Moth Atlas Vol. 2
Field guide to the moths that land on the studio window. Hand-set titles, sprayed halftones.
$14
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The zine library
Two hundred and fourteen titles on open shelves, ninety of them cataloged below. Most are tradable: bring a zine we do not have and it buys you shelf credit at a generous exchange rate. The card files at the counter hold the rest, plus our full run of embarrassing early trades.
Cut Paper Quarterly
Eight artists, one drum each. Every copy's registration is a little different. That is the point.
$12
Night Shift Diner
Comics from the 2am shift at a diner that may not exist. Printed on reclaimed cover stock.
$10
Tide Tables for Inland People
Poems about water the author has never seen, arranged by imaginary tide height.
$9
Purely Technical
Diagrams of machines that were never built, annotated by an engineer who plays along completely.
$13
Climb Music
Track notes from a stairwell DJ set series, printed in gold that only shows at an angle.
$8
Seed Library Songs
Folk songs for specific vegetables, plus actual seeds stapled into the back pocket.
$11
Bridge Report
A photo essay of the six bridges you cross leaving this city, in two inks and one grudge.
$12
Negative Space Club
Drawings of everything around the thing. The thing itself is always white paper.
$9
Rent Ledger
A year of one building's rent history as bar charts. Distributed free at the counter.
$5
Second Color Problem
A treatise on overprint that is secretly a breakup zine. Heavy paper, heavier subtext.
$15
Florilegium for a Parking Lot
Botanical drawings of every weed growing in the lot behind the studio. Annotated sourly.
$12
Twin Lakes Fanzine #4
Swim logs, folklore, and one ongoing argument about a loon, four years running.
$10
Swell
Surf comics from someone who lives four hundred miles from the nearest swell.
$11
Firefly Count
Kids' firefly census data, hand-tallied, printed by us for free every June.
$6
Descent
A photo descent into the Grainger parking garage, floor by floor, beautifully and pointlessly.
$13
Night Garden
Linocuts of flowers that only open after dark, printed in violet and metallic gold.
$12
Rainbow Roadkill
A color-theory zine that opens with the worst sentence in publishing and earns it back.
$10
Static
Interviews with AM radio hosts about the exact sound of their dead air.
$14
Fiscal Hill
Financial advice for artists, in chart form, mostly wrong, very funny.
$8
Orbit Studies
Risograph studies of orbital diagrams for atoms the artist invented. Chemistry-adjacent art.
$12
Peony Riot
The year the community garden's peonies bloomed all at once, told by nine growers.
$10
Double Bill
Program notes for paired screenings, written like love letters between the two films.
$9
Static Bloom
A hybrid: half essay on sleep, half insomnia zine you are meant to read out of order.
$13
Grain Rates
History of the grain elevator we work inside, self-published by the historical society.
$6
Ledger Lines
Sheet music for songs that cannot exist, notated correctly. Musicians are furious and delighted.
$12
Buoy Report
Kids' notes from a summer counting buoys. One buoy gets a name and a full spread.
$7
Compost Chronicle
A zine about decomposition that is somehow uplifting. Temperature charts included.
$9
Meridian Lines
Essays on the lines we draw on maps and the ones they draw back on us.
$13
Signal Fires
Dispatches from fire lookouts across the country, printed in scarlet, naturally.
$12
Twin Cinema
Two novellas printed on facing pages, designed to be read in either order.
$14
Wake
A single long poem about ferries, printed to look like a ferry ticket.
$8
Stairwells of City Hall
Drawings of every stairwell in city hall, some of which officially do not exist.
$15
Field Notes: Fall
Watercolor studies converted to two inks, annotated by a botanist who lets herself have fun.
$11
Xerox Ghosts
An oral history of the lost art of the copy shop. Printed partly on actual copies.
$10
Decibel City
A noise map of one neighborhood, measured by residents with borrowed meters.
$8
Ring Theory
A math comic about rings, fields, and one very confused mathematician's love life.
$13
Botany of Small Rooms
Houseplant portraits with the dignity usually reserved for racehorses.
$11
Arches of the Overpass
Photos of the four arches of the Route 6 overpass, printed like a religious text.
$10
Fireworks Ledger
A data zine counting every neighborhood fireworks show, sadly, with charts.
$7
Twin Engines
A comic about two sisters, two motorcycles, and one shared helmet, unexplained.
$12
Riptide Reading
Short fiction by open-water swimmers, proofread at 6 am, it shows in the best way.
