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

Tarot Readings by Sarah Luczko at Quimby’s May 12th

May ’19
12
1:00 pm

Quimby’s is proud to welcome back  readings by  Sarah is a poet, dancer, performance artist, bookstore owner, and Tarot reader. Her readings are down to earth, while still keeping one foot in the other world. Sarah works with querents to produce a reading through collaboration with the cards. She embraces the traveling tradition of party readings. She prefers to read in loud bars, outdoors, in a garden, at art openings, or anywhere away from more traditional settings. Follow Space Oddities bookstore & gallery on Instagram: @5paceoddities

Facebook invite for this event is here.

Sunday, May 12th, 1pm-6pm