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| May ’18 |
| 10 |
| 7:00 pm |
Award-winning author, former rock photographer and journalist Robert K. Elder has composed the perfect walk down music memory lane in THE MIXTAPE OF MY LIFE: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir (Running Press; Trade Paperback Original; ISBN-13: 978-0762464074; 192 Pages/ $14.99).
THE MIXTAPE OF MY LIFE is a journal that guides user to write their autobiography through their music collection.
Sample questions from the book include:
What song or artist can’t you listen to because of a past romance?
What songwriter lied to or misled you?
What song allows you to time travel — that brings back a time and place so strongly that it’s palpable?
No matter which musical generation you belong to, or whether your musical tastes range from doo-wop to Daft Punk, THE MIXTAPE OF MY LIFE can be instant conversation starter among friends and family.
Also enjoy work from these fine readers!
Andrew Huff
Liz Mason
Lou Carlozo
“We all know that music is deeply intertwined with memory. The Mixtape of My Life is an astonishing tool for unlocking your long-forgotten histories.”
—Jason Bitner, author, Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves
Elder is the author of seven books, including 2016’s Hidden Hemingway. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications. He has worked for Sun-Times Media and Crain Communications, and is the founder of Odd Hours Media.
For more info, visit: mixtapeofmylife.com
Thursday, May 10, 7pm – 8pm
Free Event
Here’s the Facebook Invite for this event!
UFO Presences by Javier Arcenillas (Editorial RM) $35
Zines
Client and Co-Conspirator: A Dialogue Between Two Sex Worker Advocacy Activists $3
No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws, Support Hose Year One $5
Pussweek #3 by Bexy McFly $11.99 – By cats for cats!
Suitable 4 Framin #12 Jan 18 All Oakland Issue $10 – Graffiti zine.
Everything’s Fine Chinatown by Iqvinder Singh $10
Hard to Love #6 Lung Static by Sara McHenry $3
How I Became a Butterfly by Nathan Margoni $5
Happy Tapir #4 Tom Cruise and Jim Harbaugh Had Sex In My Second Apartment by Johnny Masiulewicz $3
Lane With by Michael Solomon $12
tracts from PM Press, various prices:
Young CLR James: A Graphic Novelette by Paul Buhle
Events and Victims by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Edited by Jon Curley
Heart X-Rays: A Modern Epic Poem by Marcus Colasurdo
Comics & Minis
Cool Girls Doing Things by Caroline Cash $5
Dentures in the Sink #1 by Sofia Diaz $7.50
Infinite Wheat Paste #4 by Pidge & Chase Hutchison $5
Crackle vol 1 by Phillip Maira $3.50
Isle of Flotsam #1 by Caleb $3
Agency by Tom McHenry $5
Graphic Novels
Flayed Corpse And Other Stories by Josh Simmons & friends (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Brutal, deeply unsettling, and often hilarious stories from a master of modern horror comics. Also collects collaborations with artists like Anders Nilsen, Tara Booth, Eroyn Franklin & more!
Kaleidoscope City by Marcellus Hall (Bittersweet Editions) $14.99
Glass Walker by Antoinette Lavin $15
Blazing Combat (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Expanded edition reprint of the all-star war-comics anthology featuring all of Frank Frazetta’s painted covers and exclusive interviews with Archie Goodwin and publisher James Warren. Plus work by John Severin, Alex Toth, Wallace Wood and many more.
ISNXO by Ivan Gugel Dawson $15
Art Books
Signal 06 A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, edited by Alec Dunn & Josh MacPhee $14.95 – International subversive graphic design edited by Justseeds folks.
We Are Not Alone vol II Beings and Creatures from Somewhere Else by Brett Manning $20
Politics, Revolution & Current Events
Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale by Matt Hern and Am Johal with Joe Sacco (MIT Press) $19.95
Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky, Edited by Davor Džalto (PM Press) $19.95
Fiction
The Scooter Chronicles: A Southern California Modyssey by Shahriar Fouladi $19.99
Atheist In the Attic by Samuel R. Delaney (PM Press) $14
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang $28.95
Insects: An Edible Field Guide by Stefan Gates $16.95
Music Books
My Ramones: Photographs by Danny Fields (Reel Art Press) $39.95 – 200+ photographs from 1975-1977 taken by manager Danny “pulse of the underground” Fields.
Magazines
Bust #110 $6.99
Hiss Mag #2 $20
Chap Books
Overtime Hour 47: The Death of DemiVer Data Services by Julie McNeely-Kirwan (Blue Cubicle Press) $2 – Georgia, a “good child”-type employee, has just discovered the truth about the company she works for.
Impressions In the Language of a Lanterns Wick by Jake Syersak (Ghost Proposal) $7
Fallout by Jose Nateras $5
The Clown Egg Registry by Luke Stephenson and Helen Champion $16.95 – For more than 70 years, Clowns International—the oldest established clowning organization—has been painting the faces of its members on eggs. This mesmerizing volume collects more than 150 of these portraits, from 1946 to the modern day! Step right up!
