DePew #2
In 2013, University of Georgia Press reissued Alfred DePew’s collection of short stories, The Melancholy of Desire (UGP $18.95 U.S.)… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Frail Days
As a follow-up to her much-discussed teen ‘verse novels,’ Audacious and Capricious, Gabrielle Prendergast has fashioned an Orca Limelights novel… FULL STORY
Fatal Glamour & classic symmetry
Paul Delany has produced a fascinating study of sexually ambivalent Rupert Brooke, described by W.B. Yeats as “the most handsome man… FULL STORY
Aikido from A to Zen
Developed by O Sensei Ueshiba Morihei through the 1920s and 1950s, Aikido is a non-aggressive martial way of self-defence that… FULL STORY
For worse, for better
For better or for worse. That’s the bargain we make with fate when we decide to marry. As someone who… FULL STORY
Making the great, green comeback
Charles Wilkinson of Vancouver has worked primarily as a film and television director in B.C. His feature documentary Oil Sands… FULL STORY
Getting back in the game
Kristie Hammond, born in 1957, is a transplanted American who has lived in B.C. since 1981. Her first children’s book,… FULL STORY
Teuwen & fro
It must be something in the air here… Thomas Teuwen spent 25 in the manufacturing, mining, energy and technology sectors… FULL STORY
Nuptials need not break the bank
The big day need not cost big bucks. Yes, Virginia, a sensible, affordable, quickly-planned wedding is possible. In his Wedding… FULL STORY
Ballantyne battle revisited
David Lester, author of the graphic novel, The Listener (Arbeiter Ring 2011), now into its second printing, will have his… FULL STORY
Sea Among Us gets Fisheries Award
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, click 384-page book about the… FULL STORY
O, Struthers, where are thou?
Iconoclast Andrew Struthers of Tofino has written an undeniably brilliant and original memoir that surprises on every page. Around the… FULL STORY
The prosecution can’t rest
In the sixth crime novel in William Deverell’s series featuring defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, Sing a Worried Song (ECW Press… FULL STORY
Back to Budge-Budge
Born in India in 1940, Ajmer Rode emigrated in 1966 and came to Vancouver in the early 1970s. He was… FULL STORY
Fiddling with fate
Katherine Fawcett started her career as a sports reporter before venturing into freelance journalism and commercial writing. After becoming a… FULL STORY
Welcoming ghosts
Earle Birney once wrote, when considering the literary climate of B.C., ‘it is by our lack of ghosts that we… FULL STORY
Greening your boat
Having worked as a wildlife biologist for about 40 years and an environmental lawyer for almost 20 years, physician Ben… FULL STORY
Auschwitz anniversary reverberates
There are more than a few books by B.C. authors that pertain to the Holocaust. A section of Undaunted: The… FULL STORY
Wild rides, wide-eyed philosophy
Recently Brian Poletz rode the entire length of Laos on a bicycle. Back in 2004 he cycled the entire spine… FULL STORY
Getting board with Star Wars
Jack and Holman Wang, as twin brothers growing up in Vancouver, were big Stars Wars fans when they were little…. FULL STORY
