The fishwife
Born and raised on the prairies, Margot Fedoruk knew little about seafood. That all changed when she went to BC… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Librarian, musician and cat photographer, Hazel Jane Plante has released her second novel, Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp $22.95), a… FULL STORY
Mermaid of the Pacific
For over 25 years, Amanda Swinimer has hand harvested seaweed off the west of Vancouver Island, supplying health food stores… FULL STORY
Naval architects to the world
The company bearing Robert Allan’s name managed to survive the Great Depression and eventually thrive. Three generations later, Robert Allan… FULL STORY
Kirton & Brown fireside chat
The Federation of BC Writers will feature poets Jónína Kirton and Michelle Poirier Brown (at right) on its May 14… FULL STORY
North Pacific borderlands
Recently retired SFU history prof, Andrea Geiger has written Converging Empires: Citizens & Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945,… FULL STORY
Avast ye matey!
Under the Banner King of Death (Beacon Press $17.95), by David Lester (at right) & Marcus Rediker, features an African… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Sheila Baxter (1933 – 2022)
Sheila Baxter, the first writer to receive the VanCity Book Prize for best book pertaining to women’s issues by a… FULL STORY
Doukhobor lovers in a dangerous time
In July, 1998, two teenagers are running away from a tragedy involving Hell’s Angels bikers. Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin… FULL STORY
Word on the Lake’s 20th Anniversary
At a one-day, writer’s workshop in Sorrento, BC in 2002, the late author, Jack Whyte dared to imagine something bigger…. FULL STORY
Fiction at the Jewish Book Fest
HUMOUR Sun Feb 12, 3:00 pm at White Rock South Surrey JCC 3033 King George Blvd, Surrey … FULL STORY
Coal Creek magic
Often tackling historical subjects far removed from main urban centres, Victoria’s Wayne Norton has returned to one of his favourite… FULL STORY
Horror and rage
Channeling the gothic horror stories of Mary Shelley, the Bronte sisters, Henry James and others, Erica McKeen has released her… FULL STORY
Seeing the forest
A few years back, suffering from burn-out and too many hours hunched over a desk, over-achieving editor Amanda Lewis pledged… FULL STORY
Tsering Yangzom Lama and TRAS
Join the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society (TRAS), which was started by George Woodcock in 1962, in a conversation with author Tsering… FULL STORY
Shifting the shape of the world
In her debut collection of poems, Shapeshifters (Nightwood $19.95), Délani Valin embodies different personas to deal with her urban Métis… FULL STORY
P.W. Bridgman on creativity
Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 Time: 7pm PST – The program will be approximately 1 hour. Location: Zoom meeting – link will… FULL STORY
Great mind, sad life
A new biography of Ron Thom is an insightful and enlightening examination of a brilliant Canadian architect who returned from… FULL STORY
Mini-comic king
Colin Upton, a veteran of the Vancouver comics and Lowbrow art scenes for more than 30 years, will release in… FULL STORY
BC’s Isaac a Giller Prize judge
Brian Thomas Isaac, the BC author of All the Quiet Places (Touchwood, 2021) is one of this year’s judges for… FULL STORY
