Kim Stanley Robinson Reads & Signs @ Main Street

KSR, the critically acclaimed & multiple-award-winning author of Red Mars, Three Californias, 2312, etc. etc., will read from Shaman, 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.

Olympic Parking Restrictions @ Main Street

From February 4th until March 1st, street parking will be restricted in front of the Main Street store. If you're planning to bring in a large quantity of books for sale, you can find parking in one of the following locations:

• East side of 0 block of Kingsway (city meters)

• 8th Avenue between Main and Quebec (city meters)

• 8th Avenue east of Kingsway (free - good luck)

• Pay lot on the SE corner of Main and Broadway

• Pay lot on the NW corner of Main and 7th Avenue (across the street from The Foundation)

You are always welcome to borrow our industrial dolly and/or surplus staff to help bring your books in.

Christmas in August

We're overstocked, and are trying to clear out some room for recent arrivals. So, for one week only, we're having a sale on selected stock up at the Main Street store: 30% off all used art books, cookbooks, and children's books.

The fine print: sale pricing applies to cash purchases only (no trade credits), does not combine with our regular 6+ item volume discount, and excludes collectible stock. Sorry, no dealers except by prior arrangement.

Build Your Own Letterpress!

Details here. Assistance and general aesthetic solidarity available up Main Street from our friends at The Regional Assembly of Text.

Meanwhile, Elsewhere in the Neighborhood...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Guardian Spirits on the Land: Ceremony of Sovereignty, 2000

"Western Front Exhibitions is pleased to present the work of Vancouver-based artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Curated by Candice Hopkins and Mark Soo, the exhibition presents a single painting. . .alongside a selection of pulp science fiction novels [sourced last week from the Main Street shop by the exhibition organizers]. The exhibition is held in conjunction with a series of talks by writers that explore Yuxweluptun’s work in relation to the genre of science fiction.

Drawing from Aboriginal Northwest Coast and Coast Salish cultural myths and iconographic traditions as well as the conventions of epic Western painting, Guardian Spirits on the Land: Ceremony of Sovereignty depicts a congregation of spiritual beings encamped upon a hallucinatory and supernatural landscape. These spirits, whose intense colourings glow with extraterrestrial luminescence and whose ovoid forms bear resemblances to mechanical or android-like parts, are portrayed as caught in a state of ambiguous reverie."