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Hey Gang!
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There's been so much going on at the farm and we have tons of new stuff! This last month has been a month of traveling for most of us. Trips out to California to see family and reconnect with our west coast roots, lots of river swimming, zine fests, long drives, but it's good to be back in the mid-west and back on the farm. And just in time for the new Country Grind! Issue 666! So metal! We've been waiting for this one for a long time and we're so stoked to get our grubby hands on it. Jessie helped edit this issue, and Adam and I both have something in its pages, so you should check it out.
While we were on the west coast we got to table the Portland Zine Symposium, organized in part by the most awesome Alex Wrekk. Before we left we picked up a whole bunch of new zines and goodies to add to the catalog. I hope you take some time to look through this massively long newsletter to see everything we hauled back with us in our un-air conditioned car across the country.
Also, at the bottom is a fundraiser to help our dear friend Justin Pearson (of The Locust and Three One G) get life-saving medical care for his pup Gee Gee. If you do help out there are t-shirt, buttons, and more that you can get by donating.
It's late night here at the farmhouse. Our most productive hours are night and early morning, with our day hours spent hiding out from the pressing heat and humidity that summers here in northeast Kansas can bring. It's good to be back home.
Much love from the farmhouse,
Elizabeth
Pioneers Press
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Out Now! Welcome To Your New Life With You Being Happy by Rachel Bell
OUT NOW! Our best-seller for the past month. Welcome To Your New Life With You Being Happy is about love and sex, personal history and basketball. In these pages we see Chicago-based writer Rachel Bell navigate a world that is equal parts hilarious and awful, sweet and rowdy-as-fuck. Ranging from beat-your-brains-in-with-some-big-heavy-car-part-powerful to tender-as-the-tenderest-chunk-of-uh-like-something-really-tender, these poems and prose poems are damn well written and incredibly relatable. Don't slack. Get your copy today or cry sad rivers tomorrow.
Only $7!
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Free Shipping Friday!
Alright kiddos! For the first time ever we are offering free shipping! This coming Friday, August 7th, from 12:01AM to 11:59PM get FREE DOMESTIC FIRST CLASS SHIPPING! Get in on it!
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Doris #30 by Cindy Crabb $3 Says Cindy, "This issue talks about ways we create lives outside the mainstream structure, how we find and build community, and what that can mean to our ability to survive, heal and thrive."
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Doris #29 by Cindy Crabb $2 This issue of Doris includes: "How I Quit Worrying and Learned to Love Being Queer," plus stories and comics about mini horses, voting, helping start a Rock and Roll Camp for Girls, and more!
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Doris #26 by Cindy Crabb $2 Doris zine will make you feel more alive. It's a "per-zine," but throw away any preconceptions of what that word means.
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EVEN MORE NEW. Toldya there was so much new.
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A is for Zebra by Sean Tejeratchi $20 From the artist behind Crap Hound! A is for Zebra is an all-ages alphabet, activity, and art book, intended for lovers of graphic design, typography, alphabets, word play, and vintage commercial art.
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Resist #46 by Mat Resist $4 This massive, 80-page DIY powerhouse is perfect for anyone who wants to add to the list of epic things they can do.
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Zine Crush Volume 3 $2 t's the third volume of Zine Crush, wherein the contributors gush openly about the folks they have fallen in like/love with over the crushworthy contents of their zines.
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Small press, indie publishing, and zine news from around the globe!
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The August edition of Lucy K. Shaw's Shabby Dollhouse Reader is out! Featuring work from Welcome to Your New Life with You Being Happy author Rachel Bell and many others! Go here.
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Did you hear Mellow Pages Library has opened a pop-up location in the Silent Barn? Truth. Next time you're in Brooklyn ...
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Speaking of the Silent Barn, on Tuesday, August 11th they're hosting a Slice Harvester book release party! Info. There will be 69 pizzas available. This is not a lie.
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Don't forget, folks, KC Zine Con is August 29th! Be there. Look here.
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Check out this bad-ass poetry sampler book featuring Juliet Escoria, Carabella Sands, and more!
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Speaking of Juliet Escoria, she did an interview here about the influence of drugs on her work.
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Yo, check out Ladybox Books. Their covers are killin' it.
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Our beloved friends from Wonder Fair Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas are moving to a new street-level location this fall! Their 841 Mass storefront will be taking things up about 4485748574 notches. And that's a big number. Read what the LJWorld had to say about it.
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Our pal Jana Hunter from the band Lower Dens has been writing up a storm lately. Blazing truth in their recent essays. Here's one about white priviledge over at Pitchfork. Here's on the topic of "What It's Like to Be a Female Musician When You Don't Identify as a Woman" at Cosmo.
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Brand-new book by Josh Spilker? Why yes.
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