English professor Trevor Carolan is featured in the People section of the latest edition of BC Bookworld.
He was commissioned by Mona Fertig, the founder of the Literary Storefront writers’ space, to write a history of the centre, where as a young writer Trevor himself read publicly for the first time.
The Literary Storefront, The Glory Years: Vancouver’s Literary Centre 1978-1985 (Mother Tongue) chronicles the lively cultural activities and ideas sparked by the centre.
“Carolan… has placed the Literary Storefront within the context of its times. Well-illustrated and rife with details about countless personalities, The Glory Years documents the rise of a new, non-elitist literary culture in B.C. beyond academe,” notes the BC Bookworld piece.
“For young writers like me, the Literary Storefront was an unofficial, post-graduate education centre. It was where a generation of Vancouver writers, surfing somewhere between the nationalist and the as-yet-unformed multicultural waves in CanLit, could learn how the writing and publishing game ticked. It was a chance to become part of a community — and by the late 1970s, there was a constituency in Vancouver that needed precisely this,” notes Trevor in his foreword to the book. Read more here.