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Jay Ruzesky Ing to Get Clean in Vancouver’S Thunder River by Tony Cosier (Thistledown $18.95) Downtown Eastside PHOTO ROBSON PETER Reprinted thirteen times, Anne Cameron’s Daughters of Copper Woman is one of the bestselling books of fiction published from and about British Columbia. WINNER ANNEANNE CAMERONCAMERON Since 1995, BC BookWorld and the Vancouver Public Library have proudly sponsored the Woodcock Award and the Writers Walk at 350 West Georgia Street in Vancouver. 16TH ANNUAL GEORGE WOODCOCK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING LITERARY CAREER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ANNE CAMERON BIBLIOGRAPHY: Novels & Short Stories: Dahlia Cassidy (2004) • Family Resemblances (2003) • Hardscratch Row (2002) • Sarah's Children (2001) • Those Lancasters (2000) • Aftermath (1999) • Selkie (1996) • The Whole Dam Family (1995) • Deeyay and Betty (1994) • Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens (1994) • A Whole Brass Band (1992) • Kick the Can (1991) • Escape to Beulah (1990) • Bright's Crossing (1990) • South of an Unnamed Creek (1989) • Women, Kids & Huckleberry Wine (1989) • Tales of the Cairds (1989) • Stubby Amberchuk & The Holy Grail (1987) • Child of Her People (1987) • Dzelarhons: Mythology of the Northwest Coast (1986) • The Journey (1982) • Daughters of Copper Woman (1981) • Dreamspeaker (1979). Poetry: • The Annie Poems (1987) • Earth Witch (1983) Children's Books: T'aal: The One Who Takes Bad Children (1998) • The Gumboot Geese (1992) • Raven Goes Berrypicking (1991) • Raven & Snipe (1991) • Spider Woman (1988) • Lazy Boy (1988) • Orca's Song (1987) • Raven Returns the Water (1987) • How the Loon Lost her Voice (1985) • How Raven Freed the Moon (1985) Vancouver Public Library reading Thursday, July 29th. Call 604-736-4011 for info. FOR MORE INFO SEE WWW. ABCBOOKWORLD. COM 2 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2010 people A hunk, a hunk, of burning love: DOUG, EZRA, Electrifying Vegas headliner Morris Bates returned to The Cave nightclub in Vancouver to DAGWOOD & trade kisses for scarves in 1978 MARSHALL neck in shit’ and Phyllis and Pascal came out of the bar and found me and Marshall McLuhan, took me to their home.” what were ya doin’? It sounds like a tale from Charles Dick- n Extraordinary Canadians: ens. Bates began touring Marshall McLuhan (Viking Western Canada with his $26),novelist-turned-psychopa- own Injun Joe’s Medicine I Show. Though he never lis- thologist Douglas Coupland gives us two great thinkers at tened much to Elvis until once—a father-son act of Cana- 1968, Bates first changed dian minding-bending—with his his act to Canada’s Tribute To Elvis, then changed it original appreciation of Canada’s to A World Tribute to Elvis. most enigmatic intellectual, The kid from Williams Marshall McLuhan, citing Lake eventually graduated McLuhan’s autistic leanings as a to The Cave nightclub in possible source for his creativity. Vancouver where he made Coupland, author of Generation $10,000 in three nights. X: Tales for an Accelerated Cul- Bates never knew his ture, also traces the evolution of father until his mid-forties, after Bates McLuhan’s growth as a “cantanker- struck it big as one of Las Vegas’ most ous conservative,” including his durable attractions. Having played conversion to Catholicism, his in- everywhere from the Mad Trapper’s debtedness to University of Toronto Lounge in Inuvik, to a South African academic Harold Innis, his dis- stage with Otis Redding, to an ap- like for the Biblical scholar pearance on the Merv Griffin Show, Northrop Frye and his TO VEGAS Bates ultimately felt his white Elvis jump- fascinations with Ezra Pound and suit was turning into a straitjacket. Dagwood Bumstead cartoons. Once an electrifying performer who FROM HORSEFLY, BC rubbed shoulders with the stars, Bates Still best-known for “the medium is the message,” McLuhan is given now works as a counsellor in Vancou- his due as an artist, rather than as Discovered in a Williams Lake baby carriage, ver’s Downtown Eastside and conducts a philosopher or futurist. In doing Morris Bates went on to become one of the Reality Check for Indigenous People pro- so, Coupland speculates that future world’s highest-paid Elvis impersonators. grams to help First Nations kids stay off biographers might examine brain drugs and alcohol. 978-1-894997-15-7 chemistry as much as environment T’S HARD ENOUGH FOR A BASS and history. player from a bar band in Back in the early 1960s, Vancouver or Calgary to end McLuhan also predicted that that up as a highly-paid head- visual, individualistic print culture liner in Las Vegas for fifteen would be replaced by what he years, but Morris Bates called “electronic interdependence,” did it from Williams Lake’s creating a new “global village” char- Sugar Cane Indian Reservation after he acterized by a collective identity with Ihad lived with his foster parents Pas- a tribal base. Jeez, the guy even cal and Phyllis Bates in a rustic predicted the Internet. 