OCTOBER 2024
MEDIA BRAT
a Gen-X memoir
Patricia Dawn Robertson
The Sportswriter’s Daughter’s
Honest Account of a Life Lived
on the Sidelines of Old School Media
Canada’s cheekiest independent journalist releases her much-anticipated memoir, Media Brat, about growing up in the fish bowl — and on the sidelines — of old school media.
Media Brat is a hilarious outlier’s account of an artsy girl’s reluctant pilgrimage in the turbulent wake of John Robertson, her manic sportswriter-broadcaster father. The author hated spectator sports but loved her sportswriter father.
Robertson’s epic book-length tantrum is set in the stands and parking lots of major league North American sport plus the author’s experiences in Winnipeg, Montréal and Toronto from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. Media Brat is also this fish-out-of-water’s coming-of-age in the educational institutions, workplace and dating ghettos from the late 1970s to early 1990s.
Robertson’s smart reader can always count on her funny no-bullshit truth. Media Brat is her first instalment of no-bullshit memoir — in a mere 254 pages.
Media Brat: a Gen-X memoir
Meat Draw Books
October 2024
254 pages
$30 CDN includes GST (no PST)
$25 US
Available at author book launches, book signing pop-ups and through Meat Draw Books’ new eCommerce page only (available on book launch day in October). October launch date and book tour cities TBA.
