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Jana Martin's new volume of short stories, RUSSIAN LOVER AND OTHER STORIES was published by the great small press YetiBooks/Verse Chorus Press. The book has received much critical acclaim. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in The Mississippi Review, Five Points, Spork, Yeti, the Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, Chronogram and Willow Springs, among others. She also writes regularly about design, architecture, the decorative arts and fashion on the moli view on moli.com. Her fiction column, is mink hollow, appeared regularly on sporkpress.com, an award winning magazine and website. Her story "Hope" won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. You can read more about her book, other books, other writers, news of her readings, and links and excerpts from reviews with lots of odd pictures at her blog, Ever Since the Age of 4. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona, she lives in Ulster County and is working on another book.

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  • Brad

    12:43 EST, 23.Nov.07
    This is great reading.  Jana can throw down.  Turns of phrase at once funny, then piercing in their insight are delivered often in a kind of thought-stream that layers right into your own thoughts while you're reading.

    This kind of viscerality, delivered unvarnished is, at times, reminiscent of Elmore Leonard.  Even in plotlines that are off the beaten track, there is an authenticity in the writing that never begs for suspension of disbelief; it can stand on its own, thanks.

    I'll definitely be on the lookout for anything forthcoming from Ms. Martin.

  • Evelyn

    12:23 EST, 19.Nov.07
    Yes, Jana really killed it at the Fair. She was hilarious -- the perfect, bad daughter in law.

  • Natasha

    12:35 EST, 15.Nov.07
    Jana did an amazing job reading from her book at the Fair in Miami.  It sounds like quite an interesting read.

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Book of Nov/Dec

Book of the Month
Russian Lover and Other Stories by Jana Martin

Dazzling stories from a prizewinning new author whose writing “packs a powerful punch, combining the brilliance of T.C. Boyle and the icy clarity of Margaret Atwood” (Tucson Weekly).

An apprentice dominatrix suddenly loses her grip (“Rubber Days”), a spurned wife tries to explain her husband’s flaws to his mother (“Russian Lover”), a stripper turns the tables on jeering customers (“Why I Got Fired”) . . . Jana Martin’s smart, vulnerable heroines respond to life’s curveballs with guts and flair. In luminous prose she deftly plumbs the depths of their troubles—and shows the often startling ways they dig themselves out.

Jana Martin’s sentences have beauty and bite and a rhythm all their own. These are tough, funny stories from a writer wise enough to know that wisdom doesn’t always come with experience. Russian Lover won’t teach you much about Russia, but it will give you some exhilaratingly painful portraits of people trying to love.--Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land

There’s an elegant, flaring strength to Russian Lover, a precision of language that is daring and unique in the way it touches memory. Martin’s stories are cocoons spun tightly around an elusive, idiopathic emotional core—always intriguing, they give life to the tired mind. --Lydia Millet, author of My Happy Life

Jana Martin received an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her story “Hope” won a Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. Her stories and nonfiction have appeared in Five Points, Spork, Yeti, the Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, and Willow Springs. She is a contributor to sporkpress.com, which hosts her regular fiction column, is mink hollow. Jana lives in Woodstock, New York.

This is the debut title from the new YETI imprint, a collaboration between Yeti magazine and Verse Chorus Press.

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