No soft pedalling
These days, it’s hard to write a shocking novel. Chelsea Rooney, an MFA graduate of UBC’s creative writing program, and… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Blood, sweat & mulberries
Just as Christopher Columbus is usually credited with ‘discovering’ America instead of the Vikings who arrived much earlier, the history… FULL STORY
Extremely Boring, they’re not
The title for Marguerite Pigeon’s dazzling collection of fourteen stories, Some Extremely Boring Drives (NeWest $19.95), is hipster-ironic, but Caroline… FULL STORY
Tracking the Great Bear
The Great Bear Rainforest on B.C.’s central and northern coastline covers an area three times the size of Prince Edward… FULL STORY
Thompson Highway goes to Peking
Alan Twigg’s Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800–1850 has now been published in China as British Columbia’s Fur Trade,… FULL STORY
Ocean friendly fancy grub
Jane Mundy is a Vancouver freelance writer and editor who also has twenty years of experience as a professional cook…. FULL STORY
On the Trail of good fortune
In his retirement, Gerry LaRouche of Trail, B.C., a former engineer with Teck Resources, has produced a compendium of financial… FULL STORY
Uniquely Canadian
For seventeen years Donald Allan Gillmore gathered materials about Canada for his six-volume, 540-page, hardcover collection of encyclopedic facts and… FULL STORY
Lazare ladies don’t do lunch
Evelyn H. Lazare is a retired health care executive living in Steveston, B.C. Originally from Montreal, Lazare spent many years… FULL STORY
Barbara-jo gets second-go
Having studied at the Dubrulle French Culinary School in Vancouver, McIntosh worked at the Mandarin Hotel and for the Umberto… FULL STORY
Winning and travelling
Hans Tammemagi knows how to get what he wants; that’s why he wrote Winning Proposals (Self Counsel Press $16.95), now… FULL STORY
Chick: Lister due in Spring
Alex Van Tol has the bit between her teeth. This spring the Victoria freelance writer and editor is releasing her… FULL STORY
Sane cow
When a cow named Audrey learns she could be headed to the slaughterhouse, she goes AWOL from Bittersweet Pastures in… FULL STORY
Why Michael Buckley became a Yaktivist
Adventure travel writer Michael Buckley of Vancouver explains the genesis of Meltdown in Tibet: China’s Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from… FULL STORY
Elson on Esquimalt
Easily overlooked when lists are compiled for Remembrance Day regarding British Columbia’s connections to two World Wars and other conflicts… FULL STORY
National Crossword Day — really?
We’re pretty sure you didn’t know December 21 is Crossword Puzzle Day, the anniversary of the date Arthur Wynne published… FULL STORY
A Tuscany tale
Carol M. Cran’s debut novel The Towers of Tuscany (Seattle: Lake Union Publishing $14.95 U.S.) concerns the difficult life of… FULL STORY
Doggonit lit
Just in case anyone is counting, Jim Christy has just published his 32nd book since 1972, The Big Thirst and… FULL STORY
Copper Moon beams
On a press release to promote his co-produced theatrical experiment in 2014, Walking Projects: Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, Chris Bose… FULL STORY
Hair of grass
Yam Cooper of Penticton has written, illustrated and self-published The Story of Bill and His House of the Hill (2014… FULL STORY
