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July Distro Update

What's New

Bravery on a Bus (Zine) ($6)- Our feature of the month! An amazingly written zine about volunteer work and travels in Tanzania. …

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 13, 2012 at 1:57am — No Comments

New Issue of Rad Dad (+ the Rad Dad book)

Just picked up these new Rad Dads yesterday. As always, totally awesome.

Rad Dad #21

"Another issue of Rad Dad- the awesome, long-running zine on radical parenting. This issue has a focus on the Occupy…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 10, 2012 at 2:15pm — No Comments

March's Distro Update!

NEW

Cow Card (Greeting Card) ($3)- An offset print cow card. Blank inside with fun cow facts on the back.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 6, 2012 at 2:00am — No Comments

October Distro Update!

New!

2012 Famous Faces Wall Calendar (Calendar) ($8)- A wonderfully unique wall calendar. Unnamed pop stars from other eras looking gorgeously otherworldly.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on October 18, 2011 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Finding My South Asian Identity in Literature

I want to explore a little bit more about South Asian identity and where it comes from for young South Asian Americans. I grew in a multi-racial (but still primarily white) neighborhood with few Indians and no Bangladeshis my age, so I may only speak for myself in this post, but where I found a lot of my role models was in books. …

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Added by Jordan A. on June 14, 2011 at 11:49am — No Comments

Etsy- Now with more pictures! Page numbers! Sizes!

Due to popular demand, our dearest distro employee, Chask'e, got to work and entered a bunch more information for most of the 75 zines we have on Etsy (and some of the books, as well). Included now is: number of pages! zine sizes! inside images! some back covers, even! All of which might give you a better…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 29, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

April Distro Update!

(New)

Angry Violist #3 (Zine) ($3)- The latest in this great little zine all about non-classical string instrument fun.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 12, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Almost Gone!

Just realized there's a long list of things about to go out of print and/or out of stock and maybe a little 'last chance warning' was in order. There were so many I forewent the descriptions and just provided links, please forgive my haste.

Zines

7 Minutes in Heaven…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 8, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

March Distro Update!

New!

Awkward Sex (Zine) ($4)- (perhaps) strangely, Awkward Sex is one of the most affirming zines I've read in a long time.

Flesh and Bone (Zine/Graphic Novel) ($6)- "An Ignatz-nominated comic book about tragic romance, Satan worship, graveyard masturbation, a cannibal witch,… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on March 8, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

LIBRARIES UNDER THREAT OF CLOSURE

It may not be happening in your neighbourhood yet, but if the UK manage to close down all of it's branch libraries because of so-called cost cutting, it could happen anywhere. Please support this by sharing with others.

http://zenith57g.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/libraries-under-threat/

Added by Mike O'Hare on February 17, 2011 at 8:10am — 3 Comments

Newsletter for October!

Hello! A new season is upon us and, though I'm ridiculously cold, I couldn't be happier. I love fall. This last month has been harvesting from the garden, touring, being sick, and getting the house ready for some winter nesting. It's been tumultuous in its seeming calm. It's kind of hard to believe so much happened in such a short amount of time. But it did and it was (mostly) good and here we are at a new month, a new season, and a new newsletter. Hope you all are well and I would love to send… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on October 5, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

New!(sletter for September)

Hello all! And a warm welcome to the many new folks who signed up at last week's Portland Zine Symposium, a blast that cleaned us out and filled us up. Many new things, many things we need to restock. I've been a bit obsessed with helping orchestrate/conceptualize a tour, so my mind has been in the clouds and I've been catching up on distro-related things very slowly. Despite my slowness, this month is still one of the best months ever. Especially if you want to do some reading. It runs the… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on September 7, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Junk Drawer Zines in the Big Apple

Some Junk Drawer zines can now be found in New York City.

All are for sale at Bluestockings bookstore. They have a fine selection of books and zines, and a few Chicago zines. Junk Drawer issue #1 is in the zine library collection at ABC No Rio.

Both these places are on the Lower East Side, and are worth checking out. They are great supporters of independent writing and zines.…

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Added by Eric Bartholomew on April 4, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

My Zine is Now a Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that is correct. The Silk City Series is now a book, being published by Knickerbocker Circus Publishing, a small press out of Astoria, NY.

It's a collection of stories about the everyday lives of working-class people in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. The book has already garnered praise from publications such as Maximum Rock n Roll Magazine, who said "...the presentation is very beautiful and put together with an eye for the antique, forgotten, miserable and… Continue

Added by Eric Nelson on January 29, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

some olde reviews just to pass the time and revive the blogosphere

Z Gun – a yankee newsprint old school zine in a new world that had a great word up with Mike Doskocil about Drunks With Guns, has heaps of reviews for bands I’ll probably never hear cos I’m flat broke but has plenty of spirit, guts and leaves black ink on yr fingers. What more could you need in this new world of blogs and glossy personal zines and shite. I got mine from Big Star here in Adelaide which surprised the fuck out of me but then the world is getting’ smaller.… Continue

Added by kami on January 10, 2010 at 7:37pm — 3 Comments

"Junk Drawer" Zines in Artist Made Books Exhibit

Three zines from my "Junk Drawer" series will be part of an exhibition of artist made books at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. There will be 13 other artists and writers featured, and from what I've seen, most seem to be pretty accomplished. And then there's me, with little photocopied, stapled zines. Nothing fancy, but somehow they're in an art exhibit. Well, I'm just glad that zines are being recognized along with other "art books," as they call them.

The show takes place… Continue

Added by Eric Bartholomew on January 3, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE! No. 12 Release Party

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 8, 2009 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Eight-Stone Press Publishes SMILE, HON No. 11

BALTIMORE – Get hot and bothered this summer with Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 11, the latest installment in the award-winning series published by Eight-Stone Press.

In this issue, SIOBHÁN FITZPATRICK plants petunias in Pigtown; LISA SINGER’s anger management reserves the right to refuse service; SOMMER MARSDEN leads the way into temptation; CARYN COYLE turns heads; and PIPPY ROCKWELL considers the… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on June 16, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

Kinda Forgot To mention....

I kinda forgot to mention these books of mine are now out! You can buy them and make me a very happy Batling.

Yay!

(note to zinester pals because they're published through Lulu.com I can't trade for them.)

Sweet Angel, Suicide Kiss- $10.50 59 pp. (Pocket)

Now with more blood and indie rockers! Sweet Angel, Suicide Kiss is the story of a young girl named Angel. Just your average 17 year old with average troubles and average motivations. The only…

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Added by Lola "Batling" Jones on February 24, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

SMILE, HON: Because We Like to Watch

WHO: Eight-Stone Press

WHAT: Open-mic “auditions” of Baltimore-related stories, essays or poetry for an upcoming issue of the award-winning SMILE, HON, YOU’RE IN BALTIMORE! series. (Five-minute max. time limit per presenter. Non-presenters also welcome and encouraged to attend.)

WHERE: Baltimore Chop Books, Music & Coffee House, 625 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore 21230 (near the… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 10, 2008 at 11:34am — No Comments