What makes life worthwhile?

“Pauline Holdstock (left) on the stories, recurring selves and “heart-to-beating-heart” connections of her latest novel, What Endures. FULL STORY

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Better than breadcrumbs

Theresa Kishkan’s 13th title, Patrin (Mother Tongue $17.95) is a novella that takes its title from an old word–patrin–for the… FULL STORY

War and 27 pieces

Twenty Seven Stings (New Star $18) by Mayne Island’s Julie Emerson is a suite of poems that illuminates aspects of… FULL STORY

Road hockey warrior

On June 27, 2015 at the Piazza Colombo on Rossland Avenue, as part Trail’s Festa Italiana, retired teacher John D’Arcangelo… FULL STORY

A is for Anctil

Born in 1985, Daniel Anctil was in Grade six at Vancouver’s McKechnie Elementary School in 1997 when he wrote the… FULL STORY

From firm to farm

Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947, Lawrence Pierce of Hornby Island, B.C, was a trial lawyer in downtown Vancouver… FULL STORY

Z is for Zabliewicz

With a Ph.D from Berkeley, Denise Zabliewicz of the SFU Health Sciences faculty has chiefly examined issues of employment and… FULL STORY

She’d rather be in Italy

As an associate professor in History and Humanities at SFU, Emily O’Brien has examined the autobiography of the fifteenth-century humanist… FULL STORY

X is for X.alatsep

Joseph Dandurand is a member of the Kwantlen First Nation for whom he has worked as Heritage/Lands officer for 20… FULL STORY

Unflappable but flammable

“We live such flammable lives,” writes Miranda Pearson in the title poem for her fourth collection, The Fire Extinguisher (Oolichan… FULL STORY

Smiley paces

Formerly a world class skier, Cat Smiley of Whistler, B.C. is a body transformation specialist and owner of a weight-loss… FULL STORY

Feisty at 97

At 97, H. Barry Cotton has gathered almost a century’s worth of wisdom for a collection of mostly political poetry,… FULL STORY

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