultural Center.  We’re always looking for new books and periodicals to include, so if you’d like to be a part of the Gallery, please leave your publication in the drop-box at here (along with your contact info), or write to them at info@chicagopublishes.com.

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Margaret Hicks Reads From Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History 5/28

Published on May 4, 2011 0 Comments
May ’11
28
7:00 pm

Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the “Chicago Style of Comedy” evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the 50’s, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos and Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.

Margaret Hicks is a professional tour guide in Chicago, who has been giving walking tours in the loop (like her tour of Old Town offered through the famous Second City Comedy Club) since she completed the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s docent program in 2004.  She maintains her own website at chicagoelevated.com and has had years of experience in the Chicago comedy scene working at improv theaters and stand-up clubs.

Sat, May 28th, 7pm

Marie Kanger-Born Reads From Confessions Of A Chicago Punk Bystander 5/27

Published on May 4, 2011 2 Comments
May ’11
27
7:00 pm

Confessions Of A Chicago Punk Bystander is a gritty insight into the city, clubs and lifestyle of the early Chicago Punk scene of the late 1970s and ’80s. This narrative follows the author’s introduction to punk rock via the notorious Chicago night clubs– O’Banion’s and OZ. The hedonism of the lifestyle and her harrowing exploits stand in stunning contrast to her accidental role as the primary caregiver for her mother, who was disabled by Multiple Sclerosis.

This poignant memoir traces the transformation of punk to hardcore, along with the author’s personal evolution as a photographer and zine producer. Story recounts the rise of the teenage hardcore scene over the bar based punk scene, to the later decline that began with the emergence of a skinhead jock era. Battles between the racist and anti-racist factions sealed the author’s belief that punk had lost it’s way. In disillusionment, she quit the scene in 1986, never to return until 2006. It was then that she found a web site which facilitated her discovery of a thriving underground scene in the Pilsen/La Villita neighborhoods. Today she is happy to declare that punk is not dead, and neither is she.

Includes the author’s photographs of the 1980s and 2006 bands, the crowds, her BS Detector fanzine, and other memorabilia. A visual delight, this book truly paints a picture of the era.

Marie Kanger-Born is a photographer and a participant of both the early and current Chicago punk music scenes. Her photos have appeared in various punk publications.

For more info: chicagopunkpix.com

Friday, May 27, 7:00 pm

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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 3, 2011 0 Comments

One of us little mice went out of town last week. Did you miss us nibbling at you about the weekly top 10 or new stuff? Well, we’re back in full force! Will you be here this Thursday (April 7th) to see  J. Bradley read from The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot? Or perhaps you’ll be here this Saturday (April 7th) for Free Comic Book Day? See you then!

1. Maximumrocknroll #336 May 11 $4.00
2. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95
3. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (Little Brown) $27.99
4. Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream #2 by Laura Park $3.00 – At SBX 2008, Ms Park received the “Outstanding Artist” Ignatz award… read this comic and find out why!
5. If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter (Sarabande) $15.95
6. So This Is What It’s Come To: A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK A by Liz Prince $3.00
7.  Doris #28 by Cindy C. $2.00 – This issue of Doris talks about rural living, defining collective goals, miniature horses, the impact “Roots” had on conversations about racism in the predominantly white suburb she grew up in, as well as a personal account of her own awareness of racism. Cindy also spends some time here reflecting on her memories of Samantha Jane Dorsett and punk sobriety.
8. Ugly Things #31 $8.95
9. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95 – Just down the block from Enid Coleslaw’s house, abrasive middle-aged losers are attempting to blind date each other. Mister Wonderful collects Clowes’ New York Times serial plus 40 pages of new material, driving the Wilson bus further down Pathetic Reality Road straight toward the glimmer of hope in our watery blue eyes…
10. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on April 22, 2011 0 Comments

Yeah yeah, New Stuff is getting posted a day earlier than usual. Now you can plan your weekend early, around what you’re going to come in and buy.

One thing’s for sure, tomorrow night (Sat 4/23) Dr. Chris Smit, who wrote the book The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century Consumption (Intellect/University of Chicago Press), will be here at 7pm. Just in time for Britney Spears’ new album, Dr. Smit’s book illustrates the American popular culture’s thirst for—and complicity in—celebrity disgrace. And oh yeah, how we consume culture and puke it out when we’re done. Click here for more info about this event.

