{"product_id":"montreal-standard-time-the-early-journalism-of-mavis-gallant-9781550656701","title":"Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant","description":"Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant's columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, politicians, criminals, street kids, war brides, refugees, and unwed mothers. Eighty years after they first saw the light, the columns remain as fresh as ever. Written with a precision, flair, and wit that would become her trademark, Montreal Standard Time is journalism of the first order. Taken together, the pieces create a remarkable portrait of Montreal in the eventful years during and after WW2, and of a young woman, fiercely independent and politically active, making her way through it. The book also corrects a long-standing gap in the Gallant oeuvre. Her earliest reporting from The Montreal Standard has never circulated or appeared in book form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Richardson, a longtime admirer of the writing of Mavis Gallant, began writing about her on Substack in 2022. His books include \u003ci\u003eBachelor Brothers' Bed \u0026amp; Breakfast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Saw Three Ships\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter Hamelin, a novel for children\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Vancouver. Neil Besner wrote the first PhD on Mavis Gallant's work in 1983 at UBC and published the first full-length book on Gallant in 1988. He has written or edited books on Alice Munro and Carol Shields and co-edited anthologies of poetry and short fiction for Oxford. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eFishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). Marta Dvor? k, University Professor Emeritus (Sorbonne Nouvelle), is the author of \u003ci\u003eMavis Gallant: the Eye and the Ear\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). Mary K. MacLeod is the literary executrix to Mavis Gallant.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877878436114,"sku":"9781550656701","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8089bdf9-f792-4654-9889-4525276e0461.jpg?v=1738766014","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/montreal-standard-time-the-early-journalism-of-mavis-gallant-9781550656701","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}