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May 25, 2016Special Feature! Pedlar Press' Beth Follett Interviews Anne Fleming
Anne Fleming has worked for CBC Television, The Georgia Straight, and taught creative writing at British Columbia's best universities. Both a poet and prose writer, Anne's previous books include Pool ...
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April 06, 2017Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
So I opened a bookstore.Yes, yes, I know – “in this day and age?” “Bookstores are going under!” “What about digital books?” “No one reads paper books anymore!”But I had been reading ...
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February 20, 2017A few minutes with ... Dalton Higgins
Throughout the month I have been sharing interviews with members of the literary community. Today, I have the privilege of sharing my conversation with best-selling author, journalist, speaker, publicist, ...
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May 10, 2017The In Character Interview, with Margaret Gracie
Margaret Gracie's Plastic (Porcupine's Quill) dives into the dark side of the American dream. Following a former Miss America whose quest to "have it all" becomes a twisted obsession, the connected stories ...
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April 11, 2017
Alice Burdick on Poetry Exercises
My next few posts as Writer in Residence here at Open Book will feature short interviews with Canadian poets discussing their relationship to poetry prompts and exercises. They'll talk about what they ...
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April 11, 2017Five Things Literary: Victoria, BC with Wendy Donawa
Today as part of our Five Things Literary series, we head west and get a behind the scenes look at the literary life of beautiful Victoria, British Columbia.In her debut collection, Thin Air of the Knowable ...
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December 08, 2016The Proust Questionnaire, with Gianna Patriarca
Gianna Patriarca's story collection All My Fallen Angelas (Inanna Publications) spans the decades from the 60s to the present day, telling the stories of a memorable cast of Italian-Canadian women living ...
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January 03, 2017An Interview with Nyla Matuk
Searching for the root of modern identity, Nyla Matuk’s Stranger (Signal Editions, 2016) is as much cultural critique as it is confessional. Matuk questions the divisions we make between private and ...
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September 28, 2016Interview With Lisa de Nikolits
Lisa de Nikolits is the award winning author of six novels, including The Hungry Mirror, West of Wawa, and most recently, Between the Cracks She Fell.She has a new novel, called The Nearly Girl, that ...
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September 29, 2016Interview With Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya is one of the most inspiring writers I’ve ever met. I was lucky enough to share the stage with her last year. She read from her beautiful novel, She of the Mountains, and I was moved by ...
