Holley Rubinsky (1943-2015)
Holley Rubinsky resided in Kaslo, B.C. for more than thirty years prior to her death at age 72, due to… FULL STORY
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A forensic librarian in Rome
Sari Sikstrom, with her B.A. in Geography from the University of Alberta, has crossed the desert by camel, drifted in… FULL STORY
Tippett’s top eight
While residing on Pender Island, Maria Tippett has completed Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture (Harbour $32.95)… FULL STORY
Beavers R Us
Once upon a time there probably 60 million beavers in North America. But the arrival of European fur traders almost… FULL STORY
Considering Consider the Sunflowers
Review by Deb Elkink Elma Schemenauer’s Consider the Sunflowers, an historical prairie novel set in the 1940s, sweeps the reader… FULL STORY
#38 Of banana slugs and the escargette
A modest proposal is made to introduce a new delicacy for the gourmets of the world. Jobs, jobs, jobs…. FULL STORY
For Drake’s sake
As an amateur historian, Laird L. Nelson of Everson, Washington has claimed to have solved the mystery as to where… FULL STORY
#37 The Fall and other sorrows
So I was out in the farce which passes for a garden, picking peas… I did not have my cane… FULL STORY
Disaster revisited
When Mandy Bath left her home on July 12, 2012, she had no idea that only an hour later, her… FULL STORY
From Selma to Surrey
Former priest Ed Griffin founded the Surrey Writer’s Conference in 1993 after attending a writers’ conference in Seattle. He subsequently… FULL STORY
More to Tahiti than Paul Gauguin
“I started reading,” she says, “and soon fell in love, totally in love, like a teenager.” The initial reason Monique… FULL STORY
C is for Charlie, not the French one
Move over Bill Richardson. Having hosted the BC Book Prizes on several occasions, Charles Demers has re-entered the literary world… FULL STORY
Colours due in September
The first two poetry books by Bowen Island psychotherapist Lisa Shatzky, Do Not Call Me By My Name and Blame… FULL STORY
Hybrids are not just cars
According to publicity materials, a 2008 survey conducted by Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion found that 55% of… FULL STORY
The Math Olympian
Richard Hoshino teaches mathematics at Quest University Canada in Squamish. Prior to his arrival at Quest in 2013, Richard was… FULL STORY
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
It is another story in which Holdstock delves into dark and unfamiliar worlds. by Cherie Thiessen Her first novel, The… FULL STORY
Lawrence & Lawrence at Whistler
The full program for the Whistler Writers Festival will be released on August 10 at whistlerwritersfest.com. Tickets go on sale… FULL STORY
#36 No more crow whispering
Hi darlin’: It’s raining in Tahsis. Not much of a rain, more like a teasing shower, but it’s better than we’ve… FULL STORY
Racking up the nominations
Kayla Czaga has been shortlisted for the Late Night Library 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry for her book, For Your… FULL STORY
A modern lighthouse keeper
How do you get to be a Lighthouse Keeper? Caroline Woodward tells how and why she landed the job in… FULL STORY
