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Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver Jean Walton New Star Books (2018) Finn Slough sits at the intersection of Number 4 and Dyke roads, on the outskirts of Richmond, B.C. The historic fishing village is like something out of a dream, or a different time entirely. Two rows of wooden shacks and houses — some ramshackle, others bright and well-cared for — perch on stilts along a narrow inlet off the mighty Fraser River. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners We’re hiring a newsletter specialist, audience development a...

Photograph by Fay Godwin The son of an English businessman, J. G. Ballard was born and raised in Shanghai. For the past twenty-odd years, he has lived more or less anonymously in Shepperton, a dingy, nondescript suburb of London lying under the approach to Heathrow Airport. Ballard’s writing is so often situated within the erotic, technical, postholocaust landscape, and so often concerned with the further reaches of postmodern consciousness, that it is inevitably rather droll to come upon the man himself. On first meeting, Ballard is standing somewhat shyly in the doorway of a modest two-st...

Ok, just got the news of a new lockup on 16 th December. It had been expected but I was hoping it would be on Friday so I could still have lunch with my friend Pamela at the French House in Soho on Thursday. No such luck. Was planning on oysters. It was going to be my Xmas treat, but I had to kiss that one goodbye. One of the main reasons the lockdown is upsetting is because many pubs and restaurants are going to go under. Will the historic French House survive? Doubtful.  So many jobs lost.  I’d been going there regularly since the 60s when the good-natured Gaston Berlemonwas was the own...

Whole-hog barbecue in the entire state. a 175-pound pig will feed many mouths. about 250 people eat here a day. now this is a not-for-profit establishment? >> john currence: yeah. >> anthony: is that right? >> john currence: yeah, it sure is. >> anthony: what kinda socialist, communist -- are you up to, currence? what's going on here? this is the state of mississippi. >> john currence: well, i'm just a feel-good kind of guy. >> anthony: me too. i've been here only a week. my sentences, they're starting to change already. 'cause it's not just a physical, a rhythm to the speech, but the way i'm ...

>> anthony: in 1936, the town of cuernavaca, 50 miles from mexico city, was visited by malcolm lowry. a tormented, self-loathing, brilliant and hopelessly alcoholic author. his life work, "under the volcano," was set here. it is widely believed to be one of the great novels of the 20th century. lowry saw symbolism and evil everywhere here. in the deep barrancas, the looming volcano that towered overhead. writer, poet javier sicilia, one of cuernavaca's most celebrated residents, has reason to see