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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Brazilian whacks
In Grant Patterson’s first two books about a semi-reluctant, private eye in Brazil, we follow Will Bryant, formerly a Canadian… FULL STORY
Rory gets around
Although he can no longer pipe, hike or travel to exotic lands, and although he’s been reduced to shuffling about… FULL STORY
From Sucre to Sucre Lumber
Dan Propp was born in Sucre, Bolivia in 1944 after his parents Arthur and Elsa Propp had fled the Nazis…. FULL STORY
Professor Prawns & Count Snackula
Adrian Sinclair aka “Professor Prawns” (on the left) co-wrote with Karlis Kalnins aka “Count Snackula” (right), Freestyle Focus Group: Learn… FULL STORY
From Crete to Canada to Craiova
The poet’s road can be very long, and it is never straight. Born in Kolibari on Crete in 1947, Manolis… FULL STORY
Creedom reigns
“When I was growing up,” writes acclaimed Cree playwright Thomson Highway in his remarkable prologue to From Oral to Written:… FULL STORY
Austin Andrews’ shadow hymns
Austin Andrews, a film editor and director, published Shadow Hymns: Photography (Durvile Publications + UpRout $29.95). His photographic work has… FULL STORY
Adventures in film wonderland
India-born screenwriter, director and producer, Vic Sarin (1945) has written a memoir EyePiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television (Durvile… FULL STORY
Denman Island anarchist mag
Hillel Wright has published the 30th anniversary issue of MiNUS TiDES international, a small literary magazine mainly from Denman and… FULL STORY
Canada’s founder of Punjabi theatre
Punjabi-born Ajmer Rode is a founding member of several Indo-Canadian literary and performing arts associations. He has written, directed and… FULL STORY
From French apple pies to bikers
Growing up in Lytton, journalist Peter Edwards’ claim to fame in the small interior town was winning the junior boys’… FULL STORY
Noteworthy hangings
Nancy J. Hughes’s second book, Found Art of the Clans Erskine & Holland 1710-1965 (Victoria: Wildflower Publishing House, 2017 $30)… FULL STORY
Wild Wood
Robert Julian Wood has been a professional architect, a pioneering mountaineer, an organizer of ocean-to-alpine expeditions, an instructor of wilderness… FULL STORY
Rhythm & bruise
The rise of Vancouver-born Eliza Robertson has been meteoric. In 2013, Robertson accepted the Commonwealth Short Story Prize from John… FULL STORY
Cairo friendship amid chaos
Coleman Nye, as an assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at SFU, has co-authored an unusual graphic novel,… FULL STORY
Here Be Dragons in Alberta
Carolyn Dale, a retired veterinarian and flight instructor, has self-published numerous mystery novels and an autobiography. A short story written… FULL STORY
Spiderman widens his web
Taking its title from a body of work by Sonny Assu, depicting Spiderman in a traditional Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw style, When Raven… FULL STORY
Grain of Saltspring truth
John Grain has self-published a memoir, Mod ‘n Lavender: Salt Spring Island in the ’60s ($18.95). Previously he was part… FULL STORY
