Gregory Martin is the author of Mountain City, a memoir of the life of a town of thirty-three people in remote northeastern Nevada, which received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as “the book.” Martin’s work has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review Online, Creative Nonfiction, Storyquarterly, and Orion. He teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Albuquerque with his wife and two sons.
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Stories for Boys
- nonfiction / memoir
Moving, brave, and unforgettable, this deeply personal book pushes us all further into the light.
- Cheryl Strayed
- Author of Wild
In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must begin his life as a gay...Forward
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Gregory Martin’s Stories for Boys included in Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List!
Gregory Martin’s Stories for Boys included in Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List for Paperback Nonfiction!
Gregory Martin’s Stories for Boys reviewed in Green Mountains Review
This is a book that works like the mind itself in a state of trauma, attacking its focal point from all angles, then circling around to try again. In the course of this dance, Stories for Boys...Forward
Gregory Martin interviewed by Mary Ann Gwinn in the Seattle Times
Some books hold hard truths but offer a life ring of hope and even humor in an ocean of sadness. Stories for Boys, Gregory Martin’s memoir of his family’s coming to terms with the fact that his...Forward
Gregory Martin: No Sweat, by Marilyn Dahl for Shelf Awareness
“I remember reading at Elliott Bay and sweat pouring down my face like Robert Duvall in The Apostle, and Christine coming up the aisle and giving me one of Oliver’s cloth diapers to mop my face....Forward
Stories for Boys by Gregory Martin chosen by the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Book Club
The Seattle Gay and Lesbian Book Club has chosen Gregory Martin’s memoir, Stories for Boys as their May read! If you want to read along with both the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Book Club and the Seattle...Forward
On the Hawthorne Books Blog
Gregory Matin blogs for the Seattle Times, "When Jason Collins and my father coming out will no longer matter."
Posted by Gregory Martin on 18 May 2013
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My father, six years ago, did what NBA player Jason Collins did. He didn’t do it on the cover of Sports Illustrated, like Collins did. My father first...Forward
Seattle Reads 2013 Chooses Gregory Martin's Memoir Stories for Boys!
Posted by Liz Crain on 05 March 2013
Hawthorne Books prides itself on strong relationships with our authors and Stories for Boys author Gregory Martin is one such author that we get along famously with not only because he does things...Forward
Media love for Gregory Martin's memoir Stories for Boys
Posted by Ann Marie Schott on 26 February 2013
Gregory Martin’s memoir Stories for Boys was chosen for Seattle Reads, a common-reading program sponsored by the Seattle Public Library Foundation. The memoir was also featured by Barnes &...Forward
Making sense of memory: questions for Gregory Martin from Sally McPherson
Posted by Sally McPherson on 09 October 2012
Along with her business partner Roberta Dyer, Sally McPherson owns Portland-based independent bookstore Broadway Books, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. She interviewed Hawthorne...Forward
No faith in memory: Greg Martin talks about Stories for Boys
Posted by Craig Mather on 06 August 2012
In his memoir Stories for Boys, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs...Forward
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