Sexton on Huxley
James Sexton is one of six editors of Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (McGill Queens… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
The Iron Promise
Many of the characters in Steve Hunter’s first novel, The Cameron Ridge Conspiracy, set in the 1860s, reappear in his… FULL STORY
Hegemony next door
Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History by David J. Jepsen and David J. Norberg Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017…. FULL STORY
After Emily came Unity
“Never paint from anything but real life whether it is a person or flower.” — Unity Bainbridge [We have only… FULL STORY
Bowen & Mexico
Formerly the editor of the Bowen Island Undercurrent for seventeen years, as well as the author of a history of… FULL STORY
Xerographer Onjana Yawnghwe
Xerography is a literary journal co-founded and co-edited by Onjana Yawnghwe, also co-founder of a ‘micro press’ for hand-made publications… FULL STORY
How do you like dem…
Gathie Falk was something of a late bloomer. Her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born… FULL STORY
Three Sisters Writing Group
Editor/writer Antonia Banyard has returned to live in Nelson, having worked in book publishing or graphic design for 20-plus years…. FULL STORY
A is for Ardley
Growing up on the Canadian prairies, Pat Ardley never dreamed she would spend most of her adult life near the… FULL STORY
It Begins in Betrayal
In Iona Whishaw’s fourth mystery, It Begins in Betrayal (Touchwood $16.95), it’s been four years since Flight Lieutenant Darling and his… FULL STORY
Northern Serengeti on horseback
In her memoir, Summer of the Horse (Harbour $19.95), Donna Kane describes leaving a twenty-five-year marriage to be with a… FULL STORY
The laptop thief
Vancouver-born Andrew Battershill’s first novel, Pillow, was longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2016 Sunburst Award and… FULL STORY
Rising waters, rising fear
A long-time resident of Nelson, JG (Judy) Toews was born on Salt Spring Island and raised in North Vancouver. A… FULL STORY
Well, she was just seventeen
Self-esteem for older teens is hard to come by. In Brooke Carter’s first novel for and about teens, Another Miserable… FULL STORY
Hughes news
Matt Hughes writes crime fiction. His alter ego, Matthew Hughes, writes sf. Matt Hughes’ crime novel One More Kill, (PS… FULL STORY
Two temperamental titans
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan Morris has declared Barry Gough’s dual biography about the early 20th century relationship… FULL STORY
Affordability on Knight’s streets
Affordability has always been a housing issue in Vancouver. Having guided the 40th anniversary anthology for Room magazine into print,… FULL STORY
The truth is not out there
After releasing six albums, Vancouver indie singer and accordion whizz Geoff Berner has crafted a Searching for Sugarman-like novel about… FULL STORY
Countries ending in stan
Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer (“It’s a modern classic.”) and Barry Lopez,… FULL STORY
Shadows, Shells and Spain
Originally from Vancouver, John Meyer, writes fictional travel memoirs—unique adventure stories that combine fun facts of history with present-day drama… FULL STORY
