I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! for Jacob Appel, who, as well as being an accomplished novelist, is also a practicing psychiatrist. Feel free to ask him if you’re crazy:
Jacob M. Appel’s first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Award (2012), and his most recent story collection, Einstein’s Beach House, received the 2013 Pressgang Prize. His fiction has been published widely in journals including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Gettysburg Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. Jacob also practices medicine in New York City and teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. More at: www.jacobmappel.com.