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Torontoist Reads: The Fighter by Craig Davidson
'This is more than a stunning debut. It reminds me how vacuous, banal and insipid most highly-touted fiction is. Craig Davidson asks—and answers—some big, uncomfortable questions about the nature of our humanity. The Fighter is an essential novel, destined for cult status at the very least.'
—Irvine Welsh
"[Craig Davidson is] a long-time fan of what might be called amicable violence, who will fight you 'if you are here to kick ass and chew bubble gum (and you're all out of bubble gum)' but not if you're a 'noodle-armed fancy lad.'"
—The Globe & Mail
"This is one macho-man Canadian scribe ... [and] that has won literary pats-on-the-back from the likes of Bret Easton Ellis and Clive Barker."
—National Post
"I've gotten a lot of e-mails from people who are trained boxers wanting to fight me. One's a poet in Toronto, another's a horror writer from Atlanta who wanted me to come down there for this fight party, kind of a Fight Club thing where people brawl."
—Craig Davidson
"...a welcome corrective to the polite, staid, respectable nature of much Canadian fiction these days. The Fighter is a tough, brutal, blood-soaked book that leaves its reader feeling pummelled, battered, and beaten, but nonetheless strangely exhilarated."
—Quill & Quire
Read more on the Quill & Quire website
Article in the Toronto Star
Article in Jane Magazine
Article in the Globe and Mail
Article in the National Post
Mention in the Times Online Books Section
CBC video review of Craig's book launch for The Fighter
 Reviews for Rust and Bone:
"Smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. His remarkable stories are challenging and upsetting, but never boring."
—Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
"Big, riveting stories about tough guys in trouble…the best I've read in a long time from a young writer."
—Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
"When it comes to raw power, Davidson is truly a force to be reckoned with."
—Thom Jones
"He is a writer of immense power and surprising, accurate insights."
—Peter Straub
"Craig Davidson is a wickedly good storyteller who weaves worlds out of blood and magic and humanity."
—Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road
"There is a strikingly original tone to Mr. Davidson's stories... This is in every way an extraordinary book."
—Clive Barker
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