Welcome to the Quimby's September Newsletter, your source for store announcements, events and notable new items.

Labor Day Hours
Quimby's will be open on Mon, Sept 2nd from noon to 6pm.

Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast Episode #8 With Adam Parfrey & Peter Sotos Now Available

This episode really should be called “We’re Having a Good Time With That Goat, Wish You Were Here: Decadence With Adam Parfrey and Peter Sotos.” Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey, talks about his book Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide, and controversial local writer Peter Sotos talks about the book Pure Filth that he edited. Stream or download this episode and past episodes (it’s free!) on our Podbean site at quimbys.podbean.com. Or find us on I-Tunes!

Thanks!
Thank you to everybody that came out for the opening of On The Wall: Zine Art Meets Gallery Art that we co-sponsored with and at Strange Beauty Show. The show hangs for a few more weeks if you want to see it!


Quimby's was featured on BlogTalkRadio!
You can listen to the interview here on the show I'm Just Sayin'.

Events
Quimby's events are free!
For more info about events at Quimby's, see quimbys.com/blog/store-events.

Maureen Foley Reads From Women Float, with Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson

Thurs, Sept 5th, 7pm
The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography brings three of their MMMarvelous writers: Californian Maureen Foley reads from Women Float and is joined by Mark R. Brand (Long Live Us) and Mason Johnson (Sad Robot Stories).

Black & Brown Press’ On Struggling #3 Event
With Guest Readers Stephanie Camba, Jonas Cannon and Mercedez Gonzalez
Fri Sept 6th, 7pm

The third issue of On Struggling focuses on the theme of bodies, explored through prose, verse and art. It explores the complexities of body issues for people of color, covering topics such as self-hatred and skin color, chronic pain/illness, fatphobia, colonialism and assimilation, sexual abuse, and more.

David Moscovich You Are Make Very Important Bathtime Release Event With Eckhard Gerdes
Fri, Sept 13th, 7pm

David Moscovich’s new book, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, is about an expatriate in a foreign land and his failure to navigate the awkward seas of extreme culture clash. Set in Southern Japan, it is a celebration of the beauty of misunderstanding and the inadvertent poetry of bad grammar. Also reading: novelist Eckhard Gerdes read from 23 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems and The Sylvia Plath Cookbook.

Joe Janes and Friends Present Staged Readings From Seven Deadly Plays
Sat, Sept 21st, 7pm

Joe Janes assembled seven plays, written in dangerous places in and around Chicago. The locations include a speedboat on Lake Michigan, an urban farm in Englewood, the abandoned Damen Silos, a haunted cemetery, a fun house, up in a big tree and Lower Wacker. Each play was submitted to the director and actors the following morning, and they had six days to prepare it for performance, which culminated at the Strawdog Theatre. He's assembled them into a book and he'll talk about it at this event.

Off-Site: Audrey Petty, Editor of High Rise Stories: Voices From Chicago Public Housing, In conversation with WBEZ’s Natalie Moore
Tues, Sept 24th, 7pm at the Hull-House 9/24

In grippin first-person accounts, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects such as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes describe life in the now-demolished high rises. We'll be selling this book, published by McSweeney's. *Please note: this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at 800 S. Halsted St., Chicago IL 60607

Laydeez Do Comics September Edition
Thurs, Sept 26th, 7pm

Laydeez do Comics is a unique salon with a focus on graphic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic, and the everyday. Invited guest speakers have 10-20 minute slots to present works/ideas followed by a Q&A. September’s guests are TBA.

Brian Tuohy Reads From Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI
Sat, Sept 28th, 7pm

Larceny Games digs into the vast underworld of professional sports through interviews with sports gambling insiders and former FBI agents as well as detailing information from more than 400 previously unreleased FBI case files relating to sports bribery to reveal how professional athletes and referees have been corrupted into fixing games in the NFL, NBA, MLB, boxing, soccer, and tennis.

Early Warning Events for October
Danny Bland Reads from In Case We Die - Wed, Oct 2nd

Peter Bagge Presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story - Sat, Oct 19th, 7pm

 

New Stuff
For a weekly listing of new stuff, see our Quimblog at quimbys.com/blog. To see which items are available for mail order, see quimbys.com/store.


