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Description
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notorious "Hunkamooga" column that ran in subTerrain, but also includes pieces from his blog as well as previously unpublished work.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, these "confessions" are urgent dispatches that disrupt the too often polite conversation concerning Canadian literary matters. In these pages, Ross says what so many others only think.
Praise for Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer:
"For a quick and dirty breath of fresh air, it's difficult to beat renegade urban poet Stuart Ross's latest effort. ... Ross has the battle scars and knows poetry isn't about flowers and meadows, it's about blood and guts." (Steven Knight, Quill & Quire)
"... a wonderful book - funny, outrageous, and acute. I'll even say it's the best short-essay collection about the writing life that I've read in ages. ... Every aspiring writer should read Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, just to find inspiration. And so should every established writer - just to keep humble." (Lynne Van Luven, Malahat Review)
"Of greatest interest ... are the postscripts that follow many of Ross' essays. Of particular note are those endnotes which deal with the results of his publishing certain columns - such as losing his publisher, or losing friends from the writing community. This fallout, however, may have been expected as Ross is frequently acerbic and trenchant in his criticism, but no less witty or correct for being so." (Stephen Cain, Canadian Literature)
Contributor Notes
Stuart Ross has been involved in literary publishing for over thirty-five years. He maintains his own micropress, Proper Tales, and is the co-founder of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective. Stuart is the author of nine books of poetry, two story collections, a previous book of personal essays, two collaborative novels, and a solo novel. He has given writing workshops across the country and, for the past two decades, has edited books for both literary and trade publishers. Stuart has his own imprint at Mansfield Press. He was the 2010 Writer in Residence at Queen's University, and the same year he won the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog. In 2012, he was co-winner of the Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction on a Jewish Theme for his novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, and in 2013 he was awarded the sole prize to an anglophone writer by l'Académie de la vie littéraire au tournant du 21e siècle for his poetry collection You Exist. Details Follow. Stuart lives in Cobourg, Ontario, and blogs at bloggamooga.blogspot.ca.
