Spicy recipes for food and life
They started their first restaurant in 1994, opened a second one ten years later and began writing cookbooks in 2006… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Whitewater friction fiction
Clea Young’s debut collection Teardown will be launched at the Book Warehouse (4118 Main Street, Vancouver) on Tuesday, October 4, … FULL STORY
Mary Filer gets her due
The Unheralded Artists of BC is a series of books illustrating and illuminating the lives and art of previously undocumented… FULL STORY
Ex-bar owner examines alcohol
Book lovers will get the chance to see what the current writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House, Toronto journalist and… FULL STORY
Sorrow and gentle humour prevails
CBC Books, CBC’s online home for literary content, together with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada… FULL STORY
From Pitt Meadows to acceptance
Phinder Dulai has received news that his book written in response to the Komagata Maru incident and his life in… FULL STORY
In the name of medicine
Gary Geddes has spent four years interviewing elders for his next non-fiction book, due in January, Medicine Unbundled: Dispatches from… FULL STORY
Victoria Prizes shortlist announced
One of the benefits of book awards, beyond serving as a good excuse for writers and supportive book folks to… FULL STORY
Paint the peninsula Black
The Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival and Tanner’s Books will be hosting a fall series of reading events at the Shoal… FULL STORY
Poetry In Transit’s 20th anniversary
Who knew poetry plastered on bus ceilings, bus shelters and SkyTrain station walls would be so popular? Yes, commuters are… FULL STORY
Grant McKenzie at Bolen’s
Grant McKenzie will be launching tenth thriller, The Butcher’s Son, and its prequel, The Fear In Her Eyes, released in… FULL STORY
Sam Wiebe not Spade
Vancouver mystery author Sam Wiebe (Last of the Independents and Invisible Dead) is VPL’s new writer in residence! Wiebe will… FULL STORY
Talk Sex at Kidsbooks
Saleema Noon has teamed up with veteran B.C. sex-ed pioneer Meg Hickling, a registered nurse and educator, for Talk Sex… FULL STORY
Getting to the front of the line
Claudia Cornwall’s Battling Melanoma doesn’t only take the reader through the emotional upheaval that can follow a diagnosis of cancer,… FULL STORY
No, not Appleton’s rum
Frank Appleton will give a presentation regarding his new memoir, Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement at Kwantlen Polytechnic… FULL STORY
Pied Piper of Hope
To be launched on September 17, at the Cottage Bistro on Main Street in Vancouver, 8 pm, with fiddlers Mairi… FULL STORY
#15 Fertig & Buday go off-Road
Now you see it, now you don’t. In 2016, Grant Buday was announced as the winner of Mona Fertig’s 3rd… FULL STORY
Fight back against cyber attack
by Ernest Hekkanen Not long after mailing off the Spring, 2016 issue of The New Orphic Review, I was cyber-attacked… FULL STORY
Biting satire from 18th century France
Professor Emerita Dr. Sheila Delany brings back to life the long lost authors and stories of centuries past in her… FULL STORY
A Dog at a Feast
From the company that brought you last year’s fringe hit The Fighting Season comes a workshop production of Michelle Deines’… FULL STORY
