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Olympics at street level, Diyah Pera photographs

I went out with Diyah Pera, a photographer friend of mine, on Friday to watch the protests. She took some…

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W2 Real Vancouver Writers & Culture Series: 24 Feb 2010

Pleased to be reading 24 Feb 2010 at 7PM as part of the W2 Real Vancouver Writers & Culture Series…

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Candahar Photo Show: 22 Feb 2010

I’ll be reading at the Candahar, 22 Feb. I’m presenting photographs of “wall art” by the local street artists who inspired…

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The Wilde Room: Chapter 3

The Signature Dish In the preceding chapters: Just before service in Chef Jeremy’s Dublin restaurant The Wilde Room, he gets a phone call.…

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Wacky Pack Stories: Hostile Thinkies

My best friend’s name was Sten, as in Stendhal. As in Stendhal Beauregard-Vincent, his father having been important at one point in France.…

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Learning to live with the Suicide Machine

 It’s hard not to twin the phenomenon of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, as reported in Time this week, and the…

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Wacky Pack Stories: Kentucky Fried Fingers

It’s 1972. It’s West Vancouver. It’s Gleneagles Elementary school and nothing matters more than Wacky Packs. The coolest kids have…

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Grafton Street in Dublin

The Wilde Room: Chapter 2

Smells and Bells It was Dante who’d found the Professor’s body. Jeremy thought: of course. That strange friendship between his…

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Notebooks: Stanley Park

 Sometimes your notebooks surprise you. Here I discover that my character Trout (a kid) from my novel Stanley Park, was…

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