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  • Banner image for an excerpt from The Seaside Café Metropolis by Antanas Sileika, published on Open Book. The left side features the title text in bold cream lettering on a deep red background, with stylized fork and knife illustrations framing a white plate graphic. On the right, author Antanas Sileika is smiling, seated casually in a dark blazer and sweater over a light blue shirt. The Open Book logo appears beneath the text.
    Banner image for an excerpt from The Seaside Café Metropolis by Antanas Sileika, published on Open Book. The left side features the title text in bold cream lettering on a deep red background, with stylized fork and knife illustrations framing a white plate graphic. On the right, author Antanas Sileika is smiling, seated casually in a dark blazer and sweater over a light blue shirt. The Open Book logo appears beneath the text.
    October 27, 2025

    Read an Excerpt from THE SEASIDE CAFÉ METROPOLIS, the Highly Anticipated New Novel from Antanas Sileika

    In his brilliantly comic and deeply human new novel The Seaside Café Metropolis (Cormorant Books), widely celebrated author Antanas Sileika invites readers into the absurd, tender, and truth-filled ...

  • Antanas Sileika on the Murderous Children's Poet Who Inspired His Captivating New Historical Novel
    Antanas Sileika on the Murderous Children's Poet Who Inspired His Captivating New Historical Novel
    January 19, 2023

    Antanas Sileika on the Murderous Children's Poet Who Inspired His Captivating New Historical Novel

    Antanas Sileika is one of the quiet stars of CanLit, creating memorable, complex, and entralling stories in his five novels and his memoir. The erstwhile director of the Humber School for Writers (prior ...

  • Antanas Sileika on Writing the "James Bond of Lithuania" in his Compelling New Historical Novel, Provisionally Yours
    Antanas Sileika on Writing the "James Bond of Lithuania" in his Compelling New Historical Novel, Provisionally Yours
    March 13, 2019

    Antanas Sileika on Writing the "James Bond of Lithuania" in his Compelling New Historical Novel, Provisionally Yours

    At the opening of Antanas Sileika's Provisionally Yours (Biblioasis), Justas Adamonis is returning to his hometown. It's not a simple and happy homecoming though - Justas is a former counterintelligence ...

  • Black Tie Books: Talking Spanx, YouTube Bow-Ties, & Glamour with Guest Authors from the 2017 Writers' Trust Gala
    Black Tie Books: Talking Spanx, YouTube Bow-Ties, & Glamour with Guest Authors from the 2017 Writers' Trust Gala
    November 06, 2017

    Black Tie Books: Talking Spanx, YouTube Bow-Ties, & Glamour with Guest Authors from the 2017 Writers' Trust Gala

    The Writers' Trust Gala is a sparkling black tie evening that brings writers from their natural environments of coffeeshops and tiny attic offices to Toronto's Ritz Carlton Hotel. It's all for a good ...

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