$9
Downbound
A comic descent through a fictional subway system that runs on rumor.
$13
Bloom County Adjacent
Garden failures of one suburban block, told with honesty and a decent soil chart.
$9
Static Cling
The follow-up to Static: AM radio listeners respond, at length, in handwriting.
$11
Gold Standard
The sequel to Fiscal Hill, somehow worse advice, somehow better jokes.
$7
Orbit Studies II
More invented atoms. The physics department has stopped returning our calls.
$13
Night Garden III
Third in the night-flower series, printed with real restraint and zero gold (we ran out).
$12
Arcade Report
Field guide to every working pinball machine in the city, with repair notes.
$12
Flare
A wordless comic about a lighthouse keeper's last week. Devastating, gorgeous.
$12
Double Feature
Program notes from the summer repertory series, plus one apology to the projectionist.
$9
Static Bloom II
The insomnia zine gets a sequel, which is fitting, because sleep is still elusive.
$13
Tenement Steps
The descent continues: floors 8 through 12 of the Grainger garage, plus a surprise basement.
$14
Seed Library Songs II
More songs for vegetables. This volume includes a ballad for an ungrateful squash.
$10
Negative Space Club II
More drawings around the thing. This time the thing is a person, and it hits different.
$10
Rent Ledger II
Year two of the building's rent history. The bars go up. Obviously.
$5
Second Color Problem II
The breakup zine gets a reconciliation arc. The overprint metaphor holds.
$15
Florilegium Vol. 2
More parking lot weeds, including a dandelion the artist has clearly fallen for.
$12
Twin Lakes Fanzine #5
The loon argument resolves. Nobody is happy. It is perfect.
$11
Swell II
More surf comics, still landlocked, still completely convincing.
$11
Barcode Poetry
Poems that scan. Each line length matches a real barcode. The checkout at the co-op reads them as soap.
$8
Heat Map
A winter of radiator complaints, charted. The building lost. The zine won.
$9
Duet for One
A comic about practicing cello alone that is secretly about the drummer who left.
$12
Crossing Water
Essays on ferries, borders, and the particular patience of waiting rooms.
$13
Arcadia Files
History of the garden district in nine lots and one eminent-domain fight.
$11
Aurora Ledger
A month of sky reports from a city too bright to see the sky. Sad, hopeful, gold.
$8
Stairs Are Upside-Down Water
The Tide Tables author returns with a second thesis, even less defensible, even better.
$10
Night Shift Bloom
The diner artist's botanical turn: houseplants at 3am, drawn with real tenderness.
$11
Ring Theory II
The mathematician gets a date. The rings get a wedding subplot. Peer review pending.
$14
Cut Paper Autumn
The autumn issue. Nine artists, one drum each, a school bus yellow we special-ordered.
$14
Static Fields
The copy shop oral history continues: toner, gestures, and one exorcism (disputed).
$10
Fiscal Hill III
Trilogy complete. The advice has not improved. The margins have opinions now.
$8
Orbit Studies III
The invented atoms have invented feelings. The physics department still says nothing.
$14
Twin Cities, Twin Zines
A split zine made with a Minneapolis swim club. The loons are compared. It escalates.
$12
Tide Tables II
More imaginary tides, this time with a foldout chart that is genuinely useful for nothing.
$12
Fire Escapes of Broadway
Sequel to the stairwells. The fire escapes have better angles and worse lawyers.
$14
Arcade Report II
Four new machines installed since volume one. The repair notes get emotional.
$13
Night Garden IV
The gold is back. Abelès promised restraint. Abelès lied, gorgeously.
$15
Negative Space Club III
The thing this time is the reader. We are not sure how they did it.
$11
Swell III
Volume three goes freshwater. Landlocked no longer, still mostly at a pool.
$12
Barcode Poetry II
More scannable poems. The co-op asked us to stop. We declined politely.
$9
Rent Ledger III
Year three. The bars go up. The union bought us a thank-you lunch, so, worth it.
$6
Duet for Two Cities
Program notes from a two-city screening series, printed in both cities' inks.
$12
Wake II
The ferry poem returns with a return ticket. Printed to look like both halves of a round trip.
$10
Arcadia Files II
More lots, more history, one more eminent-domain fight resolved (mostly).
$12
Aurora Ledger II
The sky report continues. This year the city dimmed one street and everyone saw one star.
