Editor, Brooklynite Jonathan Santlofer speaks on new anthology ‘It Occurs to Me That I am America’
Editor’s note: In “It Occurs to Me That I Am America,” writers and artists share the stage. Both writing and art are essential to the book’s editor Jonathan Santlofer, who divides his life between the two.
Santlofer grew up wanting to be an artist, went to art school, undergrad and graduate, and spent the first half of his adult life as a fairly successful painter. When a gallery fire destroyed nearly ten years of his artwork, he became a writer. His first novel, “The Death Artist,” about a serial killer in the New York art world, was an international bestseller. Since then, he has written several novels.
He has also edited and contributed to many anthologies and has even illustrated a few. His memoir, “The Widower’s Notebook,” will be published by Penguin Books in July 2018, and he is at work on a new novel.