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“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.

John Robertson rubbed shoulders with sport greats Rusty Staub, Kelly Gruber, Ron Lancaster & Bobby Hull, politicians Robert Bourassa & René Lévesque and Canadian comedy legend, John Candy. 

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 book form — in a mere 254 pages.

Robertson is busy at work on Media Brat Goes West, the second instalment of her three volumes, for a spring 2026 release.  

Media Brat: a Gen-X memoir

Meat Draw Books

April 8, 2025

254 pages

$30 CDN includes GST (no PST) + $8 shipping & handling

$38 US (includes shipping & handling)

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