Patrick deWitt

Dec 6, 2024 | mcnallyrobinson.com | Patrick deWitt

The Librarianist Hardcover $32.99Reader Reward Price: $29.69 Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Family LifeFiction / FriendshipTHE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner, 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour  From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.

Apr 17, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Patrick deWitt |Nicole Flattery

Patrick deWitt​ is the sort of writer you imagine checking his emails on an old desktop computer in the library. His five deceptively simple novels suggest pleasant, old-fashioned things. They hinge on traditional plot devices – misunderstandings, a letter delivered or undelivered, a chance meeting. There is no modern technology here. In deWitt’s first novel, Ablutions (2009), the narrator repeatedly takes a telephone off the wall and throws it in the bin.

Apr 10, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Patrick deWitt

Just a heads up before we begin, this episode includes some discussion of suicide. Please take care while listening. PATRICK: My son’s 19 now, but for many years we would go to all the superhero movies. And you go to go and you go for the noise of it and the bombast, and it's an assault. It's essentially like you're being beaten over the head, but the universe is in peril, and you can't feel anything. You're witnessing a spectacle.

Apr 9, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Amy Leona Havin |Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt, the Canadian-born author now based in Portland, won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction during Monday’s 37th annual Oregon Book Awards for his novel The Librarianist. The ceremony, hosted by poet and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander, took place in Portland Center Stage’s The Armory before an enthusiastic crowd of book-loving attendees, many of whom shopped the Broadway Books lobby table before and after the event.

Jan 9, 2024 | cbc.ca | Nita Prose |Waubgeshig Rice |Eleanor Catton |Patrick deWitt

The bestselling Canadian books of the week | CBC Books LoadedBooksHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and kids books from Dec. 31, 2023 to Jan. 6, 2024. Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and kids books from Dec. 31, 2023   to Jan. 6, 2024. Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores. Canadian fictionStudy for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week.