1. Plant Life for Human Lesson Vol 4: Animal Lesson by Jo Dery $5.00
2. Venus Zine #38 Win 08 $4.50
3. Bust Feb Mar 09 $4.99
4. Hot and Cold Running Ghosts by Grant Reynolds $3.00
5. Swindle #19 $8.95
6. Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis (Buenaventura Press) $13.95
7. Be a Man by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $3.00
8. The Tree Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse) $40.00
9. Public Phenomena (Temporary Services) $15.00
10. Proximity #3 $12.00
People in jackets, cars blasting music with the windows down, its like crazy global warming out in the streets today! Speaking of hotness some hot new stuff came in from Marcel Dzama, Carrie McNinch, and Martha Cooper this week. Also don’t forget tonight the Unlympic Spelling Bee is happening in the store some come watch the competition.
| Feb ’09 |
| 7 |
| 7:00 pm |
Join us for an evening of vocabulary gymnastics! The Spelling Bee, the ultimate grade-school competition of intellectual prowess and rote memorization, comes to Quimby’s Bookstore for one night only.
The Official Unlympics Spelling Competition will be held February 7 at 7 p.m. Attendance is free and open to the public, but potential competitors wanting to relive childhood glory days in front of an adoring, live bookstore audience must sign up in advance by replying to the blog entry at: http://tinyurl.com/unlympic-spelling-bee with a full name and email address. The spelling competition will be limited to 50 individuals and competitors will be charged a $5.00 entrance fee.
About The Unlympics:
The Unlympics is a month-long sporting event series intended to encourage active dialogue—extremely active dialogue—around the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. The Unlympics looks at highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive sporting events not from a pro or con standpoint, but from a questioning standpoint.
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to be the official bookstore and intellectual sponsor of the 2009 Winter Unlympic Games.
http://tinyurl.com/unlympics-chicago
http://tinyurl.com/unlympic-events-schedule
http://tinyurl.com/unlympic-spelling-bee
1. Butt #25 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Handbook Vol 3 #1 2009 $6.00
3. The Tree Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse) $40.00
4. Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #6 $17.00
5. They Shoot Homos Dont They 005 $11.50
6. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs $7.00
7. Cabinet #32 Fire $12.00
8. Make Your Own Damn Alcohol by Jarrod $1.00
9. Found Magazine #6 $5.00
10. Boys Club #2 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $4.95
| Feb ’09 |
| 12 |
| 6:00 pm |
Join us for an evening of readings featuring Matthew Vollmer, Kevin Moffett and Peter Orner, This will be a release event for Vollmer’s new collection, Future Missionaries of America (MacadamCage), and McSweeney’s Issue 30.
About the performers:
Kevin Moffett was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. His collection of stories, Permanent Visitors, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, A Public Space, Harvard Review, The Believer, The Chicago Tribune, and Best American Short Stories 2006. He has received the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing.
Matthew Vollmer’s work has appeared in Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, and New Letters. His first collection of stories, Future Missionaries of America, will be published in January by MacadamCage.
Peter Orner is the author of the novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and the story collection, Esther Stories, Finalist for the Pen Hemingway Award. He recently edited a collection of non-fiction, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, published in 2008 by Voice of Witness/ McSweeney’s. Orner’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares and twice been a recipient of the Pushcart Prize. In 2006, Orner was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Chicago, he currently lives in San Francisco.
