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This is the story of 29-year-old Albie Starbach, a reclusive man, a caring man, but he is also a dangerous man... living in a world that to him is threatening because he feels he has been wronged, so he is resentful. And he has wired his rooming house with dynamite, and every time he goes out he sets a timer. He had better get back in time, without interference or difficulty, or the house will blow. His only companion is his legless mother who...

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Twenty-three writers of verve and variety are brought together in this collection of powerful stories from Exile: The Literary Quarterly. Contributors include Andrishak, Davis, Green, Hardy, Hayward, Jordan, Keating, Niedzviecki, Phinney, and many more.

In 1928, just after he published his first novel, Morley Callaghan asked his editor, "Do you think The New Yorker would be a good magazine for my stories? They have never printed fiction before, but are going to start with that story of mine called 'An Escapade.'" Through these short stories from Callaghan--whom Ernest Hemingway compared to James Joyce--readers will realize just how good a fit is was.

Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character, this new/expanded edition (based on the original edition of 2001) presents both the major and "unknown" Canadian voices of World War I. Also contains a Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Biographies, "Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches" (A Lexicography), A Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Questions for Di...

Bringing together an ensemble of Canada's best-known, mid-career, and emerging writers, including Margaret Atwood, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, Robertson Davies, Steven Hayward, and Barbara Gowdy, this anthology stands as the perfect gateway to discovering the city of Toronto. The book focuses on stories that have taken the city, in just six decades, from a narrow wryly praised as a city of churches to a brassy, gauche, imposing metropolis...

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Short story collection

This memoir is a book about story tellers.

A collection of perfectly-wrought stories peopled with flawed characters striving to understand themselves and the world around them.

Raise You Five is periodic writing about the most complex of ideas and people, rendered in prose of utter ease and clarity. As a writer, he believes that whether it's a book review or a meditation on evil, all writing is storytelling and storytelling keeps it alive.

Joe Rosenblatt and Barry Callaghan, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years. Hoggwash, a convergence by epistle, is a tribute not just to their enduring friendship but to the life of the imagination itself. There is no record of correspondence like this, anywhere in the world.

Toronto writer Barry Callaghan's new novel takes us on a tour of the life of a war photographer as he searches for his childhood love through a war-torn African nation. The story of Adam Waters' quest moves effortlessly, and artfully, around various times and places. Short scenes flow beautifully, each one reveals exactly what it needs--and no more--to give meaning to the succeeding one.