Who’s not afraid of Virginia Woolf?
With four titles under her belt, Meg Tilly has a growing reputation as a novelist – her young adult novel… FULL STORY
Essays
Everything is Funny: A review of Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
Too Much Happiness (Douglas Gibson Books / M&S) I’ll never forget what Alice Munro said to me the first time… FULL STORY
Laughter is the best sports medicine
Born on March 16, help 1937 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Taylor began his newspaper career in 1954 as a part-time sports… FULL STORY
Mother & Daughter Reunion
During the past year, I’ve often brooded on the following paragraph from the jacket of one of my own books:… FULL STORY
The Conqueror and the Concubine
The Conqueror and the Concubine: How the most influential woman in North American history translated her way to the top… FULL STORY
Ape Populations in Decline Worldwide
On the occasion of the publication of her book, Great Ape Odyssey (2005), Galdikas wrote the following essay for the… FULL STORY
Before After Goodlake
There are always stories behind the stories. Over the last quarter century, BC BookWorld has frequently invited novelists to discuss… FULL STORY
The narrowness of Vladimir Nabokov
Hungarian-born Stephen Vizinczey, a Canadian citizen who lives in London and Italy, page is the author of In Praise of… FULL STORY
Howard Adams: Half-breed at full throttle
Blessed be the English and all that they profess. Cursed be the savages that prance in nakedness. Blessed be the… FULL STORY
The Drifters: Allen and Sharie Farrell
I was reminded of why I sold the only sail boat I ever owned after reading Maria Coffey’s Sailing Back… FULL STORY
George Manuel: The Shuswap Kid
“The torch George Manuel inherited was barely aflame. The torch he passed on was burning bright.” – Harold Cardinal. —… FULL STORY
Divining Jane Rule: A profile of progress
Jane Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931. She came to Canada in the late 1950s to teach at… FULL STORY
British Columbia has always been the right place for me
Publishing is much like the movies; no one has a clue as to what will be successful, and when something… FULL STORY
Getting a Grip on 9/11
Formerly a Defense Officer in the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau, Ian Slater is a political scientist and the author of… FULL STORY
Ageism Strikes
Ralph Maud, a scholar on Indian myth and legend and a founding English Professor at Simon Fraser University, first met… FULL STORY
The Super State File: Canada now has thought police
The first major gun control legislation came out in 1972. There had been a senseless murder in Vancouver, followed by… FULL STORY
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
Woodcock’s top ten B.C. characters
During his lifetime, Woodcock was variously described as “quite possibly the most civilized man in Canada”, “by far Canada’s most… FULL STORY
Mountains give rise to mirth
A question I’m often asked: “Do you think you could have survived as a professional humorist if you hadn’t lived… FULL STORY
Don’t give me b.s. about writer’s block
In early December a truck backed up to the loading gate of a store in the Woodgrove Mall in Nanaimo… FULL STORY
