Outline of My Lover

Paperback original. 16mo. Pp. [vi], 165, [1]. Glossy card covers.

Author's first book. A queer bildungsroman set on the fringes of the music scene in a Southern college town. An early autofiction classic, tracing American society's damaging obsession with celebrity, Martin recently revealed that Outline of My Lover is about his years dating Michael Stipe, the lead singer of alternative rock band R.E.M.

Selected as an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement by Colm Tóibín and adapted in part by The Forsythe Company, the dance ensemble based in Dresden, Germany. "Spare and elegant, Martin's book is a worthy companion piece to Duras' The Lover. It is his elegy on passion and loss." –Darcey Steinke