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Another Hear Ye: An Opportunity to Submit your Work

Just this morning I was arranging the free area and I stumbeled across a flyer someone left there, announcing that they’re looking for work submissions:

Anobium is a new, Chicago-based literary magazine that plans to print a high-quality, small volume of work (in the realm of 80-100 pages) for the first magazine. Their flyer said “Terrestrial – subreal – insectile”  on one side, and on the other it says, “Printed literature in a digital world (Sustainable in temperatures up to 506 Kelvin.” Sounds intriguing.

Carol Novack, Joseph Suglia, Garrett Cook and Eckhard Gerdes

Oct ’10
29
7:00 pm

Eckhard Gerdes’s new 2-in-1 book of novels is “The Unwelcome Guest” plus “Nin and Nan” and is published by Enigmatic Ink (http://enigmaticink.com/) and Carol Novack’s collection of stories “Giraffes in Hiding” is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press (http://carolnovack.blogspot.com/). Garrett Cook is the author of “Jimmy Plush, Bear Detective,” published by Eraserhead Books (see http://jimmyplush.blogspot.com/). For info about Joseph Suglia, see josephsuglia.com.

Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, an occasional publication dedicated to the furthering of forefront fiction. He has published criticism in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Review of Books, Electronic Book Review, and other magazines. His fiction has appeared in Fiction International, Notre Dame Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, Coe Review, Oyez Review, Rampike, and in many other fine magazines and journals. Gerdes’s previoius novel, My Landlady the Lobotomist, was a top five finisher in the 2009 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll and was nominated for the 2009 Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel of the Year. His The Million-Year Centipede was selected as one of the top ten mainstream novels of 2007 in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll and was nominated for the 2008 Wonderland Award. He has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award for excerpts from Przewalski’s Horse, has also been a finalist for both the Starcherone and the Blatt fiction prizes for his unpublished manuscript White Bungalows, and for Cistern Tawdry he was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Fiction Category. He lives near Chicago and has three sons, to whom this new book is proudly dedicated.

Carol Novack is the former recipient of a writer’s award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in NYC, and the publisher of Mad Hatters’ Review http://www.madhattersreview.com/. She immigrated to a mountain ridge in Asheville in May, and will be launching her collection of fictions, fusions, and poems, “Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack” (Spuyten Duyvil Press), due to emerge this October. Works may or will be found in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Literature, LIT, Notre Dame Review, and Otoliths, and in many anthologies, including “The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets,” “Diagram III,” and “The &Now Awards: the Best Innovative Writing.” Writings in translations may or will be found in French, Italian, and Romanian journals.  See her blog http://carolnovack.blogspot.com/

Garrett Cook, a 27-year-old author of horror and Bizarro fiction, is the winner of the First Annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. He has four exciting pulp novellas in print, including the first two books in his infamous and destined-to-be cult classic trilogy Murderland.

Joseph Suglia earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. His other books include Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice, Years of Rage, and the first edition of Watch Out . What will become of him is anyone s guess. In Suglia’s Watch Out, Jonathan Barrows is a perfect being. He’s arrogant, defines pompous and is arguably the first human to benefit from Body Deity Morphia (confidences that oneself has a Godly physical existence). Knowing JB is like kissing your lover on the lips and tasting your own sexual flavors. Familiar, exotic and taboo.

Van Gogh’s Ear volume 7 Release Event

Oct ’10
26
7:00 pm

VGE1.7International prose & poetry anthology series VAN GOGH’S EAR will hold an event to celebrate the launch of its SEVENTH volume. Van Gogh’s Ear is a joint publication of French Connection Press (Paris) and Committee On Poetry (New York), a non-profit organization created by Allen Ginsberg.

Van Gogh’s Ear is among the most popular of international books in the field of creative writing at the moment and is also an affluent resource for teachers and a library basic. Since its début in 2002, Van Gogh’s Ear has gained international acclaim for its original work by more than eighty celebrated and emerging talents per volume including Yoko Ono, James Dean; Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Charles Manson, Xaviera Hollander, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Taslima Nasrin, Carolyn and Neal Cassady.

