CARTF.A.Q.
MAILORDER?
Please check out our Trading Post online. The only items currently available for mailorder are listed there. We do not conduct mailorders by phone, so please e-mail us with any questions.
CONSIGNMENT & DIRECT ORDERS?
Reading Frenzy takes any locally self-published magazine, zine, journal or chapbook on a consignment basis -- come by any time with 5-10 copies of your title and we'll set you up. All other merchandise, i.e. books, t-shirts, posters, cards, etc. is at our discretion. Please provide samples and/or catalog for consideration. All others, send a sample copy or catalog to Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St. Portland, OR 97205. Make sure and include contact info, cover price and any distributors you use. If we think your title will sell well here and it is not available through a distributor we will contact you, if we don't you will not hear from us. Our terms are standard: we pay 60% of the cover price, about 90 days from receipt, with the option to make whole copy returns. We donate most of the samples we receive to the IPRC Small Press Library -- one of the largest and best organized in the country! Open to the public, seven days a week or browse on-line at www.iprc.org .
ART SHOWS
Reading Frenzy hosts two big annual group shows in February (Valentine's Invitational) and December (Cheap Arts & Crafts Bazaar), the remaining months feature solo exhibits and small, thematic group shows. We are typically booked three to six months in advance. If you're interested in showing your work here, please submit at least 6 images of your work (we're not picky about format), as well as a written description, proposal and resume. We feature unknown, emerging and established artists. We're partial to comics, graphic art, street, pop and political art. We've also been known to show interesting collections -- mac & cheese boxes, found poloroids, etc.
EVENTS
We host a handful of monthly literary events. Our in-store capacity is small -- around 50 -- but we can accomodate bigger events at other venues. If you're interested in setting up an event with us, please send us a copy of your publication, along with contact and tour info. We suggest booking two to three months in advance.
NOT OUR CUP OF TEA
Reading Frenzy is devoted to independent media and art. Our main focus is on progressive and radical politics, independent art and culture, feminism, alternative comics, and quality smut. As a general rule we are not terribly interested in science fiction, horror, fantasy, new age, self help, sports, religion, or most poetry. There are rare exceptions. You have been warned.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CRAP HOUND & DISHWASHER...
Sean Tejaratchi, editor of Crap Hound now lives in Los Angeles, California and is currently working on Crap Hound #7 & 8: Church & State to be published by Show & Tell Press in 2007. Other than issues #5 & #6, which were reprinted by Show & Tell, back issues are out-of-print and unavailable. We will be reprinting #2-4 as soon as we are able. Please sign up for our mailing lists on the front page to receive updates about new issues/reprints. Please DO NOT contact us about availability (unless you want to pay to have them printed, in that case let's talk!) of other issues.
Pete Jordan, of Dishwasher fame, currently resides in Amsterdam with his lovely wife Amy Joy (both former RF staffers) and their son Ferris. His book Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States (Harper's Perennial) came out in Spring 2007. Back issues are out-of-print and unavailable, but we are planning on reprinting the final issue #16 sometime in winter or spring 2008.
CONTACT
If you'd like to get in contact with us, you have a few options, but before you do, please check out our FAQ to the left, maybe we've already answered your question. There are only so many hours in the day, and frankly there are not enough of them to answer every query we receive. So please, read up before you write us! Specifically, please DO NOT contact us about the availability of back issues of Crap Hound. If it's available it's on the Trading Post. If it's not, you'll have to wait. If you want to be the first on your block to find out when a new issue is released, please sign up for the appropriate mailing list on our front page.
Email:
Post:
Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St. Portland, OR 97205
Phone:
(503) 274-1449
Hours:
Monday-Friday: 11am-7pm, Sunday 12pm-6pm
