Queer Literary Showcase All The Writers I Know with Michael Garabedian, ellie navidson, Sam Lowry, and H Melt 8/10

Aug ’13
10
7:00 pm

ATWIKQueer literary salon All The Writers I Know returns Sat, August 10th for their newest showcase, “More Than Alive.” Readers include Michael Garabedian, ellie navidson, Sam Lowry, and H Melt. Based around the idea of storytelling as a community-building act, producer Mar Curran wanted the event to continue ATWIK’s efforts to foster queer-positive space to share written work around the idea of not only surviving obstacles in life but overcoming them to thrive. This topic is something Curran and guest co-producer poet H. Melt felt was important to highlight and celebrate at an event described as “part grown-up story time, part poetry cipher, part cocktail party.”

“Many people in our community face huge challenges, both related to and independent of their queer identities,” says Curran. “Coming together in a safe space to read work about rising above these challenges is hopefully a way to encourage others in the audience to do so themselves.”

Created in 2011 by Patrick Gill and Rosy Phinick in Gill’s living room, ATWIK was started with the hopes of creating a safe space for Chicago queer writers to share their work with one another. Two co-producers aimed to create a space that “lets you feel as comfortable as you would in your own living room.”

For more info: Contact Mar Curran at mcurr7(at)gmail(dot)com or like the All The Writers I Know Facebook page

Saturday, August 10th, 7pm – Free Event

New Stuff This Week

elvisdiedElvis Died For Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine: A Lifetime’s Collected Writing by Mick Farren (Headpress) $19.95 – A rocking life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry, Gore Vidal, Pete Townshend and others. Farren is a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer, and rebel with multiple causes and a founding figure in the 1960s underground press.

Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business by Curtis Harrington (Drag City) $19.95 – This memoir chronicles the unusual, multidecade career trajectory of Curtis Harrington, who man who created avant-garde films as part of Kenneth Anger’s inner circle, directed critically acclaimed and cult-adored horror films like Night Tide and Games, and then descended down the “slippery slope” of television work by directing episodes of Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty. Doubling as both a serious study of film aesthetics and a gossipy tell-all, this truly unique look at the Hollywood dream includes an unlikely cast of characters, including Dennis Hopper, Christopher Isherwood, Shelley Winters, Marilyn Monroe, Stanley Kubrick, and Aaron Spelling, as it reveals a portrait of the machinations of the film and television business.

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Zines
Epiphanies vol 1 Christian Death: On the Occasion of the 15th Anniversary of The Passing of Rozz Williams by Matthew Moyer $3.00
The Worst: A Compilation Zine on Grief and Loss, ed. by K. McIntyre, issues #2 and #3 $8.00 each
Two Fisted Librarians #1 2013 $2.50
Serial Killers Unite #13 $3.00
Who Remembers Anyway by David Alvarado $.75

Comics & Comix
I Think of Demons/ Sticky Icky Icky by Box Brown $8.00
Fold and the Creator by Grant Reynolds $4.00
I Thought You Quit This Place by Kristine Conroy $3.00
(Kahvillen Comics Presents) Coracle by David C. Mahler, issues #1 and #2 $4.00 each
Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Book 7 by Bernie McGovern $6.00
Word and Voice #6 by Aaron Cockle (Oily Comics) $1.00
Lou #15 by Melisssa Mendes (Oily Comics) $1.00
Blood Visions Part 2 by Zach Worton $1.00 (Oily Comics) $1.00
Habit #1 ed. by Josh Simmons (Oily Comics) $5.00
Mrs Connie Dutton an Adaption of Spam by Jessica Campbell (Oily Comics) $1.00
Cut Away #1 Part One of Tree Swallows by Dan Zettwoch (Oily Comics) $1.00
Odette #1 by Sarah Ferrick $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Demongunz Minicomic Anthology by Bernie MCGovern $6.00 – Collects Demon Gun and Demon Dust zines #1-11 by this local artist.
Zero Hour Graphic Novel by Ray Bradbury and the Grand Rapids Comics Society $10.00
Lost Cat by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Graphic Canon vol 3 Worlds Great Literature as Comics and Visuals ed. by Russ Kick (7 Stories) $44.95 – Third volume in this series where the classic literary canon meets comics artists, illustrators, and other artists. This volume includes such artists as Crumb, Dame Darcy, Peter Kuper and more.
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Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction by Tariq Ali and Phil Evans (Haymarket) $15.00
A Cartoon Introduction to Statistics by Gray Klein and Alan Dabney PhD $17.95
Failure by Karl Stevens $21.95

