Vancouver Special

The BC Book Prize shortlist was announced yesteday, and we were thrilled to discover that  Vancouver Special by Charles Demers is up for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Other Arsenal Pulp titles are also contenders: Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai is shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. We were also happy to see Arsenal [...]

Meet Charles Demers at Blackberry Books
Blackberry Books invites you to meet Vancouver Special, author, Charlie Demers on Sunday, February 21 between 11am and 1pm.
#3 – 1666 Johnston St.
Net Loft Building, Granville Island
For more information, 604-685-6188

Insomniac says:
“In Charles Demers’s darkly comic debut novel, Daniel — an East Vancouver obsessive-compulsive — is forced to evaluate his self-absorption against the trials and traumas of others. As he tries to submerge himself in a solitary, Karl Marx-inspired research project in the basement archives of the medical library, Daniel watches his family flounder at [...]

Charles Demers discusses the impetus behind Vancouver Special, his perfect Vancouver day, favourite writers, Vancouver myths, and his top picks for an afternoon snack in this Q&A.

Charles stopped in to chat with Graham Clark and Dave Shumka on a hilarious LIVE edition of Stop Podcasting Yourself. Recorded at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver, BC, on Sunday, August 2. Topics include eatin’ on a beam, Louis Riel, Amazon Women on the Moon, the Vancouver Canadians, and two Aunt Vivs. Listen to the [...]

Available November 2009 from Arsenal Pulp Press.