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STUART MCLEAN
Stuart McLean's,
Dave
Cooks the Turkey, is a hilarious tale of what happens when a
domestically-challenged engineer takes responsibility for cooking the family's
Christmas turkey, a creature he affectionately names "Butch."
Excerpted from the Canadian author's book of short stories, Home
From the Vinyl Cafe, the holiday yarn evokes
the homespun, folksy wisdom evocative of Garrison Keillor's
Lake
Woebegone. Stuart
McLean is one of
Canada
's most popular broadcast
personalities and the best-selling author of four other books. Home
From the Vinyl Cafe won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and Welcome
Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada won the Canadian Authors Association Award
for non-fiction. He currently hosts CBC Radio's The Vinyl Cafe and is a professor of broadcast journalism at
Ryerson
Polytechnic
University
in
Toronto
.
McLean's "Christmas
Presents," excerpted from Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, is another humorous vignette from the life of
Dave and his wife Morley, who gets the quaint, Martha Stewart-esque notion into
her head of having the family make their Christmas gifts instead of conveniently
buying them at the mall. Husband Dave comes to the rescue and the notion of
gift-giving takes on new meaning.
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