November 30th, 2015 | by caleb | published in Blog, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
The Western Lonesome Society has been described as a surreal western. Some of it feels distinctly historical, while other parts of the story have a dream-like quality. What inspired you to create multiple narratives in one story? I love that question. To explain it, I really have to go back in time a bit, fifteen […]
September 15th, 2015 | by caleb | published in Blog, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
Now available everywhere fine books are sold! IndieBound Tattered Cover Bookstore Powells City of Books Amazon Chapter 1: The Current Situation On a warm afternoon in summer, many years after his kidnapping, in the makeshift room above his garage, in a modest, ramshackle suburban neighborhood in a small city somewhere in the West, Jim stands at […]
September 10th, 2015 | by Ashley Teatum | published in Blog, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
Late Night Thoughts from Robert Garner McBrearty I woke up last night, was lying there, little to do, you know, listening to my wife breathe, the wind outside, and I was mulling over my life a bit, the pros and cons, and one thought that came, more or less, was: well, I wrote. Maybe […]
July 3rd, 2015 | by caleb | published in Fiction, New Releases, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
Now available everywhere fine books are sold! IndieBound Tattered Cover Bookstore Powells City of Books Amazon Read a sample chapter here. Evoking the Western drama of Cormac McCarthy, the family sensibility of Kent Haruf, and the wacky, magical humor of Christopher Moore, McBrearty displays his storytelling prowess and wit in his debut novel. In this hilarious, […]
May 11th, 2015 | by Ashley Teatum | published in Blog, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
Robert Garner McBrearty’s “The Dishwasher,” his first published short story, continues to garner accolades decades after its initial appearance in the Mississippi Review in 1982. This time, it’s in the form of a theatrical performance. Cape Elizabeth High School’s theater troupe won in their division at the Maine Drama Festival for their performance of “The […]
September 24th, 2014 | by caleb | published in Authors, Book Categories, Fiction, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. Wild, funny, touching, and full of crackling dialogue, Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories turn the intensity of life up a notch, creating a heightened reality that is both hilarious and heartbreakingly real. His characters struggle to hold onto work, love, and sanity, and wrestle with the choice of whether to be responsible […]
September 23rd, 2013 | by caleb | published in Fiction, Robert Garner McBrearty | 3 Comments »
Click here to purchase. Each of Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories has its own sensibility, but what his characters share is a desire to know how best to live when confronted by unforeseeable chance. Here readers will meet budding writers, ailing professors, reluctant gunslingers, and kidnapped kids; they grapple with conflicts of conscience and the mysteries […]
