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.” Cherry Whip is currently in production as a feature film.

He is a staff writer and book reviewer for the leading online arts and culture magazine, PopMatters, also has written book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and Bookslut, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He was one of five finalists for the NBCC's 2008 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. 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 1.3 million unique visitors a month, his published and upcoming reviews consider, among others, recent fiction by John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, Annie Dillard, Alice Sebold, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth, Ethan Canin, and Paul Auster. 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 and other topics.

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.

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