Category: Interviews

What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? Go to full post …read more

Reminiscing, Susan Crean writes, “I grew up in Mr. Wong’s kitchen …” Her memoir, Finding Mr. Wong (Talonbooks), chronicles her effort to piece together the life of the man she knew as Mr. Wong—cook and housekeeper to her Irish Canadian family Go to full post …read more

“Almost every song on it is a little treatise about something that I feel strongly about, something empowering or something to protest and try to make better.”Go to full post …read more

9×11, Michael Turner’s new poetry book—his first in two decades—has its heart rooted in form and time.Go to full post …read more

At This Juncture combines the epistolary format with a charming and humorous narrator intent on saving Canada Post and the art of letter writing. Go to full post …read more

Read an excerpt from At Home in Nature, Rob Wood’s stories from his off-grid lifestyle on BC’s remote Maurelle Island.Go to full post …read more

A mystery plated with plenty of sides, Bruce Geddes’ debut novel examines the relationship we have to our past and how we adjust to the world as it shifts around us. Go to full post …read more

Rebecca Hendry moved to a new city or town across Canada every year until she was 11-years-old. One Good Thing, her second novel, is a love letter to Yellowknife’s Old Town. Go to full post …read more

Poetic Licence is a special Read Local BC column for National Poetry Month. Each column features one poet and a snapshot into their bookish world. Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the founder of Thursdays Writing Collective and her second book of poetry, Go to full post …read more

Cornelia Hoogland recently completed a book tour for Trailer Park Elegy with stops in BC, Ontario, and Quebec. She shares some of the highlights.Go to full post …read more

Poetic Licence is a special Read Local BC column for National Poetry Month. Each column features one poet and a snapshot into their bookish world. David Zieroth is a Governor General’s Award-winning poet and his new collection is the bridge from Go to full post …read more

I relate to the “no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned” school of thought.Go to full post …read more