Quimby's Bookstore ⭐ January News!

January News Quimby's Bookstore 1854 W North Ave Chicago, IL 60622 quimbys.com Welcome to 2025! Got any big plans? Is this going to be your year where you make all your dreams come true? Bravo! We can't wait to see that oversized sweater you crochet! Big things are afoot here! If you haven't heard the news, we'll let Dan Kelly break it to you in his piece for Block Club with the headline "Quimby's Bookstore, Wicker Park's Indie Publishing Paradise, For Sale After More Than 3 Decades." Oh, you didn't know? Well it's true. We're not closing, just looking for someone to take this place over, who will hopefully run this place with the same passion and love that we have. Thanks to all our friends, supporters, consignors, shoppers and fans who have expressed their love for this place! We are who we are because of the great folks who shop here and the self-publishers and small presses who sell their work with us. We hope that you keep making, selling and buying the weird reading material that makes Quimby's as special as it is. People often ask us, "How can I support you if I can't make it into the store?" Well, here are 2 very good ways: buy something in our webstore or if you want something we don't have in the store, order from our bookshop.org site. There you go! Scroll down for announcements, info about in-store events, new stuff, and more. On the QuimBlog Still behind on getting gifts for people in your life? Don't miss these posts from December! Gift Guide for RADICALS by Echo * Gifts for the Music Obsessed by C.E. * The Qustomized Quimby's Zine Package: A Most Unique Gift! Quimby's Events! More info about Quimby's free events on our event calendar here. On occasion we livestream our in-store events to Instagram. Offsite: Zine Club Chicago on Marz: People Have the Power at Life on Marz Community Club 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown 7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, January 9th Free! This month, Zine Club Chicago is channeling the strength of collective resistance with a free zinemaking hangout in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y'all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme People Have the Power. Zine Club Chicago will provide all the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club, our favorite locally owned taproom and café space, offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase. The taproom also will be holding a DJ Night that evening, and we encourage y'all to stick around for an awesome selection of garage and punk! For more info: event link at quimbys.com + Facebook event invite + @zineclubchicago on the socials + lifeonmarz.club Zine Club Chicago: No Sleep 'Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout! 5-9 p.m. CT Saturday, January 25th Free! Y'all clamored for it, so Zine Club Chicago is bringing back its after-hours hangout! Is making progress on your zine projects one of your 2025 resolutions? Kick off a creative year with us at Zine Club Chicago: No Sleep 'Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, January 25. Bring your work-in-progress, create a new zine on the spot, or just catch up with other zine folks. We'll stay open until 9 p.m., so feel free to drop in anytime during the evening. Bonus points if you wear your cutest pjs! (This gathering will channel the chill vibe of Quimby's Zlumber Parties of yore.) We'll have zinemaking supplies, creative prompts, and snacks on hand. Zinemakers are encouraged to bring their zines to swap with others! Plus, our own Echo will be offering tarot readings from 5 to 8 p.m.! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the Internet: @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com (see flyer below). Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby's Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the monthly flyers, created the logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we've discussed at our events. For more info: @zineclubchicago on social media + event link at quimbys.com + Facebook event link New Stuff! Watch our New Stuff Saturdays Livestream at 11:30am CT on Instagram: @quimbysbookstore. Lists of new stuff are posted (mostly) weekly at quimbys.com/blog. Zines 8-Track Mind #106: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes by Russ Forster $5 Bookshelf Voyeur #8 On Scrapbooks by LJ Williams $10 New issues (and restocks) of Says Who from Steven at Quimby's NYC! $2 each: Octavia Butler, Genesis P Orridge, Steve Albini & more. KerBloom #171 $2 Papercore #12 International DIY Punk Zine $4 Hellebore Yuletide Hauntings December 2024 $17 Full-Bleed #2 edited by Tony Recktenwald and Edward Witt $6 Fan Fiction: A Satire by Tavi Gevinson (Heavy Manners Library) $15 Anxious Critters #2 by Alex O'Keefe (DnA Artists) $7 Basic Paper Airplane #15 Zines That Never Existed $5 Digging #19 A Memoir Zine by Rachel Lee Carman $7 In the Driver's Seat by Adel Souto $8 From Pleasure Pie, $2 each: How to Make a Menstrual Starter Kit, Sustainable Alternatives for Pads and Tampons, Crymax, A Few Things Everyone Should Know About Sex & more. Where Karl Marx Lived