Martha writes short fiction, essays, & book reviews; she also interviews authors.
Short Fiction
Martha’s short fiction covers the surreal as well as the realistic, and has been widely published.
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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Catapult Magazine
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eMerge Magazine
The Gigolo [nominated for a Pushcart Prize]
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Yale Letters Journal
American Seder [scroll through to page 59 and download]
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Slush Pile Journal
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Poetica Magazine
Kaddish for Barney [download]
Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Essays
Martha reviews books for NPR, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. She loves interviewing authors, and publishes essays as well.
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NPR
Reviews of books by: Sarah M. Broom, Mark Doty, Garth Greenwell, Cassandra Lane, David Litt, Marjoleine Kars, Philip Kennnicott, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Jori Lewis, Atticus Lish, Paul Lisicky, Victoria Lloyd-Barlow, Édouard Louis, Tanja Maljartschuk , Desmond Meade, Nana Nkweti, Namrata Poddar, Robert Putnam, Sejal Shah, Nina Totenberg, Tom Zoellner & more…
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The Washington Post
Reviews of books by: Dean Calbreath, Maisy Card, Jeremy Eichler, Elly Fishman, Garrett Hongo, Stuart Isacoff, Clint Smith, Franklin A. Thomas, Morowa Yejidé and more
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Words Without Borders
Reviews of books by: Ae-ran Kim, David Diop
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The Millions
Personal essay: Memorizing and Memory
Book reviews and interviews with these authors: Britt Bennett, Natasha Brown, Jillian Cantor, Eleanor Catton, Armando Lucas Correa, Jesús Carrasco, Sopan Deb, Glory Edim [Well-Read Black Girl], Esi Edugyan, Pamela Erens, Marita Golden, Meg Howrey, Randa Jarrar, Lydia Kiesling, Daniel Mendelsohn, Randon Billings Noble, Joyce Carol Oates, Max Porter, Ed Simon, Lynn Steger Strong, Jesmyn Ward, Laura Warrell, Sari Wilson, Éric Vuillard, & more…
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Lilith
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Scoundrel Time
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The Nervous Breakdown
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Cargo Literary
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Washington Independent Review of Books
Book reviews and interviews with these authors: Jasmin Attia, Scott Bane, Jeffrey Colvin, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Bohumil Hrabal, Mitchell James Kaplan, Lynn Kanter, Sean Michaels, Richard Powers, Barbara Quick, & more …
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[PANK]
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Narrative Magazine
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Bloom
Personal essays: Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By, On Finding Myself at a Residency in the South of France
Interviews with these authors: Michael Bourne, Susan Buttenwieser, Maisy Card, Jai Chakrabarti, Jody Hobbs Hesler, Gavin Larsen, Cassandra Lane, Sari Rosenblatt, Judith Turner-Yamamoto, & more …
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Music & Literature
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Fjord Review
Searching for Mr. B: Jennifer Homans on Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
The Dancer on Her Writing Life: Meg Howrey on her novel They’re Going to Love You
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Los Angeles Review of Books
Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B,” The Chaos Remains, review of Melissa Chadburn’s A Tiny Upward Shove, The Death Penalty - Dying a Slow Death, interview with Marc Bookman
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YouTube
Recorded interviews:
Michelle Brafman interviews Martha Anne Toll at Politics & Prose about Three Muses
Sharon Charde interviews Martha Anne Toll at Oblong Books about Three Muses
Martha interviews Scott Bane at Northshire Bookstore about A Union Like Ours
Martha interviews Melissa Chadburn at Politics & Prose about A Tiny Upward Shove
Martha moderates Brown in America: Community, Culture, and Code at Malvern Books with Jenny Bhatt, Sopan Deb, Donna Miscolta, and Sejal Shah