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  • Perfect Gifts for Writers by Lindsay Zier-Vogel banner. Background image of dark hardwood floor running horizontally across banner, with expertly wrapped gifts grouped together at right hand side. Text overlaid to top-left of image and Open Book logo centered at bottom.
    Perfect Gifts for Writers by Lindsay Zier-Vogel banner. Background image of dark hardwood floor running horizontally across banner, with expertly wrapped gifts grouped together at right hand side. Text overlaid to top-left of image and Open Book logo centered at bottom.
    December 12, 2024

    Perfect Gifts for Writers

    Tis the season to ask the most pressing of all questions: What is the perfect gift for the writer in your life? Books? Pens? Journals? A six-figure book deal: (Note: we all want the latter!)Authors Farzana ...

  • Interview with Robert McGill, author of Simple Creatures (Coach House Books) banner. Background image of sunny, rolling parkland with trees in distance. Author standing in foreground, smiling slightly with hair combed back nearly, wearing button up shirt and dark jeans with his hands in pockets. To centre right a solid blue section with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    Interview with Robert McGill, author of Simple Creatures (Coach House Books) banner. Background image of sunny, rolling parkland with trees in distance. Author standing in foreground, smiling slightly with hair combed back nearly, wearing button up shirt and dark jeans with his hands in pockets. To centre right a solid blue section with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    October 25, 2024

    Celebrated Novelist Robert McGill Turns to Short Fiction to Examine Our Complicated World

    Long celebrated as a novelist and non-fiction author, Robert McGill has turned his keen literary eye to complex personal stories that explore loss, displacement, identity and events that affect characters ...

  • "Everyday Dystopian Reality" Robert McGill on His Captivating and Madcap New Speculative Novel
    "Everyday Dystopian Reality" Robert McGill on His Captivating and Madcap New Speculative Novel
    June 16, 2022

    "Everyday Dystopian Reality" Robert McGill on His Captivating and Madcap New Speculative Novel

    A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (Coach House Books),  is not what you might expect. For one thing, he wrote it before COVID-19, finishing just as the real world began to eerily mirror ...

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