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In Conversation: On One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

In Conversation: On One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

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Antrim, Donald, Mansbach , Adam
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In his memoir One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, Donald Antrim recounts what led him to the roof of his building and what happened after he came back down. He reframes suicide – whether in thought or action – as an illness in its own right, and a unique consequence of trauma and personal isolation. Moderated by author Adam Mansbach, I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, A Memoir.

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Antrim, Donald

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Donald Antrim is the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel, The Verificationist: A Novel, and The Afterlife: A Memoir, and has received awards from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival (W. W. Norton & Company), he recounts the day in 2006 when found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life, candidly sharing what led him there and what happened when he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials, the terror of submitting to ECT – and the saving call from David Foster Wallace that convinced him to try it – as well as years of fitful recovery and setback. Here, Antrim reframes suicide, whether in thought or action, as an illness in its own right and a unique consequence of trauma and personal isolation, rather than the choice of a depressed person. Kirkus praised it as “unflinchingly honest … the narrative is defiantly nonlinear … unlike a flat line, Antrim’s talent for storytelling is more similar to Russian nesting dolls: moments within moments that build upon each other as recollections and revelations.”

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New York Times bestselling writer Adam Mansbach is a novelist, humorist, cultural critic, and screenwriter, who was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay for Barry, a Netflix original film about Barack Obama’s years as a young man. Mansbach’s books include Go the F**k to Sleep, You Have to F**king Eat, Rage Is Back, The End of the Jews, Angry Black White Boy, For This We Left Egypt? and A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them … and Much More. Maybe Too Much More, the latter two titles co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. He is also the author of I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, A Memoir (One World), a deeply thoughtful meditation on the loss of his brother, who took his own life.

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