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| Craig Davidson says he thinks Canadian literature is too staid, and he was surprised when Penguin Canada bought his short story collection "Rust and Bone." The book is now being released in the USA. (Image courtesy W.W. Norton, photo by Brian Harder) |
St. Paul, Minn. — Craig Davidson writes about unpleasant and unfortunate people in his first short story collection, "Rust and Bone." There's a suburban couple who breed fighting dogs as a hobby, a hardened repo man, a sex addict, a whale trainer bitten by his orca; and a bare-knuckle fighter who knows he's on the way down.
Craig Davidson's lyrical prose has been praised by the likes of Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Straub and Clive Barker. Davidson says he grew up in a normal middle-class Canadian family. He says he wanted to write about people he believes exist, but who would never pen their own stories.
Yet when Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr pressed Davidson on how he seems to write from experience, he came clean.
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