Yukon steamers get their due
With more than 600 photos, Robert D. Turner’s The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers: A History of Yukon River Steam (Sono… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Queen of the Godforsaken
The debut young adult novel, Queen of the Godforsaken (Thistledown $14.95) by Mix Hart of Kelowna is a coming-of-age story… FULL STORY
Graphic novel of internment
Artist and heritage expert Michael Kluckner has turned a new page for his first graphic novel, Toshiko (Midtown $19.95). Set… 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
Compersion, get used to it
If you want to really upset most people, try defending polyamorists. They are the razor thin segment of society that… 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
Eight Miles High in Whistler
The protagonist of Dietrich Kalteis’ second crime novel, Grey Stevens, is literally minding his own business, contentedly growing and selling… 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
Simkin’s journey of compassion
Doctor, social activist and feminist, Ruth Simkin first revealed her challenging life journey in The Jagged Years of Ruthie J.,… FULL STORY
Kluckner does Romeo & Juliet
Artist and heritage expert Michael Kluckner has turned a new page for his first graphic novel, Toshiko (Midtown $19.95). Set… 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
Tip of the iceberg lettuce
When water restrictions were placed at Level 4 on the Sunshine Coast this summer, many citizens were angry because they… FULL STORY
Ten ships that made waves
Former teacher-librarian Gillian Richardson of Shuswap Lake, near Sorrento, B.C., won the 2010 Science Writing Award from the American Institute… FULL STORY
When telepathy is helpful
Combining biography, history and literary analysis, George M. Johnson’s Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling… FULL STORY
The counter culture still counts
Shortlisted for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in 2016, Larry Gambone’s Vancouver-based memoir No Regrets (Edmonton: Black Cat… FULL STORY
A forensic librarian in Rome
Sari Sikstrom, with her B.A. in Geography from the University of Alberta, has crossed the desert by camel, drifted in… FULL STORY
