“Here is my prize read for those interested in writers, books, Canada, life, and all that kind of thing.” — Alice Munro
“No one has done more for Canadian Literature than this man, Douglas Gibson.” — Alistair MacLeod
October 2011, ECW Press
$32.95 CDN/U.S.
978-1-77041-068-8
With illustrations by Anthony Jenkins
“I’ll kill him!” said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him (“Run!”) into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed them both. 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!” On the other hand, Alice Munro credits him with keeping her writing short stories when the world demanded novels. Robertson Davies, with a nod to Dickens, gratefully called him “My Partner Frequent.”And W.O. Mitchell summoned up a loving joke about him, on his deat
hbed.
Stories About Storytellers shares these tales and many more, as readers follow Doug Gibson through forty years of editing and publishing some of Canada’s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers. Gibson is a terrific storyteller himself, and through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian writers, politics and publishing that rarely gets told. From Jack Hodgins’ Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood’s Labrador, from Alice Munro’s Ontario to James Houston’s Arctic, Doug Gibson takes us on an unforgettable literary tour of Canada, going behind-the-scenes and between the covers, and opening up his own story vault for everyone to read and enjoy.
Buy the book:
At your local independent bookseller
At Chapters/Indigo in hardcover or paperback
At Amazon.ca in hardcover or paperback or Amazon.com in hardcover or paperback
Douglas Gibson 
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