Librairie Pulp Books & Café

Friends in Montreal, come join us at @pulpbooksmtl on June 9. It's going to be an unforgettable night of lit, conversation & good times 🔥 @danielallencox @bokchoygurl @ellenadams Daniel Allen Cox lancera l'édition broché de I FELT THE END BEFORE IT CAME: 📚 Finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2023 📚 "Hugely entertaining, open-hearted, and insightful." —Heather O'Neill Tamara Jong lira des extraits de WORLDLY GIRLS: 📚 On CBC Bookends with Mattea Roach, and CBC Books' 45 Canadian nonfiction books to read this fall 📚 "Worldly Girls is for all of us." —Jen Sookfong Lee Ellen Orme Adams animera la soirée et lira des extraits de ses œuvres. Entrée gratuite ! --- Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came, finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Malahat Review and The Brooklyn Rail. Tamara Jong is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in literary magazines, and long and shortlisted for various creative non-fiction prizes. She is a Writer’s Studio graduate and lives on Treaty 3 territory, (Guelph, ON). Worldly Girls (Book*hug) is her first book. Ellen Orme Adams writes fiction, essays, and songs. You can find her work in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, Black Warrior Review, Singapore Art Museum, and, shortly, the National Film Board. Her almost-done novel follows a chaotic, closeted lesbian who seeks escape in a Buddhist nunnery, only to find addiction, spiritual misconduct, and, ultimately, her own agency. @penguincanada @bookhugpress @cbcbooks

You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?!??? In collaboration with the bloodsuckers at @pulpbooksmtl , Gay Writes returns to Forks one last time for a REEL GAY screening of BREAKING DAWN: Abridged !!  Parts 1 & 2, cut together by yours truly into one feature-length film — this is the Twilight Saga’s finale like you’ve never seen it before. Hosted by @mary__fagdalene  and joined by MTL’s cultural curmudgeon, @trannawintour , our gang of gays are ready to dish some real live commentary on this real gay film. Advance tix available at the link in bio. doors @ 7pm show @ 8pm @lasalarossa **please note: this venue has a staircase with no alternative accessibility gaywrites.ca

🚨TEAM SPOTS ALL FULL/ DM FOR WAITLIST🚨 Remember that time we hosted a trivia night and had so much fun and never did it again? Well, we’re doing it again!! Quizmaster Carolyn Aubry is hosting an all things Millennial trivia night at Pulp… so crack out the millennial greys, turn up the pop punk, and show off those moustache finger tats. DM us to sign up your team of 3 or 4 members. We have spots for NINE teams, so first come first served! Only DM us once your team is confirmed. We’ll confirm your attendance by May 8th. If you can’t make it in the end, we’ll pull names from a waitlist. Tickets are $10 per person at the door, night of! Prizes to win! Drinks to be drank! Fun to be had!

This May, we're participating in Montreal's #LireQueer Reader Fest, a new celebration of queer literature that will spotlight works in English, French, and Spanish to create meaningful connections among MTL's book lovers ! To celebrate, for the first time in Gay Writes herstory, we'll be reading a stage play — PRINCE FAGGOT, the newest work from one of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights, Jordan Tannahill !!  It opens with its cast of performers discussing the play's inspiration: a now infamous 2017 photo that crowned then four-year-old Prince George a "gay icon." Together, they stage a near-future where George, returning from college, brings home his own Prince Charming to meet the family. Dev, older and of British-Indian heritage, openly criticizes the monarchy and is too clever to mistake his relationship with a prince for progress, a tension that immediately fractures the fantasy of a poised and polished royal family. But what begins as a cheeky "what if" quickly fractures into something far stranger, with performers stepping out of character to share confessional fragments of their own. The result is messy, provocative, and deeply self-aware — less a linear story than a layered interrogation of identity, desire, and who gets to belong where. As the relationship unfolds (and inevitably becomes public), PRINCE FAGGOT digs into the uncomfortable question at its core: can queerness truly exist within insitiuions built on power, inheritence, and exclusion? iRL meeting: MONDAY 18 MAY 7pm @pulpbooksmtl RSVP @ the link in bio 👑 ~~~ PRINCE FAGGOT is available to purchase from our indie friends — remember to let them know you're purchasing for GW (or use the code THATSGAY online) for 10% off: @pulpbooksmtl @queenbooksto @anotherstorybookshop @typebooksjunction @shelflifebooks @mosaic_books @magpiebooksyeg @saint.henri.books   @takecoverbooks @kingscoopbookstore @crossandcrows

See y’all on Saturday April 25th / 10am ( #indiebookstoreday ) at the Verdun gem, @pulpbooksmtl ! I’ll read my new picture book THE MOUNTAIN THAT WOULDN’T MOVE to you and your kids and sign your hot-off-the-press copies! I’ll also have a limited amount of tiny Bear paintings to slip into your books, ✨then we’ll make a cute mountain garland together and it will be the best!🗻🐻 #storytime #verdun #picturebook #familyactivities

Join us on Tuesday, April 14 for GENTLETHEM’S QUARTERLY — an evening of poetry with @brick.books writers, @newportmanteau , @mishasolomon , and Jake Byrne. They’ll be reading poems about the inheritances of family lineages, good and bad. Sharp humour and cozy sentimentality meet the deep roots of the family tree. Bring your friends and ancestral spirits to honour the complexities of what makes us human. Tuesday, April 14 at 7PM, doors at 6:45! ✨

Our spring table has SPRUNG (even though it may or may not be intermittently snowing in Montreal today)! Come through for gardening books, nature lit, fiction with spring vibes, and even a colouring book or two 🌷

Next week at Pulp! Thursday, April 9 @ 7PM ✨ Join local speculative fiction authors Su J Sokol and Rich Larsen as they welcome NYC-based author Sam J Miller for “Writing Against Borders” - a reading and conversation focused on speculative fiction that transgresses boundaries and challenges the status quo in a time of violent xenophobia and repression. The evening will include short readings as well as a lively Q&A period. See you there!

A lovely stack of transgender fiction + nonfiction for Trans Day of Visibility! A reminder that you should be reading stories and accounts of transgender life on the regular, but it’s never been more important to highlight these incredible authors and their works than it is right now 🩷🩵🤍

Kid’s Storytime is this Saturday at 10AM! We’ll be joined by our friend Kit, who will be reading a couple modern classics: the BUTT OR FACE? books by Kari Lavelle! Oh, and maybe an extra book about farts if there’s time. See you there 🍑

Our Romance book club continues with The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest! Meeting will take place April 16 at 7PM at Pulp. Sign ups at the link in bio or at pulpbooks.ca/events ✨

It’s officially Cabane Panache on @promenadewellington !! 🍁🍁 Celebrating sugaring season like nowhere else… come through The Well this weekend and enjoy live music, snacks, and a special maple latte from Pulp — made with real maple syrup and topped with maple sugar. And, of course, we’ve got books to match! See you soon!