tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154793165396230292024-03-18T20:59:07.407-07:00@ PFBBook world news from Pulpfiction Books, 2422 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Updated as time permits. Correspondence to pulpbook@gmail.com, or visit us at pulpfictionbooksvancouver.comcjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-3758570772270623862021-12-28T16:00:00.000-08:002021-12-28T16:00:09.849-08:00Winter 2022: PFB is Hiring!<p>Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver’s legendary independent bookstore, seeks two or three mature, enthusiastic individuals to join us full time in calendar 2022, in response to an ongoing surge in business. These position(s) are new positions; they do not reflect turnover of existing staff and are meant to provide support for our current operations and for some exciting upcoming business expansions, of which news in due course. We are in no hurry to hire and are willing, if necessary, to spend months locating and hiring suitable & temperamentally kindred candidates. </p><p>The successful candidates will: </p><p>• Be comfortable taking on any role in the business, which might involve, on any given day, moving 100+ 40 lb. boxes; shelving or pricing books for an entire 8 hour shift; breaking down the cardboard recycling; working the cash desk; building shelves; cleaning; transferring stock between branches, etc. </p><p> • Work 40 hours per week. <b>These are full time positions</b>. Please do not apply if what you really want is a part time gig or side hustle; our unique and somewhat idiosyncratic business model doesn’t really do part-time, and <b>we’re unable to consider candidates who’re unable to work 40 hours (5 weekly 8 hour shifts) a week</b>. </p><p> • Not currently be attending college or university full time, or planning to within two or three years. <b>We ask for a minimum 1 year commitment, and a longer period is strongly preferred</b>. Almost all of our current staff have been with us for 5+ years! </p><p> • Be available for a variety of shifts, including mornings, evenings, and weekends at all three of our locations. A valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle is preferred but not required. </p><p>• Possess good practical intelligence, and the ability to work quickly and multitask under pressure. The jobs involve a lot of physical and mental activity, and are best compared to fast-paced restaurant work. Those interested in standing behind a cash desk socializing and/or being paid to read will not be a good fit with us. There’s lots of physical activity, in an often cluttered and hectic environment. <b> Those expecting a calm environment where job responsibilities don’t really change from day to day, or a white-collar office job that involves tranquil desk work & lots of time to write memos, develop org charts, etc. will also not be a good fit for these positions</b>. </p><p>• Be client-focused. Each time we hire we invariably interview folks who know lots about books, but very little about client service, and even less about sales. We can teach our retail systems to almost anyone, but can't teach empathy and good judgment, which are more elusive components of character, and highly prized around here. </p><p>• Previous book-related experience is helpful but not required. Almost all of our current staff came to us with no previous bookselling experience of any kind. </p><p> • Have a wide familiarity with contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction. </p><p> • Already possess an undergraduate degree or equivalent work history.
• Bring other skills and abilities to the table. Examples: social media (Twitter; Instagram); basic accounting and/or bookkeeping skills; carpentry; HTML; SQL, PHP & MYSQL coding experience, etc. </p><p>We offer competitive compensation of $21-$26/hr depending on experience and specific job responsibilities, paid vacation in excess of what BC labor standards require, and a vibrant, entrepreneurial work environment. </p><p>To apply for these positions, please forward a detailed resume to pulpbook@gmail.com. </p><p><b>Please, NO phone calls, non-resume email queries, or walk-in requests for employment</b>. </p><p>We thank all applicants for your interest, but may not, depending on resume volume, be able to reply everyone.
</p>cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-86687209160989926062020-03-18T12:58:00.002-07:002020-03-21T18:25:23.299-07:00COVID & PFB (The Short Version)Just a short note to update you on how we @ PFB are handling the Corona pandemic.<br />
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All 3 of our shops remain OPEN for the foreseeable future, absent a "shelter in place" order from the city, province, or feds.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Please note that our hours have changed effective 3/21/2020, until further notice: </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Main Street 10am-7pm Mon-Sat, Sun 11am-7pm </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Kits 11am-7pm Mon-Sun </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Commercial Drive 11am-7pm Mon-Sun </b></span><br />
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We are sanitizing highly trafficked surfaces (door handles; debit
machine pinpads, etc.), & not permitting more than 10 clients at a
time in each location.<br />
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We are still actively buying and trading books at Main Street and
Commercial Drive. We are NOT currently buying at our Kits location.<br />
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Some folks may not want to come into the shop(s), but would still like
to pick up books! We can take orders by phone (604.876.4311), email (<a href="mailto:pulpbook@gmail.com" target="_blank">pulpbook@gmail.com</a>) or twitter (@pfbvan), and are mailing out and delivering packages every day.<br />
<br />
$50+ at once gets free delivery anywhere from Pemberton to Hope, and we
are happy to try to work smaller orders into our full time delivery
driver's schedule at no additional charge.<br />
<br />
I have also been asked, "What happens if you are legally required to
close?" If we're closed we're closed, along with everyone else for the
duration of a legal closure, although in practice we will probably be
around Main Street at least a few hours a day to answer email, take
orders, prepare orders for delivery, & etc.<br />
<br />
I think it is also important to mention that our staff will be paid, to
the best of my ability, through any business closure, & not laid off
<i>en masse</i>. This is a moral, not legal requirement; I feel that
this is the least I can do for the very talented and hard working folks
who have chosen, for better or for worse, to join their fortunes with
mine.<br />
<br />
Please contact me directly if you have questions; I am almost always around.<br />
<br />
Best,<br />
<br />
Christopher Brayshaw<br />
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Commercial Drive shop to ask if we were buying books. A staff member said we
would be happy to look, and the client brought books down to offer for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between the client’s phone call and his arrival at
the store, the staff member took a phone call from another bookstore that made
him feel uncomfortable about buying the client’s books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When the client arrived, the staff member did not
discuss the concerns raised by the other bookstore with the client, but simply
said that he was unable to buy the client’s material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The client was, understandably, confused and
upset, because he had been told on the phone that we would at least look at his
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Voices were raised, and an
argument ensued that eventually involved other customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Frustrated and angry, the client left the store
and threw his books around on the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For reasons I do not understand and definitely do not agree with, the
staff member chose to leave the store and hurl the client’s books back at
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An altercation ensued that ended up
with a 911 call and the staff member and client being interviewed by the VPD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There has been extensive online discussion
suggesting the client was profiled and assaulted because he is Indigenous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This allegation is untrue. The staff member
did not realize the client was Indigenous until he was being interviewed by the
VPD, and the client’s indigineneity played no role in the staff member’s poorly
conceived decision making.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To be clear: the client did nothing that excuses
or explains his treatment by my staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our response was unconscionable, offending even basic standards of
common sense, good judgment, and empathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The staff member and I apologize, unreservedly, to the client and his
family for our collective failure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To be clearer: I am a settler who owns and operates
businesses on the unceded traditional territories of the <span class="e24kjd">S</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ḵ</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wx</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">̱</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wú7mesh
(Squamish), Stó:lō and S</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ə</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">l</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">̓</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ílw</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ə</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ta</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ʔ</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">/Selilwitulh
(Tsleil-Waututh) and x</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ʷ</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">m</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ə</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">θk</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ʷ</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ə</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">y</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">̓</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">ə</span></span><span class="e24kjd"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">m (Musqueam)
Nations.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe all levels of Canadian
government have systematically failed Indigenous people since first contact,
and that so-called “reconciliation” efforts are typically attempts at maintaining a
preexisting power balance in favor of a settler state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not want to reproduce, in miniature, existing
power relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am available for ongoing dialogue with anyone
affected by this incident, either by phone (604.876.4311), Twitter (@pfbvan),
or email to <a href="mailto:pulpbook@gmail.com">pulpbook@gmail.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christopher Brayshaw</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Owner, Pulpfiction Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">20 August 2019 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-75815052360595072692019-05-20T13:12:00.004-07:002019-05-20T13:12:41.757-07:00Now hiring: Full Time Bookseller(s)Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver’s legendary independent bookstore, seeks mature, enthusiastic individuals interested in joining us as <b>full time</b>
booksellers in August 2019.
