Donald Antrim on eroticized rebel archetype james deanElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
My First Time
Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner—and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria.
Today’s featured writer is Donald Antrim, whose first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, appeared in 1993.
Watch our previous “My First Time” interviews:
- Sheila Hetion The Middle Stories, her first collection
- Tao Linon Bed, his first collection
- Christine Schutton Nightwork, her first collection
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkinson his play Neighbors
- Gabrielle Bellon The Book of …series, her early cartoons
- J. Robert Lennonon his debut novel, The Light of Falling Stars