Azazel Jacobs), an official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, follows the life of an unusually large teenage boy and two fellow outcasts as they manoeuvre through the taunts and teases of a small town high school. His most recent novel is French Exit. His unusual road to literary success has led to two critically acclaimed novels and one produced screenplay. Also, a new limited series LONG DISTANCE features interviews with authors and their latest book releases. Patrick DeWitt on his Giller nominated book French Exit.

Literary Arts, Inc. is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California and Washington, and now resides in Portland, Oregon. By looking at well-trod territory - be it the down-and-outs in a gritty L.A. bar or guns for hire in the Old West - with a fresh and candid pen, Patrick deWitt has established himself on the Canadian literary scene. His other books include Undermajordomo Minor and French Exit.


Patrick deWitt is a novelist from Portland, Ore., by way of Vancouver Island. Drawing on the author's 6 years' experience working in a Los Angeles bar, Patrick deWitt's Ablutions (2009) follows an unnamed barman who begins to over-sample his work.

Writing the novel in the second person perspective, deWitt takes chances not just with content, but with style. Comments are welcome while open. Like Guy VANDERHAEGHE's The Last Crossing (2002), deWitt's revisionist western explores themes of love and brotherhood, but owes its creation as much to a modern resurgence of cowboy cinema and other visual sources - deWitt found inspiration from photos taken out of Time Life's The Forty-Niners - as to any work of literature. His unusual road to literary success has led to two critically acclaimed novels and one produced screenplay. The novel is akin to Rawi HAGE's Cockroach (2008) in that, despite vast differences in subject matter, both deal in ennui and self-loathing, and contain within a brutal and quasi-autobiographical honesty. He has garnered international acclaim for his reinvention of well known subjects.

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The Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists respond, The Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists recall how they became writers. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. During the California gold rush, the neurotic and empathetic Eli Sisters at times assists, and at times criticizes his brother's penchant for violence and drinking.

Patrick deWitt, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter (born at Sidney, BC 1975). Copyright © 2020 Literary Arts Portland writer Patrick DeWitt's new novel, "Undermajordomo Minor", begins with a fairytale premise: An aimless young man enters the service of a mysterious master.