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Eric B. Martin

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Eric B. Martin is a novelist who lives in Durham, North Carolina. His novels include Luck, Winners, and Donald, co-written with Stephen Elliott.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos

  • Eric B. Martin
  • June 26, 2017
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet's potential for visual artists.
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How Documentaries Could Rule The World

  • Eric B. Martin
  • October 12, 2011
I.  Non-fiction rules! Starting as far back as 50 years ago, non-fiction set out to crush fiction in the book world.
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The Rumpus Unreview: Known and Unknown, by Donald Rumsfeld

  • Eric B. Martin
  • February 3, 2011
An 800-page memoir from the former Secretary of Defense tells an old, familiar story—so familiar that our reviewer didn’t even have to read it.
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THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless

  • Eric B. Martin
  • May 3, 2010
A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.
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By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld

  • Eric B. Martin
  • July 23, 2009
PART I: WHY RUMSFELD, WHY THIS BOOK? Donald Rumsfeld is my grandmother.
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