$9
Stairs Are Upside-Down Water II
The third thesis arrives. The series has a theme song now, played on a stairwell.
$11
Night Shift Bloom II
More houseplants at 3am. The monstera gets a two-page spread and a name.
$12
Ring Theory III
Trilogy complete. The wedding happens. The math holds. Nobody is more surprised than us.
$15
Cut Paper Winter
The winter issue, printed in blue and a white we special-ordered. Nine artists again.
$14
nothing on the shelf under that filter · try another ink
Showing 90 of 214. The full catalog lives on the shelf and in the card files; ask at the counter and Dev will find anything in under a minute, a party trick he denies practicing.
Shelf talk
Four zines worth a longer look
spotlight · theoryshelf V-3
Second Color Problem, volumes I and II
D. Washburn wrote a treatise on overprint that is also, structurally and emotionally, a breakup letter. Volume one argues that two inks make a third color nobody chose, "the relationship that exists only in the overlap." Volume two, printed three years later, is the reconciliation. The overprint metaphor holds all the way through, which is either brilliant or unbearable and we have had this argument at the counter eleven times.
Printed on heavy cotton rag because Washburn insisted, and it cost them a month of drum hours on the payment plan. The registration drifts wider between volume one and volume two. We think that is the point too.
spotlight · communityshelf A-1
The Seed Library Songs series
Every spring the Providence Seed Co-op writes folk songs for specific vegetables and we print them with actual seeds stapled into a back pocket. Volume one's tomato song is genuinely moving. Volume two includes a ballad for an ungrateful squash that we legally cannot describe without laughing.
These are the zines we print for free, every year, as the library's way of being a library and not just a shop. The seeds are real. The squash's behavior is documented.
spotlight · writingshelf H-4
Static and Static Cling
A. Wu spent a year interviewing AM radio hosts about the exact sound of their dead air. The first volume is forty pages of people taking silence extremely seriously, printed in pink and blue because Wu said the book should "sound like interference." The follow-up is the listeners' side: handwritten responses, printed at 90% scale so the handwriting reads at real size.
It is the library's most-recommended pair. Ask for shelf H-4 and the cards next to it; Dev has annotated the card file with a arrow labeled "read in this order or don't bother."
spotlight · comicsshelf C-2
Night Shift Diner
J. Olvera's comics from the 2am shift at a diner that may not exist. The eaters are regulars. The cook has not blinked since 2019. The coffee is always the wrong temperature for what is happening in the panel, and Olvera insists this is deliberate.
Printed on reclaimed cover stock from a job that canceled, which is why every copy's trim is slightly different. We told Olvera this. Olvera said "good, the diner is like that too." It is in the library's top three checkouts by trade-credit volume and it has never once been in a shop window.
Recent arrivals
Sixty more from the shelf
Every title below came in through the trade window or a friend's backpack. Browse slow, the good ones hide between the genres.
field guide · new arrivalshelf F-2
Tide Table Poems
Twelve months of high tides for one Newport beach, each one annotated with what the water brought in. Edition of 90, two of them misnumbered on purpose.
humor · new arrivalshelf A-4
The Group Chat Archive, Vol. 3
Three hundred screenshots of one family chat, printed with the typos intact and the names changed badly. Edition of 150.
essay · new arrivalshelf E-1
On Borrowing Pens
A short book about the objects we lend and never see again, dedicated to every Bic that never came home. Edition of 120.
nature · new arrivalshelf N-5
Crow Patrol, Second Watch
The evening crow commute, revisited from a different rooftop after the first lookout got a new landlord. Edition of 65.
cookbook · new arrivalshelf C-2
Vinegar Trials, Expanded
Now forty-one vinegars, the egg replaced by a control potato after complaints from egg loyalists. Edition of 100.
memoir · new arrivalshelf M-3
The House That Leans, Addendum
Eight more pages the farmhouse demanded, including the story of the barn cat the first book skipped. Edition of 40.
music · new arrivalshelf U-1
Open All Night: The Playlist
A companion record-list zine for the 24-hour businesses book, sequenced for the 3am shift. Edition of 85.
typography · new arrivalshelf T-2
Counter Forms
Follow-up to The Quiet Type: this time the spaces inside letters get the whole essay. Edition of 95.
science · new arrivalshelf S-4
Sleeper Lines, Annotated
The original drawings reprinted with margin notes explaining what each night's dinner was. Edition of 90.
