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Chicago-based lit mag MAKE is calling for submissions for issue #11. Here’s what they’re looking for:
Issue 11, themed Neither/Nor, calls for work that is neither here nor there.
Think: no man’s land / Either/Or / corpus callosum / the Midwest / afterlife / liminal.
Deadline: April 15, 2011
For more information and to upload your work, please go here: www.makemag.com/submission
Now go Make a submission.
Thanks to everybody that’s been coming out to all the events lately, both here and off-site. Check out the Quimby’s Bookstore group on Flickr, including Chicago Zine Fest Karaoke!
1. Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boys Tale by Cheetah Chrome (Voyageur Press) $24.00 – Lordy, Lordy: How is Cheetah Chrome even still alive? Punks are apparently related to cockroaches in that they can really take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’. Cheetah makes us grateful he’s survived by unleashing this dishy, druggy and unmodest memoir of his thrashings in the high-trash-era CBGBs New York punk scene. Light a candle for Stiv, crack open a case of beer, and curl up with this one. -EF
2. I’m In The Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie by Sean Yseult (Soft Skull Press) $22.95 – Come see Sean Yseult DJ and the Metal Shop tonight at Delilah’s!
3. Diary of a Punk by Mike Hudson (Tuscarora Books) $19.95
4. Bust apr may 2011 $4.99
5. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00
6. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian $3.00
7. Crap Hound #5: Hands , Hearts & Eyes $12.00
8. Black Cracker by Josh Alan Friedman (New Texture) $19.95
9. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.5010. Herbal First Aid Assembling a Natural First-Aid Kit DIY by Raleigh (Microcosm) $1.00
A couple years ago we sold books at a fundraiser to help a director with a documentary about William S. Burroughs. Well guess what? The movie is now available on DVD, and we’re excited to be selling it here. The film is William S Burroughs: A Man Within by local filmmaker Yony Leyser. All sorts of folks weigh in about the author of such contemporary classics as Naked Lunch and Junky: Patti Smith, John Waters, Iggy Pop, Jello Biafra, Thurston Moore, Gus Van Sant, Laurie Anderson and more. It comes in a fancy box an the DVD has all sorts of extras. $22.00
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Apoyo – Support Zine Spanish Espanol (Doris Press) $3.00
R2K 10 Years Later – Six Former Student Liberation Action Movement Members Reflect On the Mass Direct Actions Against the 2000 Republican National Convention In Philadelphia by SLAM (Doris Press) $2.00
Love Letters to Monsters #3 Alabama Grrrl #9 Split by Ciara Xyerra and Ailecia Ruscin (Doris Press) $4.00
Brainscan #26.5 Nine Stories by Alex Wrekk $1.00
Sigmund Freud I Ams A Graphical by Alfred Planco $4.00
Fueled By Popcorn by Webly $3.00
Mostly Do Not Guide to Sex Store Etiquette by Amanda B. $3.00
Remedy Quarterly #1 Home and Remedy Quarterly #2 Cravings $7.50 each – We got back issues of this zine with the subtitle “Stories of Food Recipes For Feeling Good.” Sounds good to us.
Writers Block #1 The Voices of Women Inside by Education Beyondmedia (Beyondmedia) $10.00
Designated Drivers by Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $4.00
Everything Quantizes #1 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
Being Gay Is A OK by Megan Speers $4.00
G20 A Love and Rage Story – Text Adapted From a Craigslist Missed Connection by Megan Speers $3.00
My Little Friend #4 the Last Two Years in a Nutshell Sick Twisted Wanderlust and My Little Friend #5 Moving Back Treading Forward, both by Eryca and both $1.00
Alphabetical Compendium – If Demons and Evil Ghosts #1 A Colouring Book by Megan Speers and Amanda Bowles $4.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #6 Organs of Voice and Respiration by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Adorn #20 and Adorn #21 by Bree Chumly $2.00 each
Kiss off #13 by Chris Kiss $2.00
Striking Distance #1 by Chris Landry $1.00
Telegram Maam #18 Oct 09, Telegram Maam #20 Sum 10, Telegram Maam #22 Jan 11 all by Maranda Elizabeth, all $3.00 each
Culture Slut #22 ($2.00) and Culture Slut #23 ($4.00) by Amber Forrester
Culture Slut #24/Motor City Kitty #16 Split Zine by Amber Forrester and Bri Z $2.00
Gutwrench #4 by Max Weinstein Bacal $2.00
Ask Me About My Tubal Ligation by Sarah Lawrance, Matt McLennan and Eric Drooker (Exile Press) $4.50
Making Anarchist Revolution Possible by Arthur J. Miller (Zabalaza) $4.00
Said the Pot to the Kettle – Feminist Theory for Anarchist Men $2.50
Murdertown $1.67
Judas Goat Quarterly #49 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Neighbor Cats #1 and #2 by The Waterbear Appreciation Society $2.00 each
Fuck Would I Say What For #2 Apr 11 by Justin Valmassoi $4.00
Bookstores and Baseball 1st Inning by David LaBounty $4.00
COMICS & MINI COMIX!
