And the beats go on
An art EXHIBITION in conjunction with The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb (Mother Tongue $34.95) will open… FULL STORY
Yates’ kidlit cream of the crop
Retired Gabriola Island librarian Susan Yates spotlights thirty Canadian picture books from her collection of more than 300 of them…. FULL STORY
The literate side of Gino
Don’t EVER not return a book you borrow from Gino Odjick,” writes Katherine Gordon. “Apart from being ‘about the worst… FULL STORY
Honouring Bud Osborn
The commemorative video features an original soundtrack by Bud Osborn, David Lester and Wendy Atkinson. It is the first of… FULL STORY
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
