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& Press
(Making God Laugh)
A skilled storyteller, Goodwin uses anecdotal vignettes to drive the book's engaging narrative...a perceptive and frequently entertaining look at the life of a psychiatrist.
-Kirkus Reviews
Making God Laugh offers a morbid, interesting hook and is loaded with life thereafter--and Goodwin sure does know how to write. If you're into memoir, buy this book!
(Model Child)
Goodwin seamlessly combines a psychological thriller with a philosophical meditation on the existence and meaning of evil.
-Mark Wish, author of the International Book Award winning Necessary Deeds, editor of Coolest American Stories
-Kirkus Reviews
The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2015.
Meet
R. C.
After graduating from Yale, R.C. Goodwin spent six demanding but wonderful years in Dublin attending medical school before returning to the U.S. for an internship and psychiatric residency. Since then, he has worked in private practice, jails and prisons, nursing homes, a substance abuse facility, and a student mental health clinic at a major university-all of which he describes in his memoir, Making God Laugh.
His fiction has appeared in Elixir, Center, Northeast, and Writers Digest Online among other publications. It has also been published in two anthologies, Stories that Need to be Told and Coolest American Stories.
Goodwin's debut book The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club, a prison-based collection of award-winning short stories and a novella, was named a Kirkus Indie Best Book of 2015. He has also written a novel, Model Child, a psychological thriller.
He lives with his wife and a spoiled, bossy cat in Connecticut.
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