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“Lee Martin’s The Bright Forever goes deep into the mystery of being alive on this earth. Written in the clearest prose, working back and forth over its complex story, and told in the dark, desperate, vivid voices of its various speakers, it holds you spellbound to the end, to its final, sad revelations.”
Based on a real-life episode in our nation’s history, Martin’s eagerly-anticipated first novel transports us back to North Texas in the 1920s-and into the lives of a segregated black community and their wealthy white brethren.
In this collection of seven stories, Lee Martin’s own distinctive voice has the qualities of his favorite setting: the commonplace and middle-class turned over with a searchlight of want and need to know.
In Such a Life, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin proves once again that he is the consummate storyteller, no matter where he puts his talents. An extraordinary, unforgettable book.” —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire “In vivid and lyrical prose, [Martin] explores the relationship between childhood and the adult self.
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From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee’s father, once known for “doing a good turn for his neighbors,” changed that afternoon in the cornfields, becoming an embittered, hardened man.
Feb 23, 2015 · I’m a storyteller; this is what I do. Consider this scene in my memoir, From Our House. I’m eleven years old, and during the weeks that summer, I’m living alone with my father on our farm while my mother is an hour away in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University, finishing her bachelor’s degree.
Nov 12, 2012 · An Exercise in Nature Writing. By Lee Martin | November 12, 2012 | 2. We’ve had a beautiful weekend here in Columbus, Ohio. Plenty of sunshine and temperatures approaching 70. The trees are almost bare now; only a few are being stubborn and refusing to let their red leaves fall to the ground.
Sep 16, 2013 · Paying Attention to Form in Flash Nonfiction. By Lee Martin | September 16, 2013 | 15. Brenda Miller writes about how paying attention to form in creative nonfiction can invite the writer to make “inadvertent revelations where the writer no longer seems in complete control.”.
Jul 22, 2013 · I write because I want to live in someone else’s life. I write because everyone’s a mystery, even me, and stories have the power to make us understand. I write because I have to give some shape to the chaos. I write because I fail time and time again, both in my writing and my living.
