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Stuart Ross McCallum shares a true account of his battle with epilepsy-beginning with the peculiar sensations he experienced as a teenager that led to his diagnosis and concluding with his eventual recovery from a temporal lobe lobectomy. McCallum vividly describes his twenty-year journey of living with epilepsy and how this unpredictable disease has not only impacted his life but the lives of everyone around him. For years he operated a business...
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A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet
A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and "real" in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation...
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Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer takes up where Stuart Ross's Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer left off in 2005. Memoir, tirade, unsolicited advice - this new volume is drawn largely from Stuart's notorious "Hunkamooga" column that ran in subTerrain, but also includes pieces from his blog as well as previously unpublished work. Here they are together in their offbeat brilliance: snarky, provocative, funny, outlandish, and self-deprecating,...
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Tyrone has a problem. Several problems, in fact: a girlfriend who sleeps around, a boss he's sleeping with, and various types of guilt (Catholic, Jewish, White) he can't live without. Plus, there's his deceased mother, his pill-popping father (who at least shares the good ones), the death metal guitarist who lives in his attic and shreds into the wee morning hours, and the coworker obsessed with the 200 movies Robert De Niro may or may not have filmed...
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Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been active in the Canadian literary underground for a quarter of a century: he's sold thousands of his books in the streets, published and edited magazines, trained insurgents in his Poetry Boot Camps, and started Canada's first Small Press Book Fair. Where the media focusses only on the glamorous literary lives of...
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A fragmented, surrealist novel of loss, nostalgia, and childhood secrets from the award-winning poet and author of A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent.
A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments-both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world,...
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Ben is an artist closing in on forty, and it's hard for him to be sure about the past. His parents are both dead, and his brother, who has mental issues, is a lousy source of information. So when Ben finds himself with a particularly persistent memory that keeps nagging at him, he doesn't know where to turn to answer the question: Did his mother really assassinate a prominent neo-Nazi? Stuart Ross sends Ben ranging through childhood summers at an...
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If the mental health of humanity were placed on a continuum, you would find about 2% insane and about 2% with optimal psychological health. Where does this leave the rest of us? After 30 years studying this topic, psychologist Dr. Stuart Ross has come to the conclusion that "We're All A Little Bit Crazy." In his effort to de-stigmatize mental illness, he addresses two primary issues within his profession that have received scant attention: 1. The...
10) The Last Word
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Harriet is a retired businesswoman who wants to control everything, especially her legacy. When a young journalist searches for the truth, so begins a life-altering friendship.
11) The last word
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A successful, retired businesswoman decides to write her own obituary with the help of a young journalist.
12) Alfresco
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Wickedly funny send-ups of pop culture, bureaucracy, and this very show. Combines the satirical bite of Saturday Night Live with the absurdist flair of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Contains 13 episodes with special features included.