David Bergen Book Launch

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Archived

Atrium, Online, McNally Robinson - Grant Park, 1120 Grant Avenue

David Bergen head shot.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of David Bergen’s new novel Out of Mind (Goose Lane Editions). This event features a reading and a conversation hosted by Chris Hall, co-owner of McNally Robinson Booksellers. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2021 in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers.

David Bergen Book Launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

In Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grandmother, lover, psychiatrist, and analyst of self, who first appeared in Bergen’s bestselling novel The Matter with Morris. Although adept at probing the lives of others, Lucille has become untethered, caught between duty and desire, between the demands of family and her own longing.

Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by the Globe and Mail as “inventive and electrifying,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of ten novels and two collections of short stories. In book after book, he has harnessed the written word to illuminate the human condition.

Among his most acclaimed works are The Time in Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Matter with Morris, winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Age of Hope, a national bestseller and a finalist for Canada Reads; and Here the Dark, a finalist for the Giller Prize. David Bergen lives in Winnipeg.

Host Chris Hall has been a McNally Robinson Bookseller for twenty-five years and has owned it in part for the past ten. When he isn’t reading he loves to travel and cook. He lives in Winnipeg with his partner and two daughters.