erik martiny
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Review of Himmler and the Handmaid by Erik Martiny
Martiny has put out a lot of books recently. I was surprised to find another one coming out this year called Bloodberry. I’ve written reviews of all his previous productions from River Boat Books. This one was engrossing and historically intriguing. It offered a well-researched fictional look at a mistress…
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Review of Cocteau’s Invitation by Erik Martiny
This was unexpected and slightly uncalled for You know those Yorgos Lanthimos movies. This is a little like that. You ask yourself, wait, what? But you keep reading. This is a meta narrative that starts out as a typical literary pseudo-romance, featuring the creepy narrator going after a too-young student,…
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Review of Waiting for Gaudiya & Other Stories by Erik Martiny
Despite the reference to Beckett in the title of the collection and some passing moments within, this collection of short stories borrows little and invents much. As the opening quote intimates, Martiny invests in a continual creation of reality in real-time, through uncanny conjuring of the absurd, straddling the reader’s…
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Review of The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
The second book by Martiny I’ve read. This one was very different from Night of the Long Goodbyes. Both were singular in their content, and contained a mix of traditional and non-traditional techniques. I would call this a hysterical picaresque novel infused with mesmeric weirdness, peppered with quirky satirical aplomb…
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Review of Night of the Long Goodbyes by Erik Martiny
Readers’ artistic interpretation of this book may vary. More so than in many other novels I’ve read at least. On this canvas, the colors are iterations and variations of the same hue. It is patterned expressionism, containing analogues for strange human and psychological dream creatures. The symbolism is associated with…
L. S. Popovich 