The Canadian Mad Men Reading List
The final season of Mad Men premieres on Sunday and, as ever, viewers have no idea what to expect. Except that books and reading will probably be integral to the plot line. Remember how last season began with Don reading Dante's Inferno on a beach in Hawaii? Or the Frank O'Hara poems he mailed to Anna in Season 2? Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything? Betty reading The Diamond as Big as the Ritz? Not to mention creator Matthew Weiner's noted influence by John Cheever. Books have been a huge part of Mad Men since the very beginning, as attested to by The Mad Men Reading List, which has been compiled on an ongoing basis by a librarian at the New York Public Library since 2010. But what's missing from that list is CanLit. It's true! Megan Calvet isn't Mad Men's only Canadian connection. And to prove it, we've put together a list of Canadian reads for the Mad Men fan, books to read in order to become fully steeped in the atmosphere of Mad Men's world.