The event will be hosted by four local Chicago readers and contributors of Van Gogh’s Ear: Marc Smith, Carlos T. Mock, Larry Sawyer, Joel Craig, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, and Larry Sawyer.

Volume 7 includes work by Jorge Artajo, Camille Feinberg, Fern C.Z. Carr, Saint James Harris Wood, Imani Tolliver, Reginald T. Jackson, Jayanta Mahapatra and many more!

For more info: www.frenchcx.com

Mountains of New Stuff!

We’ve been pretty busy as of late, but wanted to make sure you knew what new things we’ve been getting in lately, so here’s our list of 139 things you simply can not live without (that we conveniently have in our store):

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(Funny (Not Funny))

Artsy Fartsy Books

Mythical Beasts of Japan From Evil Creatures to Sacred Beings (PIE Books) $35
You Are Forgiven by Matt Leines (Free New Projects) $45
Art of Bollywood by Rajesh Devraj (Taschen) $29.99

Kid’s Stuff

Mama is it Summer Yet by Nikki McClure (Abrams) $17.95

DIY/How To

Old Man Drinks Recipes Advice and Barstool Wisdom By Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk Books) $14.95
Steampunkery Polymer Clay and Mixed Media Projects By Christi Friesen (CF Books) $14.95

Drugs! (books about)

Altered State the Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House By Matthew Collin (Seprents Tail) $15.95

Erotic Comics

Hot Moms vol 1 TPB By Rebecca (Eros) $18.99

Fiction

Awful Possibilities By Christian TeBordo (Featherproof Press) $14.95
Going in Circles By Pamela Ribon (Simon & Schuster) $15
Little Brother By Cory Doctorow (Tor Tom Doherty) $9.99
People Who Watched Her Pass By By Scott Bradfield (Two Dollar Radio) $14.50
Perscription Errors By Charles Demers (Insomniac Press) $15.95
Sex Dungeon For Sale By Patrick Wensink $10
Stories of Ibis By Hiroshi Yamamoto (Haika Soru) $15.99

Gewgaw

Absinthe Flavored Toothpicks (Accoutrements) $2.50
Absinthe Soap for Hand and Bath An Enchanted Absinthe Sented Soap Fashioned by Green Fairies (Accoutrements) $6.00
Boo Boo Kisses Adhesive Bandages (Accoutrements) $5.00
Cal Q Tek 2000 Calculator Watch (Accoutrements) $15.00
Curry Flavored Kali Mints (Accoutrements) $2.50
Gesundheit Tissues Uber Absorbent (Accoutrements) $1.00
High Rollers Exotic Dancers 4 Magnetic Coasters (Gamma Go) $7.50
Hobo Bubble Gum Cigarettes Campfire Coffee Flavored (Accoutrements) $1.25
Jackalope Tumbleweed Wine Stainless Steel Water Bottle (Accoutrements) $12.00
Lil Devils Trick of the Day (Accoutrements) $10.00
Manly Mustache Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
Rotting Zombie Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
Sunrise in Meatopia 500 Piece Puzzle With Bonus 48 Piece Mystery Puzzle (Accoutrements) $10.00
Yeti BBQ Coffee Mug (Gamma Go) $12.00
Gama Go Stickers Like Peanut Butter Sandwich These Designs are Stickalicious By Tim Biskup (Gamma Go) $5.00

Glossy Periodicals

Artforum Apr 10 $10.00
Dwell May 10 $5.99
Famous Mag #11 Desert and Plants $5.00
Hi Fructose #15 $6.95
Muddy $12
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #1 $6.25
Bizarre #161 $10.50
Make vol 22 $14.99
Tokion vol 3 #4 $6.99
High Times Jun 10 $5.99
Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #2 $5.95
BlackBook #75 Apr 10 $4.50
Hyphen #20 Spr 10 $4.95
Time Out Chicago Apr 08 10 $2.99
826 Quarterly vol 11 (826 Valencia) $15.00
Iowa Review vol 40 #1 $9.95
Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13
Fader #67 Apr May 10 $5.99
Mojo #198 May 10 $9.99
Uncut May 10 $9.99
Wire Apr 10 #314 $10.99
Adbusters #89 May Jun 10 vol 18 #3 Ecopsychology $8.95
Monocle vol 4 #32 Apr 10 $10.00
Pin Up Show $15.00
Skin Art #132 $6.99

