I is for Imbert
After Imbert Orchard moved from England to B.C. in the aftermath of the Second World War, CBC hired him as… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Where there’s a Will, there’s a grave
Will Starling (Goose Lane $29.95) is Ian Weir’s forthcoming follow-up to his debut novel Daniel O’Thunder that was shortlisted for… FULL STORY
Buday captures 1962 Vancouver
Never one to shy away from the truth in his fiction, Grant Buday recalls Josef Stalin’s systematic starving of two… FULL STORY
100-year-old White has 2nd book
Frank White started writing the story of his life in 1972 when he was nearly sixty. It took him over… FULL STORY
And the beats go on
An art EXHIBITION in conjunction with The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb (Mother Tongue $34.95) will open… FULL STORY
Bio-netting has a champion
Vancouver artist Sharon Kallis is no stranger to environmental art. Over the past few years, she has collaborated with environmentalists,… FULL STORY
Ginger Goodwin revisited
With endorsements from Jack Hodgins (“remarkably strong, original and new”), Madeleine Thien and Michael Crummey, Matt Rader’s debut first collection… FULL STORY
Jason Priestley autobiography
Having spent nine years playing teen heartthrob Brandon Walsh in the hit television series Beverly Hills 90210, Vancouver-born actor Jason… FULL STORY
Wild’s Cougar wins gold
Paula Wild’s The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous (Douglas & McIntyre, 2013) explores the evolving relationship humans have with the… FULL STORY
Theemes and DTES
Prior to entering the world of finance, while doing doctoral work in child psychology at UBC, Tracy Theemes worked with… FULL STORY
Honouring Bud Osborn
The commemorative video features an original soundtrack by Bud Osborn, David Lester and Wendy Atkinson. It is the first of… FULL STORY
Vitriol from a wheelchair
Ninety-nine years later, in Adam Pottle’s Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley (Caitlin 2013), the narrator of a… FULL STORY
Eve Lazarus rises
It’s common knowledge that Canuck Place in Shaughnessy was previously a mansion that served as the headquarters for a Vancouver… FULL STORY
Q is for Quirk-e
“Every brave voice deserves a hearing,” according to Wayson Choy, in response to the sixth anthology from the Quirk-e collective,… FULL STORY
Barman wins 21st Woodcock Award
B is for Barman Jean Barman is the 21st recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding… FULL STORY
Cedar, totems, Jewitt & other gifts
Hilary Stewart (November 3, 1924 – June 5, 2014) by Vickie Jensen Hilary was both a close friend and a… FULL STORY
Dulai’s migrant ship
After a long gestation period, Phinder Dulai’s third book of poetry examines the infamous Komagata Maru “incident” in the Vancouver… FULL STORY
Webb sights
Having edited and written the introduction for Phyllis Webb’s Selected Poems (Talonbooks 1971), John F. Hulcoop has stayed the course,… FULL STORY
Muckle gets third edition
As a follow-up to Wilson Duff’s seminal Indian History of British Columbia, Robert J. Muckle’s overview of B.C.’s First Nations… FULL STORY
Hugh’s News #2
Congratulations to Vancouver’s Renée Saklikar whose much-shortlisted and bestselling Children of Air India (Nightwood) was chosen best poetry book in… FULL STORY
