Dr. Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit

by Robert Lecker

With sharp humor and fascinating insight, this memoir of the Canadian publishing industry travels from the boom years of the 1970s to the changing world of books today. Readers are invited along for the ride as Lecker's turn in academia gives way to pop culture publishing, running a journal, and facing the real business challenges of selling books.

Genres: Canada

300 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English, and the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line, Robert Kroetsch, Another I, Making It Real, Dr. Delicious, The Cadence of Civil Elegies, and Keepers of the Code.

Reviews

[Matthew Rettino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye-opening memoir of what it takes to give one's all to the cause of Canadian literature.

[Liam Case · Rating 5 out of 5]

My professor wrote this. It made me more interested in Canadian Literature and the class I was taking with him.