<br />
<br />
The successful candidates will:<br />
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• Work 40 hours per week. <b>These are full time positions</b>.<br />
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• <b>Not currently be attending college or university full time</b>, or planning to within two or three years.<br />
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• Be available for a variety of shifts, including <b>mornings, evenings, and weekends</b> at all three of our shops.<br />
<br />
• Possess <b>good practical intelligence, and the ability to work quickly
and multitask under pressure</b>. The jobs involve a lot of physical and
mental activity, and are best compared to fast-paced
restaurant work. Those interested in standing behind a cash desk
socializing and/or being paid to read <b>will not</b> be a good fit with us.<br />
<br />
• Be client-focused. Each time we hire we invariably interview folks
who know lots about books, but very little about client service, and
even less about sales. We can teach our retail systems to almost
anyone, but can't teach <b>empathy and good judgment</b>, which are more
elusive components of character, and highly prized around here.<br />
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• <b>Have previous customer service or supervisory experience</b>. Previous
book-related experience is preferred but not required. Some of our best staff came to us with no previous bookselling experience of any kind.<br />
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• Have a wide familiarity with contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction. <br />
<br />
• Already possess an undergraduate degree or equivalent work history.<br />
<br />
• Bring other skills and abilities to the table. Examples: social media
(Twitter; Blogger); basic accounting and/or bookkeeping skills;
carpentry; HTML; SQL, PHP & MYSQL coding experience, etc.<br />
<br />
We offer competitive compensation and a vibrant, entrepreneurial work environment.<br />
<br />
To apply for these positions, please forward a <b>detailed resume</b> to <a href="mailto:pulpbook@gmail.com">pulpbook@gmail.com</a>, or drop a resume off at any of our locations. <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Please, NO phone calls, non-resume email queries, or walk-in requests for employment.</b></span></span><br />
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We thank all applicants for your interest, but may not, depending on resume volume, be able to reply to everyone.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-89550106208909734162017-10-19T14:39:00.002-07:002017-10-19T14:39:35.905-07:00PFB Events, October/November 2017: Jen Agg; Lynn Johnston<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dbl81mNVnsSw3fEyjIUdVMLjx2V_5QV5Y3agjIB2l_Qtvd4RRjvFr6fYch4ZWppmG3Wqen-_j5Y4GnUITrNy7Yjms63JWFCX_T-0iBphqkrPdsHs9nZGHxMlMcviDMOmfeUPnRKnpw/s1600/forbetter1.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dbl81mNVnsSw3fEyjIUdVMLjx2V_5QV5Y3agjIB2l_Qtvd4RRjvFr6fYch4ZWppmG3Wqen-_j5Y4GnUITrNy7Yjms63JWFCX_T-0iBphqkrPdsHs9nZGHxMlMcviDMOmfeUPnRKnpw/s320/forbetter1.jpg" width="294" /></a>
<br />
On Monday, October 23rd, Toronto's <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBlackHoof" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Jen Agg</a>, author of <a href="https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/535581/i-hear-shes-real-bitch#9780385686877" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>I Hear She's A Real Bitch</b> </a>(Random House, 2017) and owner of Toronto's <a href="http://theblackhoof.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Black Hoof</a>, <a href="https://torontolife.com/food/restaurants/the-critic-grey-gardens-wine-bar-kensington-market-jen-agg/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Grey Gardens</a>,
& etc., will be in house at 7pm to talk (for a while), answer
questions & argue (for probably longer), drink wine (continuously),
& maybe even sign some books. I've read her book, & Agg is a
business owner after my own heart -- smart, funny, possessed of real
service standards, & ferociously opinionated. If you'd like a seat,
I recommend arriving c. 630pm for a 7pm start. Both booze &
books will be available in abundance.<br />
<br />
On Thursday. November 9th, Lynn Johnston, creator of "For Better or For
Worse," and one of the world's best living newspaper-strip cartoonists,
will make a rare appearance at Main Street from 7-9pm, in conversation
with Kurtis Findlay, her editor on IDW Books' new complete edition of <b>For Better or For Worse</b>.
