Set during the Dot-Bomb era of rolling blackouts and layoffs in Silicon Valley, the debut novel by Roderick Maclean glimmers with tales of supply room creatures, television fanatics, office poets, golf gurus, Moose Lodge legacies, and unadulterated condo bliss.
Little known facts about the how the novel Tropic/of/Cubicle is sooooo frickin’ corporate:
1. It was bound with used hanging file folders “reclaimed” from corporate file cabinets.
2. It was laid out using generic office productivity software, i.e. MS Word and Adobe Acrobat.
3. It was typeset using three of the most popular business fonts: Times New Roman, Courier New, and Tahoma.
4. The title and author text on the spine is printed on office shipping labels.
5. It was furtively printed on a corporate Canon Imagerunner after hours.
A few other, non-corporate, details: the book is handbound, the cover features a two ink silkscreen image, its pages are of a very high-quality stock (we just couldn’t bring ourselves to go with generic white laser paper), and it’s 219 pages in length. So, given that each cover has slightly different wear and (mostly) greenish coloration and is cut and silkscreened by hand, and each book is handbound, this means that every copy of Tropic/of/Cubicle is absolutely unique. All of this is thanks, of course, to my bookbinder and publisher Drew Burk at Spork Press. By the way, if you want a signed copy, email me and we can work something out.
More about Roderick Maclean, author of Tropic/of/Cubicle, can be found here.
Tropic/of/Cubicle is was available in the following indepedent bookstores.
NEW YORK/BROOKLYN
Clovis Press
229 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.302.3751
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SAN FRANCISCO/BERKELEY
Pegasus
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.649.1320
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Pendragon
5560 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
510.652.6259
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PORTLAND
Powell’s City of Books
1005 W Burnside Street
Portland, OR 97209
503.228.0540
866.201.7601 (toll free)
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PHOENIX
Changing Hands
6428 S McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
480.730.0205
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TUCSON
Safehouse
4024 East Speedway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85712
520.318.3090
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Antigone Books
411 North 4th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
520.792.3715
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Biblio Bookstore
222 E. Congress Street
Tucson, AZ 85701
520.624.8222
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