New Stuff This Week

The Midcentury Kitchen: America’s Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape, 1940s-1970s by Sarah Archer $24.95

Propter Nos vol 2 #1 (new edition): Insurgency/Exhaustion & Propter Nos vol 3 Anti Non, $15 each

Zines

Zine For Cool Kids Like You $1

Highway Hypnosis by Jessica Brewer Prugh $12

Comics & Minis

Comics by Holly English: Curious Places I’ve Made Love $5, Octopus and Lamb by Holly English $10

So Damned Lazy by J. Bladder $4

The First Time I Got Pulled Over by Kayla McClain $20

Graphic Novels

NOW #6: The New Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Featuring: Theo Ellsworth, Mariana Pita, M. Dean, Amandine Meyer, Aseyn, Tim Lane, José Quintanar, Veronika Muchitsch, Disa Wallander, Julian Glander, Jesse Reklaw, Zohar Lazar, Steven Weissman, and Nick Thorburn, under a cover by Juxtapoz artist Koak.

Windowpane Collected by Joe Kessler (Breakdown Press) $29.99

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell $17.99

Blossoms in Autumn by Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh (Self Made Hero) $24.95

Art & Design

KIKANETSU: The Art of DaisukeRichard (PIE) $30

The Art of the Sketchbook: Artists and the Creative Diary (Gingko/Sandu) $35

Outer Limits

The Secret History of America: Classic Writings on Our Nation’s Unknown Past and Inner Purpose by Manly P. Hall and Mitch Horowitz $18.99

Essays

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber $17

Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir by H. Jon Benjamin $16

Fiction

Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk $15.95

Census by Jesse Ball $16.99

Rabbits For Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum $26

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang $25.95

Film, TV & Music Books

Little White Lies’ Close-Ups Books: Book 1: Wes Anderson by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Book 2: Vampire Movies by Charles Bramesco, $10.99 each

VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave by all the VJs from MTV with Gavin Edwards $17

Magazines

Wire #423 May $10.99
Shindig #90 April $13.99
Monthly Review May $6
Skeptical Inquirer vol 43 #3 May/June $5.99
Fantastic Man Spring/Summer $15.99
Film Comment May June $6.95
Fortean Times April $12.40

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Many Happy Returns by Sonny $10

Granta #147 Spring 2019 $16.99

For the Kiddies

Kintaro by Kentaro Okawara $22.95

Everything All At Once (CHORDUROYS AND TOO MANY BOYS) by Ivy Cayden $19.99

New Stuff This Week

Zines

Good Vibez Only by Michaela Washington $8

Every Mountain Goats Song Is Gay $8

Government Seeks to Destroy the Safety and Visibility of the Sex Worker Community $5

Netlabeler #1 Pan Y Rosas Discos $1

No Bad Whores Just Bad Laws Support Hose Year Two $5

Red’s Review of Revolting Prostitutes Originally Published in Monthly Review $5

We All Scream by Ben Chlapek $10

Raw #1 by Alkebuluan Merriweather $2

Typing Pool/Para no sentirme solo zine $3

Tell Your Own Story: A Zine About Writing Perzines $3

Pocci #6 $3

Sigils for Self Care $2

Witchy Zinesters Pocket Book Of Spells $2

Comics & Minis

You Don’t Get There From Here #48 & #49 by Carrie McNinch $4 each

Gonzalo by Jed McGowan (ShortBox) $11

Adventures of Glorbos the Gender Neutral Alien by Jesse Milne $4

Graphic Novels

Clyde Fans [Box Set] by Seth (D&Q) $54.95

Motel Universe by Joakim Drescher (Secret Acres) $21.95

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib $16.99

House of the Black Spot by Ben Sears (Koyama Press) $12

Politics, Revolution & History

Enemies in the Backyard: An Overview of Mid-America World War II Axis POW Camps by David A. Ensminger $12

The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library $18 – For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.

Dissidents of the International Left: Interviews by Andy Heintz $16.95

Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter (AK Press) $15

Art Books

Art Forms in Nature: 22 Pull-Out Posters: by Ernst Haeckel, edited by Kira Uthoff $29.95

Music Books

This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage $28

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman $17.95

Weeping Gang Bliss Void Yab-Yum Paperback by Devendra Banhart (Featherproof) $17.95 – Poetry written through trials, tribulations and the making of their eighth album.

Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. by David Ensminger $10

Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone by Melissa Chemam $20

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life by Ian Cutler (Feral House) $17.95

From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaelogist by Trevor Paglen (Primary Information) $20 – Commemorative coins, patches, mugs and other ephemera from the shadowy world of US military aviation and aerospace.

Fiction

The Republic: A Novel by Joost de Vries $16.99

Sexxxy

Meat – The Berlin Bruisers $15

Magazines

The Baffler #45 May June 2019 $14

She Shreds #17 $12

Create Magazine #14 $15

For the Kiddies

Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $17.95

Trip to the Top of the Volcano With Mouse by Frank Viva $12.95

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CAKE FRIDAY EDITION of Drink n’ Draw at Quimby’s

May ’19
31
7:00 pm
Quimby’s is proud to help co-sponsor CAKE — The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (June 1st & 2nd at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted), a weekend fest featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more. The night before the fest join comics artists for a special edition of Drink n’ Draw where comics artists and educators, Aaron Renier (author of Spiral-Bound, Walker Bean, and Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon) and Alex Nall (author of Teaching Comics, Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours, Lawns) will lead a series of drawing games and activities! Come out for a fun time featuring refreshments, socializing and secret prizes!
More info:
Drink n’ Draw at Quimby’s CAKE FRIDAY EDITION
Fri, May 31st, 7pm

Off-site: CHIPRC’s Zine Club at Chicago Zine Fest 2019: Baby’s First Zine Edition!

May ’19
18
4:30 pm

CHIPRC’s Zine Club at Chicago Zine Fest 2019: Baby’s First Zine Edition!

Sat, May 18th, 4:30-5:30pm

Chicago Zine Fest Exhibition Day at Plumbers Union Hall, 1340 W. Washington Blvd. in the West Loop

Free!

We’re bringing Chicago’s only book club-style event for people who read zines to CZF2019! This month, we’ll be talking about our early steps into the world of zines. Bring one of the first zines you made or read and join us at Chicago Zine Fest’s Exhibition Day for a fun discussion and snacks!

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts are welcome. First 25 attendees will receive a special-edition Chicago Zine Fest notebook!

This event is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin. Sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, which is proud to be sponsor of CZF.

FB link event link here.

chicagozinefest.org