Facts for the fragile
As a University of Victoria instructor, Jillian Roberts first co-wrote School Children with HIV/AIDS (Detselig, 1999) with Kathleen Cairns. As… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Honey not forsaken in Sooke
Sooke-based gourmand Angelo Prosperi-Porta has concocted more than 85 sweet and savory recipes for Honey (TouchWood $26.95), his paean to… FULL STORY
J is for Judson
As a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, a director of the Imaginative Education Research Group and coordinator of the Imaginative… FULL STORY
From Russia with science
Born in Russia, literary scientist Irina Kovalyova of Vancouver interned for NASA and worked for two years as a forensic… FULL STORY
Czaga nets nomination
Born in Alberta, Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat before moving to Victoria to complete her undergraduate degree in writing… FULL STORY
Flour power nominated for Ryga Award
Chris Hergesheimer (beard) was hand-milling flour at Sechelt’s Farmer’s Market when he came up with a simple idea: build a… FULL STORY
Vancouver Blue
Wayne Cope is a retired Vancouver Police Officer who spent more than 30 years with the force. He spent many… FULL STORY
Molecules R Us
As part of a catering crew, Susin Nielsen-Fernlund of Vancouver got her big television break in the off-camera cafeteria for… FULL STORY
Zeballos revisited
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. Her family mainly… FULL STORY
Wake-up and smell the land
A member of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Secwepemc Nation based in Kamloops, Arthur Manuel has co-written Unsettling Canada:… FULL STORY
Waste Not, Want Not
Many North Americans waste 40 percent of the food they purchase. It’s like throwing away a bag full of groceries… FULL STORY
Flett no fluke
Along with poet and civil rights activist Roy Miki and his wife Slavia Miki as authors, First Nations illustrator Julie… FULL STORY
Fight or flight
Darwin Marsh,the hero of Lillian M. Varcoe’s first novel, Headwinds: Seeing a Murder Forgotten (Amazon $7.99), is a veteran floatplane… FULL STORY
Slaymaker gets Order of Canada
Prolific and much-decorated UBC geographer and author Olav Slaymaker–surely one of the most memorable names in B.C. literature–wasn’t be able… FULL STORY
The Truth Commission & Republic of Dirt
Susan Juby’s sixth novel for teenagers, The Truth Commission (RazorBill/Penguin Canada 2014), is a humourous story about Normandy Pale and… FULL STORY
Friesen’s crazy bone libretto
Once in a rare while a jacket blurb competes for resonance with the book it endorses. Sharon Thesen describes Patrick… FULL STORY
Baker wins first Blue Metropolis Prize
New Star Press author Marie Annharte Baker has been named the inaugural winner of the Blue Metropolis First People’s Literary… FULL STORY
Paddle to love
Love can bloom at any age. Seven years a widow, Freda Mellenthin wasn’t expecting, at age sixty-two, that Ted Mellenthin… FULL STORY
Greenwood revisited
Self-dubbed the Fearless Poet, Sheila Rosen was married for fifty years to Norm Rosen before he died in 2010. She… FULL STORY
The man named Amor
Gordon Hawking’s new biography of Amor De Cosmos, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95) explores the life and career of this… FULL STORY
