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	It’s literary overload as this week brings you the Shoot it! book launch, W2 Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, Mashed Poetics, and our own VBC Live with Charlotte Gill.

Sunday January 22 – Book Launch: David Spaner’s Shoot it!

Former Vancouver Province film critic David Spaner, has just released his second book, Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film and Arsenal Pulp Press is holding a book launch at People’s Co-op Bookstore. The location of the launch is fitting as the first half of Spaner’s book looks at the history of the the Hollywood movie studio system including the clashes, often physical and violent, between studios and union members.

The second half of the book is a look at the history of independent film scenes in seven different countries (including Canada, of course).

David Spaner will give a brief talk about his new book and take questions; book signing and refreshments to follow!

When: Sunday Jan. 22 • 2 – 5 pm
Where: People’s Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
www.davidspaner.com
www.arsenalpulp.com

Tuesday January 24 – W2 Real Vancouver Writers’ Series

	Sean Cranbury & Co. are at it again, this time celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the W2 Real Vancouver Writers’ Series with a stellar line-up of established and up-and-coming writers.
	Featuring: Angie Abdou Zsuzsi Gartner David Lester Arley McNeney Garry Thomas Morse Jen Neale Ayelet Tsabari
	Books for sale by author. All proceeds go to the writers. Cash bar. Music. Live streaming. Conviviality. Jokes. Hosted by Sean Cranbury and Dina Del Bucchia
	If the last big literary event held at the W2 Performance Space (Giller Light Vancouver) was any indication, this is sure to be a great evening. And on a Tuesday!

When: Tuesday January 24, 7 – 10 pm
Where: W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver (enter through the Woodwards Atrium)
Cost: $5 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Real Vancouver Writers’ Series is 100% volunteer-driven. All proceeds go toward supporting future W2 programming and the writers who participate.

Friday January 27 – Mashed Poetics: Gordon

Mashed Poetics is back! An evening of music and poetry as selected writers read the results of the musical influence of a particular song. This time ’round sees The Barenaked Ladies’ album Gordon acting as muse.

BNL cover band ENID will be playing all of the songs on the album GORDON, interspersed with very cool poems by 15 different and talented writers.

Poets and their songs include…

1. “Hello City” -Matt Hogan
2. “Enid” -Laurie Bricker-Cherry
3. “Grade 9″ -Roger Blenman
4. “Brian Wilson” -Chris Gilpin
5. “Be My Yoko Ono” -Diane Tucker
6. “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” -Magpie Ulysses
7. “What a Good Boy” -Chris Masson
8. “The King of Bedside Manor” -RC Weslowski

Intermission

9. “Box Set” -Duncan Shields
10. “I Love You” -Wilhelmina Salmi
11. “New Kid (On the Block)” -Sean McGarragle
12. “Blame It on Me” -Johnny Scoop
13. “The Flag” -Alberto Cristoffanini
14. “If I Had $1000000″ -Sonja Littlejohn
15. “Crazy” -Laurel Albina

When: Friday January 27,  8 – 11 pm
Where: The Kozmik Zoo, 53 W. Broadway
Cost: $10 at the door.
Doors at 8:00 Show at 8:30

Saturday January 28 – VBC Live: An Intimate Chat with Charlotte Gill

Come join us, Vancouver is Awesome’s very own Vancouver Book Club, for an afternoon with Charlotte Gill, author of Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe. We (that is, us and you) will be chatting with Charlotte about the book and her experiences.

This book has been getting a lot of buzz over the past few months and was recently shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.

Read our review of Eating Dirt and visit the Event page.

When: Saturday February 28, 2-4 pm (doors at 1:30 pm)
Where: Project Space, 222 E. Georgia St., Vancouver

There will be books and refreshments for sale.

www.charlottegill.com
www.dmpibooks.com
www.projectspace.ca

Read All Over celebrates the bookworm in all of us, showcasing readers in Vancouver and the books they love most. Sean Cranbury is a writer and book lover living in east Vancouver. He is the Executive Editor of Books on the Radio Projects – which is an evolving series of book-related collaborative projects that use the Internet and public performance to build networks and do other cool things with the creative writing/publishing communities in Vancouver and across Canada. He is a curator with the W2 Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, co-creator of the Advent Book Blog, and an organizer of the epic books and technology unconference, Bookcamp Vancouver. Sean also speaks about topics like ‘Social Media Use for Writers’ and ‘Piracy vs Free Content’ at the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops and the Surrey International Writers Conference. He also has a day job.

What are you reading right now?

I’m reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It’s an interesting book. A kind of elegant, fantastic fable based around a magical carnival. There’s dueling magicians and acrobats, contortionists, big tops, apple cider, etc. The book has generally received raving reviews – emphasis on the raving more than the review – and I hope that it finishes as the triumph that it is setting itself up to achieve.  Though I have a suspicion that the book is over 100 pages too long.

How do you like your lit served – audio books, graphic novels, used paperbacks, library loaner, e-reader, other?

Paper and ink is the preferred method of transference. It’s more durable, travels through time better, doesn’t suffer outages, battery drain, digital hindrances. Audio is also great. It delivers the voice and the cadence, which can be important. Second hand stores are crucial to the survival of literature and should not be underestimated, same goes for libraries.  e-Readers are a temporary distraction provided by a confused industry. Their greatest legacies will be to choke countless landfills with their meaningless obsolete dead touch screen technologies, the memory of e-ink, and the false promise of convenience.

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