Monthly Archive for August, 2012

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New Stuff This Week

Published on August 10, 2012 0 Comments

Rebuttal In Spandex by Morgan Brainchild and David Diarrhea $2.00 – Reports from harms way, long form word play, cuneiform apartment plans and an automatic thought registry. A little treat from Brainchild and Diarrhea. -EF

Zines
Zines by Lynne: With an E #3 Looking For a Job, Butch Nor Femme #7 $1.50 each
Fire Dogs #1 A SPOC Publication (Self-Publisheres of Chicago) $3.00 – Inspired by a book at the Read/Write Library here in Chicago, about the extremely specific topic of Firedogs at different fire stations around Chicago. With contributions from by Nicki Yowell, Grant Reynolds, Eric Bartholomew, Liz Mason Paul Durica and Meghan McGrath $3.00

Zines from the Trans Oral History Zine Distro including: various issues of Bound to Struggle, Gendrfailz #1 and #2, Vanguard Revisited Fab 11, various prices
Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas $3.00
Fibonacci in Biology by Adrian M. Pijoan $4.00
Never Ain’t Nuthin’ by Benjamin Boyd Austin $1.00 – Cool stuff Benjamin’s never done.

Comics & Comix
Tucker Toon #1 by Dustooned $5.00
Comics by Frederick Noland: Infallible vol 1, Teats on a Boar, Black Sheep #1 and #2 $4.00 each
Jerrys Journal by Neil Fitzpatrick $5.00
Buck #1 of 1 by Drawdoer Jones
Comics by Leda Zewacki: Smoke Signals, My Escape from a Sea Monster Based on a True Story, $3.50 each
S #11 Baltic Comics Magazine $11.00
Comics by Adrian Manuel Pijoan Don’t Fear the King Story of Surface to Volume Ratio Size and Shape of Animals, Mexican, various prices
Space Basket #1 by Jonathan Petersen (Domino Books) $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Tell Me More $10.00
Taxes the Tea Party and Those Revolting Rebels a History in Comics of the American Revolution by Stan Mack $14.99
Eyes of the Cat by Moebius and Jodorowsky $34.95
Game For Swallows to Die to Leave to Return by Zeina Abirached $9.95
Scott Pilgrim vol 1 Color Edition: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley et al. $24.95
RASL TPB vol 4 Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla by Jeff Smith $19.95

Art & Design
Yield to Temptation by Todd James (Picturebox) $20.00
Art of Molly Crabapple vol 2 Devil in the Details by Molly Crabapple $12.99

Fiction
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood $14.95
Dead Do Not Improve  by Jay Caspian $25.00
Giving up the Ghost: Story about Friendship 80s Rock Lost Scrap of Paper What It Means to be Haunted by Eric Nuzum $15.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Pyraminds and the Pentagon: The Government’s Top Secret Pursuit of Mystical Relics, Ancient Astronauts and Lost Civilizations by Nick Redfern $15.99
This Book Is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes and Other Adventures In Time Travel by Marie D. Jones and Lassy Flaxman $15.99
Lords of the Left Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan by Stephen E Flowers, PhD. $24.95
Psycho USA Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of by Harold Schechter $20.00
Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness by Normandi Ellis  $18.00
Truth by Nina Yau $15.00

DIY
Color Me Drunk: A Drinking and Drawing Activity Book: Get Arty While You Party $12.99

Politics & Revolution
Territories In Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Paul Zibechi (AK) $19.95

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Specimen Magazine #2 $6.00
Moonseed by Schrreiner $3.00

Sex & Sexy
S and M Feminist by Clarise Thom $20.00
Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser by Clarise Thom $20.00

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Matthew Gavin Frank Reads From Pot Farm 9/7

Published on August 8, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
7
7:00 pm

In Matthew Gavin Frank’s new book Pot Farm (The University of Nebraska Press), he talks about his work on a medical marijuana farm in Northern California. Through firsthand observations and experiences (some influenced by the farm’s cash crop), interviews, and research, Pot Farm exposes a thriving but unsung faction of contemporary American culture.

” Investigative research coupled with personal reflections on a controversial arena of American farm production.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Pot Farm is the curious and compelling tale of a hazy season spent harvesting medical marijuana. The cast of characters rivals those found in the finest comic fiction, except these folks are real, and really peculiar. Pot Farm is smart, sly, revelatory, often laugh-out-loud funny, and entirely legal. —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

“Sex, politics, intrigue, crime, adventure, life and death—it’s all here, in a strangely compelling hybrid of action flick meets postmodern philosophical meditation meets Cheech and Chong. This compulsively readable exposé from a self-proclaimed ‘unreliable narrator’ has it all, including a cast of outcast characters who simply jump off the page.”—Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Pot Farm, Barolo, Warranty in Zulu, The Morrow Plots (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books), Sagittarius Agitprop and more. Recent work appears in The New Republic, The Huffington Post, The Iowa Review, The Best Food Writing, The Best Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Gastronomica, and others. He currently teaches Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction Editor of Passages North.  This winter, he prepared his first batch of whitefish-thimbleberry ice cream.

For more info: matthewgfrank.com

Fri, Sept 7th, 7:00 pm

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 7, 2012 0 Comments

Big bucks, no whammies. This is how we roll. Roll Big or Go Home is at #10 this week.