This event will definitely be over capacity and we may have to turn
people away if we max out the load limit on the floor! Facebook event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/689550507835486/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">here</a>, though please note that signing up on Facebook does <b>not</b>
guarantee a seat; seating is strictly first-come, first-served, &
showing up at 6pm for the 7pm start might not be a bad idea. Free
admission; books will be available for purchase.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-9700927103267788762017-02-14T11:20:00.000-08:002017-02-14T11:20:44.300-08:00PFB Events: February 2017<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qERtqO1pnvCavJpIGPy2WuvgOt38bESIhx7CQrJnzAMYb7McRRtrRvROMXQ7dbHbWSfbLyZuHTzDREp0HJ8RdHo3D5-EV98GcVaH3OUEly8TRBmZOvNuB_IA8Kh3tY9XHh1hKIzA5Q/s1600/riva_lehrer_weschler.jpg"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qERtqO1pnvCavJpIGPy2WuvgOt38bESIhx7CQrJnzAMYb7McRRtrRvROMXQ7dbHbWSfbLyZuHTzDREp0HJ8RdHo3D5-EV98GcVaH3OUEly8TRBmZOvNuB_IA8Kh3tY9XHh1hKIzA5Q/s400/riva_lehrer_weschler.jpg" width="400" /></a>
<br />
Winter looks to be coming to an end, at least up at Main and Broadway.
and we've lined up a variety of events for the remainder of the month,
including one next week that will be standing-room only:<br />
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Next Saturday, 18 February, from 7 to 9pm, we're pleased to welcome <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weschler" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Lawrence Weschler</a> to Vancouver. Weschler is a writer of creative nonfiction and 20+ year veteran of the <b>New Yorker</b>
whose work encompasses visual-art criticism and in-depth profiles of
figures like Robert Irwin, David Hockney, J.S.G. Boggs, and David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson, co-founders of LA's <a href="http://www.mjt.org/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Museum of Jurassic Technology</a>.<br />
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On the 18th, Weschler will read from, and discuss, his latest book, <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/waves-passing-in-the-night-9781632867209/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists</b></a>
(Bloomsbury, 2017), a profile of the legendary sound and film editor's
other love, astrophysics, and, specifically, "the rehabilitation of
Titius-Bode, a long-discredited 18th century theory regarding the
patterns by which planets and moons array themselves in gravitational
systems across the universe."<br />
<br />
This event will be 100% packed out! Admission is free, as is box wine
& the deli tray, but I definitely suggest early arrival if you don't
want to be standing halfway down the aisle. And thanks to our friend<span class="gD" name="Genevieve Fuji Johnson"> Genevieve Fuji Johnson, for arranging Lawrence Weschler's visit.</span><br />
<br />
On Thursday, 23 February, from 7 to 9pm, our friend Robin Bougie
launches the 10th anniversary edition of his extreme cinema zine, <a href="http://www.cinemasewer.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Cinema Sewer</b></a>,
at Main Street. Leave the kids at home, but come for chips, free wine,
zines, and a variety of shock- & smut- related merch and door
prizes.<br />
<br />
On Friday, 24 February, we're down at SFU Woodwards for the <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/2017-2018-Spring/JalehMansoorMarshallPlanModernism.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">launch of Jaleh Mansoor's <b>Marshall Plan Modernism</b> (Duke UP, 2017)</a>. Free admission.<br />
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Finally, because I can never close these letters without a recommendation, Eden Robinson, author of <b>Monkey Beach</b>, a perennial PFB favorite, has <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/02/eden-robinson-how-i-wrote-son-of-a-trickster.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">just released a new novel, <b>Son of a Trickster</b></a>, which reads like an extended riff on <b>Twin Peaks</b>,
but with First Nations spirit beings stalking around an otherwise
realistically rendered Northern BC. I devoured this book in under 24
hours, and unreservedly recommend it.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-52208187563309397102017-02-07T16:36:00.003-08:002017-02-07T18:18:12.019-08:00Now Hiring: Contract Web PositionPulpfiction Books is currently seeking an experienced web designer for a <b>part-time contract position</b> of between 40 and 50 hours of work, to be performed over the next month or month and a half. As far as we know, this is <b>not</b> a continuing position.<br />
<br />
The job will involve updating our handmade webpage(s) under the guidance of senior staff, to improve their visual appearance, especially on mobile devices. It will <b>not</b> involve designing pages from scratch.<br />
<br />
Familiarity with HTML, CSS & image editing programs like Gimp and Photoshop is assumed. Familiarity with Python, MYSQL, Google Adwords, or any combination thereof is a definite plus.<br />
<br />
Most work to be performed @ PFB Main Street during regular business hours, ie., no late nights!<br />
<br />
Compensation: $20/hr + staff discount on books.<br />
<br />
Please submit a resume of relevant experience to pulpbook@gmail.com, clearly marked, WEB POSITION. Please <b>do not</b> submit a resume if you don't live in the Lower Mainland; if we can't meet you face-to-face on a daily or weekly basis, we'll be unable to consider you for this position.<br />
<br />
Thanks for your interest, & we hope to hear from you soon!<br />
<br />
<br />cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-78417522901788365062016-10-27T11:20:00.001-07:002016-10-27T11:20:42.999-07:00PFB Events: November 2016<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mxl-BpGcU1bMdktrhLVLA_0kYzX7ohF_u9Isk1V6oVDCFUmBpwdwVO2999wbJi6jm0rzbwjGVpmkz080WMrMYZ0xOoIPMFwQ2YbhY-FxTzwXaXtHSXi9gga5Vp5FaRz3Vqh3EArrzA/s1600/break_vermette.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mxl-BpGcU1bMdktrhLVLA_0kYzX7ohF_u9Isk1V6oVDCFUmBpwdwVO2999wbJi6jm0rzbwjGVpmkz080WMrMYZ0xOoIPMFwQ2YbhY-FxTzwXaXtHSXi9gga5Vp5FaRz3Vqh3EArrzA/s400/break_vermette.jpg" width="262" /></a>
<br />
Grey drizzle, low light, hot water heat
finally turned on behind the desk at Main Street: must be late fall!
And, after a month or two in which not much happened, November brings a
whole horde of readings and other special events:<br />
<br />
On Tuesday 1 November, with the help of the <a href="http://books.bc.ca/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Association of Book Publishers of BC</a>, we're presenting an intimate evening with Vancouver poets <a href="http://www.newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554201071" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Julie Emerson</a>, <a href="https://eleekg.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Elee Kraljii Gardiner</a>, <a href="https://canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wah/index.htm" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Fred Wah</a> and <a href="http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/elau/elau.php" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Evelyn Lau</a>.
Each author will read from their most recent book for 15 or 20 minutes,
followed by a short question-and-answer session and the cusomary
freebie wine. Things get going around 7pm and should wrap up by 9pm.<br />
<br />
On Wednesday 2 November, <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/2016-2017-fall/AnEveningwithJoeSacco2.html" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">PFB owner Chris Brayshaw will be co-interviewing graphic novelist and journalist Joe Sacco down at SFU Woodwards</a>.
