 LCRW
No.19, 11/06
An issue that wrestles
with itself. Or, has wrestlers on the cover. Still
coming from zinedom with a b&w cover, fiction,
even prosetry. Or at least poetry. And long maudlin
reflections on the state of publishing, magazines,
writing, hummus, and everything else related to putting
out a zine for 10 Years. 10! How
silly! But what fun.
LCRW
No.18, 6/06
A June Issue. Table of
Contents at last complete. Still waiting for ads for
the Toyota Hybrid (otherwise we are back to a b&w
cover, oh well). No. Really. We mean it.
Toyota, you wouldn't do that to us, would you? We
wouldn't shift the blame (or the choice) for a b&w
cover over to you...
LCRW
No.17, 11/05
This was the New Issue.
Dropped into the streets from our solar-powered glider
fleet.
Now being flown out to
you at your private estate by our private fleet of jets.
Jets, baby, jets. We gave up on the rockets years ago
and the zeppelins are all down south for winter.
Never perfect bound! We
are still and ever full of lies. But, hey, this is three
issues in one year! Wow. Better not make it a habit.
17 things
this zine is doing.
LCRW
No.16, 6/05
Available. A powerful, powerful
experience. Potent, even. More calumny and lies: no perfect
binding. No color (unless it's hand-colored...). Excuses?
We've got a few. None of them good. Ah well. Doesn't affect
the interior, only the perceptions.
A zine that:
-
has a few reviews here
-
comes out twice a year
-
tried and failed to make
a third issue appear
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has experimented
with a color cover and perfect binding and may at some point
return to it
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has had fiction, poetry,
and nonfiction reprinted in The Zine Yearbook and
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
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is, at 68 pages, too thick
for this saddle-stitched (i.e. stapled) format
-
comes with chocolate (we
wish more magazines would come with chocolate)
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is black and white and well
read, misread, and unread all over
-
loves cafes and sometimes
disappears for days
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is printed in 10 point Bodoni,
a surprisingly good early type choice for its combination
of space-saving aspects and high readability
-
would benefit from a proofreader
-
surprises us
- is loved and no doubt hated with equal fervor
but for the most part is unknown
-
keeps coming out, even after
all these long years since 1996. [Wait,
that isn't so long, geologically. It's only long in politics,
movie ticket prices, and software terms.]
-
sells ad space, which is
a pretty funny concept
- somewhat wackily has published
a story by at least one New York Times bestseller
- will no doubt produce a book sometime
- stops us working on books sometimes
- would love to be in more shops
- has queried distros and found that a zine/lit
journal thingy thing is not high on their list of wants. [Huh.]
- always keeps busy, even while waiting, waiting.
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Previously
LCRW
No.15
Also: Foolishness. Cafe
Press now allows adding the same image to tons of products
at once. So, we did. The front page doesn't look like the
image is there but if you click on the 'product' you'll see
Steve Lieber's lovely drawing in Pantone something or other
on natural stock.
Aunt Gwenda's advice
column.
Mea Culpa: This issue was meant
to be perfect bound but due to the chief headbanger banging
his head a little too much over new year, it ended up saddle
stitched. Next time: perfect bound.
No.14
- Columns: L.Timmel
Duchamp and Ms. Gwenda
Bond.
No.
13 - An advice column: Dear,
Dear Auntie and a nonfiction piece: Home
and Security
No.
12 -- A few zine reviews.
No.
11 -- Zine reviews.
Read "The
Rapid Advance of Sorrow" by Theodora Goss and "Lady
Faraway" by Minsoo Kang at Fantastic Metropolis.
No.
10 -- Zine reviews
No.9 -- Zine
reviews, mostly
No.8 -- Zine
reviews, alphabetical, one music review
No.7 -- Prisons
No.6 -- what? Nothing online?
And sold out. Pa.
No.5 -- Read: "A
Mad Tea Party" - Chris Barzak; "Other
Agents" by Richard Butner.
No.4
No.3
No.2
No.1
Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet is published
twice a year by:
Small Beer Press
176 Prospect Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Please make checks payable to Small Beer Press.
Thank you.
"One of the hottest zines
in the business"
--Angle Mag
"tiny but celebrated"
-- The Washington Post
"tiny, but cerebrated"
-- Hugh Jeedjit
"Old
as Methuselah in small-press years, LCRW shows no signs of
hardening of the arteries."
-- Asimovs
zine:
small magazine
DIY: Do It Yourself
Site
updates
Good lord: we're selling ad
space.
We did an event
outside the tinted pages (Quimby's, June 1, 2004). More maybe
of this kind of thing to come, if we get it together. ("We
think it's so groovy now, that people are starting to get it
together.")
Places you can run into us:
Have a look at Kelly Link's calendar
and join us monthly at KGB. (Notes
toward a proper SBP calendar.)
LCRW should be in these shops (or you can use
Paypal):
Atomic
Books, Baltimore, MD
Borderlands Bookshop,
San Francisco, CA
Broadside
Books, Northampton, MA
Downtown News & Books, Asheville, NC
Dreamhaven, Minneapolis,
MN
Pandemonium, Cambridge, MA
Powell's, Portland, OR
Prairie Lights,
Iowa City, IA
Quimby's, Chicago, IL
A Room of One's Own,
Madison, WI
Space Crime, Northampton,
MA
Sqecial
Media, Lexington, KY
St. Mark's Bookshop,
NY, NY
Mark V. Ziesing,
Bookseller, CA
and also (sometimes) distributed by Last Gasp.
Distribution suggestions welcome. LCRW slips
between the cracks -- it's (relatively) cheap, it's b&w,
it's an odd size, it only comes out twice a year -- so it's
not a good fit for most distributors. We send it out to stores
and subscribers (for both wacky groups we are grateful!). Letters
to the usual address.
You want t-shirts, mouse-pads, aprons(?), &c?
Try some of these: LCRW,
Stranger Things
Happen, The
Mount, & Report
to the Men's Club.
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