Description: "A collection of essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media."--
Brief description:
David Sherman has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist and editor, CBC radio producer, playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter, singer/songwriter and now novelist. He abandoned the newspaper business when layoffs and budget cuts decimated the industry and concentrated on writing for the theatre and writing and performing as a folksinger. His latest play, Lost and Found, produced by Infinitheatre and written with his partner Nancy Lee, is a musical, inspired in part, by The Alcoholic's Daughter. They wrote the songs and story and performed the play in Montreal, B.C. and the Laurentiens. Sherman is also a gym rat and was an avid squash layer and cyclist before the body said enough and the medicine chest overflowed. He is now working on another novel in between walking in the woods with his Chocolate Lab named Jesse and swimming in the lake behind his house, a century-old former fishing lodge, where he occasionally obsesses over dinner parties.
Review Quotes:
Fish Wrapped is brilliant, hilarious, unbearably sad--and all true! David Sherman has assembled a Who's Who of Canadian newspaper journalists and given them what their jobs rarely offered: total freedom to say whatever they want. The result is a mix of high adventure and low living, of incredible delight and equal sorrow. Pour yourself a stiff one, light up that stogie--and step into a world you never got to read about. Until now.
--Roy MacGregor, prize-winning journalist, author, member of Order of Canada