Douglas Gibson

“I’ll kill him!” said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them. Alistair MacLeod accused him of a “home invasion” to grab the manuscript of No Great Mischief. And Paul Martin denounced him to a laughing Ottawa crowd, saying, “If Shakespeare had had Doug Gibson as an editor, there would be no Shakespeare!” Stories About Storytellers shares these tales and many more, as readers follow Doug Gibson through 40 years of editing and publishing some of Canada’s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers. Gibson is a terrific storyteller and through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told.  ECW Press - $32.95 – Memoir