Burn man: selected stories, Mark Anthony jarman

Biblioasis, 2023

There are different ways to measure a collection of stories, but if you count the pure fire, the mad swing and hurricane force of the sentences, Burn Man: Selected Stories by Mark Anthony Jarman, surely sets the bar. Jarman’s voice has been a bellwether for the state of the short story in Canada for some time. This collection brings his fiercest prose, his most vital characters, and builds an architecture against which our troubled times can be thrashed. The music of broken men, splintered lives, and the salted souls left behind echo through the pages.

—Jeremy Thomas Gilmer, Fredericton