Vancouver Literary Events This Week

THREE RIVERS
Juri Peepre presents Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness. Packed with photography, art and writings by such notables as Courtney Milne, Margaret Atwood and John Ralston Saul, this sumptuous volume offers an unforgettable tour of a natural wonderland. Monday, May 14 at 7:00pm. Vancouver Public Libary, Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street. Info: www.cpaws.org/.

THE 100-MILE DIET
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon chronicle their attempt to feed themselves for a year on food grown and produced within 100 miles of Vancouver. Monday, May 14 , 7:30 - 9:00 PM, UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver. Admission is free but please pre-register at info.talkofthetown@ubc.ca or by phoning 604-827-3491.

ETCHINGS AND ARTIST'S BOOKS
Book artist and bookbinder, Briony-Morrow Cribbs, will give an illustrated talk on the production of Iskandariya: A Prose Poem by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Monday, May 14 at 7:30pm. Peter Kaye Room, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street. For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library at 604-331-3603.

ANGE ZHANG
Join Red Land, Yellow River author Ange Zhang for his autobiographical account of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Suitable for ages 10 and up. Tuesday, May 15 at 10:15am. Terry Fox Library (2470 Mary Hill Road), Port Coquitlam. Info: 604.927.7999.

AMANDA HALE
32 Books Co. Inc. present the author reading from her new literary novel The Reddening Path. Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00pm, free admission and refreshments will be served. 32 Books Co, 3185 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver. More information at 604.980.9032 or info@32books.com.

ARLENE PARE
Author celebrates the launch of her first novel, Paper Trail, with a reading and signing. Wednesday, May 16, 7:30 pm, People's Co-op Bookstore (1391 Commercial). Free admission, info 604-253-6442.


Pulp Fiction Books presents
An Evening With Clint Burnham and Stuart Ross
Wednesday 16 May 2007, 7-9pm
2422 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Admission free. Everyone is welcome to attend.
(Co-presented by Anvil Press)

BRUCE SANGUIN
Talks about his book Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos, an ecological and truly evolutionary Christian theology. Thursday, May 17 at 7:30pm. Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street. For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library at 604-331-3603. Sponsored by Banyen Books

PLAY CHTHONICS READING SERIES
Readings by Meredith Quartermain, Hiromi Goto, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Booker. Thursday, May 17, 7:30 pm, Coach House, Green College (6201 Cecil Green Park Rd., UBC). Info 604-734-2928.