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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
The Sky Was 1950 Blue
Katherin Edwards of Kamloops graduated from UBC’s MFA writing program. A Saskatoon-based collective has issued her limited edition poetry book,… FULL STORY
Fish Eyes in print
The award-winning actress, playwright and dancer Anita Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, where she did not speak English until… FULL STORY
Tucker Cross to Bermuda Key
B.R. Bentley’s first novel, The Cross (Friesen Press), was inspired by the theft of the Tucker Cross in 1975. After… FULL STORY
Gunhild’s Granddaughter
Myrtle Siebert’s From Fjord to Floathouse – subtitled one family’s journey from the farmlands of Norway to the Coast of… FULL STORY
Anita’s Revolution is Cuba bound
Having lived and worked in Cuba for five years in the mid 1960s, Shirley Langer has a deep and abiding… FULL STORY
Writing shouldn’t be painful
Lindsay Lewis of Victoria holds a degree in Applied Linguistics and a Cambridge teaching diploma from England. She has been… FULL STORY
Ecopoetics
Kelly Shepherd wrote five poetry chapbooks before Shift (Thistledown $17.95), a collection of poems in which he explores human relationships… FULL STORY
Kat & dogs
Losing a pet–literally having your pet get lost or left behind–can be a traumatic experience. You can’t call Ghostbusters; but… FULL STORY
Hebridean affinities
The story goes that exiled and silenced seventeeth-century Hebridean poet Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was banned from composing any… FULL STORY
