WHO TO CALL: Community Editor Entertainment Editor Andrew McCredie Layne Christensen (985-2131 f 147) 985.2134 (14 8) Wednesday, October 4, 1995 — North Shore News — 13 wie Lae eee Lene Granville Island playing host to eighth annual event John Moore review THE. EIGHTH annuai Vancouver -_ International Writers and Readers ‘Festival begins Wednesday, Oct. 18 at ‘Granville Island’ and runs to the 22nd, - ‘offering readers a chance to sample ‘the recent work of a zumber of local ‘authors and interesting imports. If you te up ‘for some delightful brain- twist- “ing nonsense, don’t miss the Great Canadian “Spelling Bee on Saturday, Oct 21 at 10 a.m. at the Performance Works.venue. Hosted by CBC Radio’s King of Whimsy, Bill Richardson, the “panel features duelling Pacific Press columnists ‘Elizabeth Aird and Renee Doruyter, Vancouver : Magazine's Terry Gould and CBC Radio host and local food and wine guru Jurgen Gothe. Douglas & Mcintyre has just published a : -. sequel to Richardson’s wonderful Bachelor ‘Bed & Breakfast. It’s back to that cozy eccen- ‘tric.Gulf Islands B & B for R & R with The Bachelor. Brothers B&B Pillow Book. Don’t : ‘ask me what it's like: Her Nibs snaffled my -‘review copy and went to ded. Alone. All she'll “Say is, “He’s really good.. ”. (Bill, P'd like a word with you later in the alley. ) : 1 don't have to review Jurgen Gothe's latest, Some Acquired Tastes: A Recipe Album, alsa from Doug & Mc. ($18.95) All I have to do is list the recipes like a waiter reciting “today's chefs specials” and you'll be drooling like Pavlov's Pekinese: Chopped Lamb With A Trinity of Garlic, Cider Poached oysters With Leeks, Seaweed and Caviar...Should I go on, or is your paper getting wet? Extorted from local chefs at paring-knife point, contributed by listeners to Gothe's Disc Drive radio program or invented by the author, the recipes are accompanied by witty anecdotes that make it a good read even if you're nibbling Ritz spread with Velveeta washed down with Chateau Incogniteau. . - You might want to check out the spelling bee just to see if they send the same mature male-model type stand-in who posed for the author photos. I mean, anyone who reads Gothe’s contributions to The Sun's Saturday Review or Western Living knows the ‘real’ Jurgen must look like Jabba the Hutt and weigh _in at a cool ton, 25% of which is an enlarged liver with a brain of it’s own. North Shore writer Keith Maillard (recently profiled in this space) will also making a cou- ple of appearances, the first on Thursday Oct 19 at 1 p.m. (Performance Works), with Jim _ Grimsley, author of Dream Boy, in a forum dealing with the subtle turf wars of contempo- — _ rary family life called “Hazard Zones”, which also happens to be the title of Maillard’s new novel from Harper/Collins which should be hit- ting the shelves as we speak. Maillard will also be reading at the same venue On Saturday, Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. as‘one quarter of the Four in the Afternoon series with David Homel, Bernice Morgan and Dany Laferriere, Haitian expatriate author of How To Make Love To A Negro, Eroshima and An Aroma of Coffee. “Hf the numerical “plant zones” of nurseries ‘and gardening books is more your speed, you'll want fo be over at the Arts Club Mainstage at NORTH SHORE : TION - Prime rental space now available in busy waterfront . "gallery i in Deep Cove. Rent now. for the Christmas - buying season. Open 7 days a week, | ATTENTION CRAFTS PEOPLE # Reserve your table space now for Christmas! A Craft G art fairs to be held every weekend : November thru December. . ¢ Call Now - ‘Sp ivit of the Cove ALS Support Our Local Artists &y _ Weekend Brunch ors the Wate gZ 2nd floor - lonsdale Qua erfront | The Cheshire Cheese _ ‘. “A Very Different English Restaurant” aaa ZZ 987-3322 | noon on Saturday, Oct 21 for Gardeners & Gourmets, sponsored by North Vancouver's Whitecap Books. Serious gardener David Tarrant is in the lineup, along with seriously funny gardener Des Kennedy, Noel Richardson, Elaine Stevens and Andrew Yeoman. Tarrant, Kennedy and Stevens will also be appearing in a similar forum at an off-Island venue, Rizhmond's Gateway Theatre, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22 If you plan to make a day of it at the Granville Istand venue, go for dinner and stick around for The Poetry Bash at Performance Works at 8:30 p.m. ($15.00/Cash bar). Hosted and produced hy one of Canada’s finest poets, Patrick Lane, the evening opens with a tribute to the late Gwendolyn MacEwen by her biogra- pher, Rosemary Sullivan: Sullivan's book, Shadow Maker, is just out from Harper/Collins ($28.00) and is a fascinat- ing. if ultimately saddening account of the life of one of the great poets who emerged from the Sixties’ literary renaissance into the chill of the late Seventies and Eighties. The Poetry Bash also fea- tuz¢s an appearance by poet and Capilano College teacher Sharon Thesen, whose new book Aurora (Coach House, © ~ $12.95) contains a remarkable suite of poems called Gala Roses. If she doesn’t perform some of these, loudly demand free beer. The closest box office bookstore for tickets is North Shore Books, 140 East 14th .. St, North Vancouver (983- 9855). Tickets and informa- tion are also available at major downtown bookstores, including Duthies, Bollum’s, and Blackberry Books. JURGEN GOTHE’'s Some Acquired Tastes (above) and Sharon Thesen’s book of poet- ty Aurora (below) are just two of the many new publications that willbe discussed during © the elghth annual Vancouver . international’ ::Writers””: and Readers Festivat, Oct 18-22. you enjoy the savings! MeWimes Tire Winemaler 1470 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver » las West 3rd ae North Vancouver: .