Monthly Archive for August, 2013

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David Moscovich You Are Make Very Important Bathtime Release Event With Eckhard Gerdes 9/13

Sep ’13
13
7:00 pm

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David Moscovich’s new book, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime (JEF Books Publishing), is about an expatriate in a foreign land and his failure to navigate the awkward seas of extreme culture clash. Set in Southern Japan, it is a celebration of the beauty of misunderstanding and the inadvertent poetry of bad grammar.

“A wild and enlivening collection of stories that capture the comedy, chaos and uncertainty of living as an alien in a place just beyond one’s understanding. Moscovich is a daring writer, and this book, both preposterous and beautiful, is an unusual demonstration of talent.”

-Michael Thomsen, author of Levitate The Primate

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David Moscovich writes flash fiction and performs his texts both live and on the radio, fragmenting, ricocheting, and refurnishing language until it meets its own devolution. He lives with chronic insomnia in New York City and runs Louffa Press, a micro-press dedicated to printing innovative fiction.

Also reading: novelist Eckhard Gerdes read from his first published book of poetry, 23 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems (Finishing Line Press) and from his short novella The Sylvia Plath Cookbook (published by Sugar Glider Press in Queensland, Australia).  Eckhard Gerdes is the author of 14 published novels, including My Landlady the Lobotomist and Hugh Moore.  He lives in Geneva, Illinois, and is the publisher of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and JEF Books.

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For more info:

http://davidmoscovich.com/

http://www.eckhardgerdes.com/

egerdes(at)experimentalfiction(dot)com

Friday, September 13, 7pm – Free Event

Light refreshments will be served

Maureen Foley Reads, with Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson 9/5

Sep ’13
5
7:00 pm

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Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography as Quimby’s showcases three of MMMarvelous writers at Quimby’s on Thursday, September 5th. Local authors Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson will be reading from their new books, the respective Long Live Us and Sad Robot Stories; and headlining the evening will be California author Maureen Foley, in town to promote her female relationship dramedy Women Float. All three authors will be available for signing books afterwards. We hope you will be able to join us for this MMMost enjoyable evening!

Maureen Foley is a writer and artist who lives on an avocado ranch by the sea in Southern California with her daughter, stepson and husband, writer James Claffey. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Caesura, The New York Times, Santa Barbara Magazine, Skanky Possum and elsewhere.  [maureenfoley.com]

Mason Johnson is a writer from Chicago who currently works full time writing and editing articles for CBS. Also, he pets all the cats. [themasonjohnson.com]

Mark R. Brand is the author of the novels Red Ivy Afternoon (2006), Life After Sleep (2011), and The Damnation of Memory (2011), as well as the editor of the 2009 anthology Thank You, Death Robot. He is a two-time Independent Publisher Book Award winner and is the creator and host of the video podcast series Breakfast With the Author. [vinniethevole.com]

For more info, visit cclapcenter.com or write cclapcenter(at)gmail(dot)com

New Stuff This Week

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Violence, erotica and horror were popular even in 19th century Japan, as evidenced by the Ukiyo-E art-form. These mass produced “images from the floating world” include weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters. Stock up on these art books while they’re still in stock and in print. We suggest these titles published by Shinbaku Books: Outlaw Swords of Death: Warrior & Hero Designs 1825-45 By Utagawa Kuniyoshi $39.95 Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-E: Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoo $39.95 Night Parade of Hell: Creatures Bizarre Demonic Art by Kawanabe Kyosai $34.95

Zines
Cervical Mucus and Your Fertility by Kione $1.50
Impractical Cartography #1 Buffalo NY $15.00
Pride Inside Zine From Queer Folks Incarcerated in Illinois, issues #1 and #2 $6.00 each
I Hate Mondays #3 Chicago $2.00
Cheap and Easy #1 by Hutch Hutchinson $10.00
Two Girls One Brain $1.00

Comics & Comix
Crass Sophisticate #31 The Poo Is True $3.00
various comics by Chris Uphues, various prices
Laudanum Thief vol 1 by Mason Dickerson $5.00
Wolves in Sheeps Clothing vol 1 by Chris Rietman and and April Guinn (Broken Teeth Dreaming) $5.00
Lower East Side Story issues #1-3 by Pete Friedrich $4.75 each

