Monthly Archive for September, 2023

Shovelin’ USA: The Estrus Records Book Tour Stops at Quimby’s, Oct 21st

Published on September 23, 2023 0 Comments
Oct
21
1:00 pm

Korero Press is happy to announce that a hefty slab of punk rock history is coffee-table-ready: Shovelin’ The Sh!t Since ’87 is a 250+ page book of influential artwork, photographs, interviews and text detailing the history of the legendary garage rock label, Estrus Records. For nearly two decades, Dave Crider’s Bellingham, Washington-based operation churned out hundreds of releases from mainstays in garage, trash, surf, and punk — among them, The Mummies, Man or Astroman?, The Makers, Teengenerate, and Crider’s own Mono Men. And because the imagery associated with Estrus’ releases matched the ferocity of the music, this beast is filled with vivid concert posters, iconic album covers and bizzare oddities created by a handful of elite graphic artists — including visionary Art Chantry, who was behind much of the label’s artwork.

Author Chris Alpert Coyle and designer Scott Sugiuchi are taking copies of the new book with them on the Shovelin’ USA Tour. Join them here at Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park on Saturday, October 21st beginning at 1pm. The Q&A session with Chet “The Cheetah” Weise (Quadrajets, Immortal Lee Co. Killers), Alex Wald & Marty Perez will be an opportunity for folks to ask questions about the iconic label’s history — and Coyle and Sugiuchi can give insight on what the multiyear project was like.

The book does not go on sale to the general public until late November, so Quimby’s will be one of the few places people can buy it ahead of time at the event on October 21st!

FREE EVENT!

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kickstarter.com/projects/estrus/estrus-shovelin-the-shit-since-87

New Stuff This Week

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Quimbys Disappointing You Bumper Sticker $6 – Flaunt your disappointment far and wide with this sticker printed by our friends at Bumpin’ Uglies on the occasion of our 32nd anniversary!

Zines

Amulet by Echo the Human $5

“Why Don’t You Get Busy and Answer My Letter?”: Passive Aggressive and Snarky Antique Postcards 1906-1913 by Robert T. Glen $6

Battle of Antarctica: Enduring Change In Dead Systems by Will Dee $13

Issues Homocats by J. Morrison, $15 each: Fuck it All, Fight the Machine

Dream Space – A Make Believe TTRPG by Larry Dembski $17

Queer Space Communism: An Illustrated Manifesto by Milo $5

Femme Shark Communique #1 All Our Holes Are Hungry Hungry for Justice and Fucking by Zuleikha Mahmood and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha $5

Zines from Iffy Books, $5 each: Lora and Meshtastic – Encrypted Messaging From Your Phone Without the Internet by Mike Dank, Share a File With BitTorrent a Do It Yourself Guide

Act Up Ephemera: Pins, Pamphlets and Posters From AIDS Organizing in the US $6

Shame on Pride For Selling Out Queers by Abuzar $5

Cripple Punk Mag: Accessibility in Local Music: #2 Accessibility Tips for Bands and Venues $5 & #3 The Community Issue $6.50

Comics

Cartoon Dialectics #4 The Coming of the Terraformer (Uncivilized) $6

Micro Comics by Jam Doughty, $2 each: Letters From the Memory Forest, Fall Instar Sep 2023, Blind Contour Garden

West #3 by John Grund (Uncivilized) $6.99

Comics by Morgan Vogel: Valle $6, Nightcore Energy $9

Plot Against the Giant by Caroline Bren $6

Vincent by Sarah Foley $3

Zines by Andrew Coltrin/Partly Robot: Don’t Be Terrible $3, A Is for Autistic: A Personal Glossary $5

Fugu Comix #3 by Cameron Hatheway $5

Maple Terrace #1 & #2 by Noah Van Sciver $6 each

Etiquette for Assclowns #1: The Subway by Elliot Fu $15

Fighting Shape by Tom Orr $6

Art & Design Books

Acky Bright B/W by Acky Bright (PIE International) $29.99

Summer of Hamn by Chuck D (Enemy Books) $34.95

From Angels to Werewolves: Human-Animal Hybrids in Art and Myth by Philip F. Palmedo $35

The Secret Life vol 1 1904-1924 by Salvador Dali (Deicide) $19.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (Haymarket) $19.95

Proudhon’s Sociology by Pierre Ansart, edited by Cayce Jamil (AK Press) $22

Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country edited by Alissa Quart & David Wallis (Haymarket) $19.95

DIY Books

Hand Lettering and Beyond: A Beginners Workbook for the Creative Art of Drawing Letters by Sofie Bjorkgren Nase $13.95

Music Books

Just a Minor Threat by Glen E. Friedman (Akashic) $35

Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan $20

Good Pop Bad Pop: An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker $19.99

Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra by Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera (Blank Forms Editions) $29.95

This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas $17.95

Do You Believe In the Power of Rock & Roll? by John Robb (Unbound) $22.95

Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop by Joe Conzo $55

Essays

Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook by Sonya Huber $19.95

Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations $19.99

Food

Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat – An American History by Christina Ward (Process) $32.95

Fiction

Mr Crabby You Have Died by Jeremy Kitchen (First to Knock) $16

Atoms Never Touch by micha cardenas (AK Press) $16

2 Raymond Queneau books, $16.95 each: Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau, Sally Mara’s Intimate Journal

Starter Villain by John Scalzi $28.99

More titles from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird Series, $16.99 each: Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights, Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth

Poetry & Chap Books

Sex Augury Poems by C Bain $17.95

Chap Books by Nate Hoil (Secret Restaurant Press): A Message From the Gallery of Excavated Heads $14, Breakfast $10

Sexxxy

Penetration of the Skin by Pris Genet $8

Magazines

The Anarchist Review of Books #6 $6

Border Crossings #162 $15

New Stuff This Week

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Slingshot Planners for 2024!
Pocket sized Perfectbound $9
Pocket sized SpiralBound $12
Spiral Bound Large $16

Zines

Pulaski At Night #1 Up Late in Chicago by Cynthia E. Hanifin $6

Behind the Zines #16 A Zine About Zines $4

This Zine Won’t Fly: Some Bird Shit by Kristen Jacobson $10

New stuff & restocks from Christina Tran: Beyond Don’t Work for Free: Tips on How to Protect Yourself as an Artist and Honor Your Creative Gifts, Beyond Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Benefits and Perils of Turning Art Into Your Job

Data for Arms Dealers $8

Thoughts on the Record Boygenius Sep 2023 by Isabelle $10

KerBloom #163 by Artnoose $2

DIYIZM #1 $10

Mis 25 Anos by Joanna Uruchima $10

New zines by Ed Blair, $2 each: Let’s Talk Game: A Mini Zine About Organizing Your Workplace With Lessons Learned From MTV’s The Challenge, Incredible Stories: The Zonai Mystery – The Most Sensational Story Ever Told, AVTB-1 A Cyberpunk Film Fanzine

Dopamine Decorating $10

The Art of Happy Mail $10

How Are You? Or I Had Cancer For a Little While and It Was Hard by Moe Bowstern $5

New zines by April Malig: Rotten Roses #3 $10, Eating Zine #3: Thailand, etc – Oct 22 by April Malig and Corinne Cox $12 & more.

Salmon Brain by Chris Pernula $2

Weird Grrrl Zine #8 $3

various issues of Lennon McCrea Zine…

…and more!

Comics

Chicago, Comics and Life 1999-2012 #1 by Anders Nilsen $7

Freaky #9 by Andrew Goldfarb & friends $5

School Night Comics #1 Ghost Stories for Bedtime by Sebastian Mata $3.50

City Slang: The Sonics Rendezvous Band Story Incoming by Chairman Ralph and Lisa D. Quinlan $10

Pretzel Girl by Sue Cargill $4

Preventative Measures Comic Anthology #1 by Kiki and Bouba $24.99

Graphic Novels

My Picture Diary by Fujiwara Maki (D&Q) $29.95

Roaming by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki (D&Q) $34.95

Totem by Laura Perez $24.99

Sad Girl Space Lizard by Iggy Craig (Silver Sprocket) $19.99

Matchmaker by Cam Marshall (Silver Sprocket) $22.99

Art & Design Books

SOLEIL: Fashion lookbook by Tanaka (PIE International) $29.99

Music & Film

High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters $20

2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies edited by Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis $18

Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Ian Glasper (PM Press) $25

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Oermann $35

Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American Shot-on-Video Horror, 1984-1994 by Vincent A. Albarano (Headpress) $27.95

B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop by Andy Cowan (Headpress) $25.95

Verse, Chorus, Monster by Graham Coxon $15.95

Bowie Odyssey 73 by Simon Goddard $24.99

Politics & Revolution

Black History London Map by Jody Burton and Avril Nanton (Blue Crow Media) $12

Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe edited by The Graphic History Collective (PM Press) $22.95

Essays

Last Night at the Casino vol 2 by Billy McCall $14

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein $30

How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine (Microcosm) $15.95

Outer Limits & Witchy Shit

The Demon in the Ekur: Angels, Demons, Plasmas, Patristics, and Pyramids by Joseph P. Farrell $16.95

New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment Risa Dickens & Amy Torok $19.95

(The Extraordinary and Most Ancient Mystery of) The Diagram: Harmonic Geometry by Adam Tetlow $8.95

