The Selection Committee Radio Show with Douglas A. Martin, 2/19/23
Newtown Radio Bushwick Brklyn
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Description
Poet, novelist, and short story writer Douglas A. Martin joins the show with songs by artists who have been formative to him and his work, even if some of them are slightly embarrassing. We learn about his early dance routines, entering the Sonic Youth music video contest, and his many, many attempts to become a member of MTV’s The Real World. Martin's early life has provided fertile source material for his work, and we consider how complicated it is to talk openly and honestly about childhood experiences.
Martin describes the development of his unusual, impressionistic prose style and “the new ennui” he was trying to embody as a young queer writer in a turn-of-the-century college town. He shares a poem and an excerpt from his novel Outline of My Lover, and we discuss his novels, Branwell and Wolf. The former is about the brother of the Brontë sisters, and the latter is about two brothers who murdered their father in Florida a few weeks after 9/11.
