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Zines
This is a listing of my zines, made and distributed by me. Right now it's just Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out and Reading Log, but eventually I'll add the one offs I've made.
In the meantime, a few details:
2012
Lower East Side Librarian & Friends Menstruating: Librarians and Archivists Keep the Information Flowing. It's half-legal size and 48 pages long with essays, comics and a collage about all things menstrual.
2011
The Shout Out and Reading Log are bound separately. The latter includes reviews of my favorite books and zines I read in 2011. The former is a whinefest about getting older, having a hard time transitioning to a new job, and being sick of NYC. There are journal entries, a list that explains what is so bad about my cat Bad Bad Leroy Brown, two blog posts and contributed essays called What an Occupy Wall Street Librarian Does by Betsy Fagin and Dayenu by Milo Miller. Nicole Martin contributed the OWSL illustration.
The Shout-Out is 54 pages, and the Reading Log is 38 pages. Both are 1/4 legal size and are sold together for $2 unless you are related to me, in which case you are only eligible for the Reading Log.
It's 24 half-legal pages and chronicles the 9-city zine tour I participated in during the summer of 2011 and costs $2.
2010
The Shout-Out and Reading Log are bound separately. Each is quarter-legal size.
The Shout-Out is 46 pages and contains
essays: on social awkwardness, aging, television watching, work, death and family, participating in a home birth
lists: places least likely to find me and things I love
the Facebook 15 authors thing
illustrations: stick figure drawings by me, a contributed drawing by Marissa Falco, "What an Audiovisual Archivist Does" comic by Nicole Martin (who also drew the cover), map of my neighborhood
a piece on marginalia by Rhonda Kauffman
Half size, 35 pages. $2 (comes with Reading Log unless you're related to me, in which case you can't have the Shout-Out)
The Reading Log is comprised of my favorite 12 book and zine reads of the year.
2009
The Shout-Out and Reading Log are separate, but attached. They're both half-size with purple covers.
The Reading Log includes reviews of my favorite 20 book and zine reads of the year.
The Shout-Out has quotes of the year, journal entries, an essay on sexuality, a cats are better than kids list, a day in the life of a librarian, a day in the life of a cat, an zine libraries conference report back, resolutions, thanks and no thanks.
The illustrations are a kind of photograph tracing, and there are some free hand illustrations, as well.
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2008
Contents:
Journal entries
Essay by Emily Drabinski on Gay Marriage
Essay by Chris Dodge, "What an Indexer Does"
Things I am thankful for
Things that are not cat toys
I feel secure when
Guilty secrets
Essay on being vegan
Tribute to Partners the cat
Zine quotes
Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log 2008
Half size, 37 pages. Comes with Shout Out. $1 alone.
Contents:
Reviews of 98 books (2 zines, actually) by
82 female authors
20 authors of color
12 queer authors
19 memoir/autobiography
10 other nonfiction
17 childrens and YA
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2007
Half size, I'll get back to you on pages and contents. $2.
Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log 2007
Half size, I'll get back to you on pages and contents. $2.
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2006
Half size. 36 pages. $1.50, $2 with Reading Log, which it comes with unless we're related.
Contents:
Journal entries
Quotes from books and zines
The Taking Your Husband's Name Thing
Librarians Are Righteous
Dorky Library Humor
Things That Are Revolutionary
Why? Why? Why?
Good Stuff
Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log 2006
Half size, quarter-size one page folding zine, 8 pages. $.50 or a first class stamp.
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2005
Quarter-size, 80 pages. $2.
Contents:
Writerly quotes
Am I Your Jewish Friend?
To Be Named Later (journal entries)
Falling in love
More book and zine quotes
Why? Why? Why?
Anarchist Apologist
Tattoos I'm Considering
Reading Logey
Good Stuff
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2004
Half-size, 48 pages. $2.
Contents:
Cover by David Mulkey
What an Electrician Does
Days in the Life (journal entries)
I Don't Understand
Radical Reference at the Republican National Convention
Assorted Quotes
Reading Logey
Abecedary (collaboration with Laura B. Gardner)
Etiquette Guide to Riding Public Transportation (collaboration with Celia Perez "I Dreamed I Was Assertive")
Good Stuff
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2003
Half-size, 40 pages. $2.
Contents:
What a Librarian Does
Long Day's Journal into Night
Assorted Quotes
Reading Log
Coney Island Tribute
5th Street Tribute
Good Stuff
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2002
Still more newsletter than zine. I called it a "zineletter." Half-size legal, 20 pages. $1.
Contents:
La Vida Guatemala
Reading Log
Foo on Goo
Jury Doody
Cross Pedestrian
Assorted Quotes
Thanksgiving List
Exit Stats
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2001
Really more of a newsletter than a zine. Out of print
Zine correspondence should go to
leslzine@gmail cxx. (figure out what the xes stand for)
I accept cash through the mail and have a paypal account.
Bluestockings and Quimby's also carry my zine--when I keep them stocked, anyway.
You can write to me via snail:
Jenna Freedman
203 Rivington St. #3C
New York, NY
10002
I accept unsolicited trades only for library worker zines.
