Congrats to Jamie Chai Yun Liew (@thechaiyun), whose debut novel, DANDELION, has been shortlisted for #CanadaReads2025! 🌼
Tune in March 17–20, 2025, to see pastry chef Saïd M’Dahoma, aka "The Pastry Nerd," champion the book.
👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Ja…
ALT Jamie Chai Yun Liew, photographed by Kenya-Jade Pinto, and the cover of her book “Dandelion,” with a Canada Reads 2025 selection seal on it. Text reads: “Congratulations to Jamie Chai Yun Liew. ‘Dandelion,’ a Canada Reads 2025 finalist! Arsenal Pulp Press. arsenal pulp [dot] com”
ALT Canada Reads 2025 champions, courtesy of CBC. Text reads: “Canada Reads, March 17-20, 2025”
🪷 The debut poetry collection of Kyo Lee, I CUT MY TONGUE ON A BROKEN COUNTRY, is about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens. Out now in Canada (USA April 8, 2025).
👉 Read more & shop local (🇨🇦): indiebookstores.ca/book/9781…
ALT The cover of the book "i cut my tongue on a broken country" by Kyo Lee, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com. On the book cover, the face of a Korean girl is embraced by blossoming lotus flowers. Her face and hair are made up of the plant stems. The girl’s eyes are closed, and she has a peaceful expression. Behind her is a dark green backdrop that resembles a painted wall. In the top left corner is the book title, “i cut my tongue on a broken country,” and in the top right corner is the word, “Poems,” and the author’s name, “Kyo Lee.” The cover is illustrated in a hand-painted style with an overall colour cast of green and pink.
🐚🫧 New! #BuzzkillClamshell, the latest poetry collection by Amber Dawn, flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power.
👉 Out now in Canada (USA April 1, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Buzz…
ALT The cover of the book "Buzzkill Clamshell" by Amber Dawn, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com.
At the top of the book cover is the book title, “Buzzkill Clamshell,” and the author’s name, “Amber Dawn.” At the bottom is a large pink clamshell opened to reveal three pearls in its centre. On the left are two plants, one with wavy multi-branched stems ending in round buds, and the other with three stems ending in yellow bell-shaped flowers that dip over the book title. In the bottom left corner, beneath the plants, is the word “Poems.” The cover is illustrated in a hand-painted semi-realistic style by Rebecca Chaperon.
Out now in Canada! #SearchingForSerafim by Ruby Smith Díaz is a layered exploration of the life and legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes, a trailblazing Black lifeguard, who became a cultural icon in a racist society.
👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Sear…
ALT The cover of the book "Searching for Serafim" by Ruby Smith Díaz, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com.
On the left of the book cover is a colourized photo of Serafim, an Afrolatino man dressed in a navy suit and a navy fedora with a pipe in his mouth. He is standing in a grassy yard. On the right is a realistic illustration of a flowering Aganisia orchid with mangoes over a historical map of Trinidad. The illustration has a ripped edge dividing the cover down the middle. Running vertically along the right edge is the book title, “Searching for Serafim,” and the subtitle, “The Life and Legacy of Serafim ‘Joe’ Fortes.” Running horizontally in the bottom right corner is the author’s name, “Ruby Smith Diaz.”
Congrats to Jamie Chai Yun Liew (@thechaiyun), whose debut novel, DANDELION, has been shortlisted for #CanadaReads2025! 🌼
Tune in March 17–20, 2025, to see pastry chef Saïd M’Dahoma, aka "The Pastry Nerd," champion the book.
👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Ja…
ALT Jamie Chai Yun Liew, photographed by Kenya-Jade Pinto, and the cover of her book “Dandelion,” with a Canada Reads 2025 selection seal on it. Text reads: “Congratulations to Jamie Chai Yun Liew. ‘Dandelion,’ a Canada Reads 2025 finalist! Arsenal Pulp Press. arsenal pulp [dot] com”
ALT Canada Reads 2025 champions, courtesy of CBC. Text reads: “Canada Reads, March 17-20, 2025”
🇨🇦 Canadian customers: Books are GST free until Feb. 15, 2024!
This offer can be combined with any other coupon offers—including our extended holiday book sale!
🎁 Until Dec. 24, use code FESTIVE30 for 30% off free shipping on orders $30 on arsenalpulp.com*
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ALT Stacked thumbnail images of book covers on the same background as in the first slide. Small text above and below reads, "Arsenal Pulp Press: New releases." and "arsenal pulp dot com." The books featured are as follows, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
"Bad Land" by Corinna Chong; "Vantage Points" by Chase Joynt; "Something, Not Nothing" by Sarah Leavitt; "All Our Ordinary Stories" by Teresa Wong; "The Coincidence Problem" by Stephen Osborne; "Bad Houses" by John Elizabeth Stintzi"; "Finding Otipemisiwak" by Andrea Currie; "Getting Glam at Gram's" by Sara Weed & Erin Hawryluk; "Special Topics in Being a Parent" by S. Bear Bergman & Saul Freedman-Lawson; and "A Perfect Day for a Walk" by Bill Arnott.
Booked & busy (reading) 📚👏 Our annual holiday book sale is on now!
🎁 Get 30% OFF free shipping on all orders of $30 or more.* Use code: FESTIVE30
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ALT Simple illustrated scene of a brown cat curled up in front of an open book beside two other stacked books, which are orange & deep burgundy and have Arsenal Pulp Press's logo mark (circle with jagged, off-centre cross cut through) on the spines, and a lit candlestick, against a soft gradient background of peach & pink with scattered sparkles and the logo mark in pale orange blown up in the top right. Above, the header reads, "Booked & busy (reading): A P P's annual holiday book sale," and text atop a light rounded rectangle details the sale's terms, with more text just below and in the orange footer. Text reads:
"30% off free shipping on all orders of $30 or more on Arsenal Pulp dot com.* *Free shipping to Canada & the U S, regular postal rates only. Offer expires on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Use code: Festive 3 0. If you want your books to arrive by December 25th, please place your order by December 8th. Arsenal Pulp Press: Arsenal Pulp dot com."
*Free shipping to Canada & the US, regular postal rates only. Offer expires on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you want your books to arrive by December 25, please place your order by December 8.
🇨🇦 For the duration of the Canada Post strike, our Canadian orders will be fulfilled exclusively by Canpar, (delivers to business & home addresses, not P.O. boxes). If we find that Canpar cannot deliver to your address, we will be in touch to make other arrangements.
"One of the excitements and problems of archives is they lead us to believe we can understand the truth about something or someone in the past [...]"
We chat with @ChaseJoynt about his new Hilary Weston-prize nominated book VANTAGE POINTS @Arsenalpulpalllitup.ca/we-are-too-often…
ALT A photo of Chase Joynt, a light-skinned man with short cropped hair and facial hair. He is wearing a white t-shirt and looking into the camera.
Congratulations to Henry Tsang @HenryVancouver, winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award for WHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver! vancouver.ca/news-calendar/w…
Experience the city of Vancouver through new eyes with Bill Arnott’s “A Perfect Day for a Walk,” a documented journey—on foot—to uncover the city’s hidden gems and best-kept secrets.
“A Perfect Day for a Walk” is out now from @arsenalpulp!
#ReadLocalBC#APerfectDayforaWalk