- The Globe and Mail
16 Categories of Desire is an affectionate slap in the face, a kiss that draws blood."

Book Description
Douglas Glover's new collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate that Glover is capable of writing like no other writer. Like a good Beatles album, the collection includes Glover's best new stories, linked only by the quality of the writing. Ranging over time from pre-history to the present, from the American south to the Canadian North, Douglas Glover maps the heart in all its passion, valour, ineptitude, and vulnerability. Occasionally scabrous, horrifically funny, intermittently appalling, and wildly erotic, the stories in this collection bring to life a world in time, irony and desire prevail.

From the Publisher
Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Top fiction picks for 2000: This Morning (CBC Radio); Hot Type (CBC Television); The Toronto Star

About the Author
Douglas Glover grew up on a tobacco farm in Waterford, Ontario, worked as a journalist in several Canadian cities, and served as writer-in-residence in various colleges and universities in Canada and the US. He now divides his time between upstate New York, where he teaches, and the family farm in Ontario. Glover is the author of six books of fiction and one collection of essays. The Chicago Tribune hailed his last novel, The Life and Times of Captain N, as one of the best books of 1993. A Guide to Animal Behaviour, published by Goose Lane Editions, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1991. Douglas Glover edited Coming Attractions from 1991 to 1995, and Best Canadian Stories from 1996 to 2000. He was the guest editor of The Journey Prize Anthology in 1994. His fiction has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and French, and his stories have appeared in Best Canadian Stories, Best American Short Stories, The Journey Prize Anthology, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, and The Macmillan Anthology. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post Book World, The Lost Angeles Times, Books in Canada, The Globe and Mail, The Chicago Tribune, The Manchester Guardian, The Montreal Gazette, and The New Quarterly.