Tickets are still available through the SFU website ($13). We'll be on
site all evening with a variety of Sacco's books for sale.<br />
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On Thursday 3 November, we're selling books at a private event for novelist <a href="http://patricktaylorauthor.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Patrick Taylor</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Country_series" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>An Irish Country Doctor</b></a>, & etc.). If you would like a signed copy of one of his in print works, please let us know!<br />
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On Friday 4 November, our friend Clint Burnham has organized a reading by American poet <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Rodrigo Toscano</a>, which starts around 7pm at Main Street. Toscano will be reading from and signing his most recent book, <a href="https://pen.org/poetry/explosion-rocks-springfield" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Explosion Rocks Springfield</b></a>.<br />
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After all this activity, a break for a week or two, and then on Wednesday 23 November poets <a href="http://www.talonbooks.com/authors/danielle-lafrance" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Danielle LaFrance</a> and <a href="http://talonbooks.com/authors/anahita-jamali-rad" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Anahita Jamali Rad</a>, co-editors of the feminist literary journal <b>About a Bicycle</b>, will join us at Main Street at 7pm to read from their latest collections, both published by our friends at <a href="http://talonbooks.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Talonbooks</a>.<br />
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That's it for events this month.<br />
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As usual, a few staff picks and recent client favorites round thinsg
out. Not a book club, just titles we're currently reading and enjoying:<br />
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<span data-ved="0ahUKEwjAjM_Sx_vPAhUHxlQKHfeABogQ2koIdigCMAs">Katherena Vermette</span>'s <a href="http://houseofanansi.com/products/the-break" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>The Break</b></a><br />
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Mary Beard's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/books/review-in-spqr-a-history-of-ancient-rome-mary-beard-tackles-myths-and-more.html?_r=0" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome</b></a><br />
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Emily Witt's <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/futuresex/emilywitt" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Future Sex</b></a><br />
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Lynda Gray's <a href="http://www.firstnations101.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>First Nations 101</b></a><br />
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Zoe Whittall's <a href="http://houseofanansi.com/products/the-best-kind-of-people" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Best Kind of People</b></a><br />
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Steve Wolfhard's <a href="http://koyamapress.com/projects/cat-rackham/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Collected Cat Rackham</b></a><br />
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Finally, December is fast approaching. A gentle reminder that things
will soon become completely mental over here, and that extra savings are
often available on books in return for a slightly longer wait. If your
Xmas / <span class="_Tgc">Hanukkah</span> / pagan winter festival
gift list includes books, give us a holler by late November, and avoid
being stuck behind the guy who desperately needs a signed first edition
of the <b>Hobbit</b> on December 23rd (which sounds like a
joke, but we have taken this exact frantic request once or twice each
December for the last 16.5 years)!cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-66434521997852382142016-05-31T11:07:00.002-07:002016-05-31T11:08:08.439-07:00PFB Events: June 2016<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: left;" valign="top">After a quiet May, we've got a number of author events in June:<br />
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Tomorrow, Wednesday June 1st, Olympia writer Jim Lynch visits Main Street from 7 to 9pm to read from his new novel <b><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jim-lynch/before-the-wind-lynch/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Before the Wind</a></b>. Lynch's lyrical Pacific Northwest family sagas have earned comparison to everything from Ken Kesey's <b>Sometimes a Great Notion</b> to Steinbeck's <b>Cannery Row</b>, & his previous novel <b>The Highest Tide</b> has been a perennial PFB bestseller since its release in 2005.<br />
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Nothing special is planned for Sunday June 12th, which is PFB's 16th
anniversary. Always kind of a surprise when the date rolls around; it
feels more like a very busy eight or twelve weeks, but the calendar
& my brow furrows apparently think otherwise.<br />
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On Thursday, June 16th, our good friend <a href="http://samwiebe.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Sam Wiebe</a>, author of the terrific debut Vancouver-based noir novel <b>Last of the Independents</b>, which many crime-loving PFB regulars read & enjoyed, launches his second novel, <a href="http://samwiebe.com/invisible-dead" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Invisible Dead</b></a>, at Main Street from 7 to 9pm. This launch will be very busy; if you want a seat, plan to arrive by 6:30 or so.<br />
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On Friday, June 17th, PFB's third-ever customer, SFU's Clint Burnham,
will be in house from 7-9pm to read from his new collection of poems, <a href="http://talonbooks.com/books/pound-at-guantanamo" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Pound @ GuntAnamo</b></a><b>. </b>Clint will be joined by special guest reader/performers <a href="http://www.jordanabel.ca/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Jordan Abel</a> and <span class="st">Shazia Hafiz Ramji</span>.<br />
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As always, these events are free and open to the public. Most have free box wine and/or snacks.<br />
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Finally, two miscellaneous notes:<br />
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1. Our friends at the SFU library are bringing perennial PFB bestseller Maggie Nelson (<b>Bluets</b>; <b>The Argonauts</b>)
to Vancouver in January 2017! Still a ways off, but we are obviously
stoked by the prospect of a free Maggie Nelson lecture at SFU Woodwards,
and several days of events on Burnaby Mountain! More details in the
fall.<br />
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2. Question #1 at the desk: "What are the regulars reading?" We're not
Oprah and this isn't our book club, but a few recent titles that have
