Its a Galactic Zoo out there!

Galactic Zoo 7

Wow the magical Drag City Space ship just double parked in the bus stop to deliver a box of the brand NEW hot off the presses Galactic Zoo Dossier #7. Over 100 pages, more trading cards and yet another double CD compilation of crazy jams you would never hear otherwise. What a way to start the week!

Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, is coming to Quimby’s!

Aug ’07
11
7:00 pm

Reading Comics

Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, will be at Quimby’s, Saturday, August 11th, 7:00 pm. As usual, it is a FREE EVENT!

In Douglas Wolk’s READING COMICS: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, fans have a collection of criticism about the artists and writers they admire most: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Alan Moore and David Gibbons (Watchmen), Dave Sim (Cerebus), Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Dr. Strange), Keith Giffen (Legion of Super Heroes), and more; and newcomers have a history of how comics evolved, a diverse list of the comics worth reading, and a context for how to read, consider, and discuss comics.

Adult Beverages!!!

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Don’t bring a drink in a book store unless you know how to keep it from damaging stuff! 4 REAL!! Wet plastic cups set atop books is not a good look! Check Yourself!!!

New Stuff 7/17/07

pitchfork

Wow its Pitchfork weekend and the hood is extra jumping. Carloads of bandannas wearing bandannas pouring out into the streets to shop, eat and drink. Midwest masses we welcome you! Some nice new stuff! New Ganzfeld and in our free area along with the new Skeleton News, is the new ANP Quarterly which just landed so come get your free copy before they disappear!!!!

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Dancing Girl Press Presents Poetry

Jul ’07
14
12:00 am

Dancing Girl Press Presents Simone Muench, Brandi Homan & Erin BertramSaturday, July 14th, 7:00 PMfree
 
Dancing Girl Press presents an evening of poetry with:
 
Simone Muench is a poet, editor, assistant professor, and horror film fan. She is the author of *The Air Lost in Breathing* (2000) and *Lampblack & Ash* (2005) recently released from Sarabande Books. Her chapbook, Orange Girl, is due out from dancing girl press in July.
 
Brandi Homan\’s chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, is available from Dancing Girl Press . Her work has appeared in magazines like Salt Hill, North American Review, Fugue, CutBank, Natural Bridge, and others. She recently completed her first book-length manuscript.
 
Erin M. Bertram is a fellow in the MFA Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes for The Vital Voice and edits shadowbox press, which publishes progressive writing, always by hand, and often by underrepresented writers, with a tendency toward poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias , and Ugly Accent. Two chapbooks are forthcoming: Alluvium (dancing girl press, 2007), and, with Sarah Lilius, Here, Hunger (NeO Pepper Press, 2007).