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By (author): Mark Anthony Jarman

“A Canadian master of the form.”—Gregory Cowles, New York Times

Two men who belong to a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. A woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. Two paramedics try to live and not burn out while dealing with so much death. A man on holiday in Venice is stalked by a pickpocket. A heartsick astronaut finds love on the moon.

Jarman, a master of the short story, returns with another collection with his distinct and piercing voice, each sentence bursting with energy.

AUTHOR

Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. He was an acquisitions editor for Oberon Press, and introduced many new writers through the Coming Attractions series. He is also the editor of Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey ﬁction. Widely published in Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the University of New Brunswick, where he has been ﬁction editor of The Fiddlehead literary journal since 1999. He is also co-editor of literary journal CAMEL.

Reviews

Praise for Mark Anthony Jarman

One of Canadas most accomplished prose stylists with an affection for jazzy rhythms and oblique angles the writing will be familiar to aficionados of the authors earlier workthe trilling sentences the insouciant alliteration and assonance the rococo metaphors the sudden shifts in tone from light to dark humour to startling violence

Globe and Mail

Jarmans descriptions of Italys managed chaos of ruins and tourist traps and crowded cities are witty evocative and when he turns his attention to the displaced peoples from Africa the Middle East and the Baltic states living rough in the dirty streets often quite moving

Toronto Star

Praise forBurn Man

Jarmans stories on the whole feel less Catholic in the Roman sense and more Catholic in the Greek sense his attentions are rangey allembracing vitalized by the splendour both in ugly mundane violence and the febrile pulsations of longing of something a bit like love

Emily M KeelerGlobe and Mail

Reading Jarman is a wild ride Jarman is brilliant still relatively underdiscovered and worth the wait

Winnipeg Free Press