Still Hunting: A Memoir

A fascinating story of culture and life in 1960s Toronto Picking up where his first memoir, Young Hunting, left off, Martin Hunter writes of his return to Toronto in the 1960s. He marries his teenage sweetheart, goes to work for the family paper company, fathers three children, and settles into a bourgeois lifestyle. But not for long. His flamboyant brother-in-law moves in with his gay lover, and the Swinging Sixties arrive in Rosedale with wild parties. Hunter writes a play about Toronto’s changing social dynamic that’s considered racy but wins an award. The University of Toronto offers him a position as playwright-in-residence, and there he consorts with the likes of Robertson Davies and Marshall McLuhan. Still Hunting takes readers on Hunter’s adventures in Europe and the Middle East, reveals his stories of working in the theatre, and shares tales of his spirited friends, colleagues, and loved ones. From Greek shipping tycoons to up-and-coming actors to the Maharaja of Jaipur and filmmaker James Ivory, this memoir of a life well lived is full of unforgettable characters — chief among them Martin Hunter.

"[Hunter is] such a great writer that I was frozen at times . . . I felt at moments as if I was reading Alice Munro . . . An exquisite piece of memoir writing."  —The Next Chapter, CBC Radio

"Martin Hunter's coming-of-age story is an entertaining and easy-to-read memoir that puts the lie to the common perception of post-war Toronto as a stuffy, boring outpost . . . Young Hunting is a rare and honest recollection of young adulthood, and an intensely personal reminiscence of one man's passage through Toronto the Good."  —Quill and Quire on Young Hunting

Martin Hunter is the former artistic director of Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto. He has written for several magazines, produced a number of programs for CBC radio, and is the author of "Romancing the Bard "and" Young Hunting."""He lives in Toronto.

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Going to the Movies in Baltimore 1950s-1970s: An Affectionate Memoir

David Kaye fell in love with movies at an early age and spent much of the next thirty years or so going to movie theaters in and around Baltimore. He recalls the wide variety of theaters that he came to know and love - from the neighbourhood cinemas to the downtown picture palaces to the suburban multiplexes, many of which are now long gone - and some of the more memorable movies and stars that he grew up with. The movies both entertained and influenced him as a young boy in the 1950s, an impressionable teenager in the swinging 1960s, and an adult in the permissive 1970s. This is both a wistful and insightful personal account of that golden age of going to the movies.

David Kaye was born in Baltimore in 1948. He first started to write short stories in elementary school and progressed to writing the scripts for his high school's Christmas plays and annual spring musicals. Having been bitten by the theater bug, he went on to work in several regional repertory theaters as an assistant stage manager, a sometime actor, and the author of workshop productions. Later on, he wrote film and music reviews for the Chesapeake Weekly Review. Since moving to the UK in 1984, he has written plays for BBC Radio, revue skits, and occasional magazine articles. Some of his poems were translated for publication in a Russian poetry magazine. He has recently returned to writing with renewed inspiration producing several novellas as well as a couple of books of personal recollections. He now lives near London with his English wife Diane and their eccentric cat Willow.

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When Professional Wrestling Was A Sport: A Memoir Of Charley

A memoir of Charley Fox, Cleveland's wrestling cop, who was one of the stars of old-time, big-time wrestling during the early years of the 20th century, and also a Cleveland policeman. The author reconstructs the life of a wrestler and the wrestling world in which he lived, by examining and reproducing information gleaned from Charley's scrapbook clippings, newspaper archives, family records, and memories.

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