Among other new things we received this week are The Point #4, Spr 11. Click here or the image below to see the feature about Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library. Some of the other features include: • White Boys, Hip Hop, Jay Electronica • Steroids, Baseball, America • Porn as a Way of Life • Sarah Palin’s Alaska • J.M. Coetzee’s Problem With Authority • Chicago’s Political Theater • What is Sport For?

 

So here’s this week’s new stuff:

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Famous Forgeries by Eric William Pierson (Drippy Bone Books) $5.00
PopNihil #3 Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before by Matthew Moyer and Jason Brown $2.00
Because We Can’t Fight the Bulldozer Alone by Dan Sully Sullivan $6.00
Memories – Darkwater Press Memorized Enforced $4.00
Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson and Carman Rachel Lee $5.00
Readin and Fightin #2 Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille $1.50

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Hate Annual #9 by Peter Baggue (Fantagraphics) $4.95
Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00 – Seasonal #1 is a roundabout romance in a Utah megastore….all emotional-cleanup-in-aisle-9-style. -EF
BAM Big Apple Monsters #1 by Jon and Dan Cottle $4.00
Scenic Byways Welcome to Falling Rock National Park by Josh Shalek $9.00
Freaks by Tony Rabit $1.00
Time: An Anthology of Comics About Food (Trees and Hills) $5.00 – Includes a Free Calendar!

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
The New Gypsies by Iain McKell (Prestel) $39.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the nomadic thing.
New Club Kids: London Party Fashion in the Noughties by Oggy Yordanov (Prestel) $24.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the club kid thing.
Boutique London: A History Kings Road to Carnaby Street by Richard Lester (ACC) $49.95 – One of our customers suggested we get this. Here it is!
What’s Weird by David Barnes $50.00Hyperacticitypography From A to Z (DGV) $29.90

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Klondike by Zach Worton (Fantagraphics) $24.95
Sweet Tooth TPB vol 2 In Captivity by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $12.99
Orc Stain TPB vol 1 by James Stokoe (Image) $17.99

FICTION!
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Anchor) $15.00 – Short stories, now in soft cover.

CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00 – Collecting Shappy’s work from the past gazillion years, finally in one nice volume! Hilarious of course. What would you expect from a former Quimby’s and Chicago Comics employee? Only the best.
Verse vol 27 #1 $7.00
Pain Needs To Remember by Stevie Edwards $12.00

MAGAZINES!
Tiki Magazine vol 7 #1 Spr 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #274 Jun 11 $11.99
True Detective Apr 11 $4.99
Passenger Magazine #1 $5.00
Make vol 26 $14.99 – As in the craft mag, not the lit journal.
Dot Connector #13 2011 Double Issue $7.95
Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 11 vol 35 #3 $4.95
Wallpaper May 11 $10.00
Dwell May 11 $5.99
Modern Drunkard #56 $4.95
Treats Magazine #1 $20.00
Fangoria #303 $8.99
Wire #326 Apr11 $10.99
Black Velvet #68 $6.25
Maximumrocknroll #336 May 11 $4.00
XLR8R #138 $6.99
Harpers Magazine May 11 $6.99
Race & Class vol 52 #4 $18.00
Earth First vol 31 #2 30th Anniversary $6.50 – Happy Earth Day!
Urban Ink #19 $8.99
Bound By Ink vol 1 #5 $7.99

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
The Wilder Life: My Adventures In the Lost World of Little House On the Prairie by Wendy McClure

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
33 1/3 Series: Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine By Daphne Carr (Continumm) $12.95 – In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails’ music. Read an excerpt at the 33third blog.
33 1/3 Series: Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk by Rob Trucks (Continuum) $12.95

SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Blow Job vol 3 an Erotic Collection by Johnny Murdoc $8.00 – Home grown erotica! With sexy pictures too.
Big Penis Book 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Comes with 3D glasses!
Big Book of Breasts 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Also with 3D glasses.
Handbook vol 5 #2 2011 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – The sensitive side of Trevor Wayne , the business side of Ty, Will and Mike and some nice articles about sexual versatility and “post-gay.”
Sweets Magazine vol 4 #16 $5.99 – Ooo la la! Sweet!

OTHER STUFF!
I Love To Floss Blank Notebook by Blaire Miltenberger $12.00