Yes, yes I do. Americans are proud of their cities, their slick, mass entertainment and all kinds of things that we still have deep forebodings about in Canada. I think that fashion is an interesting example of that. Fashion magazines in Canada have a wide readership, and newspapers have fashion sections that earn them a lot of advertising revenue. And yet it's a dirty secret - nobody will admit to reading fashion magazines or looking at the fashion sections of newspapers.
Fashion is something that the media uniformly, universally deplores, despises and castigates.
And yet somebody's got to be reading these things. And of course Toronto is the center of all that stuff. In Young Men you describe writers who take advantage of the people around them, who try to turn other people's lives into stories or material for stories. It is an issue. The fact that it comes back as an issue in my stories shows that it is an issue in my life, and that I feel a certain amount of guilt about it.