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07/06/2025

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Tomorrow’s News: How to Fix Canada’s Media (New Star Books, 2024) by Marc Edge.

“…an incredibly dense but approachable write up on modernized and constantly shifting media.”

Reviewed by Jeffery Stychin.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/04/26/2525-stychin-edge/

Join us later this month for a reading and launch of Hannah Calder's Hester in Sunlight!Thursday May 29 Cross & Crows Bo...
09/05/2025

Join us later this month for a reading and launch of Hannah Calder's Hester in Sunlight!

Thursday May 29
Cross & Crows Books
2836 Commercial Drive
Vancouver

Hannah Calder's latest novel is less a re-telling or transposition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic than a re-purposing of the materials to tell a different version. Hester in Sunlight casts a different kind of light on Hawthorne's Hester, which in turn casts reflections and shadows onto our (unnamed) narrator and the complexities of family in a stimulating riff on contemporary motherhood and parenting.

Join us in Vancouver for an event at the People’s Co-op Bookstore next Monday!In Tomorrow’s News: How to Fix Canada’s Me...
08/04/2025

Join us in Vancouver for an event at the People’s Co-op Bookstore next Monday!
In Tomorrow’s News: How to Fix Canada’s Media Marc Edge turns to the future, to the new forms of journalism that are emerging in the post-print, digital-first world, and what alternative models could help keep Canada’s news ecosystem viable.

Monday April 14, 7PM
People’s Co-op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC

12/02/2025

An Everyman’s BC History

When Heroes Become Villains: Helmcken, Trutch, Bowser, and the Streets, Lakes, and Towns Named After Them (New Star Books, 2024) by Jon Bartlett and Brian Robertson.

“The book When Heroes Become Villains is just that, a collection of three main figures who were celebrated for their victories of control and segregation.”

Reviewed by Jeffrey Stychin.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/01/16/2426-stychin-bartlett-et-al/

12/02/2025

Acknowledging New Star’s Contribution

New Star Books Winds Down Operations
An Editorial by Trevor Marc Hughes

“New Star Books was a project begun in 1969, with a group of writers and editors employed at The Georgia Straight going above and beyond their daily copy, and writing a supplement, inserted in the pages of the weekly paper.”

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/01/19/2428-hughes-new-star/

New Star Books

Next week Hannah Calder will be reading from (and launching!) Hester In Sunlight at the Valley Voices Reading Series alo...
30/01/2025

Next week Hannah Calder will be reading from (and launching!) Hester In Sunlight at the Valley Voices Reading Series alongside jaz papdopoulos!
Wednesday February 5th, 7-9PM at the Caetani Centre.

22/01/2025

Hannah Calder's Hester in Sunlight explores struggles with family, gender identity and creativity while attempting to reimagine Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 anti-heroine, Hester Prynne, blending metafiction with modern societal critiques (New Star Books). Read more: https://bcbooklook.com/searching-for-hester-prynne/ -46507

"In his insightful book, Marc Edge examines the news crisis...this is essential reading for anyone interested in rethink...
28/11/2024

"In his insightful book, Marc Edge examines the news crisis...this is essential reading for anyone interested in rethinking the future of the press and preserving the quality of democratic debate."
— Julia Cagé, author of Saving the Media

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