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This photo of Donald Antrim is from BOMB issue 58, 1997. The following quote comes from the accompanying interview, conducted upon the release of Antrim’s second novel, The Hundred Brothers:
TB Your books are very, very funny. Why?
DA The books are constructed of interlocking set pieces, and the set pieces are often defined by particular moments of physical violence or self-abasement, a rise and fall of pain and suffering. What could be funnier than that?
Antrim’s three novels have all recently been reissued. Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World will be available June 5th.
YES. I’ve read Hundred Brothers and Elect Mr. Robinson and will read Verificationist soon and they are both exactly as he describes, and funny, and you should also read them because it remains a mystery to me how this dude is not more well-known. The worlds he writes are fantastical in this terrifying way because they’re not unbelievable; you’re like, “oh yes, this insanely violent thing seems like something a person would do,” but also it’s funny. Just read the books.
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Now is as good a time as any to revisit Antrim’s fantastic I Bought A Bed.
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