#204 Wood’s mindfulness in the woods
REVIEW: At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness by Rob Wood Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books,… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Emily Carr’s secretive friendships
Written nine years after Carr died, published in 1954, it describes an idealized friendship with twenty vignettes. Emily Carr As… FULL STORY
#203 Mack, the life
ESSAY: The Transcontinentalist: Or, The Joys of the Road Manuscript in the Laing Papers at the B.C. Archives, written in… FULL STORY
Kurtyka bio climbs to the top
Bernadette McDonald continues her winning ways. She first won the $2,000 Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival… FULL STORY
#202 Al Neil (1924-2017)
Elder statesman of the avant-garde has “gone on before.” November 17th, 2017 “Whatever I’m doing belongs right here in Vancouver.”… FULL STORY
Al Neil (1924-2017)
“New York has William Burroughs, Los Angeles has Charles Bukowski and Vancouver has Al Neil,” — local author John Armstrong… FULL STORY
#202 Al Neil (1924-2017)
“New York has William Burroughs, Los Angeles has Charles Bukowski and Vancouver has Al Neil.” — John Armstrong “Whatever I’m… FULL STORY
Chariandy bags $50,000 honour
David Chariandy’s acclaimed second novel, Brother, concerns two siblings growing up in Scarborough in the 1980s. The $50,000 Rogers Writers’… FULL STORY
Submerged guilt
The son of German post-war immigrants who were children during World War II, Roger Frie, a non-Jew, was awarded the… FULL STORY
#201 Peter Trower (1930-2017)
A GATHERING TO REMEMBER AND HONOUR PETER TROWER WILL BE HELD FROM 3 – 6 PM AT THE FORMER LOCATION… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s first forensic investigator
By the time Canada’s Sherlock Holmes retired in 1949, he had outlasted thirteen police chiefs and sixteen mayors. Blood, Sweat,… FULL STORY
#200 Emily’s compartmentalized friend
Emily Carr As I Knew Her by Carol Pearson, with a foreword by Robert Amos. Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2016. $19.95 … FULL STORY
#199 What the Heckman
REVIEW: Heckman’s Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey by Ralph Beaumont, foreword by John Geiger Mississauga, Ontario: The Credit Valley Railway… FULL STORY
B.C. writers score four big wins
Author of thirty books, the indefatigable Daniel Francis (right) of North Vancouver is this year’s winner of the prestigious Governor… FULL STORY
#198 Inspector Vance aka J.F.C.B.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator by Eve Lazarus Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,… FULL STORY
Five Indigenous writers
EVENT Magazine presents “Aboriginal Voices: an evening of poetry & prose,” featuring readings and discussion by five exciting Aboriginal writers:… FULL STORY
#197 Power to the people
REVIEW: Powering Up Canada A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 by Ruth Sandwell (editor) Montreal and Kingston:… FULL STORY
#196 Batten down the anthology
REVIEW: Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea by Michael L. Hadley and Anita Hadley (editors) Madeira Park: Douglas &… FULL STORY
Why the red poppies matter
“Why is there not more vocal outrage over such bellicose behaviour from deviants like Donald Trump?” asks Howard Stewart. By… FULL STORY
#195 Remembrance Day, 2017
A century since Vimy and Passchendaele: Two wars, two families, one message By Howard Macdonald Stewart * For Remembrance Day… FULL STORY
