Martin Cloutier

Martin Cloutier has been published in Post Road, Tampa Review, (forthcoming) Story Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Upstreet, SmokeLong Quarterly, New English Review, The Bryant Literary Review, The Portland Review, Bombay Gin and The Southeast Review. He teaches film and literature at Brooklyn College.

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Punishment, Inc.

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Issue 63.1 Fall 2014

It wasn’t that she hated her husband; she just wanted something bad to happen to him. Nothing too drastic or heart-wrenching. For example, she didn’t want his new Harley Davidson to flip off the highway and impale him with its …

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The book cover for Waiting For Something else. In the middle of the cover, a half eaten pudding cup sits on a table with three hands holding spoons taking a scoop out of the pudding. On the bottom left corner there is a blurb from Edmund White that reads, "Martin Cloutier understands that comedy- the searing real kind- begins in an honesty as painful for the reader as for the author."

Attraction in Truth: An Interview with Martin Cloutier

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Shenandoah contributor Martin Cloutier discusses the interplay between gender and romantic attraction as explored in his debut novel, as well as his unflinching commitment to truth telling in his work, and the ways he achieves it. Cloutier’s flash fiction story “Punishment, Inc.” was featured in issue 63.1. Find it here.