History of Wibbles #1 by Rachel N. Swanson $5.00
Goldilocks and the Three Butches by Rachel N. Swanson $10.00
Write Now by Neil Brideau $1.00 – Look! It’s Neil’s comic! If you come in when he’s working maybe he would sign it for you!
Excite Bike #1 by OShell $2.00
Owe Apostrophe #1 by OShell $2.00
5 Stories by Brian Cremins $3.00
Ship of Fools #4 by Emilia Frances $2.00
Comfortable Girl #1 by Lauren Maul $2.00
No One Will Syndicate Me: How I Didn’t Get My Comic Strip in the Newspaper by Josh Redd Sanchez $3.00
Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten The Book of Trembling Eardrums – An Interlude on Cosmic Heartbeats by Bernie McGovern $3.50
Demongun #2 Mar 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Party Life #1 by Aaron Miller $2.00
Breathers Book 6 by Justin Madson $4.00
Booger Factory by Marc Mamolo and Amanda Bowles $3.00
Wolfman Chicago’s Quest For Real Boots #1 by Nate Beaty $3.00
Sand Dune Press #1 and #2 by Erik Schneider $2.00 each
Dog Craps #1 by Sam Spina and Samantha Carantit $.50
Spinadoodles #1 The First Year April 16, 2009-April 30, 2010 Daily Sketchbook by Sam Spina $6.00
Sharker The Forgotten – The Story of Sean Kerr by Sam Spina $3.00
Ghost Ships #1 by Kara Sievewright $7.00
Moveable Types #1 the Tramp Printers by Kara Sievewright $3.00
Drift Wood by Kara Sievewright $4.00
Jinxremoving #13 by Arpad $2.50
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Trash Humpers by Harmony Korine (JRP) $39.95
Bye Bye Kitty: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art (Yale) $35.00
Artists Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art by Gwen Allen (MIT) $34.95
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gallerists But Were Afraid to Ask by Andrea Bellini (JRP) $24.95
From the End to the Beginning by Nicholas Hefele $12.00
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
River Jordan A Graphic Novel by Merik Tadros and Greg Houston $14.95
Wanderlust Graphic Novel by Megan Speers $25.00
FICTION!
Stop Requested by Wyatt Doyle and Stanley J. Zappa (New Texture) $14.95 – City stories of the less glamorous side of Tinseltown: bizarre encounters, faded dreams, mental illness and heavy traffic.
Field Guide To the North American Family: An Illustrated Fiction by Garth Risk Hallberg (MBP) $18.95
Look Down This Is Where It Must Have Happened by Hal Niedzviecki (Citylights) $15.95
Oppose and Propose – Anarchist Interventions 02 (AK) by Andrew Cornell $12.00
CHAP BOOKS & LIT JOURNALS
Journal of Ordinary Thought Win 11 $10.00
Austerity Pleasures by James Payne $3.00
Bleed $8.00
MAGAZINES!
Super Market #1 $14.00
Fortean Times #273 May 11 $11.99
Blood and Thunder #16 Womens Roller Derby Magazine $5.99
Paper Apr 11 vol 27 #6 $4.00
Monocle vol 5 #42 Apr 11 $10.00
Molotov Rag #3 Fall 09 and Molotov Rag #4 Win 10:Let It All Out $5.00 each
Z Magazine Apr 11 $4.95
Fifth Estate vol 46 #1 Spr 10 $4.00
CHILDRENS BOOKS!
ABCs of Anarchy by Brian Heagney (AK) $12.99
Disbelief 101: A Young Persons Guide to Atheism by SC Hitchcock (See Sharp Press) $9.9
MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Handbook of Paranormal Powers – Discover the Secrets of Mind Readers, Mediums and More by Brian Haughton (New Press) $18.95
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld by Nicolai Lilin (Norton) $24.95
Sweetest Thing: A Boxers Memoir BY Mischa Merz (Seven) $18.95
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life In the Void by Mary Roach (Norton) $15.95
MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen HC by Mark Blake (Da Capo) $25.00
SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Neu Sex by Sasha Grey (Vice) $30.00
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender Conformity by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Seal) $15.95
POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Fast Feminism by Shannon Bell (Autonomedia) $15.95 – FAST FEMINISM is a new-old feminism grounded in politics, performance and philosophy.
Latin America Diaries by Che Guevara (Ocean) $16.95 – The sequel to The Motorcylce Diaries.
Living In the End Times SC By Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $22.95 – Now in soft cover. If the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Slavok Zizek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal.
