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The Book Bike Stopped By Quimby’s!

The Book Bike

The Book Bike

Gabriel Levinson swung his Book Bike over to Quimby’s last week, and bought a whole buncha stuff and wrote an article about it! Read about it at:

www.bookbike.org/the-great-book-bike-book-buy/

The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books. Since July of 2008, The Book Bike has been responsible for placing over 3,000 new and used books into peoples’ hands. In spring and summer, you’ll find The Book Bike at Chicago public parks on the weekends; anyone who wants a book is invited to take something home to read. In the summer of 2010, The Book Bike puts a spotlight on independent publishers: from hand-crafted zines to literary magazines and books, The Book Bike is a unique resource of the global independent literary scene.

Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark and Little Brother

Jul ’10
23
7:00 pm

One and a half years ago, in an attempt to overcome his nigh crippling shyness and to get out of the basement, Brayton J. Cameron began the zine Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark (Long Reach Publishing) so he wouldn’t just sit in the corner of venues silently weeping in the dark while on tour with local rock band Geronimo!  This kind of worked.    Issue 5 is Brayton’s celebrated final issue.  Some said it was funny, others said it was stupid, he just said the same as issue one, it was the “World’s best content.  World’s worst zine.”

Shaylah Kloska and Lauren Hunter teamed up early this year to create Little Brother, a zine about, well anything, their first issue contained stories, poems, comics, and drawing ranging in topics from actual brothers, to strangers, to an octopus with a typewriter.    Throughout this year Shaylah and Lauren have worked across the ocean, but this event brings the two of them together once again to officially release their 2nd delightful issue and, of course, read a bit from it.

Dear Dear Wolf Bear SharkLittle Brother Cover

For more info: http://www.ddwbs.com & http://heylittlebrother.tumblr.com/ & Little Brother on Facebook.

Weekly Top 10

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95
2.Henry And Glenn Forever $4.00
3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95
4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00
5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95
7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95

2.Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado $4.00

3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00

5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00

6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95

7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99

10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF

rolemodels

New Stuff This Week

Zines
Muse the News the Noose #7 (Endless Escalators Gets Megabusted Hell Bus) by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
Genderfuck is My Boyfriend Polyamory Is My Girlfriend $1.00
Coelacanth Journal #4 $4.00
Transmission A Zine Exploring Some of the Ways in Which We Communicate by Christine M. Rose $1.25
Dissemination by Christine M. Rose $5.00
Maximumrocknroll #326 Jul 10 $4.00
McGriddle Defense by var. $3.00
Mind Control #1 Deluxe with Hand Drawn Cover 2010 by Sean Jun Hernandez $8.00
Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
You Dont Get There From Here #14 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Papercutter #13 w/ Mat Wiegle, Tim Root, Jonas Madden Connor, Greg Means, Nate Beaty (Tugboat Press) $4.00
Nice to Meet You Love You by I Endsley $1.00
I Dont Understand Farming #1 by I Endsley $1.00
Drawn to You A Conversation Comic by Lucy Knisley and Erika Moen $15.00
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #11 by PKD & Jonathan Lethem (Boom) $3.99
Taffy Hips #7 by var. $3.00
Peter the Insect Boy Special Collectors Edition Chapters 1 2 and 3 by Leslie Bloomfield $8.00
Peter the Insect Boy #4 Home by Adele Moss $2.75
Rotten by Oto Splotch $5.00
Quarter Vomit #1 by Otto Splotch $5.00
Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Book of Mr Natural HC Profane Tales Of That Old Mystic Madcap by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Artichoke Tales HC by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Make Yourself Happy by Lucy Knisley $15.00
Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $17.99
Somewhere by Daniel Murphy $12.00
Conan Spear and Other Stories TPB by var. (Dark Horse) $14.99
Chew vol 2 TPB International Flavor by var. (Image) $12.99
Seven Soldiers of Victory vol 1 HC by Grant Morrison (DC) $39.99
Batman RIP TPB by Grant Morrison and TOny S. Daniel (DC) $14.99
Meat Cake Compilation SC by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics) $22.99
DIY, How-to & Food
Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (Ten Speed) $35.00
Fiction/Poetry Books
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Vintage) $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Anchor) $15.95
Tough Skin by Sarah Eaton $16.00
Steampunk, Speculative and Science Fiction
Art & Design Books
When I Die Bury Me In the Clothes of My Youth by var. $15.00
The Art of McSweeneys (Chronicle) $45.00
Outer Limits
World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers Schemers Anarchists and Secret Age by Alex Butterworth (Pantheon) $30.00
Hyperthericals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter) $14.99 – From the cultural critic of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs fame $14.99
Magazines/Literary Journals
Fortean Times #263 Jul 10 $11.99
Literary Review vol 53 #3 Spr 10 $8.00
Shots #108 $6.50
Tiki Magazine vol 6 #1 Sum 10 $4.99
Pleiades vol 30 #2 $8.00
Tattoo Revue #147 $6.99
Spread Artculture #5 $6.95
Skeptic vol 15 #4 $6.95
Scoot Magazine #56 Jun 10 $5.95
Rethinking Schools vol 24 #4 Sum 10 $5.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #3 Sum 10 $15.00
Juxtapoz #114 Jul 10 $5.99
Harpers Magazine Jul 10 $6.99
Fader #68 Jun Jul 10 $5.99
Cavalier vol 1 #1 Literary Couture $10.00
Canteens Win 09 10 Youth Edition $6.00
Amass #36 $4.95
Paris Review #193 $12.00
Open City #29 $10.00
Mother Jones Aug 10 $5.95
Rolling Thunder #9 Spr 10 (CrimethInc) $6.00
RFD #142 $7.75
Dazed & Confused #86 Jun 10 $9.95
Wire Jun 10 #316 $10.99
Ninth Letter vol 7 #1 $14.95
First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00
Chap Books
Woods by Brian Wallace $5.00
Music Books
Sexy Stuff
Also!
Creepy Christian Cinema DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
School A Delic DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
Mouse Forgets DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
Modern Housewife DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
C is For Comunist Atomic Age Classics DVD vol 5 $15.00
Abombs Fallout and Nuclear War Atomic Age Classics: Archival Collection Public Ed DVD $15.00
Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer (PM PRess) $15.95
Lady Q The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen SC by var. (Chicago Review) $16.95
Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase

