New Stuff This Week

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Social Justice Kittens 2025 Calendar by Liartown USA $20

Tarot Del Fuego Box of Tarot Cards by Ricardo Cavolo $24.95

Zines

Crap Hound 2024 Owls and Crows by Sean Tejaratchi $20

2 zines by Katie Kiesewetter: Behind, Sharp! #3 Chicago Style $8, Gratuitous Hospitality $10

Unresolved #10 by Eli Schmitt $5

zines by April Malig: I Don’t Know How to Take Pictures But I Like to Do It Anyway $12, April’s Eating Zine #5 $15 and more.

Check the Record #1 & #2 by Jen Matson $5 each

Graphic Novels

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation adapted by Paul Peart-Smith $22.95

Paying for It (re-issue) by Chester Brown (D&Q) $21.95

New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw by Greg Hunter and Dash Shaw (Uncivilized) $24.95

Tegan and Sara: Crush bu Tegan and Sara Quin, illustrated by Tillie Walden $14.99

Art & Photo Books

Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton (D&Q) $20.95

To Washington Park, With Love: Documentary Photographs from Summer 1987 by Rose Blouin (Haymarket) $35

Politics & Revolution Books

The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe by Gideon Levy (Verso) $24.95

World War 3 NOW?  (World War 3 Illustrated #54) edited by Seth Tobocman, Susan Simensky Bietila & Nicole Schulman (AK Press) $20

Dead Cities (re-issue) by Mike Davis $24.95

The Conquest of Bread (2nd Edition) by Peter Kropotkin (AK Press) $20

Fiction

The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore $29.95

Model Home: A Novel by Rivers Solomon $28

Roberto Bolano novel reprints: The Return $17, Antwerp $15, By Night in Chile $16

Starter Villain by John Scalzi $18.99

Star 111 by Lutz Seiler $19.95

Music & Film Books

Shoegaze by Ryan Pinkard (33 1/3 Genre) $19.95

Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes $22

BFI Film Classics books, $17.95 each: Cure by Dominic Lash, Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan

Sonic Bonds: A Journey Into Wondrous Radio by Siue Moffat (Mr. Pither Cycling Tour Connections) $14.99

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid by Joy White $14.95

Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema edited by Doris Berger with Maya S. Cade, Jacqueline Stewart and more $45

Essay

Country Queers: A Love Letter by Rae Garringer $24.95

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein $20

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation edited by Kelly Filreis and Alexis Bard Johnson $39.95

Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship by Christina Jarvis $22.95

Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World by Diane Ehrensaft and Michelle Jurkiewicz $28.95

Witchy Shit

Practical Candle Magic: Witchcraft with Wick & Wax by Rachel Patterson $18.99

Witch in Darkness: Magick for Tough Times, Bad Days and Moments of Total Catastrophe by Kelly-Ann Maddox $24.95

Consciousness Expansion

Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair by Simon Yugler $19.95

Food Books

Lickin’ the Beaters: Low Fat Vegan Desserts (2nd Edition) by Suie Moffat $10.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

some LOVE – four poems by elizabeth s. tieri $10

Kris Called Krishna Home by Kristoffer Damato, multiple issues $10 each

The Bennington Review #13 $15

Briefly Gently: Record of an Unreadied Boat by Tori Rego $15

Waiting For the Exterminator by Sophie Grimes $3

Recommended Reading: Adam Gnade and his Great American Novels

Published on October 1, 2024 0 Comments

As of late, I’ve been deep into Adam Gnade‘s pocket sized novels ever since we received a large box of them from Kansas, where the author resides. Gnade (pronounced GUH-NAH-DEE) writes about coming of age in America, friendship, and being involved in alternative music scenes in the early aughts, a time when smartphones hadn’t been invented and the world felt less chaotic and broken.

