Breaking the cycle in Tanzania
Born in Mbeya, Tanzania, Farida Somjee of Vancouver has written a debut novel, The Beggar’s Dance (Amazon 2015), that follows… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it
You don’t necessarily need a lawyer to probate an estate; you might only require the fourth edition of the The… FULL STORY
How do I know God loves me?
Esther Hizsa’s self-published Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim ($16.95 Amazon 2015) contains vignettes, poems and essays about how the author… FULL STORY
A belligerent but cerebral dog
Norm Gibbons of Cortes Island was born in Vancouver in 1943 and attended UBC and UVic where he gained degrees… FULL STORY
#97 George Woodcock
LOCATION: 6429 McCleery Street, Vancouver Self-described as “a British Columbian by choice, a Canadian by birth,” the Winnipeg-born, England-educated anarchist… FULL STORY
Coyote to the rescue
Margery Fee’s Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wilfrid Laurier University Press $29.24) examines… FULL STORY
Ben the Dragonborn
Ben last saw his mother when he was three years old. Now he’s entering grade ten in his second year… FULL STORY
Ellen & Ginger
Laura Ellyn, a writer and editor based in Montreal, has published a graphic novel-styled account about the life and death… FULL STORY
RootWoman in Sandhill
Also known as RootWoman, Kahlee Keane of Vancouver Island is a herbalist who has written on environmental issues and produced… FULL STORY
Chicago in 1919
In Mary Burns’ forthcoming novel, The Reason for Time (Chicago: Allium Press 2016), due in April, we will meet protagonist… FULL STORY
Cash and bad coffee
Fraser Nixon was born on the West Coast and has lived in Montreal, Toronto, Paris and Vancouver. By turns an… FULL STORY
Carty and The Big Tent
Sunny Ways might have been a better title. Just prior to the election of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in… FULL STORY
#43 Chuck Davis
LOCATION: Captain George Vancouver statue, City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver. The ultimate expert on all historical matters pertaining… FULL STORY
#42 Douglas Coupland
LOCATION: Former headquarters of Vancouver Magazine, 1205 Richards Street, Vancouver Douglas Coupland‘s breakthrough novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated… FULL STORY
#41 Wayde Compton
LOCATION: CN Station, 1150 Station Street, near Main Street @ Terminal Avenue As the foremost proponent of black literature in… FULL STORY
Cooperate or die
The Skeleton Tree (Penguin Random House $19.99) by Iain Lawrence is a survival story for ages 8-12 about two boys… FULL STORY
#39 Wayson Choy
LOCATION: 15 East Pender. Former headquarters of the Jin Wah Sing Musical Association. Wayson Choy emerged foremost among Chinese Canadian… FULL STORY
Manuel labour
Having taught elementary and high school students of the Tahltan and Nuu-Chah-nulth First Nations, Jennifer Manuel has fashioned a debut… FULL STORY
#38 Lily Chow
LOCATION: Chee Duck Tong building, 197 Quebec Street, Prince George Lily Chow’s father-in-law, Chung Chow, paid the Head Tax of… FULL STORY
#36 Charles Bukowski
LOCATION: Viking Inn, 828 East Hastings, Vancouver When Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski made his first trip to Canada in October of… FULL STORY
