Article contentI didn’t get a chance to write about Robert Fulford the first time he faked his retirement so I’m doing it now. His first retirement was in 1987 when he stepped down as editor of Saturday Night. His 19 years at that magazine, culminating in its 100th anniversary, were probably its high-water mark, and maybe the high-water mark for any Canadian magazine. Try refreshing your browser, or Kenneth Whyte: Robert Fulford always writes in the spirit of I-can’t-wait-to-share-this Back to videoSaturday Night wasn’t everyone’s idea of periodical perfection — it had a tendency to disappear up its own ass — but it was better written, better edited, better designed, smarter and pound-for-pound more influential than anything else in the field. A number of writers and editors left the magazine at the same time, either out of loyalty to Bob or dislike/fear of Conrad.

Source: National Post October 24, 2020 10:04 UTC