in Paris by David Villegas $2 The Power of Three: A Charmed Fanzine - Season One by Billy McCall $3 Moon Sparkle Flower #1 by April Malig $12 Hotties on Potties Club by Bianca Brandolino $8 King Bourbon #4 by Steve Gentry $5 Here's to the Land: The NC State Toast Fanzine by Erin J. Watson $6 Smother the Earth – A Snailmate Fanzine by Lil Pistons $2 new zines by Jolie Ruin: Slutcake #19 Oct 24 $2, Escapist Artist #74 The Year 2004 $3.50 Sideshow Gazette #1 by Outside Talker Press $7.50 Comics Bubbles #21 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8 From Roostercow: Woodrow Comics #1 $6, Sssnakes #5 $3 (both by Chris Auman), Hose Got Cable $7 A huge shipment from kuš: Various issues of Mini-Kus and š! $6, $14 and more! Knockoff Nancy by Tony Recktenwald $3 Stripburger issues #82-84 $12 each From Small Sword Press: Dumbass #1 by Jenn Woodall $2, Guardian Force September 2024 by Kai Lumbang $5, DNA Fireboat by Jon Inaki $7 You Don't Get There From Here #66 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4 Freaky #11 This One Goes Up to Eleven edited by Andrew Goldfarb/The Slow Poisoner $5 Cat Miscall by Ivy Rose $10 Green Whispers by Sue Cargill $4 Graphic Novels Ultra Heaven vol 1 by Keiichi Koike (Last Gasp) $24.95 War on Gaza by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics) $12.99 Macanudo: The Way of the Penguin by Liniers (Fantagraphics) $24.99 Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria & Warren Pleece (Fantagraphics) $19.99 Lauren Ipsum Under Cover by Charles Brubaker (Small Bug Press) $10.99 Buzzelli Collected Works vol 3: The Revolt Of The Wretched by Guido Buzzelli (Floating World) $34.99 In the City Part 3 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $16 Art & Photo Books David King Publications 1977-2019 (Colpa Press) $28 Good Dogs: Canine Companions in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45 Politics & Revolution Books A Livable Future is Possible: Confronting the Threats to Our Survival by Noam Chomsky & C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $19.95 The History of Disruption: Social Struggle in the Atlantic World by Mehmet Dosemeci $29.95 Music & Film Books Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995 (Last Gasp) edited by Anna Brown $39.95 Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers $19.99 Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott $18 The Monstrous Feminine (Harpy House Press) $20 Outer Limits & Mayhem Books Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown: Jellyboy's Sideshow Saga, by Eric Broomfield (Outside Talker Press) $24.95 The Rise and Fall of the Sideshow Geek: Snake Eaters, Human Ostriches, & Other Extreme Entertainments by Nathan Wakefield (Outside Talker Press) $24.95 DIY Books An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping edited by Erin Segal, Chris Hoff and Julie Cho (Thick Press) $35 Unfuck Your Parenting: How to Raise Feminist, Compassionate, Responsible, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids by Bonnie Scott, Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $17.95 An Urban Field Guide to the Plants, Trees, and Herbs in Your Path by Maggie Herskovits (Microcosm) $14.99 Our Sacred Cycle: A Workbook to Reclaim Your Period from PMS and PMDD by Mary McDonald (Microcosm) $16.99 Fiction Yr Dead by Sam Sax (McSweeney's) $26 How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix $18 Dead Girls Don't Dream by Nino Cipri $19.99 The Case of the Unauthorized Release of Lost Souls by Galicia Midwest $8.99 Poetry & Lit Journals What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt edited by Samantha Rose Hill $26.99 Moss Piglet December 2024 $15 KUMI: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani (Akashic) $36.95 Leaves of Grass: Two Volume Deluxe Collectable Edition Featuring 300 Pages of Writing, Notes, and Ephemera by Walt Whitman, edited by Jesse Nathan (McSweeney's) $92 Magazines & Newspapers RFD #200 $11.95 County Highway vol 2 #4 January/February 2025 $8.50 Austin Seance Quarterly Journal Winter 2024-2025 the Winter Haunts Issue $5 Order From the Quimby's Online Bookshop.org Store Liked books you saw above but you don't see links to buy 'em? Or want stuff we don't carry but you want us to be the store that supplies it to you? Want something shipped since you're not in town? Order from our online Bookshop.org site and have your guilty pleasures that we don't carry shipped directly to you! Also check out our curated lists over there. We get a commission when you select Quimby's as the store, so you're supporting us! Just make sure the Quimby's logo is in the upper left corner. Thanks, friends! Check Out Our Sister Store Chicago Comics! You know we have a sister store a couple miles northeast of us, right? Chicago Comics at 3244 N. Clark St. They sell comics, graphic novels and more. See ChicagoComics.com and their Ebay store for more info. In New York? Go to Quimby's Bookstore NYC! Visit Quimby's founder Steven Svymbersky in Brooklyn! 536 Metropolitan Ave @quimbysbookstorenyc quimbysnyc.com  Copyright (C) 2025 Quimby's Bookstore. All rights reserved. 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