Lee Martin

My new novel, The Evening Shades, the follow-up to The Bright Forever, will be out on March 25, 2025 Here’s a link for more information. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774467/the-evening-shades-by-lee-martin/

Here’s a link to an interview I did with NFReads.com regarding my new memoir, Gone the Hard Road:
https://www.nfreads.com/interview-with-author-dr-lee-martin/

My memoir, From Our House, has been included on this list of Unpredictable Memoirs Detailing Unconventional Childhoods. Here’s the link: https://wiki.ezvid.com/m/14-unpredictable-memoirs-detailing-unconventional-childhoods-6XDnOjtBUfyge

Happy to be talking with Kelly Link and Jacquelyn Mitchard about Ray Bradbury and other things writing-wise on GalleyCat: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/kelly-link-lee-martin-jacquelyn-on-ray-bradbury_b56385

Here’s a link to a blog that has a favorable impression of Such a Life: http://boringoldwhiteguy.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-took-break-last-night.html?spref=fb

Here’s a link to an interview I did with Susan Cushman focusing on Such a Life: http://susancushman.com/writing-on-wednesdays-q-a-with-lee-martin-author-of-such-a-life/

Here’s a link to a new interview that appeared in The Pittsburgh Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/q-a-with-shadow-show-contributor-lee-martin

Here’s a link to information about SHADOW SHOW, a tribute anthology to Ray Bradbury that’s coming out in July 2012. I’m pleased to have my story, “Cat on a Bad Couch,” included along with stories from Margaret Atwood, Dan Chaon, Alice Hoffman, Jacqueline Mitchard, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, and a number of other talented writers: http://www.gauntletpress.com/cgi-bin/gauntletpress/perlshop.cgi?ACTION=template&thispage=ShadowShow&ORDER_ID=924177964

Break the Skin in Commentary: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/30/break-the-skin/

A nice review of Break the Skin: http://thelongestchapter.com/2011/08/11/a-sisterhood-of-lonely-hearts/

Break the Skin on the Kacey Kowars Show: http://kowars.blogspot.com/

The New York Times likes Break the Skin: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/books/break-the-skin-by-lee-martin-review.html

Break the Skin in Chapter 16: http://www.chapter16.org/content/soaking-voices

Break the Skin in The Columbus Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2011/06/19/area-author-draws-from-small-town-upbringing.html?sid=101

Vogue.com names Break the Skin a thriller that will have you on the edge of your beach towel this summer: http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/pulp-fiction-vogue-picks-the-thrillers-that-will-have-you-at-the-edge-of-your-beach-towel/

Read an interview about Break the Skin and Midwestern literature at The Story Is the Cure:
http://thestoryisthecure.blogspot.com/2011/06/lee-martin-q.html

Break the Skin on WritingRaw: http://www.writingraw.com/interviews.html

A playlist for Break the Skin appears at Largehearted Boy: http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/

A brief essay about Break the Skin appears on PowellsBooks.Blog at the following link:
http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=34340

Another brief essay about the writing of Break the Skin appears on Read It Forward at the following link: http://read-it-forward.crownpublishing.com/2011/06/09/lee-martin-on-writing-from-the-heartland-in-break-the-skin/

A “Question and Answer” featuring Break the Skin appears on Amazon.com at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Break-Skin-Novel-Lee-Martin/dp/0307716759/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295878593&sr=1-1

Read or Listen to Interviews with Lee:

Brevity Read

Southern Indiana Review Read

Creative Nonfiction Read

Esquire Read

Poets & Writers (May/June 2008) Read

Story in Literary Fiction (June 25, 2009) Read

Glimmer Train Read

Largehearted Boy (May 2, 2008) Read

Kacey Kowars Show Listen