Zines

Muse the News the Noose #7 (Endless Escalators Gets Megabusted Hell Bus) by John Wawrzaszek $1.00

Genderfuck is My Boyfriend Polyamory Is My Girlfriend $1.00

Coelacanth Journal #4 $4.00

Transmission A Zine Exploring Some of the Ways in Which We Communicate by Christine M. Rose $1.25

Dissemination by Christine M. Rose $5.00

Maximumrocknroll #326 Jul 10 $4.00

McGriddle Defense by var. $3.00

Mind Control #1 Deluxe with Hand Drawn Cover 2010 by Sean Jun Hernandez $8.00

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics

You Dont Get There From Here #14 by Carrie McNinch $2.00

Papercutter #13 w/ Mat Wiegle, Tim Root, Jonas Madden Connor, Greg Means, Nate Beaty (Tugboat Press) $4.00

Nice to Meet You Love You by I Endsley $1.00

I Dont Understand Farming #1 by I Endsley $1.00

Drawn to You A Conversation Comic by Lucy Knisley and Erika Moen $15.00

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #11 by PKD & Jonathan Lethem (Boom) $3.99

Taffy Hips #7 by var. $3.00

Peter the Insect Boy Special Collectors Edition Chapters 1 2 and 3 by Leslie Bloomfield $8.00

Peter the Insect Boy #4 Home by Adele Moss $2.75

Rotten by Oto Splotch $5.00

Quarter Vomit #1 by Otto Splotch $5.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks

Book of Mr Natural HC Profane Tales Of That Old Mystic Madcap by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Artichoke Tales HC by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Make Yourself Happy by Lucy Knisley $15.00

Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $17.99

Somewhere by Daniel Murphy $12.00

Conan Spear and Other Stories TPB by var. (Dark Horse) $14.99

Chew vol 2 TPB International Flavor by var. (Image) $12.99

Seven Soldiers of Victory vol 1 HC by Grant Morrison (DC) $39.99

Batman RIP TPB by Grant Morrison and TOny S. Daniel (DC) $14.99

Meat Cake Compilation SC by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics) $22.99

