Weekly Top 10

Published on August 28, 2012 0 Comments

Congrats to this week’s winners!

1. Emotions Are Hard/Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50

2. Dig Deep #2 by Heather $1.00

3. Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00

4. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

5. Crap Hound #6 by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $13.00 – This is the fourth-fucking-edition of Crap Hound #6: Death Phones and Scissors and all the bonus material has it busting the staple barrier, so you get all 100 pages previously ever released plus a 16-page addendum. You say addendum, I say amazing. Seriously, if you have eyes you should be looking at this. -EF

6.   Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95
7. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

8. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00

9. Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas #3 $1.00

10. Every Thug Is a Lady Adventures Without Gender by Julia Eff $4.00

Is it me or is it hilarious the reoccuring “eff” theme of the last two on this list? Dismissed as coincidence! -LM

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 25, 2012 0 Comments

Index #1 by Caitlin Cass $3.50 – Blank comfort and empty anxieties, in the cards.

Zines
Fix Your Clothes by Raleigh Briggs $5.00 – By the author of the smash hit of a DIY book in these parts Make Your Home. Cute and fun, but more importantly helpful.
The Day I Stopped Being Punk by Siue $2.00
Paper Radio issues #10-#12 a Media and Radio Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00 each
Baitline Audiozine $4.00 – From the folks who publish the free, flirty and dirty want ad service broadsheet that one often finds in our free area. Comes with with CD containing interviews and testimonials with satisfied Baitline customers.
Self-Help Self-Fuck A Tiny Story by BR Coyote $1.50
The Printed Blog, various issues, various prices
Loosey Goosey vol II $16.75
Docs #1 Sum 12 Journal of Microbiology Solutions to Puzzles of the Blood by Dan Dorsey, Geff Stiubhairt, Amanda Dorsey $2.00
older issues of Publick Occurances (#10 and #11) by Danny Martin $2.00 each

Comix & Comics
Jiggy Jiggy Boys #1 $5.00
Blunt Naked #1 $3.00
Fatima #3 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
Nobrow #7 $24.00
Cloaca Crossing Coloring Booklet $4.00
Gnartoons #1 Apr 12 by James Stanton $6.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
History of Underground Comics (20th Anniversary Edition) by Mark James Estren (Roin Publishing) $29.95
Fight #2 Graphic Novel by Jack Teagle (Nobrow) $13.95
Bicycle by Ugo Gattoni (Nobrow) $24.95
Prophet Volume 1: Remission by Brandon Graham , Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milogiannis $9.99 – Collects issues #21-#26.

Art & Design
Getting Into Face: 52 Mondays Featuring JoJo Baby and Sal-E (Schiffer) $45.00 – Photographer Bernard Colbert rigorously captures Wicker Park-based performance artists (and Quimby’s regulars!) JoJo Baby and Sal-E in genius moments as psychedelic Hindi gods, comic book villains, fantastical creatures, astronauts, and much, much more. Over 100 photos, as featured in the Clive Barker documentary titled JoJo Baby.
Pictorial Websters:A Pocket Dictionary $12.95
The Tattoo Project: Body, Art, Image by Vince Hemingson (Schiffer) $45.00 – Here are the final results of The Tattoo Project, works by 11 fine art photographers with a variety of styles who shot portraits of 100 heavily tattooed individuals. The brainchild of photographer Vince Hemingson, the event sequestered models and photographers in Vancouver s Photo Workshop for a multiple-day shoot. Thousands of portraits were produced that aimed to explore who each of the subjects was through their ink and the photographic process. This volume features more than 200 images from the event and truly reflects not only who the subjects are, but who the photographers are as well. From differing approaches to lighting, mood, and color to different methods for engaging the subjects, each of the artists clearly has a unique vision. This is an ideal book for photography and tattoo art students, teachers, and enthusiasts.

DIY/Food/Drugs
True Living Organics: Ultimate Guide to Growing All Natural Marijuana Indoors by The Rev (Green Candy Press) $20.00
Hashish: History, Cultures, Ingredients, Recreation, Medicine,  Hashish Making…$35.95
Fifty Ways to Cure a Hangover: Weird Wacky and Wonderful Ways for Prevention and Cure by Sharratt Cara Frost and Jason Ford (Chronicle) $5.99

Fiction
We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane $14.99
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn $25.00
Filling In the Blanks by Anthony Roberts $12.00
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (Back Bay) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
Between Heaven and Here by Susan Straight (McSweeneys) $24.00

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Haarp Heavy: Anti Authoritarian Rap Poems by Che Christ $20.00
McSweeneys #41 $27.00
Exact Change Only Win 2012 and Sum 2012 $10.00 each

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval and Ahmed Osman $20.00 – Egyptology conspiracy theory! Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day.
Wall Street Coloring Book – Now You Can Color and Draw Like the Big Boys $7.99
Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up ed . by Leah Odze Epstein et al. $16.00 – An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years.
Truth According to Sally Miller $15.00
Fast Girl: Don’t Brake Until You See the Face of God And Other Good Advice From the Racetrack by Ingrid Steffensen $16.00
Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything by Randy Cohen $24.95 – By the entertaining and wise Ethicist from The New York Times.
Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen $26.95 – This book investigates the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this tradition, exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks, and shining a sure-to-be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also, paradoxically, liberating.
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures In the Counterculture by Paul Krassner (Soft Skull) $18.95

