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Scott Sellers on The Blue Light Project
Scott Sellers is the VP Marketing Strategy for Random House of Canada. He spoke recently to Michelle MacAleese of Knopf Canada about The Blue Light Project. Please click HERE to see the video.
Read MoreCinema Salon September 7th – Vancouver
Cinema Salon Timothy Taylor presents THE THIN RED LINE Tuesday, september 7 at 7:30 pm Director: TERRENCE MALICK Cast: Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Woody Harrelson, Sean Penn USA, 1998, 170 minutes// BUY TICKETS Once a month, Melanie Friesen invites a distinguished guest to present his/her favourite film. After the screening, audiences and guests have the…
Read MoreMarathon Reading of George Bowering’s Burning Water
PRESS RELEASE 12 Hour Marathon Reading of Burning Water The W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation is pleased to announce a marathon reading of George Bowering’s award winning novel Burning Water (1980), a novel of George Vancouver’s exploration of the coast of British Columbia. The venue is a pilot program of the City of Vancouver. Everyone is…
Read MoreLadies and Gentlemen: Kevin House
The title of Kevin House’s new show – tonight, that is May 6, 2010 at the Red Gate Gallery at 156 West Hastings Street at Cambie – is telling. It’s the grouping title, you could say, of a whole group of strange and wonderful pieces that House has done about Vancouver at some unspecified point in its just-pre-Modernity.…
Read MoreLaunch Party for Darwin’s Bastards
Fun launch party planned for the anthology of speculative fiction Darwin’s Bastards, to which I contributed the story Sunshine City. I quote from the D&M website: “Are you one of Darwin’s Bastards? There’s only one way to find out. Join the stellar cast of contributing writers at one of two great events we have planned…
Read MoreDarwin’s Bastards
A collection of speculative fiction written by writers who (mostly) aren’t known for their speculative fiction. You might have wondered how Zsuzsi Gartner and D&M’s project could possibly work. I’m biased. I have a story in the collection. But I love the results. Great contributions from Adam Lewis Shroeder, Elyse Friedman, Lee Henderson, Sheila Heti, Anosh Irani, lots of others. A…
Read MoreGoing to Mecca, or its near equivalent
When I was writing my architecture novel, Story House, I had a small library of images that I used to shape my sense of Packer Gordon, the senior architect in the story. It’s no secret that Arthur Erikson was one inspiration, particularly his wooden houses. And especially the beautiful Filberg House. But Vladimir Ossipoff, the Hawaii based modernist, was another…
Read MoreVideo: W2 Real Writers & Culture Series reading
The W2 Real Writers & Culture Series was a great success. And the people who run it, besides being literary and enthusiastic, are also very tech-savvy. As a result, just hours after the event, they’ve already posted video of the final reading on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Please watch the whole thing if you can. My short reading from The Blue…
Read MoreW2 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 (112 West Hastings Street). I’ll be reading from “Sunshine City” a new short story that appears in the Zsuzsi Gartner edited anthology Darwins Bastards, coming soon from the ever-brilliant Douglas & McIntyre. In an evening hosted by…
Read MoreCandahar 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 me during the writing of my upcoming novel The Blue Light Project. The show starts at 7 with a reading by poet Gregory Betts. I’m on around 8:30. Stay after my presentation for a screening of Murray…
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