been mega-popular among folks we're on a first-name basis with include:<br />
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Leanne Simpson, <a href="http://arpbooks.org/books/detail/islands-of-decolonial-love" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Islands of Decolonial Love</b></a><br />
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Elena Ferrante, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_Novels" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>The Neapolitan Quartet</b></a><br />
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Lindy West, <a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lindy-west/shrill/9780316348409/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>Shrill</b> </a>(coming soon to our friends across the street at the Fox!)<br />
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Paul Lazenby, <a href="http://www.whenwewerebouncers.com/" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>When We Were Bouncers</b></a><br />
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Olivia Laing, <a href="http://olivialaing.co.uk/the-lonely-city" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone</b></a><br />
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Thanks for reading this far!<br />
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Best,<br />
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Christopher Brayshaw & staff<br />
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cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-30198108383642373492016-02-01T13:09:00.000-08:002016-02-01T13:09:23.899-08:00PFB Events: Sarah Kay, 19 February 2016<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDtNst7W8hDHxjc9sj4euCiXiggVT__5mT0cSPy1xrx92O1Y1-Bp_6WNoFPd8FKTO99ugQc728oBweGoWV9QngB7D_bFfPmEuzMT-oYREJoVbpjj3lR_GXqXjn4zw8RQy-jNctT_ekQ/s1600/kay_pfb.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDtNst7W8hDHxjc9sj4euCiXiggVT__5mT0cSPy1xrx92O1Y1-Bp_6WNoFPd8FKTO99ugQc728oBweGoWV9QngB7D_bFfPmEuzMT-oYREJoVbpjj3lR_GXqXjn4zw8RQy-jNctT_ekQ/s320/kay_pfb.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
Please join us at PFB Main Street on Friday 19 February, 7-9pm, for a special performance by American spoken word superstar <a href="http://kaysarahsera.com/">Sarah Kay</a>.<br />
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Main Street's front room fits over a hundred people without difficulty, as we learned from Eileen Myles' November visit to the shop, but seating is limited; if you would like a seat or have difficulty standing, please plan to arrive between 6-630pm.<br />
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We will have copies of Kay's <b>B</b> and <b>The Type</b> available for sale, even though <b>The Type</b>'s release date is technically March 1st.<br />
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Many thanks to Hachette Books for organizing this event and getting rush copies of <b>The Type</b> to us!cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-2485514392757300962016-02-01T12:47:00.002-08:002016-02-01T12:47:46.454-08:00PFB Events: Kayla Czaga, Ali Blythe, Arleen Pare, 18 February 2016<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_OnLCabLYnnaqI6nLi3DzP8L3WkyekL7P0l1Y4Bh9NWMteBurGTyXvmalguW9eVhbsoZHw51AvMtmcOxDbpj9HzoHPx9eSf2F3wLQXu4qZ1s6NTS-NKjZxB70kDvktV6dXLkyoZqsA/s1600/ali_pfb.jpeg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_OnLCabLYnnaqI6nLi3DzP8L3WkyekL7P0l1Y4Bh9NWMteBurGTyXvmalguW9eVhbsoZHw51AvMtmcOxDbpj9HzoHPx9eSf2F3wLQXu4qZ1s6NTS-NKjZxB70kDvktV6dXLkyoZqsA/s320/ali_pfb.jpeg" width="320" /></a>
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PFB [upon learning, first hand, that Kayla Czaga's <a href="http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/title/foryoursafetypleaseholdon"><b>For Your Safety Please Hold On</b></a> is pretty terrific]: Hey KC! We should totally do an event with you!<br />
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KC: Sure, but it shouldn't just be me. I'd like to bring some friends along!<br />
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PFB: Just let me know when and who; Main Street's front room is at your disposal.<br />
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[Six months pass] <br />
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KC: Okay, the lineup is me, <a href="https://www.gooselane.com/books.php?ean=9780864928733">Ali Blythe</a> and <a href="http://www.arleenpare.com/">Arleen Pare</a>, on Thursday 18 Feb, from 7-9pm!<br />
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PFB: Excellent! Crowd virtually guaranteed. cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-7403983649890219092016-02-01T12:23:00.002-08:002016-02-01T12:23:28.382-08:00PFB Events: Rebecca Solnit, 17 February 2016<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGZ_U6L4yIq6ozZ9uCYr-LfTafKosPF9uIFuC8lZJuB8YdLPl0OPxEMiOEiGGkL-wcSPSArtuym0YGLdkPMpSfVPOIAwCI-LrgVOvKtLX8adxV80NCqJQc5cEJS7PY064O6R2u2B5Cg/s1600/solnit.jpg"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGZ_U6L4yIq6ozZ9uCYr-LfTafKosPF9uIFuC8lZJuB8YdLPl0OPxEMiOEiGGkL-wcSPSArtuym0YGLdkPMpSfVPOIAwCI-LrgVOvKtLX8adxV80NCqJQc5cEJS7PY064O6R2u2B5Cg/s400/solnit.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Thrilled to announce we'll be attending <a href="http://emmatalks.org/session/rebecca-solnit/">Rebecca Solnit's EMMA Talk</a> on Wednesday 17 February from 7-9pm at <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/goldcorp-centre-for-the-arts.html">SFU Woodwards</a>, along with all of her in-print publications. The event has been sold out for a few months now, but there will probably be at least a few rush tickets available at the door.<br />
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Rebecca Solnit is one of the very first authors we carried when we started adding new books to inventory a decade ago, & we're looking forward to finally meeting her in person. If you attend, drop by the sales table and say, "Hi!"cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-45109795413886635102015-12-18T22:20:00.000-08:002015-12-18T22:20:06.293-08:00PFB Top 10, 2015<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmXRdq316LScYrjUVhDX4gM9btfyPr_IhzqSdIT0dxDkA4-5xdPybbC9ZbSjRx9oR-1ZvTFlPNq5Pk0W5xB2mdCm8e80XsLVoDZRUqmBjm_HWbtp5YBfOqxC6RgZ-PlCCKrrKd7IVxhA/s1600/veegee.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmXRdq316LScYrjUVhDX4gM9btfyPr_IhzqSdIT0dxDkA4-5xdPybbC9ZbSjRx9oR-1ZvTFlPNq5Pk0W5xB2mdCm8e80XsLVoDZRUqmBjm_HWbtp5YBfOqxC6RgZ-PlCCKrrKd7IVxhA/s1600/veegee.jpg" /></a><br />
Everyone keeps asking us for a best-of-the-year list. We're not Oprah and this isn't our book club, but here's some titles enjoyed by PFB staff and regulars in 2015, not all of which were published in 2015. Go figure! If I hadn't worked 100+ hours this week I might be amiable to a longer exegesis; as it is, names, title(s) & you're on your own, or drop in & we'll bend your ear.<br />
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Elena Ferrante, <b>The Neopolitan Quartet</b><br />
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Vivian Gornick, <b>The Odd Woman and the City</b><br />
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Maggie Nelson, <b>The Argonauts</b><br />
