''Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe'' (2012) is
Stuart McLean
Andrew Stuart McLean, (April 19, 1948 – February 15, 2017) was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program ''The Vinyl Cafe''.[CBC Radio
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program ''
The Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe is an hour-long radio variety show hosted by Stuart McLean that was broadcast on CBC Radio and was syndicated to approximately 80 U.S. public radio stations through Public Radio International. It aired on Sunday at noon EST and ...
''. It debuted at #1 in ''
The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...
''’s bestseller list. It is the only book in the ''Vinyl Cafe'' series to have its own
theme music
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, selected by CBC Radio listeners and written by Ottawa band
The PepTides
Stories included in ''Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe'':
* "Hello Monster"
* "Annie’s Turn"
* "Macaulay’s Mountain"
* "Tour de Dave"
* "The House Next Door"
* "Summer of Stars"
* "Rhoda’s Revenge"
* "Fish Head"
* "Rosemary Honey"
* "The Haunted House of Cupcakes"
* "Midnight in the Garden of Envy"
* "The Black Beast of Margaree"
* "Curse of the Crayfish"
* "Whatever Happened to Johnny Flowers?"
* "Attack of the Treadmill"
* "Gabriel Dubois"
* "Code Yellow"
* "Le Morte d'Arthur"
See also
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List of Dave and Morley stories
References
External links
Stuart McLean profile at cbc.ca(archived)''The Vinyl Cafe'' website
2012 short story collections
Short story collections by Stuart McLean
Viking Press books
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