Giller longlist has B.C. links
The longlist announced on Tuesday, September 16th, includes Shani Mootoo (Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Doubleday Canada), Kathy Page… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Good wood
Poet, non-fiction writer and former carpenter Kate Braid will be touring the Gulf Islands and Metro Vancouver with fellow carpenter/poet/non-fiction… FULL STORY
Sylvia, Margaret & Bernice
That summer she made a life-long contact with Margaret Avison and soon got to meet Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Robert… FULL STORY
Return to Clayoquot Sound
In Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History (Harbour $36.95), Margaret Horsfield, with Ian Kennedy, explores the rich heritage and captivating… FULL STORY
Adrift on shore
Moby Dick, the white whale, and the character of Ahab in Herman Melville’s classic novel serve as the leitmotif in… FULL STORY
From Original Potato to 2113
Under her pen name Agnes Toews-Andrews, Elizabeth Blakely has moved to the Kootenays and published a “paranormal novel,” 2113 AD:… FULL STORY
Mining in Tibet imperils one billion
Canadian mining companies are complicit in the mining, pollution and environmental damage.
Gray Eyes vs. Red Eyes
Frank Christopher Busch is a member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and grew up in northern Manitoba. He has spent… FULL STORY
This Airplane Can Dance
In May of 2014, Danielle Marcotte attended the Salon du Livre de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue in her hometown of Amos, in Québec…. FULL STORY
Freedom Climbers wins in France
The French language edition of Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald and originally published by Rocky Mountain Books has been awarded… FULL STORY
Summer Snow
Eleanor Millard of Carcross left home at age 14, gained two Masters degrees, worked as a social worker and was… FULL STORY
Fourth Betrayal
Commercial diver, medicine fisherman and most recently, sea observer on a dragger fleet, Bruce Burrows is no stranger to coastal… FULL STORY
Yaletown meets Trotsky
Linda Richard’s 2009 novel Death Was in the Picture won the Panik Award for Best Los Angeles-Based Noir ficiton. Now,… FULL STORY
Adopted into a new tribe
During several visits to the Andes Mountains, prolific self-publisher and historian Adolf Hungrywolf met with Andean shamans–men and women–and was… FULL STORY
Iranian fire and cotton
Born and raised in Iran, Nilofar Shidmehr came to Canada in 1997 and has earned her MFA in Creative Writing… FULL STORY
Romanian Casanova in English
One of the signs of maturation for the B C. publishing industry is its ability or inclination to accept foreign… FULL STORY
Unhanged gets a boost
Sam Wiebe’s novel Last of the Independents (Dundurn $17.99) won the 2012 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Novel,… FULL STORY
Making Dead Ends meet
Having spenbt time covering politics in B.C., former newspaper editor and publisher Paul Willcocks’ has generated a fascinating anthology of… FULL STORY
New solutions to land claims
Michael Asch, a professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, has been awarded… FULL STORY
B.C. Lit marks double anniversary
It’s not just the 100th anniversary of World War I this year; Remembrance Day will mark the 75th anniversary of… FULL STORY
