“Lee Martin has long been one of my favorite writers of fiction and memoir, and now he’s one of my favorite writers of advice about the writer’s craft. Everyone who writes, or wants to, should read this wise and inspiring book.”
Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever. A native Midwesterner, he teaches in the MFA program at The Ohio State University.
Duke Ellington recorded his jazz standard, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (lyrics by Irving Mills), in 1932. The opening of the song questions the value of music that doesn’t possess […]