Half Known Lives
The stork doesn’t bring ‘em. Books, as W.P. Kinsella says, are born from 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. For our… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Sprayguns and glowing hearts
If you saw the APEC demonstrations at UBC first-hand, you’d know how students were thwarted by police from making any… FULL STORY
Pitching “The Corporation” in Banff
In 1999, Joel Bakan attended the Banff Television Festival with Mark Achbar, information pills one of the makers of Manufacturing… FULL STORY
Woodcock Award Speech
I am deeply honoured to follow in the footsteps of so many remarkable recipients of this award, writers, thinkers, and… FULL STORY
I was encouraged to sue Robin Blaser
A brief memoir of the SFU English Department by Stephen Bett. This document, written in January, 2012, from notes taken… FULL STORY
Literature As An Oppositional Disorder
By Ernest Hekkanen For those of you who know me, it will come as no surprise that I suffer from… FULL STORY
Ann Eriksson
2010 was proclaimed The Year of Biodiversity by the UN. It’s a particularly appropriate time for Ann Eriksson’s third novel,… FULL STORY
The Origins of Eyemouth
Where does a book of fiction begin? William Faulkner says a writer has three sources: autobiography, observation, and imagination. If… FULL STORY
Eric Wilson
ERIC WILSON was born in Ottawa in 1940. As a teacher in BC he began to write for reluctant readers… FULL STORY
Wild About Harry Robinson
“I tell stories for 21 hours or more when I get started. Kind of hard to believe, but I do,… FULL STORY
Authors / Joel Bakan: The Noam Chomsky of Kitsilano
During anti-APEC protests at UBC in 1997, a young law professor named Joel Bakan looked out his office window, grabbed… FULL STORY
Authors / Literary Forebearers and Influences
During the historic gathering of writers and publishers at Reckoning ’07, some pivotal characters in British Columbia’s writing community received… FULL STORY
Authors / Safarik Recalls Pat Lowther
On October 15, 975, Pat Lowther’s body was discovered five kilometres south of Britannia Beach at Furry Creek, badly decomposed…. FULL STORY
Authors / Remembering Allen Ginsberg
I could not wait to get a quick credit: only 4 weeks of Mon. Wed. & Fri. classes with am… FULL STORY
Publishing / Permanent Press = Pacific Press
Once upon a time, there was a city with three competing daily newspapers. That city was Vancouver. It was a… FULL STORY
Authors / 25 Years of the Federation of BC Writers
[Editorial Note: Trevor Carolan was a founding member of the Federation and its first Executive Director. In l986 he left… FULL STORY
Keeping Body & Soul Together
In Issue # 42 of The Capilano Review, check a special edition that focuses on Northern Poets in BC, George… FULL STORY
Authors / Mongolian Rhapsody
[Renaissance man Galsan Tschinag, still living in the High Altai Mountains of central Asia, has published more than 30 books,… FULL STORY
Himmler Hunter
As depicted in Raiders in the Lost Ark, Adolf Hitler’s SS (Security Squad) was not only infamous for running the… FULL STORY
George Woodcock & Robin Skelton
I’ve known scores of BC writers over the decades, and two of them influenced me greatly, though perhaps less in… FULL STORY
