Arsenal Pulp Press imprint: 223 books
by Bridget Moran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The...
Vegan à Go-Go!
A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Sarah Kramer is a vegan superstar; she was named “The World’s Coolest Vegan” by Herbivore Magazine, and her first three cookbooks have sold a combined total of over two hundred thousand copies. Vegan a Go-Go! represents a change of pace for Sarah: it is a cookbook and more for vegan travelers,...
The Greenpeace to Amchitka
An Environmental Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism.This...
by Tom Cho
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in popular culture. Often with his family, the book's central character undergoes a series of startling physical transformations,...
Hopeful Monsters
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
“Hopeful monsters” are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt and survive in their environments. In these devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past.Home becomes fraught,...
Luck of the Draw
True-Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Money. Gobs of it. In the blink of an eye - or the drop of a ball— it's all yours.Everyone dreams about striking it rich by winning a lottery. We all feverishly line up to purchase our tickets, and watch TV or scan the newspapers to see if we have won, even though the odds are better that we will be...
Cold Case Vancouver
The Citys Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an amazing...
Dreaming in the Rain
How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Vancouver is now North America’s third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Will Smith’s I, Robot, among others. But Vancouver has been hosting filmmakers for years, coming into its own in the early 1970s when Robert...
Montreal Main
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
A Queer Film Classic: a great Canadian indie film from 1974 that has become a cult classic, about a photographer living among various outcasts in the Montreal neighborhood known as the Main, who becomes obsessed with the teenaged son of friends.
The Last Gang in Town
The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city’s east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.
Live at the Commodore
The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom is, like New York's CBGB's and Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go-Go, one of the most venerated rock clubs in the world; originally built in 1930, it's hosted a who's-who of music greats before they made it big: The Police, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York...
V6A
Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity.
by Brett Josef Grubisic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Equal parts bildungsroman and purported literary artifact, The Age of Cities is -really about the age of innocence. A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook: it is the story of a young man from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War. His...
AlliterAsian
Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This anthology of Asian Canadian writing celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, one of the few publications dedicated to literary writing by Asians outside of Asia. It includes new work by such writers as Joy Kogawa, author of the classic Canadian novel Obasan; Sky Lee, author...