Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

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A selection of hand-picked gems from our downtown Portland store. Minimum order of $8.

Degrassi Digest: Volume 1 cover

Degrassi Digest: Volume 1

298 pg. softcover

A collected edition of the free fanzine that appears magically in our free bins on a near weekly basis.  This book contains the full publication from October 2006-August 2008.
Get your fix of Degrassi news and cats.

$10.00

 
Doris: An Anthology 1991-2001 cover

Doris: An Anthology 1991-2001

320 Pages, paperback, 6.5x8"

An anthology of one of the first and best personal zines to come our way. I think Doris has been with us since the very beginning and will probably remain until the bitter end.

From the publisher, "Cindy writes her zine, DORIS, like she is figuring out the human condition. She makes writing about the simplest and most common things - playing music, childhood, cooking, or sex, resonate with universal understanding. She helps us make sense of more complex things like the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability to use logic, gender dynamics, introspection, the need for challenge and change, combating depression, and creating art and literature. She shares and explores the emotions that go along with having an abortion, rape, dealing with the death of family, or sexual harrassment in a context that is enlightening and personal, feeling like a close friend opening up to you. What's most impressive though is that she relates these things into every article in her zine seamlessly."

$14.00

 
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Fushigi Circus

By Mark Ryden

128 pages, 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches

A collection of the works of Mark Ryden. Features new works, including Blood, Sweat, Tears, and The Creatrix. A survey of 55 of Ryden's most impressive works from past shows to the present. 1st edition, mint condition, sealed.

$65.00

 
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In Search of the Lost Taste

By Joshua Ploeg

"Joshua Ploeg's cooking blows my mind so much that a secret door opens in the back of my head and white doves, musical notes, and winged horses fly out. His cooking is transcendent: Dangerous, strange and perfect. It's full of colorful tastes that explode in your mouth like Pop Rocks flavor combinations you never thought possible. Crazy alchemy. Freaky magic.
Joshua's the Traveling Chef; you make an appointment, he shows up at your house with a load of groceries, makes an incredible multi-course vegan meal using your pots and pans, and then he's gone like the Lone Ranger riding into a big Texas sunset.
Joshua's been in a bunch of hardcore bands and he brings all the good things punk rock gave us: risk, passion, creativity, and weirdness; then he applies them to his meals. I randomly lucked into one of his dinners last year. I usually eat really fast and mindlessly, but I had to take this one slow and let all the flavors develop and do their respective stuff. Each had its own distinctive note its own voice that rang out to let it be known that it was something special and unique. It was an experience in the finest sense of the word." -Adam Gnade

$8.00

 
Indestructible cover

Indestructible

By Cristy C. Road

90pgs., 5.5"x8.5" perfects bound,offset b/w illustrations

$6.00

 
Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints cover

Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints

By Annie La Ganga

Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints (Red Hen Press, 2009) is a memoir told in a collage of monologues and poems about awkward grieving, bad judgment, and important stoners. Through lyrical passages, conversational stories, diary excerpts (and one silly sonnet) an artist's life is revealed. A range of voices that are funny, depressed, deluded, idealistic, cynical, wise, compassionate, and warmly bitchy tell the story of a person determined to make a good life out of her creative mistakes, family traumas, and clumsy relationships. Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints is the first book written by Annie La Ganga that she didn't print and staple together herself.

$15.95

 
Swift Winds cover

Swift Winds

By Ron Sakolsky

"Eberhardt Press is pleased to present Ron Sakolsky's backpocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserabilism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination."
-from the publisher

$8.00