Brett Martin

Brett Martin is the author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution (2013). A tenth-anniversary edition, with a new preface, was published by Penguin Press in 2023.

He is a Correspondent for GQ Magazine, a three-time James Beard Award winner, seven-time finalist, and a seven-time selectee of the annual Best Food Writing anthology. His work appears regularly in Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Bon Appetit, Garden & Gun, Smithsonian, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among others, and on public radio’s This American Life. He has taught in the nonfiction MFA program at Johns Hopkins University.

Find him on Bluesky: @brettmartin.bsky.social

Email him here.

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Here is a small selection of recent and not-so-recent work: