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Beat poet helped create early hippie movement

 
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Michael McClure, an original Beat poet living in California's rustic Oakland Hills, is 78 years old. This week, he declared his fiery passion for writing to be as strong as ever.
 
 

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Isolated lighthouse fuels writer's literary spirit

 
Apparently, Vancouver Island's lighthouses produce more than flashing lights and weather reports.
 
 

Small-town feel evoked in a haunting mystery

 
The Guardians -- By Andrew Pyper
 
 

Sanitizing Huck Finn a needless exercise

 
For some reason, when it comes to books, some folk think it's fine to fiddle about with them.
 
 

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B.C.'s splendours never get boring

A Walk With the Rainy Sisters -- By Stephen Hume


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Book offers controversial overview of Virk slaying

Did the media wilfully ignore race as a factor in Reena Virk's 1997 murder?


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Yann Martel has stopped sending books to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Martel gives up on mission to bring literature to PM

After the donation of 100 carefully chosen books, author Yann Martel has ended his four-year campaign as self-appointed literary mentor for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.


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Angie Abdou says The Bone Cage has sold more copies since landing on the Canada Reads top 10 list a few months back than it has all other years combined since its 2007 release. Abdou is a former University of Calgary student.

Panellists defend five novels in CBC's Canada Reads

Former Montreal Canadiens forward Georges Laraque will take to the radio waves this week to defend Angie Abdou's novel The Bone Cage in this year's Canada Reads, the 10th anniversary edition of CBC's literary showdown.


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David Nicholls' One Day an international hit

Move over Stieg Larson and Stephenie Meyer: booksellers can't keep David Nicholls' One Day on their shelves - even though it will soon be two years since publication.


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Fourteen letters by J.D. Salinger.

New letters show human side of J.D Salinger

J.D Salinger, the famously reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", was not such a hermit after all, according to newly published letters Thursday that show he travelled — and enjoyed Burger King.


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Kevin Bazzana

Kevin Bazzana holds a PhD in music history from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in musicology and performance practice from Stanford University. He has taught and written about classical music for 20 years and is an international expert on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.


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