{
  "id": 12191549,
  "title": "‘People do suffer from weirdness’: Canadian author Patrick deWitt reinvents the comedy of manners",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/people-do-suffer-from-weirdness-canadian-author-patrick-dewitt",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-05T16:50:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "National Post",
    "slug": "national-post",
    "url": "https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/patrick-dewitt"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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 […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}