#527 Graffiti, Canadian style
Graffiti, Canadian Style By Ernest Hekkanen (in 1999) It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#526 Lies, tenure, and dark energy
Black Star by Maureen Medved Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2018 $20.00 / 9781772141122 Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski * Encountering the barbed… FULL STORY
Let’s not take history to the cleaners
The Pacific Northwest voyages of Captain James Cook are given short shrift but this umpteenth Cook overview doesn’t bend over… FULL STORY
#525 Ron Holland makes a splash
All the Oceans: Designing by the Seat of My Pants by Ron Holland, with a Foreword by Rupert Murdoch Vancouver:… FULL STORY
#524 Just another Cook book
James Cook: The Voyages by William Frame with Laura Walker Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018 $49.95 / 9780773552869… FULL STORY
Book Prizes born anew
Running the BC Book Prizes is no cake walk. It’s an easy way to make friends. It also paves the… FULL STORY
#523 Powter’s alpine passages
Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People by Geoff Powter, with a foreword by Chris Bonnington Victoria:… FULL STORY
Aalborg rides off with Spur Award
G.K. (Gordon) Aalborg has won the 2019 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Historical Fiction with his… FULL STORY
Saturday, Bloody, Saturday
A new generation is introduced to a tumultuous, six-week struggle when more than 30,000 strikers battled police, vigilantes, and the… FULL STORY
#522 Nurse log and a Great Blue Heron
Upend by Kevin Spenst Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2018 $15.00 / 9781926948652 Reviewed by David Stouck * In Vancouver’s poetry… FULL STORY
What the Wind Brings
In his forthcoming historical novel, What the Wind Brings (Pulp Literature $39.95 Summer, 2019), Matthew Hughes pits a coalition of… FULL STORY
#521 The Al Purdy Poets’ Society
Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy by Howard White and Emma Skagen (editors), with a foreword by Steven… FULL STORY
Somewhere inside the rainbow
Published April 1, the novel arises from the author’s five-year stint as a journalist in South Africa during the late… FULL STORY
#520 Somewhere inside the rainbow
In Arianna Dagnino’s The Afrikaner, published April 1st, a brave and resilient woman ventures to the Kalahari Desert to find… FULL STORY
#519 Back to Bloody Saturday
1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester, with an introduction… FULL STORY
#518 Matriarchs of Johnsons Landing
What Forever Feels Like: A Memoir of Johnsons Landing by Ellen Burt New Denver: Maa Press, 2018 $23.00 / 9781999554804… FULL STORY
#517 Sunlight on the Rain People
Ocean Falls: After the Whistle. Recollections and Reflections of Life in a Coastal Company Town by R. Brian McDaniel Victoria:… FULL STORY
Salt Spring Island’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Victoria’s secret: diversity
May Wong’s new book takes us through one group after another: Hawaiians; Indigenous and Metis; Blacks; Jews; Chinese; and Japanese,… FULL STORY
Talonbooks spring launch
Talonbooks hosts its spring poetry launch on April 3, 8 pm at Pyatt Hall in Vancouver. Admission is free. Talon… FULL STORY
