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![]() The New York Times Sunday Book Review called it “a tragic comedy filled with wit and cultural insight,” while the Seattle Times found it “chatty, funny, philosophical, touching and brutally honest.” Best-selling author and editor Dave Eggers has called Martinez “an essential new American voice.” “My Heart Is A Drunken Compass” has received positive reviews. At times it was extraordinarily painful, yet it was also a real pressure release.” He explained that writing about his low points was a way of understanding them much in the same way that writing about his childhood and adolescence was a way of understanding those years. I don’t like using the word ‘therapeutic,’ but it was therapeutic. “As a writer, you have to put yourself back there, to feel it all over again. “Going back and revisiting my lowest periods over and over was agonizing,” he said. ![]() ![]() Martinez admits that it was not easy reliving his dark times. ![]()
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