Malarky reading @ Incite (VPL) March 21, 2012
I am looking forward very much to reading from Malarky, along with Tamara Faith Berger (Maidenhead) and Ben Wood (The Bellwhether Revivals), at the Vancouver International Writers Festival’s reading series Incite.
The reading will take place on March 21, 2012 at 7.30pm in the Alice McKay room at the Vancouver Public Library. Admission is free.
Malarky will be for sale and I will be happy to sign copies.
Thanks a million to VIWF for inviting me. I’m glad to be returning to the Alice McKay room, where we had our Taxi! and Crossings events, of which I still have such strong, warm memories and am excited to meet both authors and learn about their work.
Vancouver 125 Legacy Books
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Vancouver 125 Legacy Books panel that I was fortunate to participate in yesterday at the Vancouver International Writers Festival. Your warm support and great questions were appreciated as were the lively, thoughtful engaging contributions of my fellow panelists Jean Barman, Daniel Francis, Stephen Osborne and our epic host Michael Turner.
I was very uplifted to hear people excited and engaged in their local literature. We have much work to do ensemble ! I hope the City of Vancouver will continue this initiative each year in some form and also fund a civic historian as Jean Barman so wisely suggested we need. Kudos to Brad Cran who pioneered and organized this initiative in association with BC Publishers Assoc. during his tenure as Poet-Laureate.
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One of the novels I mentioned was Taxi! by Helen Potrebenko — the book is available from Lazarapress.ca for a mere $10 for anyone interested in reading it. I would also love to hear your comments on your reading experience and add them to our Have You Read Taxi!? blog which could use some invigorating content added to it. It’s been in a slight slumber of late.
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125 Legacy Books
Fiction
Class Warfare by D. M. Fraser, Arsenal Pulp Press
A Credit to Your Race by Truman Green, Anvil Press
Crossings by Betty Lambert, Arsenal Pulp Press
The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair, Ronsdale Press
Poetry
Day and Night by Dorothy Livesay, Oolichan Books
Anhaga by Jon Furberg, Smoking Lung/Arsenal Pulp Press
Non-fiction
A Hard Man to Beat by Howie White, Harbour Publishing.
Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront by Rolf Knight, New Star Books
Opening Doors: Vancouver’s East End edited by Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, Harbour Publishing
Who Killed Janet Smith? By Edward Starkins, Anvil Press