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
Interviews
Mother & Daughter Reunion
During the past year, rx I’ve often brooded on the following paragraph from the jacket of one of my own… FULL STORY
Ivan Coyote & Rumpus
The Rumpus Interview with Ivan Coyote By Marie-Helene Westgate, symptoms August 1st, 2012 INTRODUCTION Ivan Coyote was born and raised… FULL STORY
Who Do You Think We Are?
BC BookWorld editor and author of numerous books, try Alan Twigg published the following essay in the Autumn 2007 issue… 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
Ape Populations in Decline Worldwide
On the occasion of the publication of her book, medical Great Ape Odyssey (2005), Galdikas wrote the following essay for… FULL STORY
Doubting Drake? 7 Reasons Why Drake Didn’t Reach B.C. in 1579
Edward Von der Porten, a museum director and the President of the Drake Navigators Guild, is one of many naval… FULL STORY
Karen McAllister: Eco-Activist
The following interview was conducted in Victoria with Karen McAllister serveral hours before The Great Bear Rainforest received the Bill… FULL STORY
W.P. Kinsella Interview #2
Averaging more than a book per year for the past 20 years, W.P. Kinsella has at least four manuscripts waiting… FULL STORY
The Astonishing Debut of Linda Svendsen
Only two BC storytellers – William Gibson with Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland with Generation X – have received as much… FULL STORY
Little Sister’s no longer guilty until proven innocent
From 1986 to 1996 a humble West End bookstore challenged Canada Customs on the discriminatory censorship its agents exercised when… 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
Goodbye Octopii
The first location of Octopus Books was opened in 1977 by P.R. Brown and her partner Jules Comeault. It quickly… FULL STORY
Arley McNeney
On Wednesday December 7th, generic 2010, about it novelist Arley McNeney sat down to chat with her old university friend,… FULL STORY
John Wilson
John Wilson was born in Edinburgh, sickness Scotland in 1951, of parents who had recently returned from a life in… 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
Noam Chomsky
On the wall in Noam Chomsky’s book-strewn office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston there is a large… FULL STORY
W.O. Mitchell
This article is written by Maria Pavlik who interviewed W.O. Mitchell at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in 1990 when he… FULL STORY
Pierre Coupey
The North Van-dals [This interview with Pierre Coupey was prepared for Moodyville, medical a 2009 issue of The Capilano Review,… FULL STORY
The Bad Trips anthology
[This article about the anthology Bad Trips edited by Keath Fraser appeared originally in Canada India Village Aid’s 20th Anniversary… FULL STORY
