April 8, 2025
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
“Robertson is Dorothy Parker trapped in a ballpark.” — D. Grant Black, Meat Draw Books publisher
Canada’s cheekiest satirist releases her much-anticipated memoir, Media Brat, about growing up 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 explores living in the fish bowl of a media family and coming-of-age in the educational institutions, workplaces and dating ghettos of major North American cities, from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Media Brat is not an earnest children’s book. Robertson’s smart adult 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.
Robertson is busy at work on Media Brat Goes West, the second instalment of three volumes, forthcoming in spring 2026.
Media Brat: a Gen-X memoir
Meat Draw Books
April 8, 2025
254 pages
$30 CDN includes GST (no PST)
$25 US
Signed copies for sale on April 8 in the Store. Softcover copies and Meat Draw T-shirts available in the Store and at author book signings. Buy a book & enter to win a picnic cooler of frozen local meat from a family-run farm in your region. (Offer only available in Canada.) Upcoming book tour cities TBA.