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Anakana Schoefield, <b>Martin John</b><br />
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Emily St. John Mandel, <b>Station Eleven</b><br />
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Lucia Berlin, <b>A Manual for Cleaning Women</b><br />
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Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang, <b>In Real Life</b><br />
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Carrie Brownstein, <b>Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl</b><br />
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, <b>Between the World and Me</b><br />
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Susan Musgrave, <b>A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering & Feasting at the Edge of the World</b><br />
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& our first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_No-Prize">PFB No-Prize</a>: Aaron Peck, <b>Jeff Wall: North & West</b> cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-87193532384977289592015-07-03T11:44:00.002-07:002015-07-04T16:59:18.784-07:00New Arrivals: Massive Black Lizard Collection<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0mZdejR0xG_7ysD0HFruiMRivXUSTpnUI7OyG0P5mYZUiLO3VdLJCDK_okSSQlPtj0HU5phOh9Lz51MWhaduGrjDZM6X6oyrjGYOf_6YZ-du9FI2g1S-CZn3L0_YJ_27ynLxN2xH6Q/s1600/lizards.jpg"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0mZdejR0xG_7ysD0HFruiMRivXUSTpnUI7OyG0P5mYZUiLO3VdLJCDK_okSSQlPtj0HU5phOh9Lz51MWhaduGrjDZM6X6oyrjGYOf_6YZ-du9FI2g1S-CZn3L0_YJ_27ynLxN2xH6Q/s400/lizards.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
We've acquired 335 new, unread Black Lizard titles, the former contents of Creative Arts' California warehouse.<br />
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The books are available on a first-come, first-served basis at our Main Street shop as of noon today.<br />
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Special thanks to <a href="http://www.detritus.com/maser/">Jeff Maser</a> of Berkeley, California for his kind assistance with this transaction.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-51212485575646078282015-06-24T11:28:00.001-07:002015-06-24T11:28:52.818-07:00Katherine Fawcett reads @ PFB Main Street <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBMPjhN9xYFUNKj7klyDIzh2i6dZo3vydgjGPYXdntgqpowUIRR5YtX1aRdIZfzSHwkdmH1uEs51RZR58GUPDf-fDIdFbeR-ZRpLhPpFRzHB_aEvN1NSJK-GMJthVjmpSIxmDKLComQ/s1600/washer.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBMPjhN9xYFUNKj7klyDIzh2i6dZo3vydgjGPYXdntgqpowUIRR5YtX1aRdIZfzSHwkdmH1uEs51RZR58GUPDf-fDIdFbeR-ZRpLhPpFRzHB_aEvN1NSJK-GMJthVjmpSIxmDKLComQ/s1600/washer.jpg" /></a><br />
Please join Pemberton author Katherine Fawcett tomorrow night, Thursday June 25, from 7-9pm, as she reads from her debut collection of short fiction, <b>The Little Washer of Sorrows</b>.<br />
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Excellent review of the book over <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/396406436/little-washer-of-sorrows-morphs-the-mundane-into-the-fantastic">@ NPR</a>:<br />
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"Fawcett lets her speculative side run wild. Like fellow fabulist
Kelly Link — not to mention forebears such as Donald Barthleme — she
finds fertile ground in the fuzzy territory between realism and
surrealism. In 'BLK MGC,' a ripped-from-the-headlines pyramid scheme
takes a left turn somewhere near <b>The Twilight Zone</b>; in 'The
Anniversary Present,' an aging Mother Earth is addicted to beauty
products while her husband, Father Time, has adulterous feelings for
Sister Moon.<br />
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Domesticity plays as big a part in Fawcett's story
as science fiction, fantasy, and mythology do. The tenderly combative
interplay between the married couple in 'Lenny and the Polyamphibians' —
which only intensifies when a mermaid enters into the equation — is
poignantly layered, even as it sparks with snark. The couple in <b>Little Washer</b>'s
title story, on the other hand, are haunted by the most prosaic of
monsters: Bankruptcy. As their estate manager begins to exhibit
supernatural qualities, though, the balance of reality gets turned on
its side."cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-87352501099132969772015-05-14T12:50:00.000-07:002015-05-14T12:54:14.734-07:00May 2015 events @ PFB<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfXDTEZX3Wm-ZqfKywx6NioeizGm-MHhC4PNUZojeazSKosMCsWaEg_4dIDi6WdRML8fPCR7zYSgoWRWwmUj-lP5_uq3GN7xlV3IELAXbNgQo1QpYj1THPj4rxAljlUkkq1I3yAkyGg/s1600/amberdawn.jpeg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfXDTEZX3Wm-ZqfKywx6NioeizGm-MHhC4PNUZojeazSKosMCsWaEg_4dIDi6WdRML8fPCR7zYSgoWRWwmUj-lP5_uq3GN7xlV3IELAXbNgQo1QpYj1THPj4rxAljlUkkq1I3yAkyGg/s1600/amberdawn.jpeg" /></a>
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A busy next few weeks for literary events @ PFB:<br />
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On <b>Tuesday 19 May</b>, please join <a href="http://creativewriting.ubc.ca/program-information/faculty-staff/amber-dawn/">Amber Dawn</a>, <a href="http://leahhorlick.com/">Leah Horlick</a>, <a href="https://sigalsamuel.wordpress.com/">Sigal Samuel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/shallicompare">Rhonda Douglas</a> @ PFB Main Street from 7-10pm. Amber will read from her first book-length collection of poems, <a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=414"><b>Where the Words End and My Body Begins</b></a> (<a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/home.php">Arsenal Pulp Press</a>, 2015). Sigal is launching her debut novel, <a href="http://www.freehand-books.com/books/the-mystics-of-mile-end"><b>The Mystics of Mile End</b></a> (<a href="http://www.freehand-books.com/">Freehand</a>, 2015). Leah's most recent collection is <a href="http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/for-your-own-good/"><b>For Your Own Good</b></a> (<a href="http://caitlin-press.com/">Caitlin Press</a>, 2015), and we also have copies of her first book, <a href="http://www.thistledownpress.com/html/new_releases/riot_lung_p565.cfm"><b>Riot Lung</b></a> (<a href="http://www.thistledownpress.com/index.cfm">Thistledown</a>, 2012), on hand. Rhonda Douglas and her debut collection of short fiction, <a href="http://www.freehand-books.com/books/welcome-to-the-circus"><b>Welcome to the Circus</b></a> (<a href="http://www.freehand-books.com/">Freehand</a>, 2015) rounds out the evening.<br />
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On <b>Thursday 21 May</b>, please join us offsite at <a href="http://www.heartwoodcc.ca/">Heartwood Community Cafe</a>, 377 East Broadway, from 7-10pm, for a celebration of the life and poetry of <a href="http://www.elisepartridge.org/">Elise Partridge</a>. 10+ guest readers will pay tribute to Elise's life and work; see the full line-up and further details <a href="http://site.houseofanansi.com/event/book-launch-and-elise-partridge-tribute-at-heartwood-cafe/">here</a>.<br />
