Having miraculously survived the Nazi death camps as a teenager in Poland, Manny Drukier triumphed in Canada. A string of odd jobs led him to found a flourishing international furniture manufacturing company. Not content with mere commercial success, he went on to start "The Idler" - a lively, erudite, and controversial literary and current-affairs magazine. In the building he owned and lived in, he established a Georgian-style tavern called the Idler Pub, known for its good beer and bracingly literate talk. Both became legendary in Toronto. Drukier is the author of several novels. "Carved in Stone", the memoir of his Holocaust years, won the Jewish Book Award for non-fiction.