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"Donald" adapted for the stage and opens January 2012

Sep.14.2011

"Donald" adapted for the stage and opens January 2012

Donald is being adapted for the stage by Tony Perucci and the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern in Durham, NC.

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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.2000

Luck

It's June of 1990, all hell's breaking loose on Hunter Olive's tobacco farm, and his son Mike wants to keep it that way. The farmer's twenty-year-old son has come back for the summer with fourteen college friends and a mission to fight for Jackson Country's newest residents: the Mexican migrant workers pouring into North Carolina for the first time. Even as Mike pressures his own...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.06.2011

Donald

As America’s most infamous former Secretary of Defense lies poised to unleash his wistful recollections and rewriting of the war on terror, authors Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott humbly submit their take to the historical record: Donald. What would happen if Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary and architect of the war on terror, was abducted at night from his Maryland...

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PUBLISHED: May.05.2007

The Virgin's Guide to Mexico

The Virgin's Guide to Mexico tells the story of seventeen year old Alma Price, who crosses the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma is searching for her grandfather, who lives in Mexico City, she thinks, although it’s hard to know what’s true with a lying mother who raised her amongst the blond brigade of their rich ...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.14.2005

Winners

Chimney sweep Shane McCarthy has three great loves in life: a whip-smart wife named Lou, pickup basketball, and his booming hometown, San Francisco. While Lou hunts easy millions at the height of the dot-com frenzy, Shane fills his extra hours searching for a troubled player from his weekly hoops game—a twenty-year-old named Sampson who's disappeared, leaving only a bulging duffle...

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Feb.15.2011 - 2:18 pm

Washington Post digs Donald

"A publication-day ambush by two clever writers whose narrative voice, to their credit, may sound more authentically like Donald Rumsfeld than the former defense secretary's...

Feb.15.2011 - 2:18 pm

Donald at the Millions

"At a tight 110 pages, Donald is written in gorgeous prose and makes for a hypnotic read in one sitting." - http://www.themillions.com/2011/02/donald-known-and-donald-...

Jan.30.2011 - 7:12 pm

Dueling Rumsfelds at the New York Times

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/dueling-rumsfelds-novel-to-appear-on-same-day-as-memoir/

Jan.27.2011 - 8:03 pm

Donald goes to Canada

“I do think that fiction can provide the distance that you sometimes need to look at things that are really hard to look at,” says Martin. “When you think about the success of The...

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Article: Why We Watch Duke Beat UNCG by 27 Points: Notes from the first act of a movie

Essay: How Documentaries Could Rule the World

Essay: THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless

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May.23.2007

The Virgin's Guide to Mexico

Published by Esquire

Introducing your next summer beach book: The Virgin's Guide to Mexico ... Martin's fast-paced strangeness gives the novel a fluid, cinematic feel, and his unusual yet...

About Eric

Eric B. Martin is a novelist, author of four books including Donald, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico and Winners, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Michener Fellow, and an American Short...

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