Picks of the week - October 12, 2012

 

 
Vancouver Courier October 12, 2012
 
 
 
Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
 

Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.

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Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
 

Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.

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Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
Bookworms, word nerds, bibliophiles and Dennis Lee groupies get their geek on Oct. 16 to 21 for the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors appearing at the 25th annual event include Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, graphic designer and writer Chip Kidd, Annabel Lyon who follows up her Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-winning The Golden Mean with The Sweet Girl, Madeleine Thien, Rawi Hage and Margaret Atwood. More info at writersfest.bc.ca.
Victoria's Hootenanny hostess with the mostest, Carolyn Mark and Her New Best Friends twang it up at the WISE Hall Oct. 12, 9 p.m. in support of Mark's latest Mint Records release The Queen of Vancouver Island. MD Wren & the Sick Kids and the Minimalist Jug Band open. Tickets $15 at the door.
It's been more than a decade since we remember hearing anything from local act Mystery Machine but the wall-of-guitars band is back to unleash its sweet melodic distortion on the masses with a new album called Western Magnetics on Sonic Unyon Records, to boot. Talk about a '90s celebration. Hear for yourself when Mystery Machine rocks the Astoria Pub to its grimy foundations Oct. 13.
The Vancouver International Film Festival may be a popcorn scented memory, but Vancity Theatre has taken it upon itself to host VIFF Repeats, Oct. 13 to 18. The greatest hits program includes Nuala, The Iran Job, The World Before Her, The Hunt, A Royal Affair, This Ain't California, The Angel's Share, Rust and Bone, No and Revolution, among others. For more info and show times, go to viff.org.
 
 
 
 
 

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