1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) – Don’t miss Derf here on Thursday (Aug 9th) at 7pm, where he’ll take about this graphic novel he did about his experiences knowing Jeffrey Dahmer in high school!

2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

3. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

4. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

5. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00

6. Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00 – “Amazing Amazing Amazing. Recipes for Fire Cider and Krotchbucha. Ridiculously funny comics about Vajazzling, punker health fiascos (such as the ol’ “Hash Brown Cure”) and urban hiving. Gorgeously patterned comics about love and loss and coming down with a case of The Going Crazies. I’ve been reading the Carson McCullers comic that opens this book over and over and over again – it keeps bringing me close to tears. Highest honors. Lovingly risographed in blue.” -EF

7. Night Riders by Matt Furie (McSweeney’s) $15.95 – Where’s Matt Furie been lately? Apparently he’s been squirreled up drawing a truly stunning and mind-bending wordless children’s book for McSweeney’s, and I couldn’t be more excited about the fruits of his labors. Night Riders is truly awesome – cool animal-monsters staying up all night on a journey through a glowing nocturnal world, rendered in some ultralush colored pencil jewel hues. I love the chillpill laffs of Boy’s Club aplenty – however this is a different trip altogether: magic and riches with perfect delivery. A great kid’s book, and a great graphic novel to boot. -EF

8. Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00 – Jeremy Tinder launched this beast at CAKE a few months ago: deluxe stories of slipping, surreal illness and alone time. Paced a little like a Murakami story, I’d say- the richness of a character staring into space, the practicality of the mothman stealing batteries, the resignation to finding a tooth in your eyesocket. -EF

9. Dig Deep #4 by Heather $1.00 – Local-based perzine by a rad librarian.

10. Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00 – Cute lil love letter to fantasy, D&D and punk nerdery. Rad title, too. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 3, 2012 0 Comments

The Minus Times Collected 20 Years 30 Issues, ed. by Hunter Kennedy $16.95 – Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits, The Minus Times grew to become a hand-typed literary magazine that showcased the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Patrick DeWitt, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Brad Neely as well as interviews with Dan Clowes, Barry Hannah, and a yet-to-be-famous Stephen Colbert. With sly humor and striking illustrations, The Minus Times has earned a fervent following as much for its lack of literary pretension as its sporadic appearances on the newsstand. All thirty of the nearly-impossible-to-find issues of this improvised literary almanac are now assembled for the first time, typos and all.

Zines & Zine-Related
Serial Killers Unite #10 $2.00
Telegram #24 Feb 12 by Maranda Elizabeth $3.00
Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00
Hippie hippie shake: The dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups, the sixties by Richard Neville $16.95 – Collected retrospective of Oz Magazine, at the centre of a cyclone of radicals, rock musicians, artists and hustlers in the 60s.
Nuts #10 $4.00
Noisy Boy #2 Jul 12 by PJ Franzen $5.00
Echo by Aaron Smith $5.00
Snot Rocket City #2 $2.00
Some Things Make No Sense, Like Jeggings by Carrie $1.00
Paper Houses #7 The Batman Issue by Kriss Stress $1.00

Comics & Comix
Maddie #1 by Gabriela Cracraft $5.00
Gold Star by John Martz (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
Sheep Rumble by Sue Cargill $2.00
Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson $3.50
Genius and the Fatass by Alex Martin $1.00
Pretentious Record Store Guy #3 by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz $2.99
James Joyce by Ed Choy Moorman $5.00
Art Appreciation vol 2 Sunday on la Grande Jatte 1884 by Georges Seurat $2.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
How Would I Know If Youre Dreaming: Finn and Charlie Are Hitched vol 3 by Tony Breed $12.00
Making Of byBrecht Evans (D&Q) $29.95
Karma Tastes Like Diet Coke by Chris McKay $8.00
Blasted: An Ink and Drink Comics Science Fiction Anthology $11.99
Blind to Blue and Other Things: A Stack of Poetry Comics by Paul K. Tunis $10.00

Fiction
The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems by Paul Legault (McSweeneys) $17.00

Thirteen Girls by Mikita Brottman $13.00
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby the Learned Pig by Russell Potter $15.00
Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics by Brion Poloncic $15.00
Books by Eckhard Gerdes: Including Hugh Moore, The Sylvia Plath Cookbook: A Satire, Three Psychedelic Novels

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg $25.99 – Considering how much the word asshole does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves –– at least until now.
The Lords of 2112: The Poignantly Vulgar & Vulgarly Poignant Chronicle of America’s Future by Daniel Marion Mitchell Jr. $14.23 – Everything is weird about this book. Even the price.
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football Family and Time Itself by Nick Hornby $14.00 – More Beleiver columns from this High Fidelity author.

DIY
Lickin the Beaters 2 Vegan Chocolate and Candy by Siue Moffat, Celso and Missy Kulik (PM Press) $17.95
You Cant Make This Stuff Up: Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between by Lee Gutkind $16.00

Politics & Revolution
Letters to a Young Activist by Todd Gitlin $14.99

Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00
Decibel #95 Sep 12 $4.95
Adbusters Sep Oct 12 #103 vol 20 #5 $8.95
various issues of Uppercase: A Magazine For the Creative and Curious
Dwell Sep 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Aug 12 $10.00
Skunk vol 8 #1 $5.99
Ghetto Blaster #32 $3.95
Makeshift #3 Sum 12 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00
In These Times Aug 12 $3.50