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Acalled Madras is of reading Oscar Wilde he and fellow editor Jeet Heer (now at The New A search for a new publisher is in full swing, and we plays aloud with my mother. We read under Republic) worked with the editor in chief, Patrice will approach the next phase with a vision to grow fluorescent tube light in a house surrounded on Dutil, also the LRC’s founder. the LRC, and the expertise to achieve it. three sides by sand and the Bay of Bengal, from a The magazine couldn’t afford an office, so they On the editorial side, tumult has not kept us hardbound volume that now sits on her bookcase met at a coffee shop, and Lamey edited at his from charging ahead with a reinvigoration of the in Toronto. I knew nothing of Wilde’s tribulations mother’s apartment on an ancient Mac that used magazine. Articles published in the LRC won a gold then, or even that he was gay. I had only words on floppy disks. He recalls one memorable experi- and an honourable mention (Stephen Marche’s a page, mordantly funny and sharp. We chortled ence where he cut all the footnotes out of a long “Northern Shadows” and Ira Wells’s “The Age of our way through The Importance of Being Earnest, article that was actually about footnotes and how Offence”) for Best Essay at the National Magazine then Lady Windermere’s Fan, then A Woman of extremely important they are (to the author’s great Awards last month. A new focus on the visual No Importance, each playing a fleet of droll, witty displeasure). In the intervening years he worked at side in 2018 culminates in the appointment this characters. The New Republic and the National Post; published month of Rachel Tennenhouse as art director—the Life bobs along on unseen currents, and many a prescient book on the global refugee crisis (2011’s magazine’s first. A staff and freelance designer for years later, when I made a documentary for CBC Frontier Justice); and settled into a job as a professor Toronto Life, The Walrus, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Radio’s The Sunday Edition about my mother’s of philosophy at the University of California at San the National Music Centre in Calgary, et al., Rachel mother—in brief: married at ten, a mother at fif- Diego.