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.
The headwaters of the St George Rainway. An actual current with riffles this morning, flexing the stems of the aquatic plants & bringing the sound of running water. This all-seasons park is the best thing COV's added to the neighborhood in my time here (25.5 yrs!)
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The headwaters of the St George Rainway. An actual current with riffles this morning, flexing the stems of the aquatic plants & bringing the sound of running water. This all-seasons park is the best thing COV's added to the neighborhood in my time here (25.5 yrs!)
It's not a Tardis
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's not a Tardis
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