Mark Abbott
The Province
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Fall reading: Five books to keep you company this autumn
Fall is upon us, showering the earth with blustery weather, pewter skies and changing leaves. As we tend to get cosy with pumpkin-spiced everything, curling up on the sofa with a good book informs our comfort zone. → Read More
Roxane Gay-edited anthology Not That Bad is a candid look at rape culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Edited by Roxane Gay Harper Perennial | 368 pages $21 Cultural critic, essayist and novelist Roxane Gay’s anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture is a candid look at rape culture viewed through the eyes of 30 authors, giv... → Read More
Celebrate B.C. Book Day with local writers and artists at the Vancouver Public Library
April is the cruelest month, or so wrote T.S. Eliot. April is also a month to commemorate the arts. The rainiest month of the year is National Poetry Month, a good time to read some of your favourite poems and discover new poetry. → Read More
Book review: Whale in the Door reveals the beauty of Howe Sound
Whale in the Door: A community unites to protect BC’s Howe Soundby Pauline Le BelPhotos by Richard DuncanCaitlin Press | 216 pagesI can be forgiven for treating the Howe Sound/Atl’kitsem (the… → Read More
Building your digital toolkit: Social Media and Public Relations book review
Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR ProfessionalBy Deirdre K. BreakenridgeFinancial Times | Pearson (176 pp)We are now in our second decade of social media, and the qu… → Read More
Summer reading: Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell Knopf Canada 240 pages | 29.95 Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8… → Read More
Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger an honest recount of her struggles with weight and body image
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay HarperCollins 320 pages | 31.99 Roxane Gay is one of the most important feminists and thinkers on the scene today. She is the author of some lauded bests… → Read More
Book review: Bad Ideas by Michael V. Smith
Bad Ideas by Michael V. Smith Nightwood Editions $18.95 96 pages | paperback Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented novelist, poet and performance artist whose work has always been expressive and honest. → Read More
Abbott on Poetry: how it helps us transcend language customs and embolden creativity
Samuel Johnson said the “essence of poetry is invention,” and this invention’s effect gives us “unexpected surprises and delights.” He was right. Unfortunately, poetry’s value and relevance has often come into question, but this is not as new as one would think. → Read More
Book review: Solitude a wake-up call for our digitally obsessed generation
Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World By Michael Harris | Doubleday Canada $32.00 | 256pp Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World is journalist Michael Harris’s second book of nonfiction, and his second effort to examine how, as he believes it, our world is being overru... → Read More
Katherine Soucie showcases her art exhibition Cast ON, Cast OFF
Katherine Soucie is an award-winning textile designer who specializes in zero-waste eco-fashion. She’s also a visionary, artist and creative force. Soucie’s art exhibition, Cast ON, Cast OFF was officially launched March 31 at the offices of HCMA Architecture + Design, an architect agency on th... → Read More
Book Review: Free Women, Free Men – Sex, Gender, Feminism
Free Women, Free Men – Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia Pantheon $35.95 Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism is cultural critic and renegade feminist Camille Paglia’s third essay collection, her seventh book overall. → Read More