Donald Antrim is a MacArthur Genius. He’s written three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson For A Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist.
In 2006, he released a memoir, The Afterlife, and eight years later he published a collection of short stories: The Emerald Light In The Air.
He’s a writer for The New Yorker, and he expects to publish work in the coming weeks about his struggle with mental illness, his brushes with suicide and electro-convulsive therapy, and the reasons he believes the path to healing from mental illness includes stripping away stigma and romanticism, and recognizing its physical reality.