9780670069224 cabin near Horsefly Lake. Elvis lookalike Morris Bates, easily one of the world’s foremost Elvis imper- sonators, tells it like it was in Morris as Elvis: Take A Chance on Life (Fox / Quarry $34.95), an amply illustrated memoir, co-written with Jim Brown. Bates’ mother Lillian, a Shuswap, was impregnated in 1949 by a handsome Haida while she was employed at the fish cannery in Port Edward. “During the Williams Lake Stampede in the summer In the ghetto: of 1950,” Bates says, “my mom went Morris Bates (left) now down to the Ranch Hotel and left me In a famous scene in Annie Hall, works as a First Nations outside in my baby carriage. Woody Allen consults Marshall counsellor in Vancouver’s McLuhan about his theories. “She went into the bar and left me Downtown Eastside. there. Many hours later I was ‘up to my SUMMER Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 Contributors: Elizabeth Godley, Grant Shilling, Mark Forsythe, For this issue, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: BC BookWorld, Joan Givner, Louise Donnelly, Sheila Munro, Cherie Thiessen, we gratefully acknowledge the 2010 3516 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 Hannah Main-van der Kamp, John Moore, Shane McCune, Joseph Farris. Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. unobtrusive assistance of BC Issue, Produced with the sponsorship of Pacific BookWorld News Web consultant: Sharon Jackson Canada Council, a continuous Society. Publications Mail Registration No. 7800. Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk. BOOKWORLD partner since 1988. Vol. 24, No. 2 BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Betty Twigg. Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics. Deliveries: Ken Reid Advertising & editorial: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Publisher/ Writer: Alan Twigg Vancouver, B.C., V6R 2S3. Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 All BC BookWorld reviews are posted online at In-Kind Supporters: Editor/Production: David Lester Email: [email protected]. Annual subscription: $25 www.abcbookworld.com Simon Fraser University Library; Vancouver Public Library. 3 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2010 people Mack the life MARK ZUEHLKE ver since chiefs Baptiste Ritchie and Sam Mitchell of the Mount Currie and Fountain reserves recommended Charlie Mack as the best source of Lil’wat GOES DUTCH Estories in 1969, ethnographers Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy began visiting his Birkenhead River cabin in the Pemberton Valley. The more Mack shared his world view and moral code as a master storyteller, with animated renditions in both Lil’wat and English, the more a friendship between the trio became crucial for recording Mack’s continuity with a mythological past. Two decades after his death, the team of Bouchard and Kennedy have compiled a tribute to Mack’s essential role in B.C. ethnogra- phy with The Lil’Wat World of Charlie Mack (Talonbooks $24.95), ensuring his rightful place in B.C. literature. Mack was born in 1899 and died in 1990. His stories were first recorded, translated and published in Lillooet Stories (BC Archives, 1977). 978-0-88922-640-1 Duncan Regehr ZORROASTER-ISMS AVING PLAYED ZORRO IN A LONG- Mark Zuehlke: Pierre Berton running HBO TV series and without the bow-tie Hportrayed Pat Garrett alongside Val Kilmer in Billy the Kid, ever mind Sidney Duncan Regehr has learned a thing Crosby’s overtime or two about not flubbing his lines. Di- goal. The greatest rector Peter Jackson wanted him to N play Aragorn in Lord of the Rings but the Charlie Mack (left) with Canadian victory was the lib- role went to . Randy Bouchard (centre) eration of Holland. Viggo Mortensen and Baptiste Ritchie, 1974 Having attended Oak Bay High The Olympics cost only School, Duncan Regehr has now re- four billion dollars; the settled at Shawnigan Lake and pub- Dutch liberation cost the lished his first collection of poetry, oincidental with the release of lives of 1,482 Canadians and Scarecrow: Poems and Drawings Wild at Heart: The Films of resulted in 6,298 casualties. (Ekstasis $24.95), in which he “explores Nettie Wild (Anvil $18), the Pa- The Dutch remain grateful. the metaphor of line—the line of verse, Ccific Cinémathèque launched a career retrospective of the director with the In On To Victory (D&M the line of the pencil, the lay lines of the same title in January. The mini-festival fea- $37.95), the eighth and fi- land of the scarecrow’s domain—in an tured four Nettie Wild documentary fea- artistic vision that is both penetrating and tures: A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the nal volume of his Canadian Philippine Revolution (1988), Blockade (1993), Battle Series for World War prophetic.” A Place Called Chiapas (1998), and FIX: The Regehr is a Royal Canadian Artist, Story of an Addicted City (2002), as well as II, Mark Zuehlke recalls a recipient of the American Vision Award Wild’s most recent film, the medium-length Canada’s fiercely-fought and documentary Bevel Up (2007). of Distinction in the Arts, and holds a Both FIX and A Place Called Chiapas won bittersweet military triumph.
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