After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different drew me in with its cover: a picture of a hand pouring hot sauce on a giant burrito inside a taqueria. Maybe I was hungry that day, but something nudged me to buy it (we sold two other copies in the same day, perhaps there was something in the air). After Tonight… is set in San Diego, CA centered around the main character’s memories of growing up in the beachy California town where his parents owned a seafood restaurant. Each chapter is centered around a specific food memory and how the meals or snacks comforted James and his pals after late nights at punk shows, bars, and nights out when the only thing that mattered was being in the moment and escaping reality with chosen family. Despite each chapter being centered around food, the book reads more like an autobiography filled with visceral memories and the pain of early adulthood when you and your friends move on, go to college, or stay put in your hometown and waste time trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be. Gnade has a poetic way of retelling memories that pull the reader into his world by making them relatable and tender.

When you make sense to someone it is a lovely thing. What you are doesn’t tire them or make them nervous or scare them off. They see you and you make sense. Your weird shit makes sense. Your fears and delusions make sense. The things you love make sense. If you don’t make sense, it’s like a bitter flavor in a thing that should be sweet and it’s confusing to people. They don’t get you, and because they don’t get you, you’ve got no chance of being their friend. At 16 I want nothing more than to make sense to people, but I don’t make sense to anyone.

This beautiful paragraph is from the chapter titled “BURRITOS, VARIOUS.”

The second book in Gnade’s pocket sized series of America is The Internet Newspaper. In the sequel, we follow James for three days in the year 2000 as he temps for a local internet newspaper in San Diego writing clickbait articles about cats and listing local music events. At night, he’s raiding the alcohol cabinet of a stranger’s home with friends while they house sit and driving to Tijuana with his coworkers for a press junket and getting drunk on the company dime. The Internet Newspaper captures a time when the internet was a place where information was less available and more casual, not all encompassing like it is today. The book is not just about the internet and the experience of having your first grown-up job, but about the main character’s life as a twenty-something punk having fun with friends while battling debilitating depression and suicidal ideation.

As I savor the last few pages of The Internet Newspaper, I look forward to reading I Wish to Say Lovely Things, Gnade’s follow up novel about love in all its many forms.

tl;dr Adam Gnade makes reading fun, inspiring, accessible, and cool with his badass autofiction novels.

*xo~Angel~xo*

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New Stuff This Week

Published on September 28, 2024 0 Comments

 

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2025 Slingshot Planners! Pocket size $8 / Pocket size spiral $12 / Large spiral size $16

Zines

Cathode Ray Mission #3 A Sci-Fi and Horror Fanzine Fall 2024 $2

Zines by Rojas: Anxious Eye Farming With Marx at the Edge of the World $5, Chinga La Migra Means Fuck the World – Border Violence Migration and the End of the World (with Diego and 2ry) $7, Anxious Eye Farming With Marx at the Edge of the World $5 & more.

Butler Burger issues #1-#3 $2.50 each

Bug Serial #1 Sum 24 by Spinelli and Splif $3

Little Guide to Analog Photo Booths in Chicago by Charlie Sierra $10

Stream Your Head Off #25 Aug 24 by Ross Peterson $5

Rate of Decay #9 $2

People Looking at Art 2018-2024 by Chris Gleason $15

Momentary Alchemy by davonperspectives $24

How to Tell Democrats from Republicans by Bronwyn Mauldin $7

Non Dichotomy by Kara Hawley $7

Comics

Scorpio Venus Rising #2 by Corinne Halbert $10

Jewels of Thought – A Dialogue With Pharoah Sanders by Kaitlin Kostus $6

Why Does She Hurt Herself Like That by Heather Benjamin $20

Larch Spinney issues #1 $ #2 by Sigil Snoot $10 each

Photogenic #1 The Gift That Keeps on Giving by Dominic and Margo Sawaya and Jen Chavez $10

Graphic Novels

Final Cut by Charles Burns $34

Heavenly Days by Em Frank (Floating World) $29.99

The Scrapbook of Life and Death by J Webster Sharp (Avery Hill) $19.99

Disciples of the Soil by B Mure (Avery Hill) $12.99

Art Books

Mr. Brainwash: Franchise of the Mind by Ted Vassilev $35

Fiction

The Repeat Room: A Novel by Jesse Ball $27

Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte $28

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams $20

The Free People’s Village: A Novel by Sim Kern $18.99

Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison, edited by Michael Straczynski $19.99

Like Red on a Rose by Rathan Krueger $15.99

Film & Music Books

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar $26

Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians by Alex Bleeker and Luke Pysenson $27.95

