With a foreword by his friend Douglas Coupland, Ian Verchère's VON 1BO: General Delivery, Whistler, B.C. (Douglas & McIntyre, $24.95) has been hyped as an irreverent take on the real Whistler, the ski resort community and site for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Verchère, a former Whistler-based ski racer and skiing coach, creates video and computer games.

BOOKS:

VON 1BO: General Delivery, Whistler, B.C. (Douglas & McIntyre 2006) 1-55365-211-8

[BCBW 2006] "Humour"