The Latest Morningside Papers

A tight and unmarked copy-McClelland & Stewart, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, stiff covers, 459 pp." Once again the CBC's most popular daily radio program has inspired a unique (and uniquely Canadian) collection of documents that reflect the issues, feelings, aspirations, heartbreaks - and sometimes just the frivolities - of their times. Like their predecessors, The Morningside Papers (1985) and The New Morningside Papers (1987) - each of which topped the best-seller lists - the latest Papers are mainly letters, the best and most enduring of the hundred or more that cross Gzowski's desk every morning, and range, in this case, from the realities of life in a wheelchair to the pleasures of (and recipes for) cooking chili sauce. But also included here are the story of Morningside's attempts to help the environment, contributions from such program regulars as Shelagh Rogers, Stuart McLean, Margaret Visser, and Richard Osler, and, for the first time, a transcript of what Gzowski describes as "the single most powerful piece of radio Morningside has carried in the time I've been its host." From Christmas memories to journeys home, quitting smoking to remembering trains, The Latest Morningside Papers are as rich and varied - and memorable - as the conversations and the country that engendered them."