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Review of Mistakes to Run With by Yasuko Thanh

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019
Truly Hunter
Yasuko Thanh’s memoir, Mistakes to Run With, is a gritty account of her life as a teenage runaway. More than that, it’s a lesson in imagining people complexly.

The most diverse library in Victoria is inside the SUB

March 23, 2019April 4, 2019
Josh Kozelj
This library pales in size comparison to the towering bookshelves residing in the McPherson library or the vast foyer of the Law library. When you walk into the SOCC office,

The single introvert’s Valentine’s Day book review

February 13, 2019
Josh Kozelj
Make a book your main squeeze this February There’s no worse combination than being an introvert and single on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t help if both your roomates have girlfriends, and...

21-year-old UVic student publishes 127000-word novel

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019
Anna Dodd
Today — Jan. 16 — her book is being released It’s not every day that a 21-year-old can say they’ve written a 127 000-word novel, ended a publishing contract won in...

Seek questions, not answers

December 28, 2018December 14, 2018
Truly Hunter
Steven Erikson on the art of writing Steven Erikson is a prolific author and alumnus of the University of Victoria undergraduate writing program, as well as the University of Iowa Writers...

Victoria Festival of Authors returns for a third year

November 6, 2018
Brianna Bock
The Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) returned for its third year, Sept. 27 to Oct. 1. From what I saw of it, there is good reason for the popularity of...

A River of Oranges

November 1, 2018
Anna Dodd
The remarkable story of long-standing CFUV host Aldo Nazarko Over a period of 80 years, the city of Rijeka — formerly known as Fiume — changed nationalities five times. Prior to...

New book humanizes health care in Canada

June 5, 2018June 5, 2018
Jakelene Plan
Andrew MacLeod’s “All Together Healthy” offers accessible criticisms for an all-too-often inaccessible health care system The joke goes like this: the premise of Breaking Bad would never work in Canada. That’s funny, right?...

Bill Gaston’s latest book has fish, family, and feeling

May 14, 2018May 14, 2018
Juliana Rupchan
If you want to learn a lot about fishing without looking like you’re reading about fishing, this might be the book for you. I read Bill Gaston’s new memoir, Just...

WordsThaw winner: Milk and Cookies

March 29, 2018March 28, 2018
Terra Hawk
The WordsThaw Prize is a contest run by the Malahat Review, one of Canada’s most esteemed literary magazines. It offers emerging Victorian writers the opportunity to submit works in two...
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