A life of wonder

“In updn: 88 Spins with Bill Pechet, architectural scholar Leslie Van Duzer explores the boundary-blurring public art and design works of a Vancouver visionary.“ FULL STORY

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Brad Sills

Brad Sills never got drafted by the Tracy family’s International Rescue organization, as envisioned by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in… FULL STORY

Sarah de Leeuw

Wherever you go, there you are. And wherever that is, writes Sarah de Leeuw, it will invariably affect your health…. FULL STORY

Vi Hughes

We all love an aardvark, and kidlit does not lack for them, from Marc Brown’s Arthur to Kes Gray and… FULL STORY

Nichelle Schulz

Worldbuilding. You can go macro—Frank Herbert’s Dune, George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones—or, in the case of Cariboo author Nichelle Schulz,… FULL STORY

Jeff Chiba Stearns

The actor, George Takei of Star Trek fame, famously travelled from the barbed wire of an American wartime prison camp… FULL STORY

JJ Lee

Hark to the cherished CBC Radio As It Happens ritual of rebroadcasting Alan “Fireside Al” Maitland’s 1979 reading of Frederick… FULL STORY

Elinor Florence

Invermere journo and former small-town editor/publisher Elinor Florence returns to the literary spotlight with a reissue of her nationally bestselling… FULL STORY

Barry Gough

In Francis Drake and Nova Albion: Elizabethan Voyaging on the Far Side of the World (Harbour $39.95), renowned Victoria-based maritime… FULL STORY

Ruth Ozeki

Raised in Connecticut by a Japanese mother and American father, dual Canadian-American citizen Ruth Ozeki divides her time among Cortes… FULL STORY

Jillian Roberts

Toddlerhood brings boundless discovery and daily lessons, though the journey can often get quite messy. In No Matter What (Orca… FULL STORY

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Teenager romance, summer jobs and awkward café mysteries take center stage in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s latest hi-lo novel, Tip Jar (Orca… FULL STORY

David J. Dogterom

Kamloops plumber, poet and kidlit aspirant David J. Dogterom has plunged into the murky waterworks of memory, retrieving a set… FULL STORY

Crystal Hurdle

With Billie Eilish starring in Sarah Polley’s forthcoming adaptation of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath is returning to popular prominence…. FULL STORY

David Levy

When it comes to fish stories, few trump David Levy. The North Vancouverite fisheries biologist, environmental consultant and lifelong angler… FULL STORY

Colleen Sullivan

Cats are having a cultural moment. This year, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s three-time Tony-winning Broadway revival, opened—and closed… FULL STORY

Pippa Scott

The literary world is awash with woeful tales of British boys sliced, diced and otherwise mangled by the public-school system…. FULL STORY

Kalli Van Stone

Many poets have used bird imagery in their work. In her debut collection welík’t (Nightwood $24.95), Kalli Van Stone—whose name… FULL STORY

Chad Reimer

Meticulous archival research. Clear accessible prose. Nuanced scholarship. These and other salutary characterizations adhere to BC historian Chad Reimer’s voluminous… FULL STORY

Laurel Corona

Idris Hall (1906–1996), aka Aloha Wanderwell, was a statuesque explorer and film star raised in North Vancouver, Duncan and Qualicum,… FULL STORY

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