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A RADIO GUY
My father was my first competition. He got the words down fast. Stories would spin from dad’s brain, dusting our dinner table with whimsy and adventure. The children of writers talk about the sanctity of the study, the private magical terrain of the parent’s imagination. I guess I experienced some of that, but it also felt ordinary. Writing was Dad’s occupation and he went to work like I supposed other parents did, except he was around. He found the job lonely, so when he carried his brown leather briefcase into the car and drove the hour to Toronto for rehearsals or meetings, those were good days.
I interviewed my father when he was eighty. The old cassette tape surfaces in a box in the basement as I’m writing this book. His voice, after almost twenty years. He is talking about his mother Laura Goodman Salverson. She was the first woman to win the Governor General’s Award, and won it twice:
“My mother soaked into my head an instinct of what to do with words. She held salons to talk about ideas and writing and would sit up all night reading three books. I was six years old learning about curtain lines. Live radio was exciting. Stimulating. You couldn’t make a mistake. They drilled it into me that every word had to go on the air. For much of my life a pro
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Julie Salverson Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Through Her Father's Life in A Necessary Distance
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A multi-faceted creative, Julie Salverson has left a significant literary footprint over the course of her career, working as a nonfiction writer, playwright, editor, scholar and theatre animator. The author has never shied away from explorations of important sociopolitical issues, nor from interpersonal stories with true humanity and empathy.
In her new memoir A Necessary Distance (Wolsak & Wynn), Salverson delves into the deeply personal account of her father, George Salverson, and his storied career as a writer of radio plays for the CBC, and later as their first television drama editor. He kept very little of his work, however seminal it proved to be in Canadian TV, and it was years later that Julie found a series of notebooks that her father kept while working on a 1960s documentary about world hunger. Only then did she realize her father was not the man she thought she knew.
This fascinating work of nonfiction gets to the heart of a very specific personal and political history, and a moment in time where one unique man was caught in a time of great change.
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