Sicilian fare
Born in North Vancouver in 1961, Diane Gallagher was raised in Vancouver and spent part of her adult life in… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Surrealism & Emily Carr
In connection to an exhibition he curated at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2016 called I Had An Interesting French… FULL STORY
From Vanderhoof to Harmonicas
Born in Vanderhoof, B.C. in 1950, David H. Mitchell grew up in that small northern town of 500 people. As… FULL STORY
#54 Writes of Spring
Hi, darlin’: April was mostly GRAYpril. We had the sodden sky sitting on the treetops. Rain in its many iterations… FULL STORY
Where Grampa got his brass knuckles
On the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18, 1935, about 5,000 striking longshoremen set off from Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver, Canada,… FULL STORY
Jack & Nilliq & Wallin
Nowick Gray taught in Inuit villages in the Quebec Arctic before moving to the mountains of British Columbia and then… FULL STORY
Treespotting hits number one
BC Bestsellers Week of May 8, 2016 1. David Tracey’s Vancouver Tree Book is a continuation of a treespotting project… FULL STORY
Well, well… not so well
It has been published simultaneously with another novel, Before We Go Extinct (Farrar Straus Giroux), for younger readers. In Karen… FULL STORY
In Karen Rivers’ The Girl in the Well is Me (Dancing Cat Books $12.95), an exploration of bullying for middle… FULL STORY
A tip of the Panama hat
In the Spring isse of B.C. BookWorld there was a page-and-a-half reiview of Canada: A New Tax Haven, the latest… FULL STORY
Six in a blizzard
Sextet (Talonbooks $18.95) by Morris Panych has been heralded as “a dark and steamy comedy” that presents the harmonies and… FULL STORY
“I don’t kai-yai around.”
A new UBC Anthropology Museum exhibit and book show from and about activist painter Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun shows the way…. FULL STORY
How to live on planet earth
Now Carolan has recalled his meetings with a remarkble man–Nanao Sakaki–in New World Dharma. Trevor Carolan’s first encounter with the… FULL STORY
BC Book Prizes 2016 announced
The B.C. Book Prizes were presented at Government House in Victoria on Saturday, April 30. This year’s Lieutenant Governor’s BC… FULL STORY
Twenty Years of Ricepaper magazine
Many of today’s acclaimed Asian-Canadian writers were first published in Ricepaper. With Allan Cho and Julia Lin, Jim Wong-Chu has… FULL STORY
Tom Thomson’s Skull
In Broken Arrow (Orca $10.95) Steve’s plan for a relaxing vacation under the Spanish sun with his friend Laia, ends… FULL STORY
Fifty top healing plants
Ardent naturalist, Dr. Kumi, provides a reference guide to 50 of the most commonly used medicinal plants in Plants That… FULL STORY
Wisdom and the I Ching
Hanne Quillevere’s The Pivotal I CHING (Mac Zen Consulting, 2015) bring’s the ancient Chinese book of wisdom into the modern… FULL STORY
The peanut factory
Peter Speers was born in Cranbrook and grew up in East Vancouver. He was educated at the University of Victoria… FULL STORY
A-sailing we will go
Bill Hapgood was born in Trinity Bay on the Quebec north shore. He grew up in Ottawa. After graduating at… FULL STORY
