Children’s gems from D&M
The bumper crop of top quality children’s book from Douglas & McIntyre was seeded in 1978 when Ann Blades provided… FULL STORY
Giving the Sixties & Seventies a good Rap-paport
“The last time I began publishing,” says Henry Rappaport, “it led to forty-plus years in the printing business. Those days… FULL STORY
Yours truly, Vincent
By the time Vincent van Gogh died at age thirty-seven in 1890, he had written about one thousand letters, mostly… FULL STORY
Rejuvenating a literary landmark
People’s Co-op Bookstore on Commercial Drive has launched a drive to raise about $30,000 to pay off some old debt… FULL STORY
For Deadheads & Christians alike
Also a UBC Law School professor, Pitman Potter has analyzed the music group’s commitment to community, their musicality and lyricism,… FULL STORY
Scrotal eclipse of the heart
It’s bizarre enough for the bible of American book publishing to notice a book of poems, rarer still for it… FULL STORY
A lumberman’s wife named Adare
Imagine being born somewhere north of Quesnel, deep in the inland rainforest of the Rocky Mountain trench, back in the… 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
Ivy’s celebrates 50 years in Oak Bay
The late Ivy Mickelson’s spirit will doubtless preside during the festivities to mark the 50th year of independent bookselling at… FULL STORY
Barman named 21st Woodcock winner
Jean Barman will receive the 21st annual George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an exemplary literary career at the central… 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
McCaslin sounds off on teacher bashing
“Some serious teacher bashing is going on in British Columbia right now,” says McCaslin. Specifically, she feels Shelly Fralic, a… FULL STORY
Future primitive: a’ hunting we will go
Recently someone paid $350,000 to kill a rare black rhino in Namibia. Reviewer Giles Slade views trophy-hunting as a perverted… FULL STORY
Stouck wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
The second annual prize for best scholarly book about British Columbia will be presented to Arthur Erickson biographer David Stouck… FULL STORY
They called her Number One
Given that Bev Sellars’ memoir, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks), had… FULL STORY
Uneasy rider on the Dease
There is a longstanding Canadian practice that when things get too messy, painful and intensely complicated, we head for the… FULL STORY
Book Prizes’ 30th gala has five firsts
This year’s BC Book Prizes gala at the Renaissance Harbourside Hotel, hosted by Charles Demers, was unprecedented in at least… FULL STORY
Whelan foresaw Sherpa tragedy
In 2010, Dianne Whelan went to Base Camp on Mount Everest where she interviewed climbers, doctors and Sherpas, who had… FULL STORY
Remembering the Angola War
The civil war in Angola began in 1975 and was long, complicated and bloody — an African equivalent of Viet… FULL STORY
The lowdown on self-publishing
Anybody can publish a book these days. And there are lots of rip-off outfits lurking in the e-bushes to take… FULL STORY
