"Stuart Ross is an amazing talent. In Henry Kafka he's managed to create a landscape removed from personal memory and historical connectedness and yet whose characters are filled with passion and humour. What we have here is Millennium Now!? Stuart Ross style? fictions that are deliciously black, and at times deliciously funny."? Rick Salutin
quot;Less an homage to Kafka than a re-experiencing, in the Canada in the 1990s, of Kafka's sense of how stark, astounding, terrifying, exhilarating and utterly contigent a life can feel. The stories and images cohabit cheerfully and unconnectedly, then they all end up oddly together in the book's final line (No peeking.)"

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. A long-time literary press activist, he is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Editor at Mansfield Press, and for eight years was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, seven poetry books, and the novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, which co-won the 2012 Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction on a Jewish Theme. He has also published a collection of essays, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, and co-edited the anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent poetry book is You Exist. Details Follow. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

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