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Tag: Jane Rule

Year in Review: 2017 highlight reel at Read Local BC

Year in Review: 2017 highlight reel at Read ...

December 29, 2017

Even though 2017 was a tough year in many ways, we are happy to have shared books on important topics, increased diversity, award recognition, and new publishing initiatives. Check out a selection of our content highlights.Go to full post …read more

Talonbooks: Celebrating 50 years of independent Canadian publishing

Talonbooks: Celebrating 50 years of independ...

November 30, 2017

Talonbooks is celebrating 50 years in 2017—and we’ve got a behind-the-scenes tour of the whole operation, including the office, warehouse, and archives.Go to full post …read more

20 Years of Galiano Island Books cultivating arts community

20 Years of Galiano Island Books cultivating...

August 23, 2017

Galiano Island Books is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017, and has been a driving force for arts on the island community.Go to full post …read more

“The concerns of our time and our tribe”: Excerpt from the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

"The concerns of our time and our tribe": Ex...

June 28, 2017

In August 1989, Jane Rule—novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America—summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, a noted gay activist and publisher in Toronto: “It seems to me that what Go to full post …read more

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