Hugh’s News #5 Munro’s Books sold
HUGH’S NEWS #5 HOT NEWS – MUNRO’S BOOKS HAS NEW OWNERS Munro’s Books, the longtime Victoria bookstore associated with Canada’s… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Wild’s Cougar wins gold
Paula Wild’s The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous (Douglas & McIntyre, 2013) explores the evolving relationship humans have with the… FULL STORY
The literate side of Gino
Don’t EVER not return a book you borrow from Gino Odjick,” writes Katherine Gordon. “Apart from being ‘about the worst… FULL STORY
Theemes and DTES
Prior to entering the world of finance, while doing doctoral work in child psychology at UBC, Tracy Theemes worked with… FULL STORY
Honouring Bud Osborn
The commemorative video features an original soundtrack by Bud Osborn, David Lester and Wendy Atkinson. It is the first of… FULL STORY
Hugh’s News #4
Canada Day was a good day for the BC book community, bringing national recognition with induction into the Order of… FULL STORY
Vitriol from a wheelchair
Ninety-nine years later, in Adam Pottle’s Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley (Caitlin 2013), the narrator of a… FULL STORY
Eve Lazarus rises
It’s common knowledge that Canuck Place in Shaughnessy was previously a mansion that served as the headquarters for a Vancouver… FULL STORY
Q is for Quirk-e
“Every brave voice deserves a hearing,” according to Wayson Choy, in response to the sixth anthology from the Quirk-e collective,… FULL STORY
Barman wins 21st Woodcock Award
B is for Barman Jean Barman is the 21st recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding… FULL STORY
Cedar, totems, Jewitt & other gifts
Hilary Stewart (November 3, 1924 – June 5, 2014) by Vickie Jensen Hilary was both a close friend and a… FULL STORY
Dulai’s migrant ship
After a long gestation period, Phinder Dulai’s third book of poetry examines the infamous Komagata Maru “incident” in the Vancouver… FULL STORY
Webb sights
Having edited and written the introduction for Phyllis Webb’s Selected Poems (Talonbooks 1971), John F. Hulcoop has stayed the course,… FULL STORY
Muckle gets third edition
As a follow-up to Wilson Duff’s seminal Indian History of British Columbia, Robert J. Muckle’s overview of B.C.’s First Nations… FULL STORY
#13 Enbridge conspiracy theory
A heavy mist. Gray sky. The dragon who lives in my spine tells me we’re going to get rain and… FULL STORY
Children’s gems from D&M
The bumper crop of top quality children’s book from Douglas & McIntyre was seeded in 1978 when Ann Blades provided… FULL STORY
Hugh’s News #2
Congratulations to Vancouver’s Renée Saklikar whose much-shortlisted and bestselling Children of Air India (Nightwood) was chosen best poetry book in… FULL STORY
Giving the Sixties & Seventies a good Rap-paport
“The last time I began publishing,” says Henry Rappaport, “it led to forty-plus years in the printing business. Those days… FULL STORY
Yours truly, Vincent
By the time Vincent van Gogh died at age thirty-seven in 1890, he had written about one thousand letters, mostly… FULL STORY
Manolis launch for Autumn Leaves
Originally written in Greek, Manolis’ lastest collection of poems, Autumn Leaves (Ekstasis $23.95) has been printed in an en face… FULL STORY
