Lorimer is finalist for Canada Prize

Rowland Lorimer is one of three finalists for this year’s Canada Prize in the Social Sciences. He has been shortlisted… FULL STORY

Petrarch’s correspondence

  WHEN: Thursday, April 17 TIME: 7:30 pm WHERE: Simon Fraser University downtown campus, 515 West Hastings Sponsored by the… FULL STORY

#7 Water & potatoes, Einstein & Woody Allen

Hi, ya, darlin’ The rain continues to fall from heaven and the trees are celebrating. I hope it pours for days…. FULL STORY

Nobel winners on Stonehenge

Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, is about to launch an… FULL STORY

Dalton on Shipwrecks

#7 How the Douglas fir was named

One of the most prominent of the roving fraternity of nineteenth-century plant hunters who scoured North America for plant species… FULL STORY

Chief Bev Sellars wins Ryga Award

It wasn’t planned—but the memoir recounting abuse at the St. Joseph’s Residential School was released coincidentally with the proceedings of… FULL STORY

Bachinsky is back

April is National Poetry Month. A good time to announce that Elizabeth Bachinsky has been named a finalist for the… FULL STORY

Secrets of the olive revealed

In her forthcoming new book Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World (Greystone $28.95),… FULL STORY

This Stays in the Room

This Stays in the Room Created by Cande Andrade, Amber Funk Barton, Alexa Devine, Noah Drew, Manami Hara, Andreas Kahre,… FULL STORY

The Pope’s Bookbinder

The Spanish government commissioned a special binding of a religious text to present to the Pope who was to visit…. FULL STORY

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy will make the closing speech to the BC Library Association’s annual convention on Wednesday, more about April 2,… FULL STORY

Getting a handle on Ranald

The unparalleled, bizarre and tempestuous life story of Ranald Macdonald has never been successfully told. Don Gayton hopes to be… FULL STORY

VIDEOS, DOCUMENTARIES & BOOK TRAILERS

B O O K L O O K   D O C U M E N T A R I E… FULL STORY

A hotbed for young writers turns 50

This year UBC Creative Writing marks its 50th anniversary as the longest, continuously operating department of its kind in Canada…. FULL STORY

bissett event

On Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m.,  Canadian icon bill bissett will perform some of his most recent poetry as… FULL STORY

The heroic reporter

Prior to Haunting Vancouver, Mike McCardell has already raised more than ninety grand for charity with his nine books. He… FULL STORY

#5 Corby the Crow

Hey, darlin’ Did I ever tell you about Corby? I was driving home from the store and my son Alex… FULL STORY

Geddes-burgh addresses

The unstoppable Gary Geddes is the recipient of a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Award… FULL STORY

A cumulatively charming collective

Magic To Do: A Stephen Schwartz Songbook Intimate Theatre Productions and WRS Productions Studio 1398 Feb. 26-March 8 At 23,… FULL STORY