#16 Significant B.C. literature to 1997
There is no critical study of B.C. writing to date, no critical overview; no statistics. Here then, to mark the… FULL STORY
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The moving of mountains
Carole Itter is a sculptor, an instructor at Emily Carr, and a writer, but in 2004 she published the posthumous… FULL STORY
The agonies & ecstasies of Doug Hepburn
World champion lifter Doug Hepburn’s early liabilities were a club-foot, shyness, a cross-eyed condition and an alcoholic father. Tom Thurston,… FULL STORY
The low-key mysteries of L.R. Wright
Mystery writer L.R. ‘Bunny’ Wright exhibits in the words of her screenwriting partner and husband John Wright, “great privacy and… FULL STORY
Remembering Robert Swanson: Rust in Peace
The O Canada airhorn atop Canada Place blew at 3:30 pm on Oct. 13th to coincide with a Shaughnessy memorial… FULL STORY
The Astonishing Debut of Linda Svendsen
Only two BC storytellers – William Gibson with Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland with Generation X – have received as much… FULL STORY
Woodcock’s top ten B.C. characters
During his lifetime, Woodcock was variously described as “quite possibly the most civilized man in Canada”, “by far Canada’s most… FULL STORY
The Silent Sisterhood
Charles Lillard, author and Pacific Northwest literary enthusiast, was a regular contributor to BC BookWorld. Though somewhat erratic in his… FULL STORY
John Wilson
John Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1951, of parents who had recently returned from a life in India…. FULL STORY
Himmler Hunter
As depicted in Raiders in the Lost Ark, Adolf Hitler’s SS (Security Squad) was not only infamous for running the… FULL STORY
Bill bissett’s acceptance speech for Woodcock Award
a long strange n wundrful road: a tapestree uv names n places on erth th place uv klinging bin up… FULL STORY
A Literary Embarrassment
What do we do with the embarrassments in our literary history? The three novels by American-born Alex Philip (1882?-1968) are… FULL STORY
