Quimby’s welcomes back Anne Elizabeth Moore on May 17th at 7:30pm CT for an exclusive online live event on the Quimby’s Instagram to celebrate the re-release of her award nominated collection of essays Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes.

Long out of print, Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics. This new edition features an updated introduction and new essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro, who designed the most recent Quimby’s bookmark in celebration of the rerelease of this book.

Moore will read from the book, give a tour of her studio, followed by a Q&A.

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative, probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror is “sharp, shocking, and darkly funny. . . . Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.

We are over the moooooooon about these new bookmarks Xander Marro made for us, celebrating the book!

Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD. She is the author of Unmarketable (2007), the Eisner Award–winning Sweet Little Cunt (2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, and others. She is the founding editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and the former editor of Punk Planet, The Comics Journal, and the Chicago Reader. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, has taught in the Visual Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was the 2019 Mackey Chair of Creative Writing at Beloit College. She lives in the Catskills with her ineffective feline personal assistants, Taku and Captain America. Her podcast My Inevitable Murder is available through Patreon and other places like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find her on IG at @aem.oore.

For more info, see annelizabethmoore.com.

Anne Elizabeth Moore Body Horror Event Online
Wednesday, May 17h, 7:30pm CT
at
https://www.instagram.com/quimbysbookstore

Order Body Horror here.
https://www.quimbys.com/store/11637

Afraid your online question during the event will get lost in the scrolling internet ether? Email info(at)quimbys(dot)com in advance and let us know what you’d like to ask Ms. Moore.

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