Graffiti and Street Art

Belio 030 Back to the Roots Experimental Art and Design (Belio Magazine) $35.00
Calligraffiti the Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman (From Here to Fame) $29.95
DY005 Nicholas Di Genova (Belio Magazine) $29.95
DY008 Saner (Belio Magazine) $29.95
DY009 Gualicho (Belio Magazine) $29.95
Swoon HC (Abrams) $35.00

Graphic Novels

Area 10 By Christos Gage (Vertigo) $19.99
Batman and Robin Batman Reborn Deluxe Edition HC By Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (DC) $24.99
Beats a Graphic History SC By Harvey Pekar (Hill & Wang) $14.95
Body World HC By Dash Shaw (Pantheon) $27.95
Crossed vol 1 By Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)$24.99
Emberley Galaxy A Tribute to Ed Emberley $12.00
Funny Not Funny Modest Selection of Comic Art Exhibiting Signs of Black Humor By Ryan Standfest $14.95
Market Day By James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)$21.95
Melvin Monster vol 2 John Stanley Library By John Stanley (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95
Mome vol 18 Spr 10 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Neptune By Aron Nels Steinke (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books)$14.00
Other Lives HC By Peter Bagge (Vertigo) $24.99
Sparky The Life and Art of Charles Schulz By Beverly Gherman (Chronicle Books) $16.99
Teenaged Dope Slaves and Reform School Girls (Pure Imagination) $20.00
Whirlwind Wonderland By Rina Ayuyang (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books) $15.00
Wonder Woman Amazon Hero Icon HC By Robert Greenberger (Universe) $35.00
Young Lions By Blaise Larmee $10

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(Perversity Think Tank)

Humor

99 Classic Movies For People In a Hurry By Nicotext (Nicotext) $9.95
PS I Hate It Here Kids Letters From Camp By Diane Falanga (Abrams) $12.95
Youre a Horrible Person But I Like You Believer Book of Advice By Sarah Silverman (Vintage) $13.95

Low Brow Art

Another Science Fiction Advertising the Space Race 1957 to 1962 By Megan Prelinger (Blast Books) $29.95
Beautiful Decay Book 3 The Underdogs (Beautiful Decay) $20.00
Jime Litwalk Sketchbook vol 3 Monsters Misfits & Maidens By Jime Litwalk (Presto Art) $30.00
Nymphettes Erotic Elfin Art By Barry Blair (SQ Productions) $14.95
Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash vol 3 By Jerry Collins Sailor (Hardy Marks Publications) $50.00

Mayhem!

Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You By Robert Brockway (Three Rivers Press) $14.00
Zombie Combat Manual a Guide to Fightnig the Living Dead By Roger Ma (Berkeley Books) $14.00

Minicomics

Clutch #21 Invincible Summer #16 Split By Clutch McBastard & Nicole Georges $2.00
Feedback #6 By John Isaacson $2.00
Phase 7 #014 By Alec Longstreth $4.00
Phase 7 #015 By Alec Longstreth $3.00
Pop Art Show By Trevor Wayne $8.00
Pyromania #5 By John Isaacson $3.00
Roots To Fruits By APAK $4.00

Video Discs

Mellodrama The Mellotron Movie DVD (Bazillion Points Books) $24.95
Wholphin #10 (McSweeney’s) $19.95

Muckraking, Memoirs & Miscellany

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace By David Lipsky (Broadway) $16.99
Cardboard Gods An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards By Josh Wilker (Seven Footer Press) $24.95
City Kid A Writers Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success By Nelson George (Plume) $14.00
Fix Is In Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL MLB NBA NHL and NASCAR By Brian Tuohy (Feral House) $16.95

Music Books

Arcana IV Musicians on Music By John Zor (Hips Road) $34.95
How to Wreck a Nice Beach Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop Machine Speaks By Dave Tompkins (Melville House Publishing) $35.00
Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life HC By Steve Almond (Random House) $23.00
Swedish Death Metal By Daniel Ekeroth (Bazillion Points Boks) $34.95

Comic Books!