urban · new arrivalshelf B-2
Utility Pole Survey, Vol. 2
The second mile. The staples get weirder. A flyer for a lost parakeet from 2019 is finally identified. Edition of 90.
found · new arrivalshelf G-1
Wrong Number, Again
The dentist retired; the number went to a bowling alley; the voicemails got better. Edition of 150.
art · new arrivalshelf L-3
Chartreuse Studies II
The defense rests: six more prints arguing that the color is underrated. Edition of 95.
place · new arrivalshelf W-2
The Last Payphone, Updated
It still works. Someone taped a note to it that says 'still works.' The note is reproduced at full size. Edition of 75.
food · new arrivalshelf F-4
Recipes I Stole from My Landlord, Vol. 2
The rent discount ended, the recipe exchange did not. Nine new dishes, one of them just a good way to cut onions. Edition of 130.
design · new arrivalshelf D-2
Bus Shelter Poetry: The Broadside Years
Collected broadsides from three winters of weather-tested poems, printed exactly as they faded. Edition of 160.
memoir · new arrivalshelf M-5
Second Language, Third Draft
Year fourteen of English: new chapter on idioms involving weather, which remain unbeatable. Edition of 80.
media · new arrivalshelf I-2
Feed Lot: The Comments
The reply sections to the original feed archive, printed verbatim, sorted by how late they were posted. Edition of 110.
theater · new arrivalshelf H-2
The Understudy's Almanac, Closing Night
Final entry: the lead showed up. What that felt like. Printed with one extra ink nobody asked for. Edition of 75.
garden · new arrivalshelf P-3
Persistent Vegetables, Winter Trial
The neighbor has been replaced by a fence, and the sunchokes survived it. Updated zone notes. Edition of 100.
interview · new arrivalshelf O-2
Soundcheck: The Second Shift
Eleven more engineers, this time about the four minutes after doors, which is louder in every sense. Edition of 80.
nature · new arrivalshelf N-7
Moth Week, The Reprint
Back by demand, with two moths that were mislabeled the first time and one new 3am visitor. Edition of 55.
reference · new arrivalshelf R-3
A Field Guide to Waiting Rooms, The Appendix
Fish tank census, chair armrest taxonomy, and a four-page essay on the magazine_year problem. Edition of 80.
essay · new arrivalshelf E-3
The Infinite Corridor, West Wing
The hallway study continues into the wing built in 1961, which has opinions of its own. Edition of 70.
object · new arrivalshelf O-4
Milk Crates: The Legal Chapters
The sequel nobody requested: crate law, crate theft, and one very patient dairy lawyer. Edition of 130.
poetry · new arrivalshelf B-3
Unquiet Naps: Morning Pages
The dreams' daytime answers, printed on the cream stock the originals refused. Edition of 35.
photo · new arrivalshelf W-3
Hours of the Laundromat, Night Cycle
Same building, 2am flashlights, the washers photographed mid-cycle by headlamp. Edition of 60.
travel · new arrivalshelf V-2
Hitchhiker's Arithmetic: The Return Leg
The ride home took 41 lifts and is tabulated with the same love as the way out. Edition of 40.
community · new arrivalshelf K-2
The Telephone Tree, Second Ring
Who answers now: the block's network mapped again after two houses sold and one grandmother refused to. Edition of 55.
science · new arrivalshelf C-3
Interference Patterns: The Poster Book
Twelve moire compositions printed at poster size, each one fighting the viewer's glasses. Edition of 90.
work · new arrivalshelf J-2
Working Hands: The Retirees
Twelve of the forty came back after clocking out for good. The hands look the same. The portraits do not. Edition of 70.
place · new arrivalshelf L-2
Atlas of Missing Elevators: Vol. 2
Three promised elevators arrived. They are marked with a stamp we designed for exactly this. Edition of 45.
night · new arrivalshelf D-2
Blue Hour Blues: Second Exposure
The twenty cooperative minutes, chased through a different season with different clouds. Edition of 60.
food · new arrivalshelf G-2
The Pantry Audit: Restock
March versus December again, one year later, with a pie chart of regrets. Edition of 110.
music · new arrivalshelf N-3
Nobody Asked: The B-Sides
Six more records that sold fewer copies than the band has members, one of which is now famous. Edition of 85.
craft · new arrivalshelf A-3
Abecedary of Repair: X, Y, Z
The alphabet finishes: xylophone key, yacht winch, and the zipper we all deserved better from. Edition of 90.
