It was all ties and name tags and drunken groping at the office party-themed launch for Jessica Westhead’s novel Pulpy and Midge (Coach House Books), held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on Sept. 25 as part of This Is Not A Reading Series. (Kidding about the groping.)

Coach House’s Evan Munday and poet Paul Vermeersch wearing their staff kitchen best.

People line up for personalized name tags.

Attendees were encouraged to post their most embarrassing office-job secrets.