Depeche Mode Live by Dennis Burmeister and Sascha Lange (Akashic) $59.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

The Witch’s Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme by Ryan Matthew Cohn & Regina M. Rossi $30

Eerie Legends: An Illustrated Exploration of Creepy Creatures, the Paranormal, and Folklore from around the World by Ricardo Diseño & Steve Mockus $29.99

Freaky Folklore: Terrifying Tales of the World’s Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids by Darkness Prevails with Carman Carrion $19.99

Magazines

Para Llevar issues #3 & #4 $22 each

RFD #199 $11.95

Gush Magazine vol 1 #2 $10

Local Spooky: Full Bleeeeeeeeed

Published on September 26, 2024 0 Comments

AHHH! WHAT’S THAT BEHIND YOU???

Oh! It’s the spooky season!!

Fall is here and there’s already a little chill in the air… With October (the best month of the year by a gapingly enormous margin) just around the corner, many of us are looking very much forward to all the fun, fun activities of the spooky season: coming up with Halloween costumes; eating supernatural amounts of candy; carving 80 to 90 pumpkins into exact replicas of Moo Deng the sassy baby hippo; and, of course, watching as many horror movies as humanly possible! 

Whether you’re a seasoned horror flick connoisseur, a sweet lil’ chicken whose terror tolerance is maxed out by It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, or somewhere in between, October is a great time to watch some scary (and not-so-scary) movies. If you agree, I’d like to point your attention to a new zine that you won’t want to sleep on: 

An orange zine titled "Full Bleed" is displayed on a shelf, among other spooky zines and decorations, including a white, plastic skull and crossbones and a skeleton sticker pack.

The premier issue of Full Bleed: Chicago’s #1 Horror & Exploitation Zine is currently on the shelves at Quimby’s, so get it while we got it! This wicked zine is jam packed with horror movie reviews, an interview with local comic artist Tyrell Cannon, a Chicago horror directory, a frighteningly hilarious comic, and more. 

Don’t miss Eerie Ed’s 31-day Argentober Letterboxd challenge, which is outlined on page 9! Eerie Ed challenges readers to join him in watching one horror movie from another country per day during the month of October. 

And be sure to check out the STACKED calendar of upcoming local events that graces the center spread! It showcases horror film screenings and other spooky events that will be happening in Chicago from October through December.

A hand holds a zine open to a Table of Contents page and a Letters to the Editor page of a zine titled Full Bleed.

Chicago thanks you, Full Bleed staff (“Tombstone” Tony Recktenwald, “Eerie” Ed Witt, “Jump-scare” Judson Picco, and Dean “the Ween” Gibbs), for this horrifically delightful new horror zine!

Shine on, zine-stars! 

<3 <3 <3 Echo

Zine Club Chicago Poetry Comix Edition, with Mita Mahato, Oct 20th

Published on September 25, 2024 0 Comments
Oct ’24
20
3:00 pm

Join comix artist and poet Mita Mahato for a poetry comix workshop in conjunction with the launch of her new book Arctic Play. Mahato will share her process in making the book as a jumping off point to guide folks in experimenting with poetic forms, color, and collage to make poetry comix of their own. No experience necessary!

3 p.m. Sunday, October 20, 2024

Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.

Free!

Arctic Play is a drama, a dirge, an expedition log, a series of poetic experiments, a comic book. Mapping an Arctic imaginary of beings and landforms onto a shifting stage of woven and layered papers, Mahato conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows.

“With a caring awareness, Mahato hints at the expansive possibilities of the comix medium—and the human experience.” ~ Lale Westvind, Grip

“Arctic Play is both wildly experimental and completely confident in how it inhabits poetry, comix, collage, weaving, and playwriting.” ~ Aidan Koch, Spiral and Other Stories

Mita Mahato is a comix artist and poet who assembles her panels and pages with cut and collaged papers. Her poetry comix have appeared in places including PRISM, Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades. She lives in Seattle.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the monthly flyers, created the logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info:

Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago like here on IG and here on Twitter.

editors(at)the3rdthing(dot)press

Sunday, October 20, and 3pm – Free Event

Facebook invite here.