Graphic Novel & Trade Paperbacks
Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren et al. $24.99
Fagin the Jew: A Reinvention of Dickenss Classic Character by Will Eisner (Dark Horse) $19.99
Crossed vol 6 by Garth Ennis et al. $24.99
Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America with Pete Friedrich, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Martin Cendreda, Gilbert Hernandez and more $22.95

Art & Design
Incurable Disorder by Elizabeth McGrath (Last Gasp) $39.95 – For fans of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, and Camille Rose Garcia.
First Ten Years of Needles and Pens by Andrew Scott Martin $12.00 – People ask us if there are other stores we would suggest for cool reading material. Why yes! Have you been to Needles and Pens in San Francisco? Well here’s an oral and pictoral history that proves they’ve been around for at least 10 years. P.S. We do also have some links about Quimby’s-ish stores on our newly updated links page.
Nice Coffee Time by Liz Clayton (Tiny Person) $14.95 – An art boook dedicated to the nectar of the caffeine gods.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Secret Origins of the Crass Symbol by Dave King $12.00
Animals Talking In All Caps: It’s Just What It Sounds Like by Justin Valmassoi $15.00 – From the author of Rosario Dawson loves me zine.
Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman $15.95 – Hey have you heard the news? Scientologists are crazy! Now in soft cover.
Constantine Affliction: A Pimm & Skye Adventure by Aaron T. Payton (Night Shade) $14.99
American Indian Medicine Dreambook by Brad Steiger $19.95
Midwest Hauntings by Lee Prosser $14.99 – Planning your next road trip? Perhaps we might suggest these sites? We also just got in a Ghost Hunters Tool Kit you can bring with you.
Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield $25.99 – From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.

DIY
Bake and Destroy: Good Food For Bad Vegans by Natalie Slater $19.99
Kids Stuff
Anna and Froga: I Dunno What Do You Want To Do by Anouk Ricard (D+Q) $14.95
Squirrel We Call Sneakers by Shawn Rainbolt et al. $5.99
True Adventures of Foamy and Leafy by Pete Friedrich $2.75

Fiction
Scarce Resources: 18 Weird Stories by Brendan Detzner $10.00
Elect H Mouse State Judge by Nelly Reifler $11.00
Terminal Atrocity Zone by J.G. Ballard, ed. by Candice Black (Sun Vision) $15.95

Sex & Sexy
Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel $15.95
Down and Dirty: 69 Super Sexy Short Shorts ed. by Alison Tyler $15.95
High Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women ed. by Delilah Devlin $15.95

Magazines
Zingmagazine #23 $30.00
Juxtapoz #152 Sep 13 $5.99
Design Bureau Aug 13 $8.00
American Atheist 3rd Quarter 13 $4.95
Neural #45 $8.00
Bizarre #204 Sep 13 $10.50
Skunk vol 9 #2 $5.99
High Times Oct 13 $5.99
Color Skateboards Sum 13 vol 11 #2 $7.99
Pinstriping #39 Kustom Graphics Magazine Aug Sep 13 $10.00
Howler #3 Sum 13 $15.00
Maximumrocknroll #363 Aug 13 $4.00
Monocle Mediterraneo #7 Sum 13 $8.00
ASR #60 Sum 13 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Progressive Aug 13 $4.95
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
N+1 #17 Fall 13 $13.95
Camera Obscura vol 6 Spr 13 $12.95
Greenwoman vol 3 #1 Sum Fall 13 $5.95
Specimen Magazine #6 $6.00

Other Stuff
The Mermaid Tarot Deck by Dame Darcy $40.00 – The mostest beautiful tarot deck ever from the artist of Meatcake. Sea-shantirifc!

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The Believer Box of Bad Advice Game: Mixed-up Advice From Messed Up People $14.95 – Everybody’s favorite clever McSweeneyNPRians are here: Eggers, Sedaris – you get the idea.
Crickettes Bacon and Cheese $2.50 – You know how all the former vegetarians say that what called them back to meat was bacon? What about pig-flavored crickets? Also Salt’N’Vinegar flavor available. Eat up!
Blood Red Soap $1.25 – Wanna freak your guests out? This soap looks normal until you use it, then it turns red. Bwahahahaha.
Scorpion Suckers $3.99 – People love the look of bugs in amber. That shit sells. What about making it look like amber but have it be sugar? And edible. Eat your words, people! In a variety of delicious flavors: apple, banana, blueberry and strawberry.

