Advance Praise for Pretty

"Greg Kearney is the John Waters (pre-Hairspray, that is) of Can Lit. Funnier than Sedaris, as particular as Amy Hempel, elegant as Anita Brookner, he would already be a superstar if he lived in the states or UK. As it is, Kearney is simply an astonishing Canadian writer. Embrace his twisted brilliance!"
-Zoe Whittall

"Pretty is great, so great. It's funny and affecting - wild and sad at the same time. The stories are such a blast to read, it would be easy to miss all the lovely lines and images. Pretty has its share of loopy, lurid lines, too - who but Greg Kearney would have a character tearfully describing her beloved burn victim sister as a "steak with hair"? How I wish I'd written that line. Congratulations to you, Greg, it's really a knockout, this book. Pretty is a beauty."
-Derek McCormack

(McGilligan, 2004)

“Kearney's Mommy Daddy Baby is a hilarious set of micro-stories, each no more than three or four pages, each a fragment of a bizarrely complicated novel. They are dark, creepy and funny and written with serious style.”
-Russell Smith, The Globe and Mail

“[Mommy Daddy Baby] will seduce just about anyone with an ounce of curiousity in them."
-Quill & Quire

“The stories are not explicitly set anywhere but the characters ooze a small-town, even shitkicker, ethos; some stories have a suburban strip-mall sensibility. This is precisely what makes Kearney's characters so believable and true. Kearney has helped separate himself from the pack with his first book.”
-Ottawa Citizen

“This collection is definitely one of the bravest, and funniest, in recent years.”
-The Danforth Review