Anvil Press Book Launch: “Vancouver Confidential”

Anvil Press announces an upcoming book launch!

Coming September 21, 2014 at the Emerald Supper Club in Chinatown, Anvil Press will be launching the book Vancouver Confidential. The book has been a labour of love for the past year or so (longer if you include all the research!) for over a dozen local artists and writers, assembled under the guidance of Anvil Press and editor John Belshaw (Vancouver Noir, Becoming British Columbia: A Population History, Private Grief, Public Mourning: The Rise of the Roadside Shrine in British Columbia).

From Anvil Press: “This collection takes a fresh look at the raw urban culture of a port city in the mid-twentieth century. These were years when Hastings and Main was still a dynamic commercial hub, when streetcars thrummed through the city streets, and when ‘theatre’ meant vaudeville and burlesque. Street gambling and illegal boozecans peppered the map, brothels and bootleggers served loggers and shoreworkers, and politicians were almost always larger than life.”

Vancouver Confidential includes essays from Tom Carter, Aaron Chapman, Jesse Donaldson, James Johnston, Lani Russwurm, Eve Lazarus, Diane Purvey, Catherine Rose, Rosanne Sia, Jason Vanderhill, Stevie Wilson, Will Woods, Terry Watada, and John Belshaw himself.

This is a sneak preview announcement, but mark your calendars now! More information coming soon to Anvil Press’ Facebook event page. Stay tuned!