Mike Barnes

Righteous anger—and mental illness—are at the heart of a masterful new noir crime novel

The author has one question when he visits his mother: Where is everybody?

The author, who was once a janitor, hunkered down with his books in a "freighted elevator"

It has taken me decades to learn how to align the desire to write with severe mental fluctuation

The author on the ways in which mental illness helps—not hinders—its sufferers