Michael Antman - Author of Cherry Whip, Searching for the Seagull Motel, Adelaide and more

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Welcome to my new author’s website. Here you’ll find sample chapters from my novel; excerpts from my recently completed non-fiction book, Searching for the Seagull Motel; samples of my published and unpublished verse; and links to my literary essays and published book reviews, as well as links to my published essays on marketing and advertising. In the coming months, I plan to add the full text of a one-act play and a screenplay, and will update this site frequently with news and new publications. I welcome comments on this site and answer all e-mail; I can be reached at michael@mcsweeneyantman.com.

August 20, 2008
Please follow this link to read my review on the PopMatters website of Man in the Dark, by Paul Auster.

August 7, 2008
Please follow this link to read my marketing article on
the MarketingProfs website Six Reasons Word-of-Mouth
Doesn't Work.

July 17, 2008
Please follow this link to read my review on the PopMatters website of America America, by Ethan Canin.

June 20, 2008
Please follow this link to read my review on the PopMatters website of Manhattan Nocturne, by Colin Harrison.

Michael Antman is the author of the novel Cherry Whip (ENC Press, 2004), described by reviewers as “a terrific and fascinating character study,” “moving and sexy and funny in fresh ways,” “humane and warm,” “a great tragicomedy,” and “a marvelous novel.” Cherry Whip is currently in production as a feature film.

He also writes book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times, and for the leading online book review sites Bookslut and PopMatters. For Bookslut, he has written reviews of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; Patrick McGrath’s Ghost Town; and famed designer Chip Kidd’s collection of book covers, Chip Kidd: Book One. He also authored a monthly column, “Afterwords,” that reconsidered works by John Steinbeck, Loren Eiseley, Conrad Aiken, Thomas Savage, and Wallace Stegner.

For PopMatters, which has more than 1,000,000 unique visitors a month, his published and upcoming reviews consider, among others, recent novels by Annie Dillard, Alice Sebold, Kurt Andersen, Paul Theroux, Phillip Roth, Ethan Canin, Paul Auster and Annie Proulx. He also writes on DVDs and other topics for PopMatters.

His new non-fiction book, Searching for the Seagull Motel, is represented by Michele Rubin at Writers House, and he is working on a new novel, Adelaide, the second chapter of which was published in the online magazine The2ndHand. He also is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, and has written plays and screenplays.

- The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
- The Night Country by Loren Eiseley
- The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
- The Collected Poems of Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken
- All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
- Ghost Town: Tales of Manahattan, Then and Now by Patrick McGrath
- Chip Kidd, Book One, Work: 1986 – 2000 by Chip Kidd, introduced by John Updike
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
- Heyday by Kurt Andersen
- Wall Street Noir edited by Peter Spiegelman
- “Yeah, But It’s Beautifully Written.” (On The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje)
- “The Greatest Goddamn Thing That Ever Was” And, at This Rate, Will Never Be Again. (On contemporary poetry.)
- What Is a Publisher? For That Matter, What is a Book? (On the future of publishing, under the pseudonym Gregory Alexander.)
- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
- Mission Accomplished by Khalil Bendib
- Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
- Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture by Christine L. Marran
- The Godfather’s Revenge by Mark Winegardner
- The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
- The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness by Jeff Warren
- What a President Should Know by Lawrence B. Lindsey
- Contraptions by Heath Robinson
- Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg
- The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen edited by Maria Tatar
- Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
- Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison
- America America by Ethan Canin
- Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
- America's Leading Literary Magazine Goes Postal
- Letter to the Editor of McSweeney's Magazine

- Six Reasons Word-of-Mouth Doesn't Work
- Five Simple Techniques for Getting Better Results from Qualitative Research
- Are You Understanding Writing That You Don’t Understand?
- Understood, Expected and Assumed: The Future of Integrated Marketing Communications
- The New Science of B-to-P Advertising
- Extremely Frustrating, Slightly Ridiculous and Completely Unimportant: A Brief Introduction to the Arcane Art of Naming Consulting
- What’s Your Tagline Today?
- A Categorical Denial