Bedside Table
Aug 30th, 2010
The Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival, rated in July by the Canadian Tourism Commission as the number one literary festival in all of Canada, will present some of the biggest...
Bedside Table
Aug 25th, 2010
It will probably surprise you that Annabel Lyon's book, The Golden Mean was banned by BC Ferries. There are no racy tidbits or derogatory sections in the book. The reason for the book ban is...
Film Reel
Aug 20th, 2010
This is a fantastic film. One of the most surprising films of the year so far. I have to admit, that when I went in to the theatre I had a completely different idea of what to expect. The theatre...
Bedside Table
Jul 21st, 2010
All writers are faced at some point with feelings of self-consciousness and self-doubt about their work. In The Writing Warrior (in paperback from Shambhala) Laraine Herring offers advice to writers...
Just Between Us
Jul 7th, 2010
They’re a bit like Will’s blackberries, these poems, growing in secret underbrush—even published. Who thinks to search for them?
MegaBytes
Jun 26th, 2010
Nicholas Carr argues in a compelling new book that the Internet is changing the way we think.
Bedside Table
Jun 21st, 2010
Imagination is a primal human tool, a lodestone that helps us find our place in creation. Proof abounds in the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Books
May 25th, 2010
Kurt Hoelting, a fisherman, wilderness guide and meditation teacher from Puget Sound, abandoned his car and foreswore jet travel for a year. Concerned about his carbon footprint, he confined his...
Bedside Table
May 21st, 2010
Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland has never been out of print in the 145 years since first publication. It has made the leap from print to the big screen, then the small screen, then...
Books
Apr 27th, 2010
Vancouver's Thuong Vuong-Riddick was born in Hanoi, but educated in Montreal and France with a BA in Philosophy and Literature. She is the author of the book, "The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of...
