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Fan Expo Vancouver coming in April

Fan Expo Vancouver coming in April

By Blaine Kyllo | February 1, 2012
The producers of Toronto’s largest convention for genre fans are bringing the show to Vancouver.
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How to have fun in a bookstore

How to have fun in a bookstore

By Jennie Ramstad | January 23, 2012
Or annoy the crap out of its staff.
Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau offers free consultations to emerging poets

Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau offers free consultations to emerging poets

By Jessica Werb | January 19, 2012
Roses are red, violets are blue, Vancouver's new poet laureate wants to meet you.
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Kate Beaton skewers history and literature in Hark! A Vagrant

Kate Beaton skewers history and literature in Hark! A Vagrant

By Jennie Ramstad | January 18, 2012
Not even Napoleon Bonaparte escapes without a fractured send-up in this collection of comics.
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Music to the eyes of book nerds

Music to the eyes of book nerds

By Stephen Hui | January 10, 2012
This joyful work of stop-motion animation was filmed at Type Books on Toronto's Queen Street West.
New Cancon film projects: Polley adapting Atwood, Boyden adapting Haida manga, Trailer Park Boys

New Cancon film projects: Polley adapting Atwood, Boyden adapting Haida manga, Trailer Park Boys

By Craig Takeuchi | January 6, 2012
Canadian actor and director Sarah Polley is returning to literary inspiration from a Canadian author.
Jane Austen gets grisly in Death Comes to Pemberley

Jane Austen gets grisly in Death Comes to Pemberley

By Jennie Ramstad | December 29, 2011
Crime writer P.D. James takes on the Bennets in this colourful mix of murder, mayhem, and manners.
Anthony Horowitz tackles the great detective in The House of Silk

Anthony Horowitz tackles the great detective in The House of Silk

By Jennie Ramstad | December 28, 2011
This Sherlock Holmes novel is the only new work to be officially approved by the Conan Doyle Estate.
The Canterbury Tales gets reinvented as a graphic novel

The Canterbury Tales gets reinvented as a graphic novel

By Jennie Ramstad | December 21, 2011
American illustrator Seymour Chwast reimagines Chaucer’s poetic survey of medieval England.
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People's Co-op Bookstore draws local luminaries for holiday open house

People's Co-op Bookstore draws local luminaries for holiday open house

By Brian Lynch | December 16, 2011
The indie establishment will be celebrating the joys of brick-and-mortar book-buying with an open house starting at 5 p.m. and taking place in all three dimensions.
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Canterbury Tales closing used bookstore in Kitsilano

Canterbury Tales closing used bookstore in Kitsilano

By Stephen Hui | December 15, 2011
Lea Watson may be shutting down her used bookstore in Kitsilano, but you won’t hear any gloom and doom from this bookseller.
Whet your appetite with The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook

Whet your appetite with The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook

By Jennie Ramstad | December 13, 2011
Emily Ansara Baines explores the culinary world of YA author Suzanne Collins’s sci-fi series.
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Victoriaâs Sarah Kramer helps home cooks Go Vegan! with iPhone and iPad app

Victoria’s Sarah Kramer helps home cooks Go Vegan! with iPhone and iPad app

By Stephen Hui | December 8, 2011
Vegan cooking. There's an app for that shiznit.
Jim Meskimen impersonates celebrities in classic Christmas reading

Jim Meskimen impersonates celebrities in classic Christmas reading

By Michelle da Silva | December 8, 2011
If you’ve ever wanted to hear Tom Waits, Woody Allen, Robin Williams, or Samual L. Jackson recite “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, here’s your chance.
Saints Astray stays the course

Saints Astray stays the course

By Jennie Ramstad | November 29, 2011
Author Jacqueline Carey continues the saga of Loup Garron in this Santa Olivia sequel.