Lamp Post Lit
This ongoing project was kickstarted by the vision of poet and philanthropist Yosef Wosk and spearheaded by the city’s Chief… FULL STORY
A better world is possible
Instead of dystopianism, the Victoria futurist wants to encourage people to imagine bold solutions to environmental challenges. On its way… FULL STORY
The prime of Ms. Jean Barman
Jean Barman, recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award in 2014, will be celebrated on Saturday, April 11, in Vancouver…. FULL STORY
Getting the goods on Godwin
Fred Braches has produced a monograph that includes revelations from Geroge Godwin’s correspondence. B.C.’s universities have undertaken precious little spadework on… FULL STORY
Which way you goin,’ Billie?
“It’s such a mixed bag of feelings, this book-to-film process,” says Livingston. Based on Billie Livingston’s story, ‘The Trouble with… FULL STORY
Pickton & popcorn
Filming is scheduled to start this week in Vancouver for a CBC movie about the murders on Robert Pickton’s hog… FULL STORY
B.C. led the way for female rights
Dominique Clément recounts how and why B.C. became the first province to enact laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex. Given… FULL STORY
Boarding house outreach
Emily Carr famously ran a boarding house in Victoria. Susan Musgrave runs a bed ‘n’ breakfast on Haida Gwaii. Now… FULL STORY
Off-the-continental breakfasts
Susan Musgrave has veered away from everything safe in her life, even now as the proprietor of Copper Beech House,… FULL STORY
From the beautiful to the bizarre
Douglas L. Hamilton and Darlene Olesko’s Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island (Caitlin $24.95) tells it like was. It’s… FULL STORY
EVENT founder resurfaces
Around the time David Evanier founded EVENT, when Douglas College was little more than a collection of trailers, Jon Paul… FULL STORY
Strait goods
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, 384-page book about the geology,… FULL STORY
A borrower and a lender be
The response to an article in B.C. BookWorld [The Roving Bookseller] about David Ellis has prompted Ellis to speak his… FULL STORY
Giving voice to The Native Voice
It will be presented at the York Theatre, at 639 Commerical Drive in Vancouver, Feb. 5-7, during the PuSh Festival…. FULL STORY
Gabriola chutzpah propels Tucson tale
Although Manitoban Carol Matas has more than forty titles, she turned to her friend Morri Mostow on Gabriola Island to produce… FULL STORY
John Vaillant, third time plucky
John Vaillant can easily be described as one of the rising stars of British Columbia literature–if not the rising star…. FULL STORY
Longhand lives — for $5,000 per copy
This work is being touted as, “The only longhand book of its kind–a long poem 500 years old–transcribed by an… FULL STORY
Extremely Boring, they’re not
The title for Marguerite Pigeon’s dazzling collection of fourteen stories, Some Extremely Boring Drives (NeWest $19.95), is hipster-ironic, but Caroline… FULL STORY
The poet beats the lawyer
But literature scored a victory over law recently on Burnaby Mountain. Poet and professor Stephen Collis was front and centre… FULL STORY
One Book Whonnock
One of the books they’ve selected is the 1994 edited version of The Eternal Forest by George Godwin. by Fred… FULL STORY
