What I Meant To Say: The Private Lives of Men

Pages Books & Magazines, Thomas Allen Publishers and NOW Magazine invite you to join Ian Brown as he celebrates the publication of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men. In What I Meant to Say, pre-eminent journalist and broadcaster Ian Brown has gathered 29 beautifully crafted and thoroughly readable essays by some of Canada’s most interesting male voices. Come celebrate the publication of this important book and hear Ian Brown in roving “man on the street” style interviews with such contributors as Bert Archer, David Eddie, Don Gillmor, Ron Graham, David Hollingshead, Greg Hollingshead, Martin Levin, David Macfarlane, Andrew Pyper, Michael Redhill, Ray Robertson and Russell Smith.

What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men: Deeply insightful and always entertaining, What I Meant To Say reveals the secret thoughts and rituals of men, manhood and masculinity as they have never been revealed before. Both a post-feminist tome and a book that refuses to take orders from anyone, What I Meant To Say is a lively, thoughtful and often touching guide to the deep underbrush of “guydom”.

Ian Brown is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of Man Overboard: True Adventures with North American Men, and Freewheeling, which won a National Business Book Award. Brown’s reporting and writing have garnered five gold National Magazine Awards and two National Newspaper Awards. He is a contributor to This American Life on U.S. public radio, and the host of both the CBC’s Talking Books and Canada’s pre-eminent documentary television series, Human Edge and The View from Here. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.