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excerpts from my recently completed non-fiction book, Searching for the Seagull Motel; samples of my published and unpublished verse; and links to my literary essays and published book reviews, as well as links to my published essays on marketing and advertising.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.

September 16, 2008
I began contributing to the group blog, When Falls the Coliseum. A two-part reminiscence on my long-ago acting career, The Worst Actor of Our Time, can be found here, and here.

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

August 15, 2008
I became a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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

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.”

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

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 review site PopMatters, also has written book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and Bookslut, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. 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.

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