Ukiyo-E art-form books
Violence, erotica and horror were popular even in 19th century Japan. These mass produced “images from the floating world” include weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters. Stock up on these art books while they’re still in stock and in print. We suggest these titles published by Shinbaku Books: Night Parade of Hell: Creatures Bizarre Demonic Art (pictured above) by Kawanabe Kyosai $34.95, Outlaw Swords of Death: Warrior & Hero Designs 1825-45 By Utagawa Kuniyoshi $39.95, Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-E: Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoo $39.95.

Home 2014 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00


Zines

'Za The Pizza Zine #2 by Nicki Yowell $4.00 – Hot N’ Ready Pizza Bachelors, pie-ku poems, pizza-wine pairings? ‘Za #2 has got it all, extra cheese.
Mend My Dress #11 A Book of Days by Neelybat Chestnut $2.00 – Made For the 24 Hour Zine Thing July 27th, 2013.
Cheer The Eff Up #5 by Jonas $3.00
Pilsen On the 4th of July by Rick Majewski $6.00
Under the Radar: Notes From the Wild Mushroom Trade by Olivier Matthon (Pioneers Press) $5.00
Xerography Debt #33 (Microcosm) $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies.
 Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: 13 Images of Food Drama by Automne Zingg (Microcosm) $6.00
 Proof I Exist #16 Jun 13 by Billy $2.00
 Meta Zine: It’s a Zine About Zines by Davida Gypsy Brier $2.00 – A primer of sorts from the editor of Xerography Debt.

Comics & Comix

Wet Cough by Michael DeForge $6.00 – A beautiful fully-silkscreened wordless presto-chango comic fresh from DeForge and printed by the genius squeegees at Mille Putois!!
Idyll Of The White Lotus $7.00 – An anthology of comics from Ron Regé Jr.’s Cartoon Utopia Summer Comics Camp at SAW. Centered on visions from Mabel Collins’ novel of the same name, eleven plugged-in comics with standout work from Amy Peltz and James McShane.

Galactic Breakdown #5 Part 1 by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $8.00
Laskimooses #12 Eri Huonoja Enteita by Herra Matt Hagelbergin $7.00
Crass Sophisticate #31 The Poo Is True $3.00
Black Eye #2 by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press) $15.95
Thai Comic Horrors vol 2 by Logan Bay $3.00
Cosmouse #1 by Bernie McGovern $2.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Amazing Facts and Beyond With Leon Beyond: The USS Catastrophe Library of Knowledge Encyclopedia Graphic Almanac Humor by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch (Uncivilized) $24.95 - Meticulously un-researched and full of dubious knowledge, Leon Beyond is part John Hodgman, part garage sale Popular Mechanics. Leon drops knowledge every week in the comics section of the St. Louis Riverfront Times. Discover the world of Memory Palaces, Volcano Graffiti, Baseball Slang, Novelty Rap Commercials, and Knee Hole Skirts. Learn new words and concepts: winkaton, piehabitant, optogenerian. Mark your avante garde cat calendar as you travel to the Pancake and Eggs Nebula.
Nudnik Revealed: The History of Americas Lost Loveable Loser by Gene Deitch (Fantagraphics) $29.99
I Am My Own Stereotype the My Small Diary Collection vol 1 by Delaine $8.00
Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Collects issues 1 – 3 of the New Tales of Old Palomar Ignatz Series.

Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories (EC Comics Library Collection) by Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $28.99
Sunday Comics by Gahan Wilson (Fantagraphics) $29.99
March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $14.95
Smile by Raina Telgemeier $10.99
One Trick Rip Off and Deep Cuts by Paul Pope $19.99 – Now in trade paperback.
Map of Days by Robert Hunter (Nobrow) $18.95
Biografiktion by Ana Albero, Till Hafenbrak et al. (Nobrow) $29.00
Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren et al. $24.99
Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America with Pete Friedrich, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Martin Cendreda, Gilbert Hernandez and more $22.95
Sammy The Mouse Book 2 by Zak Sally (Uncivilized) $15.00

Last of the Mohicans: Ten Cent Manga by Shigeru Sugiura et al. (Picturebox) $22.95
Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Incidents in the Night Book 1 by David B. et al. (Uncivilized) $19.00
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
Over the Wall by Peter Wartman (Uncivilized) $14.95

Art Books

Burgermat Show Poster and Recipe Book (Nobrow) $24.95 - Placemat book of 24 illustrated designs each backed with one of four alternating gourmand burger recipes.
World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter $35.00
Incurable Disorder by Elizabeth McGrath (Last Gasp) $39.95 – For fans of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, and Camille Rose Garcia.
First Ten Years of Needles and Pens by Andrew Scott Martin $12.00 – People ask us if there are other stores we would suggest for cool reading material. Why yes! Have you been to Needles and Pens in San Francisco? Well here’s an oral and pictoral history that proves they’ve been around for at least 10 years. P.S. We do also have some links about Quimby’s-ish stores on our newly updated links page.

Fiction

Collection Short Fiction From the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Leger (Topside Press) $19.95
In Case We Die by Danny Bland (Fantagraphics) $26.99 - Don't miss Danny here at Quimby's in October!
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin (McSweeneys) $22.00
Steel Tsar: Nomad of the Time Streams Novel 3 by Michael Moorcock $9.95 – In this version of history the Axis and the Allies teamed up against Japan. We always need Moor Cock in our our lives. (See what I did there? -Liz).
His Wife Leaves Him by Steve Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Terminal Atrocity Zone by J.G. Ballard, ed. by Candice Black (Sun Vision) $15.95
Momo by Michael Ende with illustrations by Marcel Dazama (McSweeney’s) $22.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc

The Secret Origins of the Crass Symbol by Dave King $12.00 - Dig into some confidential files from Punk Research and Development.
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt $26.00
The Culinary Cyclist: A Cookbook and Companion for the Good Life by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall (Elly Blue Publishing) $9.95
Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman $15.95 – Hey have you heard the news? Scientologists are crazy! Now in soft cover.
Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield $25.99 – From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.
Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders $26.99
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein’s True Creator by Scott Douglas de Hart (Feral House) $16.95
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn $27.50
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
Entheogens and the Developement of Culture: Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience by John A. Rush $27.95

Politics & Revolution
Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams, Will Munger and Glavin Lara Messersmith (AK Press) $21.00

Food & Druuuuuuuugs
Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana Medical Recreational & Scientific by Martin A. Lee $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
Bake and Destroy: Good Food For Bad Vegans by Natalie Slater $19.99

Magazines

Arthur #35 Aug 13 $5.00 - T.Hill, Kevin Hooyman, Michael Hurley, Bernie Krause, mushroom propagation and other adventures in freak culture for trippers and longhairs!
Apology #2 Sum 13 $18.00
Juxtapoz #152 Sep 13 $5.99
Design Bureau Aug 13 $8.00
American Atheist 3rd Quarter 13 $4.95
Frankie #54 $13.95
Capricious #14 $25.00
Murder Most Foul #89 $9.99
Maximumrocknroll #364 Sep 13 $4.00
Fool #3 Food Insanity Brilliance and Love $19.95 – Fool was named best food magazine in the world this year…or something absurdly prominent like that….and it’s really no lie, this thing is solidly written and stylishly presented awesomeness for those interested in eating and curious about living. Glad it made the journey from Sweden to join us at the Quimbystore! -EF

Got a Girl Crush #2 $15.00
Bizarre #204 Sep 13 $10.50
High Times Oct 13 $5.99
Howler #3 Sum 13 $15.00
Monocle Mediterraneo #7 Sum 13 $8.00
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95
The Baffler #23 $12.00
Uppercase #18 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Black Velvet #77 $9.00

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
N Plus 1 #17 Fall 13
Overtime Hour 29 Twenty First Floor by Miha Mazzini $2.00
Boss by Victoria Chang (McSweeneys) $20.00

Sex & Sexy
Teens At Play: End of Innocence by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99