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Index
Cover
Dedication
Epigraph
Part One: Becoming Canadian
A Soft Landing
Welcome to CanLit
The Rosedale Radical
The Unfortunate Incident of Ted’s Name
Assembling a Book on the Linoleum Floor
All Those Glorious Manuscripts
Roblin Lake and After
The Happy Hungry Man
The Amazing Ms. Atwood
The Master Storyteller
Tough Times
Finding Home
The Very Young Matt
National Dreaming, or The Berton Extravaganza
How Pierre Berton Is Responsible for My Marriage
1972, a Year to Remember
For the Love of Words
Meetings with the Messiah
A Land of Poets
Peter’s Establishment
A Northern Nation
The Best and the Brightest
The Disinherited
The Greatest Gift
Escaping the City
That Great, Always Recognizable Voice
Marian’s Way
A Whole Lot Larger than Life
The Establishment Man
The Uneasy Balancing Act
Intermission
Talking about Feminism
Rebel Daughter
In Search of My Father
Part Two: No Rose Garden
Looking for a New Gig
Sealing
The Challenge of Being Julian
Sylvia’s Magic
Trying to Heal the World with Graeme and John and Monte
The First Lady
Michael’s World
Finding the Key
Farewell to the Seventies
Taking a Leap in the Dark
Inviting the World to Love Canada
Dudley and Malak
Our Spanking New Premises
1984
Journalists and Politicians
Looking for Trouble
I’ve Always Told Stories
My Candidate
The Right Honourable Jean
The End of an Era
Saying Goodbye to Margaret
Imagining Canadian Literature
The Doubleday Gamble
From Mortal Sins to The Bookfair Murders
Five Years of Struggle to Come to Terms with an Illusion
Saving the World, One Book at a Time
Growing Pains
New Challenges
Basil Johnston’s Ojibway Heritage
The Canadian Way of Death and of Living
The Witness
“Money-Grubbing Has Become Respectable”
The Last Decade of the Last Century
Farley: The Next Chapter
The Last Berton Party
The Incomparable Dalton Camp
Part Three: Passages
Memory, Secrets, and Magic
Key Porter’s Twentieth Birthday
The End of M&S
Welcome to the Twenty-first Century
Endings
From Publisher to Writer
Europe’s Ghosts
Keep the Promise
A Footnote to Canadian Publishing History
The Inimitable Jack Rabinovitch
For the Love of Books
Photographs
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Index
Permissions and Credits
Copyright
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