Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Feb 22nd – Feb 28th, 2009

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1.    Butt #25 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2.    Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #6 $17.00
3.    Roy Orbison in Clingfilm by Ulrich Haarburste $10.00
4.    I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz (Three Rivers Press) $12.95
5.    Public Phenomena (Temporary Services) $15.00
6.    Roctober #46 $4.00
7.    Giant Robot #58 $4.99
8.    McSweeney’s #30 $15.00
9.    Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches To Landscape Cartography and Urbanism by Nato Thompson (Melville) $29.95
10.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99

Alert! Alert! Michel Gondry Event Cancelled!

Due to last minute circucmstances beyond our control (cough Green Lantern cough), the Michel Gondry Event scheduled at Quimby’s Bookstore on Saturday, March 14th has been cancelled.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes, including getting your hopes up and everything. We’re just as bummed as you are, I assure you!

XOXO,
Quimby’s Bookstore
Michel Gondry Event Cancelled

New Stuff 3/07/09

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Not many new books this week but the magazines and zines are steping up to the plate with nice new issues of Stop Smiling, Venus, East Village Inky and Bitch to name a few. Just to reiterate the Gondry event has been canceled next week-sorry! But we will still be here if you want to come say “hi.” I promise we don’t smell…well not that bad.

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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of March 1st – March 8th, 2009

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1.    Stop Smiling #38 $6.99
2.    The Nation Guide To The Nation by Richard Lingman and the Editors of The Nation (Vintage) $19.95
3.    Juxtapoz #98 Mar 09 $5.99
4.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
5.    McSweeney’s #30 $15.00
6.    Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #8: Journal of Absurd and Surreal Fiction $5.00
7.    Avery #4 Anthology of New Fiction $10.00
8.    Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream #2 $3.00
9.    Humanbeing Lawnmower #2 Win 09 $5.00
10.  13 Years of Good Luck by Joe Biel, Dylan Gaylan Wilkerson and Chris E Lynch (Microcosm) $2.00

New Stuff 3/14/09

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We’ll forgive you if the hordes of weekend warriors drunk on the perfume of light beer and greased up in shamrock green have you too scared to leave the house! But for the brave souls that do venture out, with great risk comes even greater reward! So put on your rain boots avoid the green puddles and come get those goods: including a new issues of Cinema Sewer, a nice new book of Basil Wolverton’s bible illustrations, and much more.

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