Blaster Al Ackermans Tales of the Ling Master Barnes $3.00
Hate Annual #8 Bagge Peter (Fantagraphics) $4.95
Rabid Rabbit #11 Tall Tales and Magnanimous Myths By C M Butzer and Ben Trinh $5.00

Outer Limits

Great Airship of 1897 By J Allen Danelek (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95
Solomon Islands Mysteries Accounts of Giants and UFOs By Marius Boirayon (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95

Poetry

Adulthoods By Bambi $10.00
Dodging Traffic By J Bradley $12.00

Politics

Anarchism and Its Aspirations By Cindy Milstein (AK Press) $12.00
Capitalisms World Disorder Working Class Politics at the Millennium By Jack Barnes (Pathfinder) $25.00
Che Guevara a Revolutionary Life Revised Edition By Jon Lee Anderson (Grove Press) $20.00
Common Ground in a Liquid City Essays in Defense of an Urban Future By Hern (AK Press) $17.95
Crisis In The Global Economy Financial Markets Social Struggles By Andrea Fumagalli (Semiotext(e)) $17.95
Propaganda Inc Selling Americas Culture To The World By Nancy Snow (Seven Stories) $11.95
Thousand Machines By Gerald Raunig (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

Sex Guides & Culture

Perversity Think Tank By Supervert $15.00
Pornapocalipse vol 1 By Rachel Gontijo Araujo $10.00
Worst Laid Plans When Bad Sex Happens to Good People By Alexandra Lydon (Abrams) $14.95

Sexy Art Books

Shunga Japanese Erotic Art (PIE Books) $35.00
Vanessa Del Rio Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior (Taschen) $59.99

Zines!

Aristocratic Hands #13 By Gregory Walker $2.00
Aristocratic Hands #14 By Gregory Walker $2.00
Blow Jobs In The Afterlife By David Moscovich $1.00
Box of Chocolates By Leslie Perrine $5.00
How To Stay Alive In the Metaphorical Woods $2.00
Lets All Find Awesome Jobs Actual Information By Kevin Fanning $3.00
No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal By Kate Larson $2.00
Or Let It Sink #3 $1.00
Reality Mom vol 7 #2 By Corbin Lewars $3.00
RIP by Steve Katz $1.00
This Is the End Journeys Toward Armageddon By Aaron Cynic $2.00
Tragic Genius of Dan Gleason By Dan Gleason $2.00
Volkerlchau By Melanie Bonajo $10.00
Welcome to Bend Population 80995 By Laura Walker $5.00

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(No Better Than Apples)

Jim Goad Reads From Criminal Class Press

Mar ’10
5
8:00 pm

Jim Goad is the world’s bravest man or so says his wildly hilarious politically extreme website JimGoad.net. With an obscenity trial, a prison sentence and an emergency life-saving brain surgery to his credit he may not be too far off with that claim. Goad is the author of the Red Neck Manifesto a book which is extremely anti-PC became a New York Times Best Seller in a time when PC was the thing to be. Jim got his start as a writer publisher and editor of the ANSWER Me! magazine. The magazine would land him an obscenity trial for the Rape Issue. Jim has also written Gigantic Book of Sex.

Chuck Palahniuk had this to say about Jim Goad’s writing, “brutally honest without worrying about being correct.”

Vice Magazine had this to say about Jim Goad’s Gigantic Book of Sex, “This entire book is gross and hilarious.”

Jim’s memoir titled Shit Magnet chronicles a wild spiral of love, lust, death, and his imprisonment after a violent altercation with a lover whom he had a restraining order on at the time.

Also joining the bill is Chicago Criminal Class Press Editor and Chief Kevin Wheatley and Staff Writer Bill Hillmann both will be reading from the newest edition of Criminal Class Press, that which Goad has contributed to.

For more info: www.jimgoad.net and  www.criminalclasspress.com .
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