https://www.robinantalek.com/news daily 1.0 2020-12-03 https://www.robinantalek.com/news/new-essay-the-bigamists-daughter-published-by-longreads monthly 0.5 2020-12-03 https://www.robinantalek.com/news/the-bigamists-daughter-among-the-25-most-read-stories-on-longreads-in-2020 monthly 0.5 2020-12-03 https://www.robinantalek.com/about daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f1f4cf38aeee706d0da491d/t/5f341c832469c020e2ed7681/1597250704690/rr.jpg About - About The Author I'm the author of the USA TODAY bestselling The Summer We Fell Apart (HarperCollins 2010) chosen as a Target Breakout Book and The Grown-Ups (William Morrow 2015), a Pop Sugar Best Book of Winter 2015, and a Sutter Home Book of the Month selection. My non-fiction work has been published at Longreads, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, Washington Independent Review of Books, Book Reporter, Writer’s Digest, The Bump, The Knot, Beyond the Margins, Writer Unboxed, and collected in the following anthologies, The Beautiful Anthology, Writing off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema, The Weeklings: Revolution #1 Selected Essays 2012-1013. My short fiction has appeared in Salon, 52 Stories, Five Chapters, Sun Dog, The Southeast Review and Literary Mama among others. I was the Sunday Editor at The Weeklings, and was three times a Glimmertrain Magazine Award finalist, as well as a finalist for The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Recently I was a writer in residence at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida. I live in Saratoga Springs, New York. You can find me on instagram and twitter where I don't so much tweet as retweet. You can also write me an email at robin@robinantalek.com https://www.robinantalek.com/essays daily 0.75 2020-08-11 https://www.robinantalek.com/the-grown-ups daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f1f4cf38aeee706d0da491d/t/5f32f13bb656fa701e0e3341/1597174095313/Grown+Ups+Cover.jpg The Grown Ups - The Grown Ups Sam Turner’s fifteenth summer is a revelation. He receives the flirtatious attention of the girl next door, Suzie Epstein, and his mother abandons their family. His older brother Michael and their father appear to accept her absence without explanation. Sam, however, feels adrift, and struggles to understand how a parent you imagined would always be there can suddenly choose to leave. Over the years, the childhood bonds between Sam and his tight knit group of friends prove to be remarkably resilient as they stumble into adulthood. In alternating voices, The Grown Ups explores the deep connection that forms between friends as they navigate parents, siblings, lovers, and each other. A potent commentary on relationships familial and chosen, The Grown Ups is about that rush of discovery, a time in life when we realize the influences of the people we surround ourselves with has everything to do with who we will become. https://www.robinantalek.com/the-summer-we-fell-apart daily 0.75 2020-08-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f1f4cf38aeee706d0da491d/t/5f32ef068659505c4527c4db/1597173528621/SummerWeFellApart_pb_c.jpg The Summer We Fell Apart - The Summer We Fell Apart The Summer We Fell Apart is the story of the Haas siblings: Amy, George, Kate, and Finn. As the children of a once promising and brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the Haas siblings were raised in a chaotic environment, abandoned into a shadowy adult world made up of equal parts glamour and neglect. When their father dies, they must depend on their intense but fragile bond to remember what it means to be family despite years of anger. From Amy’s adolescent yearnings for a normal life to George’s search for love, Kate’s struggle to not always be perfect, and Finn’s addictive and destructive behavior, the Haas children come to learn that this family - no matter how ragged and flawed - provides all the hope they need. https://www.robinantalek.com/short-fiction daily 0.75 2020-08-11