Politics & Revolution
2 Christopher Hitchens Books: Mortality and Arguably: Essays (in soft cover)
The Man Who Never Died: The Life Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M. Adler $18.00

Music Books
How Music Works by David Byrne (McSweeneys) $32.00
Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse $27.99

Childrens Books
Stories 1234 by Eugéne Ionesco and Etienne Delessert (McSweeneys) $19.95
Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Nobrow) $24.00
Maya Makes a Mess by Rutu Modan (Toon) $12.95

Magazines
Chicago IRL #4 Sum 12 $15.00
McSweeneys #41 $27.00
Harpers Magazine Sep 12 $6.99
Paper Sep 12 $4.00
Cabinet #46 Punishment $12.00
Eye Magazine #83 Spr 12 $30.00
True Crime Aug 12 $8.99
Murder Most Foul #85 $9.99
Interzone #241 $8.50
Fortean Times #291 Sep 12 $11.99
Press the Fashion vol 2 #1 Fall 12 $9.99
Brownbook #34 $14.99
Arise #16 $9.99
The State vol 2 Sum 12 Speculative Geographies $14.00
Empire Sep 12 $9.99
Wire #342 Aug 12 $9.99
Magnet #90 $4.99
Clash #76 $8.99
Uncut Sep 12 #184 $9.99

Sex & Sexy
Stepcest Taboo by Evan J. Xavier $9.00

Other Stuff
New blank journals and notebooks, such as My Beautiful Life: My Autobiography in Drawings $16.95, Mix Tape Mini Eco Journal Set $9.95, Make Something Good Today Blank Journal by Jen Renninger $9.95
Two different 2013 Hark a Vagrant Wall Calendars by Kate Beaton: Beethoven Birthday Party and There She Blows Literary (D&Q) $14.95 each

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Gregory Harms Reads From It’s Not About Religion 9/15

Published on August 24, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
15
7:00 pm

When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it?

In It’s Not About Religion, Gregory Harms examines a range of topics in an effort to answer the question. As the book’s title indicates, the region’s woes and instability are in fact not caused by biblical or Islamic factors. Harms reveals a list of entirely secular factors and realities as he examines how and why Americans view the Arab Middle East the way they do; the history of European and U.S. involvement in the region; the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism; and how academics and the mass media tend to discuss the region and its inhabitants.

In roughly one hundred pages, the reader is shown a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction.

“An informative, lively, and humane look at the real sources of conflict and struggle in the [Middle East].” –Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

GREGORY HARMS is an independent scholar and the author of The Palestine–Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction (3rd ed., 2012) and Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East: US Foreign Policy, Israel, and World History (2010). His articles appear on CounterPunch, Truthout, and Mondoweiss. He has been interviewed on BBC Radio and Chicago Public Radio.

For more info:
gregoryharms.com
percevalpress.com

 

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CCLaP Performs “Podcast Dreadful”

Published on August 23, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
21
7:00 pm

Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) on Friday, September 21st, as it presents a live-audience episode of its new “Podcast Dreadful” serial literary anthology, at the popular Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park. Known for its annual themed compilation of local short work every fall, this year CCLaP is presenting this work as a free 12-part audiobook at its website cclapcenter.com/dreadful, every Monday in September, October and November; featuring a variety of celebrated authors both locally and across the US, each story in this collection has been written in the style of an old Victorian “penny dreadful,” featuring cliffhangers each week and a dark, strange tone throughout. Episode number 4 will be performed in front of a live audience at the famed indie-lit venue Quimby’s, and will feature not only readings from local authors Davis Schneiderman, Jacob Knabb, Jason Fisk and CCLaP owner Jason Pettus, but also real-time radio-style sound effects by a specially assembled stage crew. Free refreshments will also be served that night, and with other CCLaP merchandise available for purchase.

For more info: cclapcenter.com/dreadful or write Jason Pettus at cclapcenter@gmail.com

 Fri, Sept 21st, 7pm

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Weekly Top 10

Published on August 21, 2012 0 Comments


Still shot of entries from the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest Olympics “Make a Zine Cover” Competition from opening night. And guess what? Dates have been announced for the next Chicago Zine Fest, which will be March 8th and 9th 2013. For more info, see chicagozinefest.org.

1. DemonTears by Bernie McGovern (Hic and Hoc) $6.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for the event with minicomics superstars Bernie McGovern, Lauren Barnett and Neil Fitzpatrick.

2. Handbook vol 6 #3 2012 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Steve Cruz, Keith Haring, reader dick, curated mens, elevator porn – a real handfull. -EF

3. Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99

4. Uppercase #14 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00

5. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

6. Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley (“Pais) and Boo Radley $15.00 – The first magazine by cats for cats. (Recommended reading. -LM)

7. Sex Gender Identity Orientation and Discrimination by Dan Copulsky $.25

8. Taking the Lane vol 7 BikeSex $4.00 – Bikesexuals speak out.

9. Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick (Hic and Hoc Press) $5.00

10. Colors #84  $8.95