Dispatch

Longpen Under the Library

Michal Kozlowski & Sarah Maitland

Through a hall­way that always smells of aged ched­dar and in a tiny room in the base­ment of the Vancouver Public Library, Margaret Atwood (kind of) signed books.

Finding

Who Knows You Here?

Kenneth Sherman

I had been spared, it seemed, the ter­rors of history.

Finding

Letter to Harper

Yann Martel

 Yann Martel takes on the lit­er­ary edu­ca­tion of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Dispatch

Law of Small Numbers

Sheila Heti

Would my cur­rent love end the way my past ones had?

Memory and the Valley

Sandra Shields and David Campion

The concrete-and-glass city we know as Vancouver sits in the delta of the Fraser River Valley on vil­lage sites that date back to the time of Mesopotamia

Dispatch

David Thompson Beats the Devil on the Kisiskatchewan River

Stephen Osborne

The only nar­ra­tive of the New World in which the devil is defeated at checkers.

Interview

Interview with Ann Diamond: Part 1

Ann Diamond

The first install­ment of an inter­view with writer Ann Diamond while she works on her new novel in Greece, con­ducted by Ross Merriam.

Story

The Second Life of Kiril Kadiiski

Ann Diamond

 He has been called the great­est Bulgarian poet of his gen­er­a­tion. Can one lit­er­ary scan­dal bury his whole career?

Land’s End

Christopher Grabowski

The resource towns along the west coast of Canada — those that have sur­vived, and those that haven’t — tell a story of land’s end, as a place and as a possibility.

Dispatches

In Memoriam

Mary Schendlinger

Law of Small Numbers

Sheila Heti

David Thompson Beats the Devil on the Kisiskatchewan River

Stephen Osborne

Gulf Island Sojourn

Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa

Caleb and Opa on Holiday

Norbert Ruebsaat

Postcard Stories

Lost and Found

Bob Thurber

Still Life with Blake

Monica Kidd

Wolf and Man

Jaime Forsythe

The Two-Slice Toaster Move

Jane Stevenson

Meditation

Lisa Martin

Spring Training

Mark Paterson

Blogs

Precious: remembering the book, not seeing the movie

Patty Osborne

Mike Relm Scratches our Video Itch

Becky McEachern

Haunted by Kamp

Patty Osborne

Best Before puts the existential back in Xbox

Dan Post

That Kid Who Didn't Like Anything

Jill M

Poetry

Jackpine Sonnets

Milton Acorn

McPoems

Billeh Nickerson

Habitat

Heather Haley

Into the Fire

Evelyn Lau

Today After Rain

Brad Cran

Did I Sing?

Kate Braid

Opinion

Grey Matters

Mary Schendlinger

Dante in Guantánamo

Alberto Manguel

Hospital Reading

Alberto Manguel

Latinocanadá

Stephen Henighan

The Secret Market

Hal Niedzviecki

Reviews

Politics Times Two

Daniel Francis

After the Quake

Michal Kozlowski

Black is Back

Todd Coyne

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

Jill Mandrake

Renovating Heaven

Sarah Maitland

Dispatches
  • Caleb and Opa on Holiday: Norbert Ruebsaat
  • Happy Shiny People: Marcus Youssef
  • In Memoriam: Mary Schendilnger
  • Sightseeing, Anybody?: Edith Iglauer
Poetry
  • Jackpine Sonnets: Milton Acorn
Findings
  • Bowhead Butchering: Justin Nobel
  • Report the Suspicious: Thad McIlroy
  • No Paper in Space: Peter Taylor

Book banning in Vancouver in the sixties recalled on the Duthies blog (Duthies itself now gone too into memory http://ow.ly/15f3r —1 hour 49 min ago

At the @poetryisdead launch! Fun times with DMx poems —21 hours 15 min ago

RT @pattyoz: Still thinking about Kamp: http://www.geist.com/blogs/pattyo/2010/02/haunted-kamp —3 days 6 min ago

Appreciate the witty feedback on the typo. Heroin. —3 days 4 hours ago

Would you like to legalize heroine? Move left for yes, right for no. http://ow.ly/14mTw —3 days 4 hours ago