(The Ultimate Travellers Pocket Guide to) Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture by Ben Sessa $8.95

Culpeper’s Complete Astrology: The Lost Art of Astrological Medicine by Nicholas Culpeper (Microcosm) $15.95

Sexxxy

Monster Lovin’: Queer Smutty, Spooky Stories (Queering Consent Series) by S. Park (Microcosm) $9.95

Butt Magazine Fall 2023 #33 $17

RFD #195 Fall 2023 $11.95

Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts In Art by Mark Small and Jack Shoulder $19.95

Fiction

The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern $26.99

Witches by Brenda Lozano $16.95

Something Dead In Everything Stories by Lannie Stabile $20

The Damned Thing, Deluxe Edition: Weird and Ghostly Tales by Ambrose Bierce $19.95

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

Field Guide #1 $24.99

Rock Stars by Matt Mason $18

Inconvenience of Grief by Lannie Stabile $20

Active Shooter #39 by Connie Boje $8

For the Young at Heart

Suppose You Met a Witch by Ian Serraillier and Ed Emberley $19.99

Does God have a recipe? Find out in Holy Food! Oct 13th

Published on September 7, 2023 0 Comments
Oct
13
7:00 pm

Join Christina Ward to celebrate Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat:
An American History on Friday, October 13th, 7pm, here at Quimby’s!

“Holy Food doesn’t just trace the influence that preachers, gurus, and cult leaders have had on American cuisine. It offers a unique look at the ways spirituality—whether in the form of fringe cults or major religions—has shaped our culture. Christina Ward has gone spelunking into some very odd corners of American history to unearth this fascinating collection of stories and recipes.” — Jonathan Kauffmann, author of Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat

Religious beliefs have been the source of food “rules” since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or maybe G-d just said “no”). A long-ago Pope forbade Catholics to eat meat on Fridays (fasting to atone for committed sins). Rules about eating are present in nearly every American belief, from high-control groups that ban everything except “air” to the infamous strawberry shortcake that sated visitors to the Oneida Community in the late 1800s. In America, where the freedom to worship the god of your choice and sometimes of your own making, embraced old traditions and invented new ones.

Holy Food looks explores the explosion of religious movements since the Great Awakenings birthed a cottage industry of food fads and at the obscure sects and communities of the 20th Century who dabbled in vague spirituality and used food to both entice and control followers. Ward skillfully navigates between academic studies, interviews, cookbooks, and religious texts to make sharp observations and new insights into American history in this highly readable journey through the American kitchen.

Holy Food features over 75 recipes from religious and communal groups tested and updated for modern cooks. (Dough Gods! Funeral Potatoes! Yogi Tea! Mother F*cker Beans! The Source Family’s infamous Aware Inn Salad!) Also includes over 100 historic black and white images.

Christina Ward is an independent food historian, a Master Food Preserver (Wisconsin), and writer who works in the publishing industry. www.christinaward.net

For more info see: info(at)processmediainc(dot)com • www.processmediainc.com

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Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore.

Jeremy Kitchen Discusses Mr. Crabby You Have Died with Kirin Wachter-Grene, Oct 14th

Published on September 5, 2023 0 Comments
Oct
14
7:00 pm

JEREMY KITCHEN

discusses his new book

MR. CRABBY YOU HAVE DIED

with literary scholar

KIRIN WACHTER-GRENE

Saturday, October 14th, 7pm

Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore

Mr. Crabby You Have Died is the first full-length work by Jeremy Kitchen — a public librarian, former dope fiend, and U.S. Army artillery observer in Desert Storm. Swaying between memoir and fiction, Kitchen lays bare his world through a series of interlocking exorcisms that deny linear time and good taste. Lost years in the Sarin-laced Persian Gulf drift backwards into Detroit’s acid trash landscape, only to corkscrew forward again into a seemingly endless Chicago night of heroin, handguns, and idiot pranksterism.

Comic as it is horrifying, Mr. Crabby You Have Died is a collection of parables about the stupid beauty of youth, the boredom of addiction, and the intensity of dreams.

On Saturday nite, October 14th, Kitchen will discuss all things Mr. Crabby with Kirin Wachter-Grene, a writer and scholar based in Chicago. Wachter-Grene is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches classes on literature, history, and gender & sexuality studies.

Mr. Crabby You Have Died has been published by First To Knock out of Michigan City, Indiana. First To Knock titles have been featured in outlets such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Hermitix, CrimeReads, The Washington Post, Apocalypse Confidential, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Cinepunx, Tulsa Public Radio/NPR, KCRW Los Angeles, and Weird History. Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf has called First To Knock “one of my favorite presses.”

For more info: www.firsttoknock.com

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