Going to the dogs
Rachel Rose interviews mutt maven Stanley Coren (2018) * Having produced possibly the bestselling non-fiction book about dogs ever written,… FULL STORY
Interviews
Rethinking Everest
In 2010, Dianne Whelan went to Base Camp on Mount Everest where she interviewed climbers, doctors and Sherpas, who had… FULL STORY
Victories gone, but not Forgotten
Here Mark Zuehlke connects the two wars, talks about his upcoming book Forgotten Victory, and reveals B.C. war historians he… FULL STORY
A different duck takes flight
Here is an in-depth interview with Gabrielle Prendergast, a UBC Creative Writing grad who takes the verse-novel into new territory… FULL STORY
Interviewing the interviewer
Joseph Planta has spent ten years building a collection of hundreds of audio interviews with artists, authors, stuff journalists, and… FULL STORY
Interview with Bud Osborn
Bud Osborn’s voice changed lives in DTES INTERVIEW WITH BUD OSBORNE (1999) BY BC BOOKWORLD BW: When did you start… FULL STORY
Secret graves
You’ve heard of Ellis Island, the processing station in New York harbour for millions of immigrants who came to America… FULL STORY
Morris Panych
Morris Panych made his playwriting debut with a musical, Last Call: A Post-Nuclear Cabaret, in 1982, produced by Tamahnous Theatre… FULL STORY
Alan Haig-Brown
It was fishing that paid Alan Haig-Brown’s way through school, and later he edited the trade magazine Westcoast Fisherman. Over… FULL STORY
John Calvert
Cry me a river: John Calvert blows the whistle on the privatization of power We’ve all read those horror stories… FULL STORY
Peter Such
After a 25-year hiatus, novelist Peter Such has returned to the future with his dystopic view of terrorism and technology… FULL STORY
Rita Moir
To write The Windshift Line, (Greystone), her elegiac memoir, Rita Moir holed up in a Fort Macleod motel with her… FULL STORY
Jeannette Armstrong: In the spirit of En’owkin
Jeannette Armstrong is a grand-niece of Hamishama [Mourning Dove], the first female Native novelist in North America. As a poet,… FULL STORY
Herschel Hardin: Effectual Intellectual
Herschel Hardin doesn’t want to simply rock the boat. He wants to turn the boat around. By examining “waste and… FULL STORY
Bill bissett: Leading Luddite
bill bissett was born in Halifax in 1939. Severely bed-ridden in the hospital from age ten to twelve, bissett continually… FULL STORY
Alice has not left the building
Most artists end up imitating themselves. Their art degenerates into a copy of a copy of a copy. Alice Munro… 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
Ivan Coyote & Rumpus
The Rumpus Interview with Ivan Coyote By Marie-Helene Westgate, August 1st, 2012 INTRODUCTION Ivan Coyote was born and raised in… FULL STORY
Straight Beginnings: The Rise and Fall of the Underground Press
The Georgia Straight has been hugely influential in the B.C. literary scene. The list of writers who have found their… FULL STORY