Zines
Fixer Eraser #2 by Jonas $3 – Thoughtful thoughts from local zine celeb Jonas.
Reasons to Live by Bex Shea $1
Well Never Have Paris #15 America True Stories $6
Bald People Against by Nathan Margoni $5
Glou Glou Magazine #1 $12 -Arty n conversational zine about wine.
Two Fisted Librarians vol 8 #1 $4
Comics
Helio Press, a whole mess of awesome risographed stuff like these, including work by Ashley Ronning!
Berlin #22 by Jason Lutes (D&Q) $5.95 – Final issue of this 20 year saga!
Baby Wave Karaoke by Nicole Michael Brunel Couvilllon $5
Three Days in Paradise by Michael Wynne $10
Florence by Rachel Bard $5
Tales From the Wolf Bus by Allie Allan D. Caesar $7
Fizzle #1 by Whit Taylor $6
Frankie Comics #1 through #4 SPX Special by Rachel Dukes
Graphic Novels
Gwar: Orgasmageddon by Matt Miner & friends $17.99 – Banished to the past by the cold and calculating Mr. Perfect, the heroes of GWAR trample through time like a deranged Bill and Ted on bath salts – antics ensue!
Politics & Revolution
POST-TRUTH: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It by Evan Davis $26.99
Art Books
Deep Mapping by Brett Bloom and Nuno Sacramento (Breakdown Break Down Press) $8 – SELF-NAVIGATION NOW! Don’t map your shit like an old fuddy duddy! Use your own contradicting narrative! -LM
Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters by Princeton Architectural Press $25 – Nearly 300 designers from around the world answered the call to create this collection of 50 tear-out posters for people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and apprehension.
Outer Limits
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall and Peter Névraumont $27.99 – Loch Ness, Ponzi schemes, spirit photographers and more, from a team that includes a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History.
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt $16 – After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and ‘80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir.
Film, Music & Media Books
Black Aesthetic #2 by Zoe Samudzi (Wolfman Books) $12
Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel, Drummer of Hole $27
Magazines
Gentlewoman #17 $15.99
Mojo #293 $11.25
Monocle #111 $12
Maximumrocknroll #419 $4.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
The Believer #117 $12
First Line vol 20 #1 $4
Wolfman New Life Quarterly by Jacob Kahn $12
Sex Guides & Culture
The Wonder Down Under: The Insider’s Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Nina Brochmann & Ellen Støkken Dahl $26.99
| Apr ’18 |
| 19 |
| 7:00 pm |
Rustic Bride Mun! The Most Beautiful Book in the World! Esther K Smith & Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press will show and tell William H. Page’s classic book Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c.: The 1874 Masterpiece of Colorful Typography.
Esther K Smith first saw The Most Beautiful Book in the World at Chicago’s Newberry Library. As she turned the pages, she knew she needed to work with a big publisher to reprint the book so that she could own a copy. Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type Borders &c (Rizzoli) is a reprint of WH Page’s 1874 catalog of typography and ink from the exuberant early decades of manufactured color–available to the public for the first time. Page produced the largest and most detailed wood type which he distributed his type all over the world– throughout the US, Europe, and Asia–even Burma. One librarian said that though clothing faded and architecture was repainted, the brilliant inks inside the book retained the vivid intensity of the Victorian era. The text is found poetry which one viewer likened to Gertrude Stein. Smith and Faust will show pages from the book and talk about producing the reprint, working with six original copies in three rare book libraries. And they will discuss their own experience at Purgatory Pie Press, one of the longest running artist presses, printing and designing with wood type. Chromatic Wood Type is an opera of a book–and the opera it inspired (Soundscapes of Color) premiers April 22 at 6018 North. The composer, Michal Dzitko, will be present and they will show a short clip of the opera-in-progress.
“Take a wild ride through the polychrome world of nineteenth-century poster type. These letters are slathered with more ink and ornament than a tattooed sailor.” –Ellen Lupton, Senior Curator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
“WOW. What a treasure to be saved and savored. And what an insane genius craftsman William H. Page was. this book is as fun to read as it is to look at, with its accidental (or perhaps totally intentional) bits of poetry, decades ahead of its time.” —Chip Kidd,
Esther K Smith is the author of the best-selling How to Make Books and Making Books with Kids, which Bank St. Education included in their Best Children’s Books of the Year. Smith collaborates with Dikko Faust making limited editions and artist books at Purgatory Pie Press. Their work is in many collections including the Newberry Library, The Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and London’s V&A.
For more info:
Images from the book!
Specimens-cover
detail
wood type
page
another page
esther(at)purgatorypiepress(dot)com
Facebook Event Invite for this event.
Thurs April 19, 7pm – Free Event
