My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors

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"My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors" is a song by Canadian pop group Moxy Früvous. It was written for the CBC Radio show Later the Same Day, as a comment on a Toronto literary festival. It mentions famous authors, many Canadian.

The song was first recorded for their self-titled independent cassette in 1992. It was re-recorded in 1993 for their debut album, Bargainville. A live version appears on Live Noise.

The song tells the story of a man whose girlfriend seems to be more interested in books than in him. The man is frustrated when he starts having other reading-related problems (such as his doctor delaying their appointment until after he finishes his book, and his relationship counsellor giving him a bunch of books to read). Eventually he comes around, however, when he and his significant other attend an author's night event where they meets and party with several famous authors, leading the singer to declare, "these writer types are a scream!"

Some of the authors mentioned were changed in the Bargainville version; the first mention of Robertson Davies is changed to William S. Burroughs, Jane Rule is changed to bell hooks, Daniel Richler is changed to Mario Puzo, and the line "I've been flirtin' with Pierre Berton 'cause Pierre Berton's no fool" is changed to "I've been flirtin' with Pierre Berton 'cause he's so smart in his books" (reflecting the aforementioned change from "Jane Rule" to "bell hooks," and thereby maintaining the rhyme).

The song mentions:

and the tabloid Toronto Sun.

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