Poetry From Nicole Wilson, Kate Dougherty, and Patrick Culliton

Jul ’10
6
7:00 pm

Nicole Wilson is the Assistant Programs Director of Poetry and Literature at Columbia College Chicago. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Coconut, Fifth Wednesday, RealPoetik, pacificREVIEW, Rabbit Light Movies, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others.

Kate Dougherty’s e-chapbook, We Trundle We Ignite, is forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press. More poems are published or forthcoming in The Carolina Quarterly, Cannibal, SIR! Magazine, Used Cat, and Action Yes. Kate holds an M.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago,Hornet Homily where she served as editorial assistant on Court Green.

Patrick Culliton’s chapbook Hornet Homily is available from Octopus Books. Recent work has appeared, or will soon, in Another Chicago Magazine, Beeswax, Conduit, Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. He teaches at UIC and Loyola.
For more info: http://www.octopusbooks.net/

Eugene Nelson Jr. Reads From Covert Operations: Alpha

Jul ’10
1
7:00 pm

Covert Operations: AlphaWhen asked about his influences, Eugene Nelson Jr. points to three enduring sources: growing up on the Southside of Chicago in the 1970s and 80s, playing Role Playing Games with people all over Chicago, and loving my family everyday. Not a likely combination for a writer, but one that has brought forth Covert Operations: Alpha (AuthorHouse Publishing), a debut book that is filled with action, love, friendship, death, mystery, humor, magic, betrayal, technology and vengeance. All set here in the back drop of Chicago. Fast paced and intriguing, Covert Operations: Alpha’s science fiction marks the difficulties of everyday life in a world that has evolved into a powerful society filled with powerful beings. This book will wake up every brain cell you have in an effort to understand each character and their actions. Just when you think you understand something, everything will change and so will your understanding. This is the thinking man’s book and you will enjoy every moment of it. So check your equipment at the door and get ready for the time of your life as you are introduced to the world of Covert.

Bad attitudes meet sophisticated intelligence, and underground crime meets big business in this involving debut book. Eugene Nelson Jr.’s complicated characters and rude cut offs in Covert Operations: Alpha evoke a self-absorbed population. Eugene Nelson Jr., who still lives in Chicago, works from home now and spends most of his time creating new and exciting tales from his role playing game by the same name of Covert Operations.

For more info: http://covertoperationsalpha.com/

Quimby’s T-Shirts!

Quimby's employee not included.

Quimby's employee not included.

QUIMBY’S T-SHIRTS?!  Ahem.  I mean, Quimby’s T-Shirts.  For the first time since Quimby’s arrived on your home planet of Earth, you can wear our family crest on your chest!  We decided to go pretty simple for our maiden voyage into the world of wearables: our logo (designed by the mighty and valiant Chris Ware) printed 5″ on black, pre-shrunk 100% cotton shirts.

These little treasures were printed just down the street at our neighbors’ Broken Cherry, and we’ve got a bunch of them in an assortment of sizes:

Ladies’: X Large, Large, Medium, Small

Men’s: XX Large, X Large,
Large, Medium, Small

Ankle Biters’: Size 2, 3, 4, 5/6

You can stop by and exchange $14.99 for it. Or if visiting the store would involve a plane ticket, you can always make us do all the work (with a little help from the United States Postal Service) by ordering it here.

Weekly Top 10 & a Cool Photo

We went to pick up books from the Independent Publishers Group warehouse on the south side. They had conveyer belts all over the place. It was like a highway system. We figured they wouldn’t let us take a ride on it, so we took a picture of it to show you how cool it looks.

IPG Warehouse

IPG Warehouse

And here’s this week’s top 10 bestsellers here at Quimby’s:

1. Is It THE FUTURE Yet by Mucha Corinne $3.00 – A Quimbys Bookstore exclusive edition!

2. Blue Yodel No 8 mm by Lamb $2.00 – Images from a reel shooting spree. Shooting film, that is.

3. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

4. Juxtapoz #113 Jun 10  $5.99

5. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

6. Bitch #47 $5.95

7. Squinty #1  by Sua Y00 $5.00

8. Poop by Sam Sharpe $2.00

9. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac $6.00

10. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – New comic for local artist superstar.