Art & Design
I’m One: 21st Century Mods by Horst A. Friedrichs (Prestel) $19.95 – photos.
A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers ed. by Antonis Antoniou et al. (DGV) $60.00 – Publications, the tourism industry, and other commercial parties use contemporary, personal maps to showcase specific regions, to characterize local scenes, to generate moods, and to tell stories beyond sheer navigation. A new generation of designers, illustrators, and mapmakers are currently discovering their passion for various forms of illustrative cartography.
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Kawaii Japans Culture of Cute by Manami Okazaki et al. $24.95
Coloring Book Project: Collection by 100 Artists From Around the World of Tattoo Flash Art by Brett Herman $25.00
Skin Graf Masters of Graffiti Tattoo $34.95

Druuuuuugs
Too High To Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution by Doug Fine $16.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains Real and Imagined by Chuck Klosterman $25.00
Recombo DNA Story of DEVO Or How the 60s Became the 80s $19.95
Strange Medicine Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages $14.00

Politics & Revolution
Anarchism and Workers Self Managemant in Revolutionary Spain $19.00

Fiction
Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco (McSweeneys) $13.00
Million Heavens by John Brandon (McSweeneys) $15.00
Don’t Miss Me by Lindsay Hunter $14.00 – Stories from local author.

Magazines
Frankie #53 May Jun 13 $13.95
Pinstriping #38 Kustom Graphics Magazine Jun Jul 13 $10.00
Mother Earth News #259 Aug Sep 13 $5.99
Monocle vol 7 #65 Jul Aug 13 $12.00

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
After Hours #27 Sum 13 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art Afterhours $8.00
First Words by Andrew Byrne $12.95
Sex & Sexy
Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu vol 2 by JUnko Mizuno (JaPress) $17.95
Smokin’ Hot Firemen: Erotic Romance Stories for Women ed. by Delilah Devlin $15.95
LA Woman Lives in the Fast Lane Stories Told on LA Stages by Anna Metcalf $6.50
Steam Bath: Sweaty Gay Erotica by Shane Allison $15.95

Click here to see what new stuff is available in our web store!

Laydeez Do Comics July Edition: Gina Wynbrandt & Mat Deflier

Jul ’13
25
7:00 pm

Laydeez Do Comics is London’s monthly comics salon. Quimby’s is host to the Chicago edition. Come hear comics creators speak about their work, their process, their plans, and whatever else they want to share with us.

The July 2013 meeting will take place on Thursday July 25th, at 7pm.

The first guest will be Gina Wynbrandt. Gina is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago who makes comics about celebrity, fashion, and other fun stuff.

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The second guest will be Mat Deflier. Mat Defiler has been scribbling quirky, political, personal, queer comics at a slow but steady pace for quite some time.  Mat has had work published in the Gay Genius anthology, The Collective Tarot, and over the years in small publications including The Industrial Worker, Arsenal, Bound to Struggle, the 1981 Lusher Elementary School Handbook, and several self published zines.  Mat Defiler currently draws comics about madness, the future, and working as a nurse and is working on releasing them as a tapestry narrative in web comic form as soon as technology cooperates.

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The meeting is FREE.

July Is International Zine Month

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Need an excuse to finish that zine you’ve been working on? Or um, talking about working on? Well the perfect kick in the pants is here: July is International Zine Month. Get your zine on. On our racks that is. When you’re done making it, you come in and consign it. Give us five copies, fill out a form, and then once it sells you get 60% of your retail price. It’s that easy. More info about consigning here at Quimby’s here.

More info about International Zine Month at the amazing zine resource site stolensharpierevolution.org.

Off-Site: POP-UP BOOK FAIR, Sunday, July 7th at The Empty Bottle

Jul ’13
7
12:30 pm

POP-UP-BOOKS-624x794Sunday (July 7th) at The Empty Bottle is POP-UP BOOK FAIR! Beginning at 12:30pm and going until 5pm, join Curbside Splendor Publishing as they play host to 40+ small indie presses and publishers. The event is FREE with RSVP if you click here, and it’s $5 at the door. It is a 21+ event, so all minors must be accompanied. There will be live music provided by  Nagasaki, DJ Goldie Bear, DJ “2nd Cousin, Twice Removed”, DJ Kale Party, DJ Heavy Inspinuation, KRUBREDNUF, and DJ DG.

Featured purveyors include:

2nd Story
7 Vientos
826chi
Another Chicago Magazine
Artifice Mag
Black Ocean
Burial Day Books
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
Chicago Zine Fest
chicagopoetry.com
co•im•press
Convulsive Editions
Criminal Class Press
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Dream of Things
Fifth Star Press
Haymarket Books
Kenning Editions
Knee Jerk Magazine
Labletter
Love Symbol Press
Mid American Review
Miss Nyet
Monsters & Dust
Moon City Review
New American Press
Orange Alert
Quimby’s
READ/WRITE
Rhino Poetry
Richochet Review
Rose Metal Press
Soberscove
Solace in So Many Words
South Loop Review
Switchback Books
THE 2ND HAND
Tortoise Books
& MORE

Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at The Empty Bottle which is at 1035 N. Western Ave.  Chicago, IL 60647.