Brett Martin

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* From the New York Times Sunday Styles section, it's the World's Greatest Rock-N-Roll (Wedding) Band.

* In the November issue of GQ, my obnoxious experiment in ordering all my food from faraway lands via FedEx. Digital version TK.

* I've been bad about updating this site ever since starting my blog. See newsiest news there.

* In April's Bon Appetit, find my story on eating in Kuala Lumpur. Digital copy to come, I hope.

* Also out now, I wrote the Top Chef: The Cookbook. No, I don't know who wins.

*March's GQ has my profile of director Uwe Boll, my roundup of new LA restaurants and a short piece on actor Steven Strait.

* Listen to my recent radio piece about Jason Minter and his struggle to deal with his mother's murder at This American Life.

* My post-Sopranos interview with David Chase is now online at Entertainment Weekly's website.
Earlier, EW excerpted my "Pine Barrens: An Oral History".

* Fish prints! Or see the real thing at East End Fish Prints.

* I wrote a book about The Sopranos. Publisher's Weekly calls it "gorgeously designed and smartly written."

* I recently wrote about the disappointingly un-disgusting state of haggis in the NY Times Dining section.

* My essay "On Selling Drugs, Badly" appears in the anthology Money Changes Everything, available everywhere.

* I am flattered to say that my exploration of Saigon street food for Bon Appetit has been selected for Best Food Writing 2006.

* My story about eating in the Stockholm archipelago was in last August's issue of Food and Wine.

* In Details, I wrote about the jackassification of Kobe beef and a $5,000 burger.

* I highly recommend Sweet Unity Farms coffee, grown by Jackie Robinson's son, who I profiled in Vanity Fair.

* This is an interview with me from Gawker.com.

Click on any of the magazines below to see a selection of clips. More/different/better can be had by simply asking. My work has also appeared in the New York Times, Food and Wine, Sports Illustrated, O, Inc., and New York, among others.

Most of the several hundred pieces I wrote in six years as staff writer, columnist and sports editor of Time Out New York are also archived at timeoutny.com.

* You can download my stories from This American Life here, or listen via a variety of modern techniques at their website.

On one man's struggle to deal with his mother's murder. (Episode: How to Rest in Peace; 32 min)
On a disastrous boat trip in Brooklyn. (Episode: In The Shadow of the City; 22 min)
On crying on airplanes. (Episode: Put Your Heart In It; 11 min)
On creating a religion using focus groups. (Episode: A Better Mousetrap; 11 min)

* For several years, I've been involved with John Hodgman's Little Gray Books lecture series. Below, some mp3 samples.

On testing the power of prayer. (Lecture #22: How to Gamble and Win; 19 min)
On predicting the weather using a pig's spleen. (Lecture #18: What Will Happen in the Future?; 17 min)
On the fabulous Fleischer Brothers, inventors of the Bouncing Ball. (Lecture #2: Hints on Public Singing; 20 min)

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