Pulpfiction Books
@pfbvan.bsky.social
YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2025 Living Wage employer.
Steps toward the new 2- or 3- year temporary public green space where Athens Pizza and Dandelion Records once stood. Indigenous plantings en route between now & spring 2026, & maybe a temporary screen / movie night(s) too. Perforated blue rent-a-fence GONE; nature is healing, & etc.
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Steps toward the new 2- or 3- year temporary public green space where Athens Pizza and Dandelion Records once stood. Indigenous plantings en route between now & spring 2026, & maybe a temporary screen / movie night(s) too. Perforated blue rent-a-fence GONE; nature is healing, & etc.
Oh Vancouver you flirt
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Oh Vancouver you flirt
New arrivals, Monday: the now out-of-print Folio Society edition of our friend @greatdismal.bsky.social's NEUROMANCER, seen here basking on the PFB cash desk in one of the last few days of direct-across-the-desk sun this year.
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New arrivals, Monday: the now out-of-print Folio Society edition of our friend @greatdismal.bsky.social's NEUROMANCER, seen here basking on the PFB cash desk in one of the last few days of direct-across-the-desk sun this year.
Thinkin' about tomorrow
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thinkin' about tomorrow
Pacific Marine Road friend, yesterday
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Pacific Marine Road friend, yesterday
Pleased to be (so far as I can tell) the sole bookstore in Western Canada carrying Hanuman Editions' wee trade paper originals.
October 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Pleased to be (so far as I can tell) the sole bookstore in Western Canada carrying Hanuman Editions' wee trade paper originals.
On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time.
I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.
I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time.
I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.
I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.
Pleased to discover this one back in print, & at a very reasonable price point, too.
"[L]ike its predecessors, a near-faultless technical performance...[plus] 2 new items to the Beauman repertoire: relative structural simplicity and profound emotional resonance."
"[L]ike its predecessors, a near-faultless technical performance...[plus] 2 new items to the Beauman repertoire: relative structural simplicity and profound emotional resonance."
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Pleased to discover this one back in print, & at a very reasonable price point, too.
"[L]ike its predecessors, a near-faultless technical performance...[plus] 2 new items to the Beauman repertoire: relative structural simplicity and profound emotional resonance."
"[L]ike its predecessors, a near-faultless technical performance...[plus] 2 new items to the Beauman repertoire: relative structural simplicity and profound emotional resonance."
T&RD 2025 receipts! $1200 profit + $300 of matched donations = $1500, shared among Native Education College; Vancouver Aboriginal Child & Family Services Society; Urban Native Youth Association; Akala Outdoor Education Society; Indigenous Watchdog; Orange Shirt Society; & Moccasin Footprint Society.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
T&RD 2025 receipts! $1200 profit + $300 of matched donations = $1500, shared among Native Education College; Vancouver Aboriginal Child & Family Services Society; Urban Native Youth Association; Akala Outdoor Education Society; Indigenous Watchdog; Orange Shirt Society; & Moccasin Footprint Society.
DEPT OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES: some times our timeline rhymes
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
DEPT OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES: some times our timeline rhymes
"Excited to wear this fall," after @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Indestructible Spier & Mackay canvas field jacket; Ralph midweight flannel; Rustic Dime 13 oz slim straight Japanese selvedge, "rustic brown" Blunnies with a hard-wearing Vibram sole.
September 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Excited to wear this fall," after @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Indestructible Spier & Mackay canvas field jacket; Ralph midweight flannel; Rustic Dime 13 oz slim straight Japanese selvedge, "rustic brown" Blunnies with a hard-wearing Vibram sole.
Someone observes no women on that last list, so let me add Maureen F. McHugh & her MISSION CHILD (1999) in particular, whose depiction of an indigenous survivor of planetary colonialism, kept alive by colonialist tech, is one of the coldest, most gripping SF novels I know, & ever so relevant now.
September 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Someone observes no women on that last list, so let me add Maureen F. McHugh & her MISSION CHILD (1999) in particular, whose depiction of an indigenous survivor of planetary colonialism, kept alive by colonialist tech, is one of the coldest, most gripping SF novels I know, & ever so relevant now.
Also recommending Conor Kerr's BEAVER HILLS FOREVER. A free verse novella about four young Metis people falling out of relationship with community & others, & then maybe (ambiguously) back again. I read it straight through in an hour & a half at my favorite coffee shop & was v deeply moved.
September 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Also recommending Conor Kerr's BEAVER HILLS FOREVER. A free verse novella about four young Metis people falling out of relationship with community & others, & then maybe (ambiguously) back again. I read it straight through in an hour & a half at my favorite coffee shop & was v deeply moved.
If you want off *comparatively* easily (& pleasurably), there's a sharp new edition of MUMBO JUMBO, Ishmael Reed's Afrofuturist gloss on shaggy-dog conspiratorialist hippie piss-takes like CRYING OF LOT 49, the ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, etc. I'm rereading it rn. But it's never lacked deserved fame.
September 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you want off *comparatively* easily (& pleasurably), there's a sharp new edition of MUMBO JUMBO, Ishmael Reed's Afrofuturist gloss on shaggy-dog conspiratorialist hippie piss-takes like CRYING OF LOT 49, the ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, etc. I'm rereading it rn. But it's never lacked deserved fame.
If you want off comparatively easily (& pleasurably), there's a sharp new edition of MUMBO JUMBO, Ishmael Reed's Afrofuturist gloss on the shaggy-dog conspiratorialist hippie piss-takes like CRYING OF LOT 49, the ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, & etc. I'm rereading it rn. But it's never lacked fame.
September 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If you want off comparatively easily (& pleasurably), there's a sharp new edition of MUMBO JUMBO, Ishmael Reed's Afrofuturist gloss on the shaggy-dog conspiratorialist hippie piss-takes like CRYING OF LOT 49, the ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, & etc. I'm rereading it rn. But it's never lacked fame.
One of the regulars wanted to read "a serious novelist who never really got his due." I did that plug-pulled-&-rebooting thing I often do on the desk & coughed up Joseph McElroy, though I might just as accurately said David Markson, or Ishmael Reed, or William Gay.
September 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
One of the regulars wanted to read "a serious novelist who never really got his due." I did that plug-pulled-&-rebooting thing I often do on the desk & coughed up Joseph McElroy, though I might just as accurately said David Markson, or Ishmael Reed, or William Gay.
"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a 'significant cognitive disadvantage' compared to those who do use the tech."
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a 'significant cognitive disadvantage' compared to those who do use the tech."
New arrivals, Saturday
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New arrivals, Saturday
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
September 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
My favorite doctor and companion
August 9, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My favorite doctor and companion