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George Bowering, John Mills, and Audrey Thomas discuss Problems of the B.C. 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The first problem he thinks of, is that a BC writer is seldom reviewed here.  It is hard to get a reputation locally\n\t\t191\tAudrey Thomas agrees with Mills – writers here are poorly reviewed\n\t\t284\tGeorge Bowering – says he writes much better here but makes very little money doing it\n\t\t444\tThomas says writers here are loyal to one another\n\t\t467\tMills talks about the falsity of “Canadian identity” and says that he thinks most writers are deracinated\n\t\t578\tBowering says he has always been bothered by “coast chauvinism”.  His landscape is neither green nor watery\n\t\t702\tMills says if you get published by an eastern publisher, you will get reviewed.   If you only get published in the west, you may be a loser\n\t\t787\tThomas talks about being labelled “a woman writer”\n\t\t814\tMills says the basic Canadian short story is boy-goes-out-shoots-coon-feels-guilt\n\t\t855\tRoy Miki comments that they all approach B.C. as a negativity, and that there has been no discussion of a political affiliation with a place\n\t\t914\tThomas responds that if you write sincerely about the human condition, that constitutes a political act"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Tape 2 is missing\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670554173702145,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":5.0155106}]