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On <b>Friday 22 May</b>, please join North Vancouver writer <a href="http://biblioasis.com/brand/stibbards-shawn-curtis/">Shawn Curtis Stibbards</a> @ PFB Main Street from 7 to 9pm to launch his first novel, <b>The Video Watcher</b> (<a href="http://biblioasis.com/">Biblioasis</a>, 2015), with a special introduction by long-time friend of the shop <a href="http://www.zsuzsigartner.com/">Zsuzsi Gartner</a>.<br />
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Finally, on Monday 25 May, please join <a href="http://www.newstarbooks.com/author.php?author_id=3815">Andrew Struthers</a> for the launch of his new philosopho-travelogue <a href="http://www.newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554200865"><b>Around the World on Minimum Wage</b></a> (<a href="http://www.newstarbooks.com/">New Star</a>, 2015). Andrew will be joined by king of the Toronto small press scene <a href="https://www.writersunion.ca/member/stuart-ross">Stuart Ross</a>, whose new collection <b>Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer </b>(<a href="http://www.anvilpress.com/">Anvil</a>, 2015)<b> </b>is comprised of<b> </b>equal parts literary memoir, reckless tirade, and unsolicited advice for the aspiring writer. <br />
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(Photo: <a href="http://www.amberdawnwrites.com/">Amber Dawn</a>, courtesy her website)cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-35813289108320592812015-04-15T21:23:00.004-07:002015-04-15T21:26:57.871-07:00Peter Culley, 1958 - 2015<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hlvsc6ksrG9i56g__hOWOEG8g3aU5vSbtE7j_EEO1hDzeSQtS67OFLwE3_fdgldNBma9FhNW6b2O-xgvkViMTgMN8iivWdRDpfGJWG2bi8-ExlrhmqBKoMZh5rGy5ZwFfkW2LfM4PA/s1600/pete.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hlvsc6ksrG9i56g__hOWOEG8g3aU5vSbtE7j_EEO1hDzeSQtS67OFLwE3_fdgldNBma9FhNW6b2O-xgvkViMTgMN8iivWdRDpfGJWG2bi8-ExlrhmqBKoMZh5rGy5ZwFfkW2LfM4PA/s1600/pete.jpg" /></a>
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Announcing a public remembrance for <a href="http://mossesfromanoldmanse2.blogspot.com/">Peter Culley</a>, peerless poet, photographer, walker, critic, longtime friend of the shop, who passed away last week in South Wellington, BC.<br />
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Details:<br />
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Pulpfiction Books, 2422 Main Street, Vancouver<br />
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Saturday 18 April 2015, 8pm-late<br />
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Everyone is welcome.<br />
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"Come as you are"; bring food & booze or just yourself & memories.<br />
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PFB will supply some food & drink; <a href="http://www.newstarbooks.com/">New Star</a> will bring copies of Pete's in-print books.<br />
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No agenda or schedule, just a chance to hang out with some like minded folks & remember a friend.<br />
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(Photo credit: Pete, by Ben Friedlander) cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-39507826170502587822015-02-25T18:52:00.001-08:002015-02-25T18:52:47.499-08:00New Shelves @ Commercial Drive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-40405416911527712592015-02-24T15:15:00.000-08:002015-02-24T15:15:00.252-08:00Some Good News re: Special Orders & Most Hardcover BooksOver Christmas, we tried offering a little extra discount on hardcover books sourced from Canadian suppliers, by way of thanking everyone who's been coming in for years. <br />
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That promotion was wildly successful, resulting in special order prices below those offered by our Monopolistic Online Competitor, and new book sales way out ahead of anything we have ever seen before.<br />
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Starting today, and continuing until further notice, almost all new hardcovers in the shops will be sold at 30% off Canadian cover price. Most, but not all hardcovers special ordered from Canadian suppliers will be sold at 37%-40% off Canadian cover price. <br />
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Once again, thanks to everyone who finds value in our work, and to those who prefer to shop in, and support, the communities where they work or live. cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-12530526158065316192014-12-27T18:47:00.001-08:002014-12-27T19:10:27.207-08:00Now Hiring: Full Time BooksellerPulpfiction Books, Vancouver’s largest independent bookstore, seeks a mature, enthusiastic individual interested in joining us as a full time bookseller in late January or early February 2015.<br />
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The successful candidate will:<br />
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• Work a full 40 hours per week. <b>This is a full time position</b>.<br />
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• Not currently be attending college or university full time, or plan to within two to three years.<br />
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• Be available for a variety of shifts, including mornings, evenings, and weekends at all three of our locations.<br />
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• Possess good practical intelligence, and the ability to work quickly and multitask under pressure. The job involves a lot of physical and mental activity, and is best compared to fast-paced warehouse or restaurant work. Those interested in standing behind a cash desk socializing and/or being paid to read <b>will not</b> be a good fit with us.<br />
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• Be client-focused. Every time we hire we invariably interview someone who knows lots about books, but very little about client service, and even less about sales. We can teach our retail systems to almost anyone, but we can't teach empathy and good judgment, which are more elusive components of character, and highly prized around here.<br />
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• Have previous customer service or supervisory experience. Previous book-related experience is preferred but not required. Some of our most valuable staff came to us with no previous bookselling experience.<br />
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• Have a wide familiarity with contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction. <br />
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• Already possess an undergraduate degree or equivalent work history.<br />
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• Bring other skills and abilities to the table. Examples: social media (Twitter; Blogger); basic accounting and/or bookkeeping skills; carpentry; HTML; SQL, PHP & MYSQL coding experience, etc. etc. etc.<br />
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We offer competitive compensation and a vibrant, entrepreneurial work environment.<br />
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To apply for this position, please forward a detailed resume to <a href="mailto:pulpbook@gmail.com">pulpbook@gmail.com</a>. <span style="color: red;"><b>Please, NO phone calls, non-resume email queries, or walk-in requests for employment.</b></span><br />
