Ann Walsh
In his old age, Tolstoy dismissed War & Peace and Anna Karenina as bourgeois entertainment and decided it was better… FULL STORY
Publishing
Interview / W. D. Valgardson
W.D. VALGARDSON was born in Winnipeg in 1939. He passed most of his childhood in Gimli, Manitoba, a hardy fishing… FULL STORY
Peter Trower
PETER TROWER was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following the… FULL STORY
Andreas Schroeder
ANDREAS SCHROEDER was born in Hoheneggelsen, Germany in 1946. He emigrated with his parents in 1951. He developed a keen… FULL STORY
Origins of Harbour Publishing
Harbour Publishing was in some ways an accident, or a series of accidents, though they were accidents that allowed my… FULL STORY
Publishing / A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry would… 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
Let’s Think Small
In 1951, an editor considering buying J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings worried that it might lose the publishers… FULL STORY
Everything from abalone to Zukerman
If the Golden Age of BC book culture has been reached, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, published in 2000, was… FULL STORY
Cautionary Tales of Self-Publishing
There are many reasons why self-publishing may be the wave of the future, but for me it was a matter… FULL STORY
A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, symptoms Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry… FULL STORY
