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Feb.15.2011
"A publication-day ambush by two clever writers whose narrative voice, to their credit, may sound more authentically like Donald Rumsfeld than the former defense secretary's memoir."
Read the full review at http://tinyurl.com/5uqtz8k.
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Feb.15.2011
"At a tight 110 pages, Donald is written in gorgeous prose and makes for a hypnotic read in one sitting."
- http://www.themillions.com/2011/02/donald-known-and-donald-unknown.html
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Jan.30.2011
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/dueling-rumsfelds-novel-to-appear-on-same-day-as-memoir/
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Jan.27.2011
“I do think that fiction can provide the distance that you sometimes need to look at things that are really hard to look at,” says Martin. “When you think about the success of The Hurt Locker versus the many documentaries that were made about Iraq, it’s a good [example] of how sometimes you need...
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Jun.09.2010
A recent review of David Goodwillie's novel American Subversive where I try to figure out what I know about the weird collision of fiction, non-fiction, and the marketplace: http://therumpus.net/2010/05/the-blurb-16-hungrier-more-successful-a-bit-ruthless/
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Sep.24.2009
My recent review of the very large Rumsfeld biography that just came out is up at Rumpus:
http://therumpus.net/2009/07/the-rumpus-review-of-by-his-own-rules-the-ambitions-successes-and-ultimate-failures-of-donald-rumsfeld/
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About Eric
Eric B. Martin is a novelist, author of four books including Donald, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico and Winners, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Michener Fellow, an American Short Fiction...