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Quimby’s After Hours: Wreathe Literary Collective

Published on August 22, 2025 0 Comments
Aug
28
6:00 pm

Quimby’s After Hours:
Wreathe Literary Collective
Thursday, August 28th, 2025 – 6:30 PM

in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Quimby’s After Hours is excited to welcome readers from Wreathe Literary Collective. Wreathe Literary Collective, founded by Chicago writer Kat Thanopoulis publishes Wreath Magazine a two (and soon to be three) issue zine format lit, poetry and painting publication!

Register for the event!

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Readers for the event are

Gretchen Shull

Gretchen Shull is a sketch and improv performer and loves Kat with all of their heart! They love a good notes app poem; they find it fun to tell a small story in their poems that only they know. They’re very proud of Kat and Wreath, and are very excited to be a part of it.

Dylan Gann 

Dylan Gann (she/her) graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Comedy Writing and Performance. She was first published in Wreath and has since loved sharing her poetry and exploring the literary world!

ethan

ethan is an abolitionist poet born and raised on the far north side of Chicago.

His poetry has previously appeared in Wreath LC, Querencia press and Dream Boy Book Club. He is currently working on his 2nd collection of poetry: Code Switch

Tommy Bien

Tommy Bien is a visual artist and sometimes writer from Chicago.

Expect a lively reading celebrating contributors Wreathe Literary Collective and zines from Wreathe and the readers!

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

Pay what you want. Suggested $10.

Venmo: @quimbysbookstore (Please include “Wreathe” in the note!)

By registering for this event, you’ll be added to Quimby’s newsletter to receive updates on upcoming events, new releases, and zine news. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors, 8/9

Published on July 22, 2025 Closed
Aug
9
6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors
Saturday, August 9th, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors

Join Chicago-based publisher Marc Fischer of Public Collectors to discuss his latest Public Collectors publications, and read from the recent booklets: “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” and “Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?“

Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007. Public Collectors aims to encourage greater access and scholarship for marginal cultural materials, particularly those that museums ignore. Public Collectors’ work includes the Library Excavations publication series and web project, Hardcore Architecture—a blog and publication series about where people in punk bands lived, and Quaranzine—which produced 100 single-page publications with over 75 collaborators at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to Public Collectors, Fischer is also a member of the group Temporary Services (founded in 1998) and a partner in its publishing imprint Half Letter Press (ongoing since 2008). He is based in Chicago.Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

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Pay what you want. Suggested: $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!

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!