Monthly Archive for June, 2025

New Stuff This Week

Published on June 14, 2025 0 Comments

 

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Zines

Fluke #22 Gary Floyd Picture Show edited by Bill Daniel $8

Attention by Jeff Stonic $15

Void by Paloma Mercier $12

Comics

Goodbye Stranger by Mergo Petrichor (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $10

Shadow Banshee Periodical #3 To Do Or Not To Do by Nadia Stoddera $7

Graphic Novels

The Devil’s Grin Book One Alex Graham (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog by Marc Torices (Drawn & Quarterly) $39.95

Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts (Drawn & Quarterly) $21.95

We All Got Something by Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly) $21.95

Muybridge by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95

Checked Out by Katie Fricas (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95

Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95

Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi (Drawn & Quarterly) $26.95

Music & Film Books

Always Music in the Air: The Sounds of Twin Peaks by Scott Ryan $29.99

Love and Fury: The Extraordinary Life Death and Legacy of Joe Meek by Darryl W. Bullock $37

Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters from 1970s Documentaries by Gary D. Rhodes (Feral House) $42.95

Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach $22.95

Hip Hop Is History by Questlove with Ben Greenman $20

John Waters screenplays! $15 each: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Flamingos Forever

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Hazel Was a Good Girl: Solving the Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks by by Jerry C. Drake PhD $18.95

A Season of Madness: Fools, Monsters, and Marvels of the Old-World Carnival by Al Ridenour (Feral House) $34.95

Fiction

Sons of El Rey: A Novel by Alex Espinoza $19.99

Beyond the Planet of the Vampires: A Novel by Ulrich Baer $18.95

Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos edited by Molly Llewellynn & Kristel Buckley (Dzanc Books) $17.95

Tramps Like Us a Novel by Joe Westmoreland $19

Craft: Stories I Wrote For the Devil by Ananda Lima $17.99

Druuuuuuuuugs

Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londono $18.99

County Highway Summer Reading Tour, 7/12

Published on June 9, 2025 Closed
Jul
12
3:00 pm

County Highway Summer Reading Tour
Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 3:00 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend County Highway Summer Reading

Meaghan Garvey and Amanda Fortini will be reading from their work in County Highway with interspersed discussions, followed by an audience Q&A discussion!

County Highway is a magazine about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper, started on a shoestring by three friends (David Samuels, Walter Kirn, and Ryan Baesemann) in the wake of the pandemic. They have since become the fastest growing print periodical in the country — earning an annual circulation of 150,000 copies barely one year after releasing thier debut issue.

The name County Highway is inspired by what they believe is the perfect-sized place for the enhancement of life and art. A county is a chunk of earth big enough to allow for a variety of human types, but small enough to get to know a decent number of your neighbors, where they come from, what they’re proud of, what they fear, what they smoke, what they drink, and what they love. The county where County Highway newspaper is located is somewhere between all those places, real and imaginary. It’s the scale of the place that’s important, and also the idea of traveling from one to another with an eye towards finding new answers to the founding American questions of who we are, and why we are here.

Dubbed “America’s Only Newspaper,” County Highway features hairy off-road adventures by some of America’s best and strangest writers; reports on the myriad of political and spiritual crises that are gripping our country and their deeper cultural and historical sources; regular columns about agriculture, civil liberties, animals, herbal medicine, and living off the grid, both mentally and physically; essays about literature and art; and an entire section devoted to music. Offering a road-side banquet of American humor, common-speech, and social and political insights in every issue, County Highway prints six times each year for readers across all fifty states and Canada. Wherever there’s a stop sign, there’s a story.

Amanda Fortini is a natural remedies columnist for County Highway. She divides her time between Livingston, Montana, and Las Vegas, Nevada, about which she is currently writing a book of essays, Flamingo Road. From 2021 to 2022, she did a nine-month flower essence apprenticeship and got certified as a practitioner.

Meaghan Garvey is a writer and illustrator living on the beach in the Midwest. She’s a contributing writer to County Highway, with bylines in Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Tablet, Vulture, and many other outlets. Her debut book Midwestern Death Trip will be published by Panamerica in 2026.

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Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “County Highway” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press, 7/17

Published on June 8, 2025 Closed
Jul
17
6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press
Thursday, July 17, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press

Join Detroit-based printmaker and publisher Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press for an evening of visual storytelling and reflection on sustaining a creative press practice. In this Show & Tell session, Rachel will share recent work and guide us through the systems, collaborations, and small habits that help her keep going as she navigates the shift to full-time independent publishing.

Expect an honest, low-key conversation about the creative process, risograph printing, and staying grounded outside the algorithm. Perfect for anyone curious about zines, small press life, or slow, intentional ways of making.

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Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Show & Tell” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Opossum, 6/26

Published on June 7, 2025 Closed
Jun
26
6:30 pm

Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Opossum
Thursday, June 26, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend After Hours: Raging Opossum

Join Quimby’s Bookstore and Taylor Thornburg to welcome Raging Opossum Press for our inaugural After Hours evening of readings. 

Raging Opossum Press is a publishing house and press highlighting the local and DIY art in Chicago… Raging Opossum Press is dedicated to the ideas of community and the wonders of sharing art with one another, and strives to do that regularly by showing off different artists through publications, interviews, or our newsletter which shares and discusses a variety of different art events, shows, and whatever else around Chicago.

Expect a raucous reading celebrating contributors to recent issues of Raging Opossum.

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Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

New Stuff This Week

Published on June 7, 2025 0 Comments

 

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Zines

Uncertainty Principle #1 by Charlie Danoff $5

Ad-Blockr by Ray Black $5

Ground Up by Margaretha Singleton $5

From the Interference Archive/Josh MacPhee:
Pound the Pavement #36 Transit Type $20
Pound the Pavement #38 House Fighters $8

Comics

If I Had Known…They Would Rob Your Grave This Is What I Would Have Done by Lillie J. Harris $10

Art Books

Comfort of Home: The Freedom of Flight by Max Kauffman $20

Pictures and Words by Rupert Goldsworthy and Mark Stewart $10

Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art by Rian Hughes (Korero Books) $49.99

Politics & Revolution Books

The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis by Gregory Royal Pratt $18.99

Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke by Leigh Claire La Berge $25.95

Music Books

Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn $30

Radio Birdman: Retaliate First – How One Band Smashed the Rules of Australian Rock n Roll by Murray Engleheart $19.99

On the Records: Notes From the Vinyl Revival by Graham Sharpe $32.99

Labelled With Love: A History of the World In Your Record Collection by Andy Bollen $31.99

Punk Rock In Comics by Nicolas Finet and Thierry Lamy $27.99

Mayhem & Outer Limits Book

Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II Including Sacco and Vanzetti, Black Dahlia, Lovers Lane and Famous Players by Rick Geary $24.99

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell $19.99

Fiction Books

City Beneath Her by Beth Hahn $20.95

From the British Library Tales of the Weird Series, $16.99 each: Deadly Dolls – Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings edited by Elizabeth Dearnley, Human Chord by Algerian Blackwood, Doomed Romances – Strange Tales of Uncanny Love edited by Joanne Ella Parsons, Out of the Past – Tales of Haunting History edited by Aaron Worth, Fear In the Blood – Tales From the Dark Lineages of the Weird edited by Mike Ashley

Add This to the List of Things That You Are: Stories by Chris Fink $16.95

Sexxxy

Pride of Luchadores by Rainier Flores (Rainstrike Comics) $5