The Truth About Stories (19 page)
F
ICTION
Medicine River
Green Grass, Running Water
One Good Story, That One
Truth and Bright Water
A Short History of Indians in Canada
F
OR
C
HILDREN
A Coyote Columbus Story
Coyote Sings to the Moon
Coyote's New Suit
A
S
E
DITOR
All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary
Canadian Native Fiction
The Native in Literature: Canadian and
Comparative Perspectives
First Voices, First Words
The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by CBC
Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College in the University of
Toronto. The series was created in honour of the Right Honourable Vincent
Massey, former Governor General of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to
provide a forum on radio where major contemporary thinkers could address
important issues of our time.
This book comprises the 2003 Massey Lectures, “The Truth About
Stories,” broadcast in November 2003 as part of CBC Radio's
Ideas
series. The producer of the series was Philip Coulter; the executive
producer was Bernie Lucht.
Player One
Douglas Coupland
ISBN 978-0-88784-972-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-280-1
The Wayfinders
Wade Davis
ISBN 978-0-88784-842-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-969-5
Payback
Margaret Atwood
ISBN 978-0-88784-810-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-872-8
More Lost Massey Lectures
Bernie Lucht, ed.
ISBN 978-0-88784-801-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-866-7
The City of Words
Alberto Manguel
ISBN 978-0-88784-763-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-849-0
The Lost Massey Lectures
Bernie Lucht, ed.
ISBN 978-0-88784-217-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-864-3
The Ethical Imagination
Margaret Somerville
ISBN 978-0-88784-747-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-883-4
Race Against Time
Stephen Lewis
ISBN 978-0-88784-753-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-875-9
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
ISBN 978-0-88784-706-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-843-8
The Truth About Stories
Thomas King
ISBN 978-0-88784-696-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-895-7
Beyond Fate
Margaret Visser
ISBN 978-0-88784-679-3
eISBN 978-0-88784-846-9
The Cult of Efficiency
Janice Gross Stein
ISBN 978-0-88784-678-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-880-3
The Rights Revolution
Michael Ignatieff
ISBN 978-0-88784-762-2
eISBN 978-0-88784-892-6
The Triumph of Narrative
Robert Fulford
ISBN 978-0-88784-645-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-894-0
Becoming Human
Jean Vanier
ISBN 978-0-88784-809-4
eISBN 978-0-88784-845-2
The Elsewhere Community
Hugh Kenner
ISBN 978-0-88784-607-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-882-7
The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul
ISBN 978-0-88784-731-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-896-4
On the Eve of the Millennium
Conor Cruise O'Brien
ISBN 978-0-88784-559-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-870-4
Democracy on Trial
Jean Bethke Elshtain
ISBN 978-0-88784-545-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-854-4
Twenty-First Century Capitalism
Robert Heilbroner
ISBN 978-0-88784-534-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-897-1
The Malaise of Modernity
Charles Taylor
ISBN 978-0-88784-520-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-886-5
Biology as Ideology
R. C. Lewontin
ISBN 978-0-88784-518-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-847-6
The Real World of Technology
Ursula Franklin
ISBN 78-0-88784-636-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-891-9
Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky
ISBN 978-0-88784-574-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-868-1
Compassion and Solidarity
Gregory Baum
ISBN 978-0-88784-532-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-851-3
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing
ISBN 978-0-88784-521-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-874-2
Latin America
Carlos Fuentes
ISBN 978-0-88784-665-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-862-9
Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner
ISBN 978-0-88784-594-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-869-8
Designing Freedom
Stafford Beer
ISBN 978-0-88784-547-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-855-1
The Politics of the Family
R. D. Laing
ISBN 78-0-88784-546-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-889-6
The Real World of Democracy
C. B. Macpherson
ISBN 978-0-88784-530-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-890-2
The Educated Imagination
Northrop Frye
ISBN 78-0-88784-598-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-881-0
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