survey · new arrivalshelf P-4
The Nap Census: Night Shift
The survey extended to people who sleep at noon professionally, meaning bakers and one disc jockey. Edition of 120.
memoir · new arrivalshelf S-3
Snow Day Ledger: The Thaw
The winter that had no snow days, recorded anyway, in ink the color of sleet. Edition of 90.
essay · new arrivalshelf B-4
On Holding a Door: The Revolving Chapter
New material on revolving doors, which change the mathematics of courtesy entirely. Edition of 130.
urban · new arrivalshelf R-2
Pigeon Infrastructure: The Rooftops
Access granted to two rooftop coops, photographed with the owners' blessing and their aesthetic advice. Edition of 70.
color · new arrivalshelf Y-2
Rust Is a Color: The Patina Set
Pigments pulled from objects the owners finally agreed to give up. One was a bicycle. It is fine. Edition of 65.
dream · new arrivalshelf J-3
Dream Journal: The Email Threshold
New footnotes on the discovery that 60% of dreams were, in fact, about email. Edition of 90.
night · new arrivalshelf O-3
Night Bus Ontology: The 4am Terminus
The route ends at a depot that has no business being as beautiful as it is. Essay printed to match. Edition of 60.
humor · new arrivalshelf V-2
The Vending Machine Census: Repairs
The A7 at the Route 1 rest stop was fixed in August. We drove down to verify. We ate the verification. Edition of 150.
field · new arrivalshelf B-2
Salt Marsh Sketchbook: Storm Week
Four drawings made during the October nor'easter, one from inside a car with permission. Edition of 60.
music · new arrivalshelf C-4
Kitchen Band Tour Diary: The Van
The alternator survived. The colander section got its own chapter, as it should. Edition of 75.
reference · new arrivalshelf W-2
Winter Swimming for Cowards: The Safer Book
Revised with an actual safety chapter, demanded by everyone who read the first one. Edition of 140.
essay · new arrivalshelf T-2
Truck Poetry: The Flatbed Anthology
Mud flaps got their own section, as promised, and a foreword by a long-haul poet. Edition of 170.
place · new arrivalshelf C-2
Corner Store Architecture: The Additions
Awning angle measurements from four new stores, plus the exact blue finally identified. It is Riso Blue. Of course it is. Edition of 95.
garden · new arrivalshelf A-3
Apartment Plant Cartography: The Move
Fourteen apartments become twenty-two; the odds column gets its own legend. Edition of 110.
survey · new arrivalshelf S-2
The Compost Zine: Year Two
The pile has opinions. The roommates have fewer. A heat map of the heap closes the book. Edition of 120.
history · new arrivalshelf O-3
The Wigwam Burns Down: The Insurance File
Twelve accounts become thirteen when the insurance adjuster's report surfaces. It does not help. Edition of 35.
memoir · new arrivalshelf L-2
Long Distance: The Last Fax
The machine finally died in March. Its final transmission is reproduced, and it was about bread. Edition of 70.
work · new arrivalshelf I-3
The Intern Memoirs: The Alumni Issue
Six interns return as managers. The scores settle differently now. Edition of 100.
nature · new arrivalshelf F-3
Feral Wall Calendar: The Second Printing
Reprinted with a thirteenth month, because the crack by the laundromat kept growing. Edition of 200.
poetry · new arrivalshelf P-5
Bus Shelter Poetry: The Long Poems
For shelters where the bus is always late. Four poems, each sized to a 40-minute wait. Edition of 160.
essay · new arrivalshelf M-2
Manual of Public Weeping: The Weddings
The venue taxonomy expands to its emotional extreme and finds the ceremony aisle. Edition of 90.
science · new arrivalshelf S-5
The Sock Hypothesis: Peer Review
Two laundromat owners and a statistician respond. The dryer remains unconvicted. Edition of 130.
essay · new arrivalshelf Q-2
The Quiet Type: The Loud Appendix
Letterforms that do their best work when everyone stares: warning labels, bail notices, one beautifully angry parking sign. Edition of 95.
field · new arrivalshelf M-2
Moth Week: The Porchlight Sessions
Audio transcriptions of the moth porch, which is mostly silence and one excellent moth. Edition of 55.
food · new arrivalshelf C-3
The Diner Logbook: The New Owners
The diner survived. The coffee rings in the new edition are reproduced from the original pages, which survived better. Edition of 65.
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Trade it in for credit, or sell it on consignment. We take anything honestly made, including ours we regret.