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Call for texts: Mash Tun, A Craft Beer Journal

Published on January 28, 2012 0 Comments

Introducing…..

Mash Tun
A Journal about Craft Beer

The Mash Tun is a paean to craft beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society.

The Mash Tun will feature interviews and profiles with brewery owners, beer lovers, brewmasters, beer distributors, scientists, industry impresarios, coopers, bottle makers, bar owners,  home brewers and anyone who loves and is part of the process of making beer. There will features about figures in the industry as well as historical narratives. Short and long form entries will be interspersed with recipes, comics and photography featuring participating breweries, bars and restaurants.

The  Mash Tun will be a four-color, 120-160 + page, perfect bound publication that takes the from of a journal and it will be published by Public Media Institute (PMI), producer of Lumpen, Proximity, Materiel and other periodicals. PMI is a non profit arts organization that produces publications, festivals and host cultural events in Chicago and sometimes elsewhere. Its home is in Bridgeport.

Volume 1 Issue 1 will launch during Craft Beer Week.

If you like writing about beer then you should participate. Send them a one paragraph pitch, a writing sample or two, and email edmarlumpen (at) gmail.com  There is room for a few more pieces.

The deadline for texts on Issue 1 is March 1, 2012.

New Stuff This Week

Published on January 27, 2012 0 Comments

Zines
Butch Nor Femme #5 $1.50 – BNF#5 is a result of Quimby’s first 24-hour zine challenge and it reads a little like an appendix/companion piece to some of Lynne’s previous writing – a Disney World scene report (see BNF#4/Curioddity #2 split), some wedding reflections (riffing on “with an e”), and looking at how 2011 felt in regards to zines, projects and sexuality. Piscean footnotes that hold their own.-EF
Besieged: A Dedication to Palestine by Students for Justice in Palestine $7.00
Angry Violist #4 Adventures in Alternative String Playing $2.00
Serial Killers Unite #9 $2.00
Number 7 #1.1-1.3 by Meredith Carey et al. $1.00 each
You Only Live Twice #1 by K.E. Bleier $2.00
Flying Into The Chandelier $2.00
Manor House Quarterly  Fall 11  #2 1877 $10.00
Ugly #1 Jan 12 a Collection of Drawings and Ideas by Matt Soria $2.00

Comics & Comix
Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

Night Business #4 by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – Gritty city vigilante shit, up to your knees in the eel tank. -EF

Elsewhere $5.00 – Comes with CD
Joking Victim #0 They Never Knew What Hit ‘Em by Matt Wyatt $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
ADD Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
Sweet Tooth TPB vol 4 Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire et al. (Vertigo) $16.99

Art & Design Books
Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses by Ron English (Last Gasp) $24.95

Fiction
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus $25.95
The Catastrophone Orchestra (Combustion) $8.00 – Scrappy steampunk adventures.
Autobiography of Jenny X Mischief and Mayhem by Lisa Dierbeck (OR) $16.00
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell $19.95
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: The Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles by Julio Cortazar et al. (Archipelag) $20.00

Music Books
Building a Better Robot: 10 Years of the Mr Roboto Project by Mulkerin et al. $20.00 – Comes with DVD.

Politics & Revolution
The Femicide Machine (Semiotexte intervention ) by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Semiotexte) $12.95 – “In Ciudad Juárez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomolous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guaranteed impunity for those crimes and even legalized them. A lawless city sponsored by a state in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.” This title is Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #11.

Against Equality: Dont Ask to Fight Their Wars by Ryan Conrad $10.00 – “The second “Against Equality” anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community’s uncritical approach to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers of our digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks why the historically left/ radical anti-war critique of war does not extend to DADT and the issue of queers in the military.

Undressing the Academy (Or the Student Handjob) by The University for Strategic Optimism (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia) $8.00
Practicing Feminist Mothering by Fiona Joy Green (Arbeiter Ring) $21.95
Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent by Rohan Quinby  (Arbeiter Ring) $19.95
This Time We Went Too Far by Norman G. Finkelstein (OR) $15.00
Who Killed Che: How the CIA Got Away With Murder by Michael Ratner et al. (OR) $16.00

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Gethsemane an Epic Poem About Us by R. Douglas Jacobs $19.95

Magazines
Fortean Times #284 Mar 12 $11.99
Tape Op #87 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
Color Skateboards vol 9 #6 Special Culture Edition $7.99
Creative Review Jan 12 $14.99

Childrens Books
My Silly Monkeys by Michelle Marchand et al. $7.00

Other Stuff
Jello Biafra Bobble Head $19.95 – Yes, for real.

Not at Quimby’s, But you should go to: Lightness & Darkness at The Happy Dog Gallery 1/28

Published on January 26, 2012 0 Comments

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Weekly Top 10

Published on January 25, 2012 0 Comments

1. Femme a Barbe vol 2 by by J. Bee $2.00 – True tangles of bearded ladies, gender reformations, hirsute identity and all permutations of feminine stubble, well worth a thorough comb-through. -EF

2. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

3. Monkey In the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00 – Mucha’s got this special brand of world-enhancing “deductive reasoning” paired with an uncanny untuition – part clown, part private eye, thoroughly entertaining. -EF

4. Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00

5. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00

6. Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia $2.00

7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00

8. Bitch #53 $5.95

9. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

10. Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy, with Friends 2/11

Published on January 21, 2012 0 Comments
Feb ’12
11
7:00 pm

Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy,
with Vince Bruckert, Dave Gecic,  Lynn Fitzgerald, Bradley Lastname, and other special guests

In A Passion For Apathy, (published by Press of the Third Mind), Vittorio Carli experiments with many types of genres, and his poems were primarily influenced and informed by beat writings, dada, children’s literature, formalist verse, absurdism, fluxus, and surrealism.

“I need to make it clear that this relatively small (68 pages) collection is in no way narrow or repetitious, either stylistically or thematically. Far from it; There is free verse, rhyming verse (where Carli shows the least originality and strength), language poetry, story-poems, repetitive poems, and even a bit of vispo, and the ending poem of the book: “Theological Parody” is something else again, and well worth a few careful reads. Poet–publisher Bradley Lastname and Press of the 3rd Mind continue to be at the forefront of the small and independent press…” -Joey Madia in New Mystic Reviews

“A book by Vito Carli is long overdue. He is an ever changing fixture on the Chicago poetry scene, and seeing his work on the page, (mostly for the first time) does not pin him down in any one genre.  He is a constant experimenter, and seeing his poetry in print gives the reader a far greater appreciation for the nuances in his work.” -Dave Gecic (publisher of Pudd’nhead Books)

Vittorio Carli’s poems have been published in Best of Chicago Poetry, Online! the Chicago Poetry Renaissance, Café Review, Rambunctious Review, Polvo, The American Dissident, Dissent, Struggle: The Journal of Revolutionary Literature, Mind in Motion, Alphabeat Press, Alternative Press, Poems of the World, Religious Humanism, The World Salad Anthology, and The Anti Mensch. Vittorio has done music, art and film reviews for The Star newspapers, The Southtown Star, Chicago Artists News, the Daily Herald, “Letter eX,” “Dialogue,” and reelmoviecritic.com. He currently does film commentary on WZRD (88.3 FM) on Sundays at 3:30, and he writes a poetry blog at www.examiner.com.

For more info: carlivit@gmail.com      artinterviews.com     bradleylastname.com    bankley.org.uk/Artist-Carolyn-Curtis-Magri

Sat, February 11th, 7pm

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