Cultural Writing. Prose. Art. SHIVA'S REALLY SCARY GIFTS presents a collection of John Scott's comically perceptive drawings and stories as told to Ann MacDonald. Winner of the Governor General's Award, visual artist Scott is best known for his Apocalypse Trans Am, a car with the Book of Revelation scratched onto it. As Ann McDonald discovered when she began working with him, Scott's personal life is no less compelling than his art. With stories ranging from catching a baseball bat in the teeth to harboring the FBI's most wanted fugitive in his Queen Street studio, Scott engages MacDonald and his readers from cover to cover. "Surely John Scott was born drawing. Drawing heaves from him like breath. He inhales experience by the epic lungful and then draws it all out again in expectorations of graphic language" --Gary Michael Dault