Donald Antrim is the author of three novels, including Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, and one previous memoir, The Afterlife. He has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
"[An] engrossing, necessary book—part memoir, part philosophical
treatise... [An] intimate testimony from someone who has lived
through an illness long shrouded in silence, shame and sin...
Antrim’s inventive, circular prose style reflects his sense of
warped time: Hours bend, fragment, compress, extend... One hopes
this brief, courageous book will bring us closer to the 'paradigm
shift' Antrim seeks."
*Heather Clark - New York Times Book Review*
"[With] an unflinching portrait of his psychosis, hospitalization
and treatment...Antrim aims not only to destigmatize mental illness
but also to strip away the hushed-whispers mystery surrounding
suicide."
*Sandra Sobeiraj Westfall - People Magazine*
"In One Friday in April, Donald Antrim describes the sickness that
is suicide and the anguish of self-annihilation in crisp, vivid
prose that is free of self-pity or self-aggrandizement. The book
chronicles his experience at the brink, but it also describes the
larger face of how little we really know of suicide and its
multiplicity of causes, and how little we understand of our agency
over our own lives or deaths. It is a compelling, heart-breaking,
and redemptive read and it shimmers in its narratives of both loss
and hope."
*Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree*
"One Friday in April evokes, as vividly as any book since William
Styron's Darkness Visible, the ongoing present tenseness—or present
tension—of suicide... [Antrim's intentions] are to explore the
experience of his illness rather than its arc"
*David L Ulin - Los Angeles Times*
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