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Ten short films celebrate authors, writing and the book culture that has helped shape BC's unique identity.
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Episode Title:The Man with 100,000 Books
Vancouver's oldest used and antiquarian bookstore, MacLeod's Books, holds hundreds of thousands of colourful narratives.
Episode Title:Emily Carr
Emily Carr's acclaimed work as an author informed her unique painting style she became famous for.
Episode Title:The Jade Peony
Author Doretta Lau examines the legacy and impact of Wayson Choy's "The Jade Peony" for British Columbia's Chinese-Canadian community.
Episode Title:Jane Rule
Author Anne Fleming reexamines how Jane Rule changed the literary landscape for queer fictions in North America. (4 of 10)
Episode Title:The Golden Spruce
Author John Vaillant revisits the people and events on Haida Gwaii that inspired his interspecies murder-mystery "The Golden Spruce."
Episode Title:The Dictionary of Chinook Jargon
Linguistic anthropologist Jay Powell delves into the history behind the "Dictionary of Chinook Jargon."
Episode Title:Evelyn Lau
Author Evelyn Lau reflects on her groundbreaking memoir "Runaway: Diary Of A Street Kid" on the 30th anniversary of its first publication.
Episode Title:Patrick Lane
A short meditation on winter in British Columbia by celebrated poet Patrick Lane.
Episode Title:Harbour Publishing
Publisher Howard White looks back at how British Columbia's fledgling publishing industry began to emerge in the late 1970s.
Episode Title:The Curve of Time
The story of the real-life adventures of a young widow and her five children as they explore the southern coast of British Columbia by boat in the 1930s and 1940s.
Episode Title:Dear Reader
Ten short films celebrate authors, writing and the book culture that has helped shape BC's unique identity.