Inside a Petrostate

“Joanne Leow (left) discusses Exhumations, her new book exploring colonialism, extraction, illness and life between Singapore and Canada in this interview. FULL STORY



 

 

 

 

Author Archive

#109 D.M. Fraser

LOCATION: 4394 Main Street, Vancouver D.M. Fraser lived above Morris’s Second Hand Store at this location in an apartment dubbed… FULL STORY

#108 Brian Fawcett

LOCATION: Prince George In the early 1970s, Brian Fawcett first notably wrote about his hometown of Prince George and its… FULL STORY

#107 Anne Cameron

LOCATION: Press Gang, 603 Powell Street, former headquarters of Press Gang Publishing The bestselling book of B.C. fiction from a… FULL STORY

#106 Frank Calder

LOCATION: Atlin And you thought Atlin wouldn’t have any literary history… Here are ten literary connections to the town next… FULL STORY

#105 bill bissett

LOCATION: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street As much a painter as he is a poet, bill bissett has supported… FULL STORY

#104 Earle Birney

LOCATION: “Lieben” Writers Colony, ten acres of now forested land situated below 1390 Eaglecliff Road, Bowen Island. DIRECTIONS: From Snug… FULL STORY

#103 Jeannette Armstrong

LOCATION: En’owkin Centre, Lot 45, Green Mountain Road, Penticton Indian Reserve In 1989, Jeannette Armstrong oversaw the creation of the… FULL STORY

How do I know God loves me?

Esther Hizsa’s self-published Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim ($16.95 Amazon 2015) contains vignettes, poems and essays about how the author… FULL STORY

#102 Yosef Wosk

LOCATION: 2, Street of Light, Israel Torah Research Institute, Jerusalem [Yeshivas Itri] The Vancouver-born poet, philosopher, rabbi, philanthropist, scholar, educator… FULL STORY

#101 Renee Rodin

LOCATION: 2742 West 4th Avenue, former site of R2B2 Books, Vancouver Active in the literary community on a variety of… FULL STORY

#100 Carolyn Zonailo

LOCATION: 2515 Burrard, the Alm Building, Vancouver Named after the man who built the building–whose surname was Alm–the Alm Building… FULL STORY

#99 Paul Yee

LOCATION: Mau Dan Gardens Co-op, 350 East Pender, near the southern side of the intersection of Pender and Dunlevy Streets,… FULL STORY

#98 Caroline Woodward

LOCATION: Lennard Island Lighthouse, off Long Beach, three miles from Tofino. Situated at Latitude 49 degrees 6″ 37′ and longitude… FULL STORY

#97 George Woodcock

LOCATION: 6429 McCleery Street, Vancouver Self-described as “a British Columbian by choice, a Canadian by birth,” the Winnipeg-born, England-educated anarchist… FULL STORY

#96 Jim Willer

LOCATION: Former Vancouver School of Art, Dunsmuir & Homer, Vancouver Professional painter Jim Willer came to teach at the Vancouver… FULL STORY

#95 Oliver Wells

LOCATION: Edenbank Farmhouse, 7001 Eden Drive, Chilliwack Built in 1913, the Edenbank Farmhouse in which Oliver Wells lived can be… FULL STORY

#94 Ann Walsh

LOCATION: Barkerville Historic Cemetery, Reduction Road, Barkerville. Directions: Seven minutes from Wells, B.C. Proceed southwest on Pooley Street toward Barkerville,… FULL STORY

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