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We thank all applicants for their interest, but may, depending on resume volume, not be able to reply to everyone.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-56829868051224566662014-10-23T10:49:00.001-07:002014-10-23T10:51:30.658-07:00What's News @ PFB -- Late October 2014<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nIAIpylR55w4Kck9lW_Ahud7v4PI5Vs-SyOGIFZe8GBGdBFYxG9_JWzo_Qpp9a15Gqw0NYOODufWjhREprsJckGeBOrtVmt7YXpE4KbflxJn0bc9A3aMfTFcB02qQTLsYr42BqFiUg/s1600/The-field-body-image.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nIAIpylR55w4Kck9lW_Ahud7v4PI5Vs-SyOGIFZe8GBGdBFYxG9_JWzo_Qpp9a15Gqw0NYOODufWjhREprsJckGeBOrtVmt7YXpE4KbflxJn0bc9A3aMfTFcB02qQTLsYr42BqFiUg/s1600/The-field-body-image.jpg" height="227" width="400" /></a>
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1. Kind of short notice, but we're launching <a href="https://imagecomics.com/">Image Comics</a>' <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51100"><b>The Field</b>, by our friends Ed Brisson and Simon Roy</a>, at PFB Main Street, on Friday October 24th from 7-9pm. Cheap graphic novels, complimentary snack foods & inexpensive but tasty Chilean wine. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by.<br />
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2. New bookmarks, featuring likenesses of Simone Weil, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Zadie Smith, designed by our good friend Don King.<br />
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3. We're now carrying <a href="http://shortstackeditions.com/">Short Stack Editions</a> -- a series of small, hardbound cookbooks published in Brooklyn, each issue focusing on a particular ingredient. Other limited-distribution food mags coming in the next few months! If you have a favorite that you'd like to see on our shelves, please drop us a line, or call.<br />
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4. Rebecca Solnit's <a href="http://www.utne.com/literature/book-review-encyclopedia-of-trouble-and-spaciousness.aspx#axzz3GzWF6jD7"><b>Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness</b></a>, new from <a href="http://tupress.org/">Trinity University Press</a>, just arrived and is now out on the shelves. <br />
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5. Classy-looking PFB totes with art by graphic genius & old, old friend <a href="http://r-dart.tumblr.com/">Rebecca Dart</a>, coming in time for Christmas!cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-84138771758804404792014-10-08T15:24:00.003-07:002014-10-08T21:30:40.627-07:00A Note About New Books That's Too Long to Tweet<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYOcad7zI1FB4xN296sXK1Inlws4-LOM9pSw6Ulbf-Fu9phQohuqj1HwEY0ASBEVodHvG0krmBxg60h5sNcs_epnzOcajun875RFhe9LF8CvZMlXh3NAgLXdd17YgUPL9tZtNoX9oJVg/s1600/thischanges.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYOcad7zI1FB4xN296sXK1Inlws4-LOM9pSw6Ulbf-Fu9phQohuqj1HwEY0ASBEVodHvG0krmBxg60h5sNcs_epnzOcajun875RFhe9LF8CvZMlXh3NAgLXdd17YgUPL9tZtNoX9oJVg/s1600/thischanges.jpg" height="400" width="262" /></a>
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We started carrying new books a year or two into our now approximately fourteen-and-a-half year run. The big title back then was Yann Martel's <b>Life of Pi</b>, and what seemed like dozens of people a day would drop into the old shop at 2418 Main to ask for it. My standard reply -- "No, it's too recent for us to have used, you should go buy it new at [LOCAL INDEPENDENT DISCOUNT BOOKSTORE] down the road" -- felt dumb, especially with all the repetition. Some people thanked me for the information and headed off, never to be seen again. Others said something like, "I support you and I want to buy it here. I don't care if it's new or used."<br />
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Enough of this, and even I got the message. We opened a wholesale account and brought in a few<b> Life of Pis,</b> plus half a dozen other titles, and sold them at full price, tax off. Sales weren't anything to cheer about, but all the original books eventually sold and we ordered some more, plus a few additional titles with what profit we made from order #1. <br />
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A few years of this, and the front room was full of new books. We went to 20% off on almost everything, then, a year or two later, added a two-tier discount -- 20% off in-shop/30% off prepaid special orders -- and sales abruptly went through the roof.<br />
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We -- despite me still thinking of us as the tiny neighborhood bookstore that could -- are now receiving extra discounts from most of our suppliers based on our sales volumes, which are substantial. So, as a "Thank you" to everyone who ordered from us in the early days, and then waited patiently for their books to arrive while we worked out "systems," I'm going to try an additional experiment, starting this week and running through Christmas.<br />
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<b>Most</b>, but not all, $30+ cover price hardcovers in all of our three locations are now 30% off in-shop, & 40% off if ordered <b>directly from their publishers</b>, which adds a few days to the special order process. I'm curious to see what this does to our volumes and the sort of titles ordered in. Again, <b>this is an experiment</b>, and I reserve the right to cancel or modify it at any time. But it should make for an interesting next few months.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-52099176990837017002013-08-28T11:20:00.002-07:002013-08-28T16:29:00.771-07:00Kim Stanley Robinson Reads & Signs @ Main Street<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBUttGdmFmVx1tavyMTVHd8bUgmtfyjUlSfZg0IJ3svPuOicMvYxBHiEZvE3bK2V8NJkra1KmMxuLns6KWY4S_wleLxyNilVUVaG7ckhFj7cpAmf9C3kjvkYT7nWc3Gl_3BHdB7cg0Q/s1600/shaman.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBUttGdmFmVx1tavyMTVHd8bUgmtfyjUlSfZg0IJ3svPuOicMvYxBHiEZvE3bK2V8NJkra1KmMxuLns6KWY4S_wleLxyNilVUVaG7ckhFj7cpAmf9C3kjvkYT7nWc3Gl_3BHdB7cg0Q/s1600/shaman.jpg" height="400" width="258" /></a><br />
KSR, the critically acclaimed & multiple-award-winning author of <b>Red Mars</b>, <b>Three Californias</b>, <b>2312</b>, etc. etc., will read from <b>Shaman</b>, his most recent novel, conduct an audience Q&A, and sign copies of his work on Friday, September 13th, 2013 from 6:30 to 9pm at PFB Main Street, 2422 Main Street, Vancouver. Admission is free; cash bar. KSR is an author I've read for more than twenty years, and I'm really excited to welcome him to Vancouver.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-72445962690537218892013-07-02T14:43:00.003-07:002013-07-03T08:57:00.493-07:00Now Hiring: Full-Time Bookseller<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715479316539623029.post-13369528748826971392013-05-29T12:39:00.001-07:002013-06-08T09:53:50.527-07:00Buying Update, May/June 2013We are once again looking at books at all three shops. Thanks for your patience while we processed the largest influx of books in our business' history.cjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862879837362584251noreply@blogger.com