'Gertrude Stein with a hard-on'

Coincidentally, I just bought a Douglas Martin book (my third by him) when I ran across this brief, funnny interview.  Leave it to Wayne Koestenbaum to come up with such a line!

Q: For our readers who may not be familiar with your work, what's the most accurate thing someone else has said about it?
 
DM: Once when I read with Wayne Koestenbaum, he said it was "like Gertrude Stein with a hard-on." I think that was pretty true.

Read the rest!

Here's a review from the Boston Globe re: his latest:
. . . a dark and dreamlike (self-)portrayal of the sexual coming of age of a boy acutely aware that he doesn't fit the roughneck masculine mold into which his Southern military hometown forces its sons. . . Its feverish self-portrait seizes center stage.