Fiction writer Donald Antrim to read from his work April 16

Fiction writer Donald Antrim will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16, for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge in Duncker Hall, Room 201. A reception will follow.

Antrim has published three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World; The Hundred Brothers, finalist for the 1998 Pen/Faulkner Award; and, most recently, The Verificationist. He is currently writing a memoir, appearing in The New Yorker magazine, that explores his relationship with his mother, who died in 2000.

“Not since the late Donald Barthelme have we had such a pitch-perfect surrealizing of domestic American life,” writes Sven Birkerts in Esquire magazine. “Antrim’s art is to render the uncanny as if it were the canny.”

Antrim has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was a 2002-2003 Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 1999, The New Yorker named him one of “the 20 writers for the 21st Century.”