DIY, How-to & Food

Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (Ten Speed) $35.00

Fiction/Poetry Books

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Vintage) $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Anchor) $15.95

Tough Skin by Sarah Eaton $16.00

Art & Design Books

When I Die Bury Me In the Clothes of My Youth by var. $15.00

The Art of McSweeneys (Chronicle) $45.00

Outer Limits

World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers Schemers Anarchists and Secret Age by Alex Butterworth (Pantheon) $30.00

Hyperthericals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter) $14.99 – From the cultural critic of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs fame $14.99

Magazines/Literary Journals

Fortean Times #263 Jul 10 $11.99

Literary Review vol 53 #3 Spr 10 $8.00

Shots #108 $6.50

Tiki Magazine vol 6 #1 Sum 10 $4.99

Pleiades vol 30 #2 $8.00

Tattoo Revue #147 $6.99

Spread Artculture #5 $6.95

Skeptic vol 15 #4 $6.95

Scoot Magazine #56 Jun 10 $5.95

Rethinking Schools vol 24 #4 Sum 10 $5.95

Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #3 Sum 10 $15.00

Juxtapoz #114 Jul 10 $5.99

Harpers Magazine Jul 10 $6.99

Fader #68 Jun Jul 10 $5.99

Cavalier vol 1 #1 Literary Couture $10.00

Canteens Win 09 10 Youth Edition $6.00

Amass #36 $4.95

Paris Review #193 $12.00

Open City #29 $10.00

Mother Jones Aug 10 $5.95

Rolling Thunder #9 Spr 10 (CrimethInc) $6.00

RFD #142 $7.75

Dazed & Confused #86 Jun 10 $9.95

Wire Jun 10 #316 $10.99

Ninth Letter vol 7 #1 $14.95

First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00

Chap Books

Woods by Brian Wallace $5.00

Also!

Creepy Christian Cinema DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

School A Delic DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

Mouse Forgets DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

Modern Housewife DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

C is For Comunist Atomic Age Classics DVD vol 5 $15.00

Abombs Fallout and Nuclear War Atomic Age Classics: Archival Collection Public Ed DVD $15.00

Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer (PM PRess) $15.95

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen SC by var. (Chicago Review) $16.95

Mike Faloon, James Jay and Jonathan Messinger

Jul ’10
10
7:00 pm

Mike Faloon, editor of the world-famous Go Metric! zine, celebrates the launch of his new book of stories, The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock: Stories, out now on Gorsky Press. Faloon is on tour with fellow Gorsky-ite James Jay (The Undercards), and will be joined by Chicago guy Jonathan Messinger (Hiding Out).

According to conventional wisdom some goals are best not pursued. The characters in The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock have yet to learn this. Pocket Hercules taps into the power of the ancient wonders to mend a broken heart, with some heavy metal to help. Little League coach Gary Shouldice probably goes too far in motivating his son. Leon Rayner serenades a girl he barely knows with his week-old punk band. From small town watering holes to veterinary clinics to jam band festivals the people portrayed in The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock are undeterred in the pursuit of their dreams. And maybe they should be. Deterred, that is.

The Performers:

Mike Faloon has paid the bills as a DJ, dishwasher, drummer, and school teacher. He is the publisher of two zines (Go Metric, Zisk) and a contributing writer to magazines such as Chunklet, Razorcake, and Roctober. His work has also appeared in The Zine Yearbook (Soft Skull) and The Overrated Book (Last Gasp). He lives in Brewster, New York with his family.

Poet and essayist James Jay lives in Flagstaff, Arizona where he has worked as a bartender, fire fighter, dish washer, janitor, furniture mover, and the like. He has taught poetry in high schools, jails, and universities. Currently, he is the Executive Director for the Northern Arizona Book Festival and the Managing Editor for Two Dogs Press.

Jonathan Messinger is the co-founder of Featherproof books, co-host of the Dollar Store reading series, Books Editor for Time Out Chicago and author of the short-story collection Hiding Out. He’s currently at work on Hiding Out 2: Hiding In, and Hiding Out 3: Don’t Stop Hiding.

For more info:    Mike Faloon: http://www.gometric.typepad.com/ James Jay: http://jamesjay.org

Jonathan Messinger: http://featherproof.com