Chicago in 1919
In Mary Burns’ forthcoming novel, The Reason for Time (Chicago: Allium Press 2016), due in April, we will meet protagonist… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Cash and bad coffee
Fraser Nixon was born on the West Coast and has lived in Montreal, Toronto, Paris and Vancouver. By turns an… FULL STORY
Mr. Darcy comes to Granville Island
Hyped as swoon-worthty by the ever-burgeoning Arts Club Theatre, a rendition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will play in… FULL STORY
Carty and The Big Tent
Sunny Ways might have been a better title. Just prior to the election of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in… FULL STORY
#43 Chuck Davis
LOCATION: Captain George Vancouver statue, City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver. The ultimate expert on all historical matters pertaining… FULL STORY
#42 Douglas Coupland
LOCATION: Former headquarters of Vancouver Magazine, 1205 Richards Street, Vancouver Douglas Coupland‘s breakthrough novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated… FULL STORY
#41 Wayde Compton
LOCATION: CN Station, 1150 Station Street, near Main Street @ Terminal Avenue As the foremost proponent of black literature in… FULL STORY
#40 Eric Collier
LOCATION: Heritage cabin, Meldrum Creek, near Riske Creek. Directions: A rough road leads off the Chilcotin-Bella Coola Highway 20 at… FULL STORY
Cooperate or die
The Skeleton Tree (Penguin Random House $19.99) by Iain Lawrence is a survival story for ages 8-12 about two boys… FULL STORY
#39 Wayson Choy
LOCATION: 15 East Pender. Former headquarters of the Jin Wah Sing Musical Association. Wayson Choy emerged foremost among Chinese Canadian… FULL STORY
Manuel labour
Having taught elementary and high school students of the Tahltan and Nuu-Chah-nulth First Nations, Jennifer Manuel has fashioned a debut… FULL STORY
#38 Lily Chow
LOCATION: Chee Duck Tong building, 197 Quebec Street, Prince George Lily Chow’s father-in-law, Chung Chow, paid the Head Tax of… FULL STORY
#37 Robbie Burns
LOCATION: Adjoining the putting green in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria N 48° 24.764 W 123° 21.882 ROBBIE BURNS IN VICTORIA… FULL STORY
#36 Charles Bukowski
LOCATION: Viking Inn, 828 East Hastings, Vancouver When Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski made his first trip to Canada in October of… FULL STORY
Mission was impossible
As in Grubisic’s first novel, The Age of Cities, Mission is called River Bend City. By Carellin Brooks Brett Josef… FULL STORY
How the west was de-ranged
by Mark Forsythe The first ranches appeared in B.C. during the gold rush eras of the 1850s and 1860s when… FULL STORY
The Sky Was 1950 Blue
Katherin Edwards of Kamloops graduated from UBC’s MFA writing program. A Saskatoon-based collective has issued her limited edition poetry book,… FULL STORY
#50 Co-dependants & crow dependants
Hi darlin’ I suspect that by the time a person, gender nonspecific, reaches fifty or more years of age, she… FULL STORY
Wake up and smell the anarchy
Some people prefer to read newspapers and magazines from back to front. They would be ideal readers for Ron Sakolsky’s… FULL STORY
Fish Eyes in print
The award-winning actress, playwright and dancer Anita Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, where she did not speak English until… FULL STORY
