‘People do suffer from weirdness’: Canadian author Patrick deWitt reinvents the comedy of manners

Slate magazine has called Patrick deWitt “the great chronicler of American weirdos.” It’s an intriguing label to apply to a writer born on Vancouver Island who loyally retains his Canadian citizenship. But you can understand the reason. After all, deWitt’s breakout novel, the 2011 Booker-nominated The Sisters Brothers, turned the conventions of the western on […]