David Whitton
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Fiction writer. Cat enthusiast. Fan of Danish television. My short story collection, The Reverse Cowgirl, was published October 2011 by Freehand Books. Available at your favourite book store or Internet retailer.
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About
- David Whitton is aformer lumberjack, former extreme athlete, former punk rocker, former sex worker, former [insert cause] activist, former cult member, former insurance man, former morphine addict, former Antarctica penguin researcher, former soldier. And anything else you want him to formerly have been. Currently a writer. My book, The Reverse Cowgirl, was published October 2011 by the amazing Freehand Books.
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Press
- "One Question Interview." Alex Boyd: BoydBlog. January 20, 2013.The Winnipeg Review. June 6, 2012. Jessica Michalofsky: review of The Reverse Cowgirl.Prairie Fire. Spring 2012. Bob Armstrong: review of The Reverse Cowgirl (PDF).Alberta Views. January/February 2012. Michael Hingston: review of The Reverse Cowgirl.Salty Ink, December 22, 2011. Chad Pelley: "Salty Ink’s Top 10 Canadian Books of 2011 Short Fiction."Dadolescence, December 20, 2011. Bob Armstrong: "Time to Cowgirl up."Advent Book Blog, December 1, 2011. "Sean Cranbury Recommends The Reverse Cowgirl by David Whitton."The Rusty Toque, November 27, 2011. "Rusty Talk" with Kathryn Mockler.National Post, October 27, 2011. David Whitton: "Old Book, New Author: Jesus' Son."Quill and Quire, October 2011. August C. Bourré: review of The Reverse Cowgirl.Canadian Bookshelf, October 27, 2011. David Whitton: "The Hard Part."National Post, September 17, 2011. Lynn Coady: "Lynn Coady raves about a young up-and-comer whose door should be beat down."Calgary Herald, August 7, 2011. Eric Volmers: "Freehand plans fall splash."Bomblog, June 4, 2010. Justin McNeil: review of Darwin's Bastards.Toronto Star, April 6, 2010. Alex Good: review of Darwin's Bastards.Globe and Mail, March 26, 2010. Micah Toub: review of Darwin's Bastards.National Post, March 26, 2010. Philip Marchand: review of Darwin's Bastards.
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Tweets
- RIP Ray Manzarek. Without you, my childhood would have been very Apollonian indeed. Oh, and also? Fuck cancer.
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- RT @NotTildaSwinton: As the cicadas rise from the soil, they unearth my body from a fitful slumber. I pay them in eskimo kisses.
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- @jamescappio My community will shun me for this. I’ll be on my own. There will be no one to text, tweet, or voicemail me. A purposeless act.
- I just bought a cellular phone. Jesus, what's wrong with me?
- RT @BBCWorld: A resort in #Argentina lay under water for 25 years - this is how it looks now the sea has receded http://t.co/UTNo0wMeML
- RT @themockler: I'm glad you feel good.
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- RT @NancyGraceHLN: While we wait for a verdict, #JodiArias is behind bars ordering pork rinds & figuring out what artwork she can sell
- RT @hipsterrunoff: One man thought the tweet was funny and retweeted it. The other opted to favorite it.
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- RT @80sDonDraper: The sooner you realize this is a post-Paula Abdul world, the sooner we can sell some Casios.
- RT @80sDonDraper: Either buy this doll, or it will die in a cabbage patch. That's the threat we're selling.
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Posts
- Homo sapiens
On the one hand: resolutely anonymous animal researchers, Wall Street CEOs, climate change deniers, agricultural companies poisoning the land, cowardly cruise ship captains, white supremacists murdering Sikhs in a place of peace, Mexican drug cartels, Syrian government forces, Japanese whalers, Keystone pipeline advocates, smug Hollywood crap merchants, property developers, Sarah Palin and her multifarious acolytes, and British Petroleum and its apologists and PR hacks.
On the other: the SPCA and PETA, the Occupy movement, Greenpeace and Forest Ethics, Food Inc., the Coast Guard, the Brady Campaign, the Sea Shepherd, Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins and anyone else who’s tried to restore sanity to the public debate, Aung San Suu Kyi, our Olympic strivers, Louie and Luther and Mad Men and Justified and Homeland, and the magnificent eggheads who figured out a way to drop the Curiosity on Mars.
It’s amazing what humans can do when we’re not doing something awful.
- David Whitton, The Reverse Cowgirl
From the January/February issue of Alberta Views:
On December 2, 2011, I was lucky enough to launch The Reverse Cowgirl in London, Ontario, alongside fellow London native Kathryn Mockler, whose book, Onion Man (Tightrope Books), is a must-read. Our co-reader was Londoner Christine Walde, who recently launched her own excellent chapbook of poetry called The Black Car (Baseline Press). A great big thanks to everyone at Forest City Gallery for organizing a truly awesome event. I was impressed.
The photos above were taken by FCG volunteer Harman, reposted here by kind permission; the paintings on the walls are by Ian Mclean, and the photos are by Colin Carney.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to FCG, Kathryn, Christine, and everyone who came to help us celebrate.
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