New Stuff This Week

Zines/Chap Books
Love Your Blood #1 by var. $2.50
Explorers Are We #2 $1.00
Overtime: Hour 13 Hollywood Cowboys by GD McFetridge $2.00 – From the folks who bring you The First Line.

Comics & Mini Comix

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Mineshaft #25 $7.00
– A comic-driven all-star zine. In addition to nice short comics by C. Tyler and Nina Bujevac, Sophie and R. Crumb let you peek at their sketchbooks and R. also gives you a glimpse of his dream diary- where we learn that he’s even a curmudgeon while sleeping. ALSO of note: Kim Deitch reviews the Crumb Genesis comic, Simon Deitch talks dodos and Pat Moriarity has a nice bar comic and Jim Blanchard does a glorious drawing of a bear. Feels real family-style, if your family was all famous cartoonists.

Comics Section San Francisco Panorama McSweeneys #33 $10.00 – Cuttin’ right to the chase.
Sundogs #10 by Adam Pasion $3.00
Werewolf #2 by Josh Rosen $5.00
various new things by Liz Prince! Including Four Squares #1, I Swallowed the Key to My Heart, Delayed Replays vol 3!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Dust To Dust #1 By PKD with var. other (Boom) $3.99
Mope vol 1 by Matt McClure $5.00
Chutzpah #1 May Jun 10 by Naomi Kane $5.00
Scorched Earth by Josh Kramer $3.00
Oak & Linden #1 and #2 by Pat Barrett $6.00 & $3.50

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Poseur #3 by Nat $4.00
– Shocking tales of electrifying thrills, and other strange and charming short comics to amuse and bemuse.

Crude Dude Comix #6 by Jose Angeles $3.50
Hate Baby #1 Sum 10 by Corinne Halbert $7.00

Graphic Novels & TPBs
Search For Smilin Ed by Kim Deitch (Fantagraphics) $16.99
The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D&Q) $19.95
Wednesday Comics HC: The Worlds Greatest Heroes The Worlds Greatest Comics (DC) $49.99 – Huge anthology with Tons o’ artists, like Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, and more! We only got 1, so you better race here and get it.
Scalped vol 6 Gnawing TPB by Jason Aaron & RM Guera (Vertigo) $14.99
Dungeon Quest Book 1 by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Captain Long Ears Diana Thung (SLG) $12.95 – So cute!
Death Trap by Lane Milburn $10.00
Psychoshit Fuck by Jose Angeles $25.00

Mags & Lit Journals

Venus Zine #43 $4.50
Artifice Magazine #1 $7.00
Giant Robot #65 $4.95

Fiction & Poetry
These Children Who Come at You With Knives and Other Fairy Tale Stories by Jim Knipfel (Simon) $14.00
Light Boxes by Shane Jones (Penguin) $14.00

DIY
Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac $6.00
Above the Pavement the Farm Architechture & Agriculture at PF1 by var. (Princeton) $19.95
Yum Yum Bento Box Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches by var. (Quirk) $16.95

Mayhem, Outer Limits, Trouble Makin’
Beyond the Matrix Daring Conversations With the Brilliant Minds of Our Times by Patricia Cori (North Atlantic) $18.95
Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00

Art

Graffiti Asia by var. (Laurence Ki) $24.95 – Comes with a DVD
Nymphonomena by Pat Barrett $6.00

Essay/Political
No Impact Man the Adventures of A Guilty Liberal Who Attempts To Save The Planet by Colin Beavan (Picador) $15.00
Made By Hand Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder (Penguin) $25.95 – Written by the founder of Boing Boing and Editor in Chief of Make
Wheres My Wand One Boys Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole (Penguin) $24.95
Lexicon of Labor More Than 500 Key Terms Biographical Sketches… by Emmett R Murray (New Press) $17.95
Not Written In Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks by Kyle Ward (New Press) $22.50
End of Major Combat Operations by Nick McDonell (McSweeneys) $12.95

Music Books
Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, From the 33 1/3 Series by Richard Henderson (Continuum) $10.95
Perfecting Sound Forever an Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner (Faber) $17.00

Other

Louis Sullivans Doors of Chicago Poster by Matt Bergstrom $20.00 – From the maker of the Build Your Own Chicago and New York Postcards.