Publication Studio Vancouver

Friend of the studio Sébastien Aubin is doing an online talk Tuesday, March 16 at 4pm Vancouver/Pacific time through the Libby Leshgold Gallery, to kick off his online residency, ᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᐣ – wêpinikan – something not cared for – délaisser quelque chose. Register for free for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sebastien-aubin-something-not-cared-for-tickets-143396471707 Some people might remember Sébastien’s excellent talk at the Libby’s symposium in July 2019 that covered a range of topics but was centred on the history and typography… read more Sébastien Aubin: ᐁᐧᐱᓂᑲᐣ – wêpinikan – something not cared for – délaisser quelque chose

Here’s the video from our distanced reading and book launch of Friend Poems back on February 26, courtesy of our co-publisher Agony Klub. Friend Poems is a volume of intimate poems by Kay Higgins, Colin Osler,​ Tiziana La Melia,​ Casey Wei, and Steffanie Ling, edited and designed by Casey Wei.

Agony Klub and Publication Studio Vancouver present Friend Poems with Kay Higgins, Tiziana La Melia, Steffanie Ling, Colin Osler, and Casey Wei, online Friday Feb 26 5pm PT, books on sale now!

More on this later.

PS Vancouver is participating in the online #vancouverartbookfair with some limited-time editions. See us there! #pubstud

Special limited time edition of Benveniste’s General Linguistics, $10 from each sale goes to Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre #pandemicbooks #pubstud

This weekend at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, we’re selling a limited-time two-volume edition of Mary Shelley dystopian novel The Last Man, and donating part of the proceeds to @endingviolence #pandemicbooks #pubstud

Building United Judgment is one of the inexpensively-produced 1970s books that I love, typeset on a regular typewriter, with occasional line drawings, and printed on 8.5×11″ paper. If you want a copy, instructions are at the link! #pubstud #pandemicbooks

This week’s book is a translation of some essays by Paul Lafargue, whose work prompted Karl Marx to write to a friend, “I am not a Marxist”. Lafargue was also Marx’s son-in-law, and the essay “The Right to be Lazy” is probably the work he is best known for today. If you want any of the small number of copies available, let me know that you have made a minimum $10 donation to West Coast… read more The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies by Paul Lafargue

Had a little break from this, but this week I made an edition of Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed with some nice interior papers, hot pink cover, and a dark blue marker ribbon. I’m including with it this anarchist pamphlet about children’s freedom, As Soon As You’re Born They Make You Feel Small. As always, this is a very small run. The first six people who can tell me that they have made a minimum… read more Pedagogy of the Oppressed plus As Soon As You’re Born They Make You Feel Small