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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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    Auto-Erotica

    Stacia Saint Owens
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    Man Suit

    Zachary Schomburg
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    Eyeheart Everything

    Mykle Hansen
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Zines
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Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2
Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2
by Alex Wrekk
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A brief, but engaging, and eminently useful guide to doing a zine. From tools to layout, copying, printing, trading, promotion, ordering, mailing, distribution, and a whole lot more. Nearly 150 (albeit pocket sized ) packed pages. Includes a handy... (read more)

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Fiction and Prose
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AM/PM
AM/PM
by Amelia Gray
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If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In "AM/PM, " impish humor and cutting insight are on full... (read more)

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Zines
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Cattapan Comics 2007 Buttons
Cattapan Comics 2007 Buttons
by Brian Cattapan
Publisher Comments
Now you can get 4 full color 1.25" geeky buttons of my cartoon characters along w/ my top 10 comics in a 12 pg book! Time to geek out!...Joy!... (read more)

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So Late, So Soon: A Memoir
So Late, So Soon: A Memoir
by D'Arcy Fallon
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D'Arcy Fallon offers an irreverent, fly-on-the-wall view of the Lighthouse Ranch, a Christian commune she called home for three years in the mid-1970s. At 18 years old, when life's questions overwhelmed her and reconciling her family past with her future... (read more)

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Poetry
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Man Suit
Man Suit
by Zachary Schomburg
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I think Schomburg may be my new favorite Portland poet. While reading The Man Suit, I felt both an eerie sadness and joyful wonder. These little poems, with their odd recurring themes and sober delivery, are full of untraceable magic and humor. After... (read more)

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All Over
All Over
by Roy Kesey
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"A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are-comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passionate. A distinctive new voice, from a distinctive new press."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Includes "Wait,"... (read more)

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Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, + Pranks
Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, + Pranks
by Justin Chin
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In a time when memoirs are often less than they claim to be and essays do not say enough, Justin Chin breaks onto the scene with a collection that is a combination of confession, tirade, journalism, and practical joke. Mongrel is a cross-section of Chin... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Friday, November 20, 2009
The Collected Fanzines
  1. The Collected Fanzines
    by Harmony Korine and Mark Gonzales
  2. Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2
    by Alex Wrekk
  3. Parts
    by Molly Gaudry
  4. Mcsweeneys 5
    by June 2000
  5. Mockery of a Cat
    by Lily Hoang
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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