Prodigious Talents: Woodcock & Skelton
George Fetherling, one of Canada’s foremost men of letters, credits two prolific B.C. writers, George Woodcock and Robin Skelton, as… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The Greater One: Steve Nash
Victoria’s Steve Nash is one of only ten NBS players who have won the league’s MVP award back-to-back – but… FULL STORY
Gandalf of Granville Island: Tim Lander
It is impossible not to feel sympathy for Tim Lander when he describes sleeping under the Burrard Bridge and waking… FULL STORY
You can go home again: Eden Robinson, Haisla novelist
The gritty urban world of Eden Robinson’s new novel Blood Sports (M&S), of Kitamaat (pop. 700), the setting for her… FULL STORY
Father Morice, first B.C. publisher
MISSIONARIES Morice Brilliant and often described as egotistical, Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice is second only to William Duncan as the most… FULL STORY
The Life of Brian Brett
Brian Brett’s memoir shows him as a girlish youth and as a Jethro-like character near his woodpile. That duplicity reflects… FULL STORY
The moving of mountains
Carole Itter is a sculptor, an instructor at Emily Carr, and a writer, but in 2004 she published the posthumous… FULL STORY
The agonies & ecstasies of Doug Hepburn
World champion lifter Doug Hepburn’s early liabilities were a club-foot, shyness, a cross-eyed condition and an alcoholic father. Tom Thurston,… FULL STORY
Paul Whitney on eBooks
Paul Whitney has completed a new report for Canada Council son the potential impact of eBooks. eBOOKS ARE: 1. TECHNOLOGICAL… FULL STORY
Morris Panych
Morris Panych made his playwriting debut with a musical, Last Call: A Post-Nuclear Cabaret, in 1982, produced by Tamahnous Theatre… FULL STORY
Alan Haig-Brown
It was fishing that paid Alan Haig-Brown’s way through school, and later he edited the trade magazine Westcoast Fisherman. Over… FULL STORY
John Calvert
Cry me a river: John Calvert blows the whistle on the privatization of power We’ve all read those horror stories… FULL STORY
Peter Such
After a 25-year hiatus, novelist Peter Such has returned to the future with his dystopic view of terrorism and technology… FULL STORY
Rita Moir
To write The Windshift Line, (Greystone), her elegiac memoir, Rita Moir holed up in a Fort Macleod motel with her… FULL STORY
Jeannette Armstrong: In the spirit of En’owkin
Jeannette Armstrong is a grand-niece of Hamishama [Mourning Dove], the first female Native novelist in North America. As a poet,… FULL STORY
Herschel Hardin: Effectual Intellectual
Herschel Hardin doesn’t want to simply rock the boat. He wants to turn the boat around. By examining “waste and… FULL STORY
Bill bissett: Leading Luddite
bill bissett was born in Halifax in 1939. Severely bed-ridden in the hospital from age ten to twelve, bissett continually… FULL STORY
Who’s not afraid of Virginia Woolf?
With four titles under her belt, Meg Tilly has a growing reputation as a novelist – her young adult novel… FULL STORY
Stealing Atwood: Ebooks in Public Libraries
Michael Elcock of Sooke is the non-fiction author of A Perfectly Beautiful Place and Writing on Stone. He has written… FULL STORY
Everything is Funny: A review of Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
Too Much Happiness (Douglas Gibson Books / M&S) I’ll never forget what Alice Munro said to me the first time… FULL STORY
