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New Stuff This Week

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Social Justice Kittens 2025 Calendar by Liartown USA $20

Tarot Del Fuego Box of Tarot Cards by Ricardo Cavolo $24.95

Zines

Crap Hound 2024 Owls and Crows by Sean Tejaratchi $20

2 zines by Katie Kiesewetter: Behind, Sharp! #3 Chicago Style $8, Gratuitous Hospitality $10

Unresolved #10 by Eli Schmitt $5

zines by April Malig: I Don’t Know How to Take Pictures But I Like to Do It Anyway $12, April’s Eating Zine #5 $15 and more.

Check the Record #1 & #2 by Jen Matson $5 each

Graphic Novels

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation adapted by Paul Peart-Smith $22.95

Paying for It (re-issue) by Chester Brown (D&Q) $21.95

New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw by Greg Hunter and Dash Shaw (Uncivilized) $24.95

Tegan and Sara: Crush bu Tegan and Sara Quin, illustrated by Tillie Walden $14.99

Art & Photo Books

Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton (D&Q) $20.95

To Washington Park, With Love: Documentary Photographs from Summer 1987 by Rose Blouin (Haymarket) $35

Politics & Revolution Books

The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe by Gideon Levy (Verso) $24.95

World War 3 NOW?  (World War 3 Illustrated #54) edited by Seth Tobocman, Susan Simensky Bietila & Nicole Schulman (AK Press) $20

Dead Cities (re-issue) by Mike Davis $24.95

The Conquest of Bread (2nd Edition) by Peter Kropotkin (AK Press) $20

Fiction

The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore $29.95

Model Home: A Novel by Rivers Solomon $28

Roberto Bolano novel reprints: The Return $17, Antwerp $15, By Night in Chile $16

Starter Villain by John Scalzi $18.99

Star 111 by Lutz Seiler $19.95

Music & Film Books

Shoegaze by Ryan Pinkard (33 1/3 Genre) $19.95

Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes $22

BFI Film Classics books, $17.95 each: Cure by Dominic Lash, Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan

Sonic Bonds: A Journey Into Wondrous Radio by Siue Moffat (Mr. Pither Cycling Tour Connections) $14.99

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid by Joy White $14.95

Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema edited by Doris Berger with Maya S. Cade, Jacqueline Stewart and more $45

Essay

Country Queers: A Love Letter by Rae Garringer $24.95

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein $20

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation edited by Kelly Filreis and Alexis Bard Johnson $39.95

Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship by Christina Jarvis $22.95

Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World by Diane Ehrensaft and Michelle Jurkiewicz $28.95

Witchy Shit

Practical Candle Magic: Witchcraft with Wick & Wax by Rachel Patterson $18.99

Witch in Darkness: Magick for Tough Times, Bad Days and Moments of Total Catastrophe by Kelly-Ann Maddox $24.95

Consciousness Expansion

Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair by Simon Yugler $19.95

Food Books

Lickin’ the Beaters: Low Fat Vegan Desserts (2nd Edition) by Suie Moffat $10.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

some LOVE – four poems by elizabeth s. tieri $10

Kris Called Krishna Home by Kristoffer Damato, multiple issues $10 each

The Bennington Review #13 $15

Briefly Gently: Record of an Unreadied Boat by Tori Rego $15

Waiting For the Exterminator by Sophie Grimes $3

Recommended Reading: Adam Gnade and his Great American Novels

Published on October 1, 2024 0 Comments

As of late, I’ve been deep into Adam Gnade‘s pocket sized novels ever since we received a large box of them from Kansas, where the author resides. Gnade (pronounced GUH-NAH-DEE) writes about coming of age in America, friendship, and being involved in alternative music scenes in the early aughts, a time when smartphones hadn’t been invented and the world felt less chaotic and broken.

After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different drew me in with its cover: a picture of a hand pouring hot sauce on a giant burrito inside a taqueria. Maybe I was hungry that day, but something nudged me to buy it (we sold two other copies in the same day, perhaps there was something in the air). After Tonight… is set in San Diego, CA centered around the main character’s memories of growing up in the beachy California town where his parents owned a seafood restaurant. Each chapter is centered around a specific food memory and how the meals or snacks comforted James and his pals after late nights at punk shows, bars, and nights out when the only thing that mattered was being in the moment and escaping reality with chosen family. Despite each chapter being centered around food, the book reads more like an autobiography filled with visceral memories and the pain of early adulthood when you and your friends move on, go to college, or stay put in your hometown and waste time trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be. Gnade has a poetic way of retelling memories that pull the reader into his world by making them relatable and tender.

When you make sense to someone it is a lovely thing. What you are doesn’t tire them or make them nervous or scare them off. They see you and you make sense. Your weird shit makes sense. Your fears and delusions make sense. The things you love make sense. If you don’t make sense, it’s like a bitter flavor in a thing that should be sweet and it’s confusing to people. They don’t get you, and because they don’t get you, you’ve got no chance of being their friend. At 16 I want nothing more than to make sense to people, but I don’t make sense to anyone.

This beautiful paragraph is from the chapter titled “BURRITOS, VARIOUS.”

The second book in Gnade’s pocket sized series of America is The Internet Newspaper. In the sequel, we follow James for three days in the year 2000 as he temps for a local internet newspaper in San Diego writing clickbait articles about cats and listing local music events. At night, he’s raiding the alcohol cabinet of a stranger’s home with friends while they house sit and driving to Tijuana with his coworkers for a press junket and getting drunk on the company dime. The Internet Newspaper captures a time when the internet was a place where information was less available and more casual, not all encompassing like it is today. The book is not just about the internet and the experience of having your first grown-up job, but about the main character’s life as a twenty-something punk having fun with friends while battling debilitating depression and suicidal ideation.

As I savor the last few pages of The Internet Newspaper, I look forward to reading I Wish to Say Lovely Things, Gnade’s follow up novel about love in all its many forms.

tl;dr Adam Gnade makes reading fun, inspiring, accessible, and cool with his badass autofiction novels.

*xo~Angel~xo*

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