In this newsletter: Zine popup in Seattle. Last call for ordering zines by mail for the summer. A mini photo dump. Links to interesting things to read.
Seattle! Come by the zine pop-up at Drink Books (the book and wine store) this weekend, April 15-16th from noon - 7pm.
Lots of new things that are hot off the press, all risograph printed:
Kim Kent’s new collection of book and wine pairing essays, Drink Books II.
In March Nhatt Nichols came to ANEMONE as a visiting artist, for three days of printing and binding her graphic illustration collaboration with Pablo Airaldi, Grief is Weird, Volume 1.
Family Foods: four filipino recipes from the home by Crescent Calimpong
Cyber Brown, the latest Faulty’s Comics published by Living Room Press… like the Matrix on breakfast cereal and Saturday morning cartoons.
Rooms 1-22 by Alex Barsky, published by Zine Hug. And, Alex made a Birthday Book, a place to record birthdays you don't want to forget.
As well as a selection of other Living Room Press, and Zine Hug titles, including Mystery Star, My Beautiful CEO Vol I & Vol II, Some Days the Dragon Wins Vol 1 (and Vol 2!), and Punk Flayd. And Crescent’s Avocado Dye step-by-step pamphlet! We’ll also bring most of our in-print ANEMONE publications.
Last call for zines before offline summer
We’re planning an offline summer (mostly! maybe we’ll do some newsletter/ig posts to say hey) which means we’re shutting down the online shop soon: the last day to order zines and maps is April 19th. → shop.anemone.studio
It will return in the fall/winter, don’t worry. We also just restocked Left Bank Books in Pike Place and Elliott Bay on Capitol Hill with some titles. And we’re going to stock up Raspberry Bow Press’s soon-to-open bookstore, Book Shucker in Edison, WA.
Some photos
Got to see How to Sew Clothes on the Elliott Bay’s bestseller shelf (!!! <3 you Seattle people!), drafted and sewed some high waist hiking shorts, started work on a second pair, and am in the process of making a bunch more bunnies for friends kids.
Links / Reading
A monastic once told me renunciation can be great if it means giving up things that make you miserable. This vision, I think, is what has been missing when we talk about the climate crisis — and how we should respond to it.
Much of the reluctance to do what climate change requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction? What if the austerity is how we live now — and the abundance could be what is to come?
And:
Practical ideas for revitalizing Seattle’s downtown in The Urbanist
Jack Cheng’s house building and modeling process via Robin Sloan’s newsletter
How do you read so much?
Jane Fonda being asked: “Besides marching and protesting, what else do you you suggest?” “Well, murder.”
Pickled cauliflower was good.
Bon Appétit has a new series called The Receipt — week long diary series on how people eat, how much money they make and have saved. For example: a student in Corvallis, a marketing manager in SF, a non-profit worker in NYC.
Stay in touch, feel free to reply and write back!
Amelia (+ Adam)