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Website:
http://www.darrylwhetter.ca
Email:
drwhetter [at] englishprofedits [dot] ca
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Darryl Whetter is the author of two books of fiction. His collection of stories, A Sharp Tooth in the Fur, was named to The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2003. His debut novel, The Push & the Pull, was released in Spring 2008. He has published fifteen stories in journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly and Coming Attractions. Darryl holds a PhD in English and has published or presented papers on contemporary literature in France, Sweden, Canada, Germany, the United States, India and Iceland. Nearly 100 of his commissioned book reviews have appeared in venues such as The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, Detroit's Metro Times and Amazon.ca. Darryl Whetter has been a professor of English and creative writing at various Universities in Canada. He contributes regularly to CBC Radio's Talking Books and has a piece forthcoming in the McSweeney's magazine The Believer.
- The Push & the Pull: A Novel. Goose Lane Editions. 2008. ISBN 978-0864925077.
- Darryl Whetter's The Push & the Pull is a brash, vibrant, melancholy, sexy and finally uplifting book about a mesmerizing father, the son who can't tear himself away, and the women who make them grow up. Whetter is intoxicated with language. He writes like a dream in a quick, urbane and witty style. His women are gorgeous independent creatures; his men are large and infuriating; and when love happens it's explosive, passionate and grand. A lovely first novel. - Douglas Glover
- "Brilliant. Darryl Whetter's style gleams like a rare and fresh metal. Here, in a ride we haven't seen taken, is a daunting, all-terrain, solo journey to the heart." - Bill Gaston
- A Sharp Tooth in the Fur: Stories. Goose Lane Editions. 2003. ISBN 978-0864923530.
- "He frequently places his characters in a personal cul-de-sac, a very brave thing to do. His combination of theme and style is very admirable." - Alistair MacLeod
- "These devious and toothsome tales are a black attack on language and lives of smartass desperation. Darryl Whetter's debut is hallucinatory, a new brainscan, an incisor nudging our jugular." - Mark Anthony Jarman
- "[H]e can pin down his insights with wonderful precision [moving] from dispassionate perception to an abrupt and moving burst of emotional truth [...] Other tales reconfirm Whetter's uncommon talent." - The Globe and Mail
- "Plot, character, and dialogue zing along the taut bands of Whetter's language [...] There isn't a page in A Sharp Tooth in the Fur that doesn't shiver with electricity fighting to be free." - The Georgia Straight
- "Whetter anatomizes the species in unflinching detail [...] All of the stories are distinguished by Whetter's prose, which is inventive, precise, and vivid. It's the real star of this sly, smart, and gratifyingly original collection." - Amazon.ca
