The B.C. online magazine The Tyee celebrates BC Book and Magazine Week with a look at the province’s book publishing culture, written by Kelsey Dundon. Local author Michael V. Smith tells Dundon: “Being a little isolated from the rest of the world has helped [local artists] create their own microcosms. We are like the literary Madagascar, or the creative Madagascar.” And Nancy Flight of the Association of Book Publishers of BC compares the local publishing scene to a land down under: “We have a lot in common with Australia and our books often do well there. Interestingly, David Suzuki is very big in Australia. There seems to be the same environmental ethos,” she tells The Tyee.

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