Do you know Pulp Lab, those curators linking international and local creatives? Their varied, curated retail events have moved to a new location at 5402 22nd Ave NW.
Phone • 206.706.7857

Lovers of the book as beautiful in both cover and content will love Zut!, Pulp Lab's chic French collaboration with Loft Books. In the Pulp Lab spirit, it is curated by Loft Books’ Summer Robinson and when Zut! leaves for Spain, it will be replaced by a series in a different language. Available both in French or in translation, here's what you can page through, wonder over and even buy:

From PARIS, publications by:
• P.O.L. Editeur (headed by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens)
Responsible since 1983, for some of the most astonishing new poetry and fiction around, challenging rote conceptions of contemporary lit.

• Editions Virgile, Besancon (headed by Daniel Legrand)
Daniel Legrand works tirelessly to bring vital texts to his public with a catalogue that transmits the full flavor of the modern French literary scene, including a few foreigners crucial to its development.

• Editions Harpo &, Marseille (headed by Pierre Mréjen)
Presenting Linotype Machine, Ludlow Typograph and Cylinder Press
One of the most popular contemporary small press collections in France, “comme dix raies blanches” or “like ten white stripes.” The collection includes fifteen quirky, genre-bending titles – and Zut!’s five complete sets come from only 25 still available. The five first titles are numbered and signed.

From SEATTLE, publications by:
• Wave Books (headed by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder)
Local Wave Books not only publishes brilliant Frenchmen, but gifted American poets such as James Tate and Matthew Rohrer.

• From LOS ANGELES, publications by:
Les Figues Press (headed by Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place) Among many other things, Les Figues publish these multi-lingual and ambitious concept book