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    Wee Hour Martyrdom

    Jason Tandon

Check out this Powell's Books ad as seen in Ms. magazine. Many thanks to Aron Nels Steinke for letting us use the great image from his zine The Super Crazy Cat Dance! The Super Crazy Cat Dance as featured in Ms.

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The Collected Fanzines
The Collected Fanzines
by Harmony Korine and Mark Gonzales
Publisher Comments
Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony and Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They’d stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like “Mae West go... (read more)

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    Blue Mesa Review #13

    Julie Shigekuni

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The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty
Publisher Comments
Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) and Nate Beaty (Brainfag Comics) edited a really comprehensive guide of things to do in Portland, OR. Features tons of information on various neighborhoods, bridges, eateries, hangouts, bars, places that sell zines, and how... (read more)

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Fears of Your Life
Fears of Your Life
by Michael Bernard Loggins
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This is a book about scary things: all the things that you're afraid of.... (read more)

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Zeek the Martian Geek Full Color PT 2
Zeek the Martian Geek Full Color PT 2
by Brian Cattapan
Publisher Comments
ZEEK gets his 2nd full color comic book. Witness his satires of ALIEN, Raiders, StarWars and more in full geeky color! Plus ZEEK and Nurdy learn the ups and downs of Earth's leisures like camping & bowling. Plus there's one more New comic about Mars... (read more)

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Some Things That Meant the World to Me
Some Things That Meant the World to Me
by Joshua Mohr
Publisher Comments
Following a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, Some Things That Meant the World to Me is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic, and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American... (read more)

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Partial List of People To Bleach
Partial List of People To Bleach
by Gary Lutz
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"Despite its brevity and zine-ish format, Gary Lutz's bold and original new story collection feels like one of the season's biggest books....This thin chapbook is currently the best way to get a lump of Lutz. Savor it." Michael Miller, Time... (read more)

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A Tomb on the Periphery Signed
A Tomb on the Periphery Signed
by John Domini
Synopsis
A Tomb on the Periphery echoes the troubled Naples of Domini's highly-praised novel Eathquake I.D., but with an entirely new tale. Part crime story, part ghost story, part coming of age, part redemption song, Tomb is about Italy's underground market in... (read more)

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69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
by Stewart Home
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This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and her sex life revolves around the... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Collected Fanzines
  1. The Collected Fanzines
    by Harmony Korine and Mark Gonzales
  2. The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
    by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty
  3. Fears of Your Life
    by Michael Bernard Loggins
  4. Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2
    by Alex Wrekk
  5. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
    by Chris Ware
Small Press | November 7, 2009

Kevin Sampsell: IMG Small Press Conversation: Mykle Hansen and Andersen Prunty



When I took over the small press section at Powell's about eight years ago, I was immediately won over by a colorful little paperback book by local... Continue »
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Original Essays | October 28, 2009

Rachel Sherman: IMG Living Room



In my novel Living Room, I write about the pain of mothering — about mothers who do not know how to be mothers. I finished my edits on the... Continue »
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    Living Room

    Rachel Sherman
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