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Spring 2016 Volume 30 FREE AT BC FERRIES GIFT SHOPS • ESCAPING THE FRASER VALLEY 31 BC BOOKWORLD VOL. 30 • NO. 1 • SPRING 2016 WORLDWORLD CLASSCLASS TEARDOWNSTEARDOWNS DUMP TRUMP Caroline Adderson documents the rapid rate of home demolitions. See page 5 LAURA SAWCHUK PHOTO PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #40010086 INTERNATIONAL STORIES: CARIBBEAN 15 ICELAND 17 SPAIN 19 GREECE 22 Start the year with a good book. Discover great books by B.C. authors in Passages Gift Shop JOIN US May 20th - 22nd, 2016 Prestige Harbourfront Resort Your coaches Salmon Arm, BC and mentors for 2016: A Festival Robert J. Sawyer $3,000 designed by writers Susan Fox IN CASH for writers Ted Bishop Arthur Slade to encourage, support, Joëlle Anthony inspire and inform. Richard Wagamese Bring your muse Victor Anthony and expect to be Michael Slade Jodi McIsaac welcomed, included Alyson Quinn and thoroughly Jodie Renner entertained. 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Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of You can now get lost and found with our new Literary Map of B.C. Demolition and Revival (Anvil $32.95) Jon Bartlett & EOPLE WHO VISIT PARIS ROUTINELY SEARCH ✫ Rika Ruebsaat for the graves of famous authors in LITERARY THE LITERARY MAP OF B.C. IS MEANT TO BE FUN. IT IS ALSO Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the world’s most visited cemetery, meant to err on the side of content. If you put the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike Père Lachaise, opened in 1804. If you all the words and photos together from the map, (New Star Books $19) go to London, you can visit shrines for LANDMARK it’s the equivalent of at least five books. PCharles Dickens and Samuel Johnson. In no way does this site purport to present the Jillian Roberts & Ditto for literary sites in New York or San Gabriola best writers of the province. Rather, the writers Cindy Revell Francisco. Russia has Tolstoy’s home at Yas- thus far are a cross-section in terms of genres, Where Do Babies Come From? naya Polyana. Dublin has James Joyce, Os- Island ages and geography. Some are famous; many are Our First Talk About Birth car Wilde... Copenhagen has its Kierkegaard not. Some living, some dead. If you ‘scroll out’ (Just Enough series) (Orca Books $19.95) statue. and get a Google world view of the planet on this site, you’ll Dina Del Bucchia & But here? find some B.C.-related literary locations around the globe—in Daniel Zomparelli Millions of people worldwide know Malcolm Lowry wrote Mongolia, Iceland, Peru, etc. There is room for expansion. Under the Volcano while living in shacks on the Dollarton mud Ideally some communities around B.C. will want Rom Com (Talonbooks $15) flats in North Vancouver—but tourism departments have yet to emulate the City of Vancouver where more than 40 Robert D. Turner to capitalize on the fact. literary markers have been erected to Klondike Gold Rush Steamers Folks on Gabriola Island appear to correspond to the Vancouver Public (Sono Nis Press $49.95) be a bit smarter. Word has it they are Library’s own literary map based on already planning some festivities for next entries provided by BC BookWorld. Charles Demers year, likely in October, to commemorate Not all the sites on the Literary Map The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny the arrival of Malcolm Lowry and his wife of B.C. are easily visited, but directions Thoughts on Awful Things (D&M $24.95) Margerie on their island in 1946—seventy to each location are provided. Some sites Caroline Woodward years ago—that gave rise to his novel Oc- have historical significance. 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Outdoor Recreation in the City’s Natural The Lowrys stayed at Anderson Lodge, There are more than 11,000 B.C. au- Environments (Rocky Mountain Books $25) now called Surf Lodge, at 885 Berry Point thors on our ABCBookWorld.com refer- Helen McAllister & Road. ence site now attracting more than 4,000 Surf Lodge is one of 160 literary loca- visitors per day. Jennifer Heath tions now posted on the Literary Map Let’s celebrate what we’re really, really, Down to Earth (Oolichan Books $29.95) of B.C., more than a year in the making Literary Map of B.C. creator really good at.—A.T. * The current topselling titles from major in partnership with Vancouver Public Alan Twigg with James BC publishing companies, in no particular order. Library. Joyce statue in Dublin. www.literarymapofbc.ca Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 Contributors: Beverly Cramp, John Moore, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Joan Givner, Mark Forsythe, Alex Van Tol, BC BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Cherie Thiessen, Keven Drews, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2S3 Caroline Woodward. Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. We gratefully acknowledge the unobtrusive BOOKWORLD Produced with the sponsorship of Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics assistance of Canada Council, a continuous partner since Pacific BookWorld News Society. 1988, and creativeBC, a provincial partner since 2014. Publications Mail Registration No. 7800. 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Legg House was HE AVERAGE LIFES- demolished in June 2014.” pan of a house in Also featuring contribu- Vancouver is be- tions from Elise and Stephen coming less than Partridge and Bren Simmers, a human lifespan. Vancouver Vanishes is replete TSpearheaded by Caroline with photos by Adderson and Adderson, Vancouver Van- Tracey Ayton. ishes: Narratives of Demoli- Redevelopment can’t be tion and Revival is a shared stopped. Memory must be attempt to document and erased. Developers have co- protest the rampant destruc- opted the word development.
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