Essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media: "Here are their eulogies to lives dedicated to the fish-wrap business, many of whom, to stretch a metaphor, ended up as obsolete and tossed aside as the fish wrap they churned out."

David Sherman started working newspapers as a copy boy; and later as a reporter, feature writer and copy editor. He then branched out to magazine editor and singer/songwriter, and to various other pursuits that had one thing in common: they didn't pay. His first novel, The Alcoholic's Daughter, was published by Guernica Editions, as will be his next, The Situation Womb.