Queer America: A Peoples GLBT History of the United States by Vicki L Eaklor and Howard Zinn (New Press) $17.95
Kaboom – Embracing The Suck In a Savage Little War by Matt Gallagher (Da Capo) $16.00
The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa (Autonomedia) $13.95
Anarchism and Socialism Reformism or Revolution by Wayne Price (AK) $21.95
Property Is Theft: A Pierre Joseph Prouhon Anthology (AK) $26.95
OTHER STUFF!
Grime Time Tshirt $20.00 – In a variety of colors.
Party Rats – Colorful Rodent Lights for Your Fingers $5.50 – Like a rave. With pestilence.
Finger Tentacles $2.00 – Guess you’ll just have to come in and see that.
Cupcake Flavored Toothpaste – Makes Your Breath Frosting Fresh $4.50
Efferwescent Bacon Drink Tabs – Just Add Water $3.50
Franks and Beans Bubble Gum – Just Like Grandmas $5.00
Super Awesome Trading Cards First Series 10 Cards $2.50
Busker Folk Series #1 6 Profile Cars 1 Stick of Gum by The Waterbear Appreciation Society $2.00
| Apr ’11 |
| 28 |
| 7:00 pm |
In fourteen linked essays, If You Knew Then What I Know Now reinvents the memoir with all-encompassing empathy—for bully and bullied alike. A father pitches baseballs at his hapless son, and a grandmother watches with silent forbearance as the same slim, quiet boy sets the table dressed in a blue satin dress. Another essay explores origins of the word “faggot,” and its etymological connection to “flaming queen.” This deft collection maps the unremarkable landscapes of childhood with compassion and precision, allowing awkwardness its own beauty.
Ryan Van Meter holds an MA in creative writing from DePaul University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from The University of Iowa. His essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and Fourth Genre, among others, and been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. In the summer of 2009, he was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in California where he is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at The University of San Francisco.
“Ryan Van Meter’s is both a charming and wounding intelligence. To read a book this observant, this fiercely honest, and this effortlessly beautiful is to feel the very pulse of contemporary American essays.”
—John D’Agata
For more info: ryanvanmeter.net
Thursday , April 28th, 7 pm
| Apr ’11 |
| 29 |
| 7:00 pm |
Larry O. Dean reads from his just-released chapbooks, About the Author (Mindmade Books) and abbrev (Beard of Bees), as well as new and collected works. He was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, where he worked with Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Michael Moore. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, and Murray State University’s low-residency MFA program. He teaches literature and composition, and is a Poet-in-Residence in the Chicago Public Schools through the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Hands on Stanzas program. Dean was a recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for teaching excellence in 2004. Selected magazine publications include Berkeley Poetry Review, Passages North, Big Bridge, Keyhole, OCHO, Dinosaur Bees, and Used Furniture Review. His work has been widely anthologized, and translated into Chinese, Italian, and Spanish.
“In About the Author, Larry O. Dean’s anti-author’s note poems do what the author’s note never sets out to do, that is tell us what really makes the most sense. These funny and elegant poems about assertion and negation, give us a poet pushing the edges of his own new genre. The reader is in for an enjoyable and revelatory ride.” –Mark Statman, Tourist at a Miracle (poems) and co-translator, Poet in New York (Federico Garcia Lorca)
“When the author is Larry O. Dean, the odds are the book is very, very good indeed. Like his books that preceded it, About the Author is funny and insightful and has a sneaky way of making serious sense through all the cleverness. Reading this book is smiling with the author while he gives you something new to think about. And, serious though he may be, he never lets you lose the grin. Outstanding!” –Charlie Newman, author of deadmachinecity
In addition, Dean is a singer-songwriter, working both solo as well as with several ‘hard pop’ bands. His numerous critically-acclaimed albums include Throw the Lions to the Christians (1997) and Sir Slob (2001); Public Displays of Affection (1998) and Fables in Slang (2001), with Post Office; Gentrification Is Theft (2002), with The Me Decade; and Fun with a Purpose (2009), with The Injured Parties. He is currently working with producer, Chris Stamey (of The dB’s) on his third solo album, titled Good Grief. Since 2001 he has hosted and performed at the monthly songwriter showcase he created, Folk You!
Dean will be joined by fellow Flint expat, Sarah Carson, associate editor at RHINO and the Communications Specialist at Switchback Books. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Diagram, Epiphany, Limestone, Poet Lore, Strange Machine, and Slipstream, among others. She is the author of two chapbooks: Before Onstar (Etched Press, 2010) and Twenty-Two (Finishing Line Press, 2011).
Copies of the poets’ most recent works will be available for purchase and for signing at this event.
For more info: contact larry@larryodean.com or info@mindmadebooks.com
Fri, Apr 29th, 7PM
Quimby's Bookstore · 1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910 
