Review by Deborah Vail The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee ECW Press, 2016 A Vancouver-based writer born and raised on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Jen Sookfong Lee coaxes her readers down the frightening alleys and street corners of this...
Interview by Nathaniel G. Moore Vancouver-based author Peter Babiak’s new book of essays Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction was recently published by Anvil Press. John Moore, writing for BC Bookworld praised Babiak for his new...
Review by Andrea Westcott U Girl by Meredith Quartermain Talonbooks, 2016 As a meta-narrative about the process of writing a novel, U Girl succeeds because novelist Meredith Quartermain has already thought through the writing process, so that her narrator...
Review by Stefanie Bartlett Straight to the Head by Fraser Nixon Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Fraser Nixon’s Straight to the Head is a neo-noir that follows a cast of stylish, offbeat characters into the dirty underbelly of 1980’s Vancouver,...
This just in from friends and local Vancouver poetry journal Poetry is Dead… Little Mountain Lit For one week only, the literary magazines of Vancouver are taking over Little Mountain Shop (4386 Main St, Vancouver, BC)! From September 19th...
Review by K.C. Novak Wanda Sykes JFL Northwest Comedy Festival, Vancouver February 18-27, 2016 The regal nature of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was relieved of its pomp with only two hanging banners narrowing the colossal stage. There was one...