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In this issue:

  • Mark Forsythe: Slocan gardeners / cover
  • Celebrity imposters
  • Clements & Morrisseau
  • Paul Sunga & Lesotho
  • Lorna Jackson & hockey
  • Jack Whyte
  • McCune on the Aspers
  • Northern pole reclaimed
  • 1858 origins revisited
  • Deverell & Coupland
  • New novelist Needham
  • Louise Donnelly

  BC Author Bank




  A Literary Embarrassment (by Gerson, Carole)
  Beginnings of the BC and Yukon Branch of The Writers' Union of Canada (by Drabek, Jan)
  bill bissett’s acceptance speech upon receiving the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 (by bissett, bill)
  Celebrating 25 Years of the Federation of BC Writers: What a Long Strange Trip it's Been (by Carolan, Trevor)
  ESSAY: The Heterosexual Cage of Coupledom (by Rule, Jane)
  Everything from abalone to Zukerman (by Francis, Dan)
  George Woodcock & Robin Skelton: An Appreciation (by Fetherling, George)
  Greenpeace: The Fight To Save The Earth (by Twigg, Alan)
  Harbour Publishing 37 Years On (by White, Howard)
  Himmler Hunter (by Lester, David)
  Interview #2 with Anne Cameron by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview #2 with bill bissett by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview #2 with Hubert Evans by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview #2 with Jack Hodgins by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview #2 with W.P. Kinsella by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Adolf Hungry Wolf by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Al Purdy by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Alice Munro by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Andreas Schroeder by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Ann Walsh by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Anne Cameron (by )
  Interview with Anne Cameron by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Audrey Thomas by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with bill bissett by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Brian Fawcett by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Bud Osborn by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with D.M. Fraser by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Dorothy Livesay (by Lever, Bernice)
  Interview with Dorothy Livesay by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Dorothy Livesay by Bernice Lever (by Lever, Bernice)
  Interview with Eden Robinson by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Edith Iglauer by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Eric Wilson by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Gary Geddes by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with George Bowering by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with George Faludy by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Harold Rhenisch by Don Gayton (by Gayton, Don)
  Interview with Howard White by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Hubert Evans by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Jack Hodgins by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Jane Barker Wright by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Jane Rule by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Jane Rule by Joanne Bealy (by Bealy, Joanne)
  Interview with Jane Rule by Nathaniel Christopher (by Christopher, Nathaniel)
  Interview with John MacLachlan Gray by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with John Pass by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Leonard Cohen by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Margaret Atwood by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Margaret Laurence by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Patrick Lane by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Pauline Holdstock by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Peter Trower by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Pierre Berton by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Robert Bateman by Robert H. Jones (by Jones, Robert H.)
  Interview with Robert Harlow (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Robert Kroetsch by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Susan Musgrave by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Tiffany Stone by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Tim Bowling by Mark Forsythe (by Forsythe, Mark)
  Interview with Toni Onley by Robert H. Jones (by Jones, Robert H.)
  Interview with W.D. Algardson by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with W.P. Kinsella by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Interview with Warren Tallman by Alan Twigg (by Twigg, Alan)
  Joel Bakan: The Noam Chomsky of Kitsilano (by Kerr, Lisa)
  Keeping Body & Soul Together (by Hoekstra, Jacqueline )
  Let’s Think Small (by Hughes, Matthew)
  Literary Forebearers and Influences (by Salloum, Sheryl )
  Literary Thoughts from Turkey (by Rogers, Linda)
  Mongolian Rhapsody (by Rout, Katharina)
  My Sister’s Keeper (by de Vries , Maggie)
  Notes on Labels (by Rule, Jane)
  Opre Memoir: So I wanted to be a publisher (by Opre, Kal)
  Permanent Press (by Hopson, Gerry)
  Publishing’s Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Afford to Remain Silent? (by Vivieros, Fernanda)
  Remembering Allen Ginsberg (by Lever, Bernice)
  Remembering Carol Shields (by Rogers, Linda)
  Remembering George Clutesi: First First Nations Bestseller (by Fred, Randy)
  Remembering Intermedia Press, Inc. (by Varney, Ed)
  Remembering R2B2: A Naïf’s Story (by Rodin, Renee)
  Remembering the Bookstore on Bastion Street (by Howell, Thora)
  Remembering the Origins of UBC Press (by Stuart-Stubbs , Basil)
  Safarik Recalls Pat Lowther (by Twigg, Alan)
  The Day I Caught Fidel (by Kearns, Lionel)
  The Literary Storefront: A Brief History (by Fertig, Mona)
  The Widening Gyre: Cautionary Adventures in Self-Publishing (by Dowden, Graham)
  UBC Creative Writing Overview (by Svendsen, Linda)
  UBC Press: Tales Told by an Editor (by Wilson, Jean)
  Wild About Eden Robinson (by Jensen, Vickie)
  Wild About Harry Robinson (by Twigg, Alan)
  Wrestling with Demons (by Hekkanen, Ernest)
  Writing from the Boonies (by Kane, Donna)