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Peter Bagge Presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 10/19

Oct ’13
19
7:00 pm

WOMANREBEL.tour.WEB-quimbysOn Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly for an evening with cartoonist Peter Bagge to celebrate the launch of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, a dazzling, accessible biography of the activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist who founded Planned Parenthood. Bagge will be presenting a slideshow focusing on Sanger’s social and political activism and how Woman Rebel came together, sharing original sample pages from his book.

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story presents the life of the outspoken, driven Margaret Sanger from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s legacy is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.

About Peter Bagge:

Peter Bagge was born on December 11th, 1957, and raised in Peekskill, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. While enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1977, Bagge discovered underground comics, and the work of R. Crumb in particular turned what had initially been only a vague interest in cartooning into a passion.

In the early ’80s Bagge co-published three issues of COMICAL FUNNIES (1980-81), a New York-based comic tabloid which saw the debut of Bagge’s dysfunctional suburban family, The Bradleys. Bagge broke into R. Crumb’s legendary magazine, WEIRDO, and Bagge took over as managing editor of that magazine from 1983 to 1986.

Bagge started his own comic book series, NEAT STUFF, for Fantagraphics Books, producing 15 issues from 1985 to ’89. Buddy Bradley, the Bradleys’ alienated and pessimistic teenage son, emerged as Neat Stuff’s most engaging and fully-realized character. In 1990, NEAT STUFF evolved into a new title, HATE, which exclusively followed the foibles of the semi-autobiographical Buddy Bradley. Hate became the voice of the twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant characterization in its complete chronicle of the 1990s. HATE and Buddy Bradley continue to appear in print, albeit less frequently, under the title HATE ANNUAL.

Since 1999, Bagge has worked on many other comic-related projects, including writing an all ages comic book for DC called YEAH! (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez). as well as the short lived humor series SWEATSHOP, also for DC. He also wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and has done the same with Marvel’s The Hulk, though the later title has yet to be scheduled for release. Other projects include a 2 year stint writing and drawing a weekly comic strip about Bat Boy for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, and a series of illustrated essays for the now defunct website Suck.com, which led to his becoming a current regular features contributor to the political and social commentary magazine REASON. Also, comic APOCALYPSE NERD was collected into a graphic novel, published Dark Horse.

Bagge’s exaggerated and distinctively in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and in magazines as far ranging as HUSTLER, MAD and the OXFORD AMERICAN. He’s also had a hand in several animation projects, most notably the online Rock & Roll Dad cartoon series he co-created with Dana Gould for Icebox.com.

Quimby’s Welcomes Black & Brown Press’ On Struggling Issue #3 with Guest Readers Stephanie Camba, Jonas Cannon and Mercedez Gonzalez

Sep ’13
6
7:00 pm

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In the latest issue of On Struggling by the Brown & Proud Press, the theme of bodies is explored through a collaboration of short stories, poetry, comics and drawings. Receiving submissions from across the country, this zine exemplifies the complexities of body issues for people of color, covering topics such as self-hatred and skin color, chronic pain/illness, fatphobia, colonialism and assimilation, sexual abuse, and more. With the goal of reaching out to people of color with similar issues, the zine juxtaposes stories of struggle with stories of survival, including Ode to Survival in this Great Wide World by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, and Historically Struggling Bodies of POC and Even More Work to be Holistic Allies by Mika Munoz.

“We believe sharing these stories with and amongst other people of color helps to dismantle the isolation and shame that white supremacy [colonialism, capitalism] creates, and replaces them with support, strength, and communities of care” – Monica Trinidad, co-founder of Brown & Proud Press

As well as being sold at Quimby’s in Chicago and Bluestockings in New York, On Struggling is also distributed through Brown Recluse Zine Distro (Seattle), twelveohtwo Distro (Toronto), and No Shame Distro (New Brunswick), and archived with POC Zine Project and the University of Chicago library. Brown & Proud Press was also recently invited to participate in the Zine Pavilion section of the American Library Association’s 2013 Conference, highlighting the noteworthiness of self-published works.

For more info visit: onstruggling.tumblr.com or email brownandproudpress(at)gmail(dot)com

Friday, September 6th, 7pm – Free Event

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