Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle, recently featured my mini-essay, "Apocalypse Later, Degradation Now," as part of its series, "The Next Decade in Book Culture."
My review of one of the decade's most controversial and eagerly awaited books, the posthumous publication of Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished "novel in fragments," The Original of Laura, can be found here. And Smith Magazine and its affiliated site Memoirville is featuring a new interview with me on the topic of my memoir, Searching for the Seagull Motel, and my column on the art of the memoir and personal narrative, Read Only Memory.

January 23, 2010
For the second year in a row, I have been named one of the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing.

October 16, 2009
"Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan," examines the Japan that was and that, as a result of over-development, can never be again.

October 6, 2009
I'll send a free Kindle or other eReader to anyone who wants to upgrade to a newer model. There's only one small catch; read this for more details.

May 29, 2009
For all of the wonderful things it brings us, digital technology is, at the same time, emptying out our living spaces, our streetscapes, and our lives. Read why in my new article, "The Future Is An Empty Room."

April 15, 2009
"Poetry, Patience, and Rage": Click here for my new essay on how to build, and perhaps more to the point, how not to build, a career as a poet.

February 4, 2009
I have been named one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing, the Nona Balakian Citation.

November 19, 2008
Please follow this link to read my informal essay on Tennesse Williams and his sister Rose, the real-life inspiration for The Glass Menagerie's Laura, on the group blog, When Falls the Coliseum.

August 4, 2008
The website NeglectedBooks.com recently featured a group of articles I originally wrote for Bookslut on “some unfairly neglected books of the past century that may not survive much longer in this one.” The site described the articles, which can be found here as “eloquent, personal, and insightful, and well worth savoring.”

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.”

He is a staff writer and book reviewer for the leading online arts and culture magazine, PopMatters, and also is a book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune. He also has written book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing in 2009 and in 2010.

In addition to his reviews, he writes a monthly column for PopMatters on the art of the memoir and non-fiction narrative called Read Only Memory, and also writes on DVDs, music, digital culture and the future of the book, and other topics.

He has two new non-fiction books, Searching for the Seagull Motel and The Future is an Empty Room, both 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.

As a long-time marketing consultant and president of the consulting firm McSweeney & Antman, he conducted branding, positioning and marketing analyses; and created print, Internet, radio and television advertising campaigns; print and electronic collateral; and video productions on behalf of many of America’s leading businesses.

One of his film projects, Coming Through the Storm, a documentary he researched and wrote on behalf of the National Association of Independent Insurers, covered the same geographic area and some of the same subject matter as Seagull Motel. The film won many awards, including the Silver Trumpet Award, Chicago Publicity Club; the Silver Star Award, IASC; Second Place, Houston International Film Festival; and Second Place, New York Film Festival.

He is a former vice-president of Arkidata Corporation, and also spent two and a half years in Japan, where he conducted cross-cultural training and wrote a monthly column on business English in the form of a fictionalized serial for a major Japanese business publication. He currently is vice-president of marketing communications for a Fortune 500 corporation.

He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and also attended Oxford University.

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