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I am a graduate in English literature and language from Oxford and in religious studies from NYU. In 1999, I co-founded Lantern Books, a publisher of books on vegetarianism, animal advocacy, spirituality, and natural healing.

I founded a monthly magazine Satya, and was its editor for five and a half years. In 1999, I published The Way of Compassion: Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy, and Social Justice. In 2003, I published my novel Nicaea: A Book of Correspondences with Lindisfarne Books.

I'm the co-author of Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, and Life; The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation; The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation; and (with Ruth Heidrich), Lifelong Running. Most recently, I have authored a ...more

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I found this advice to be very interesting, and aim to use it more often in my writing:

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	Running, Eating, Thinking 3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Way of Compassion 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, and Life by Martin Rowe (Goodreads Author), Evander Lomke, Evander Lomke 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Animals Are Leaving Us by Martin Rowe (Goodreads Author), McArthur Jo-Anne 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kerbal Space Program 31 Success Secrets - 31 Most Asked Questions On Kerbal Space Program - What You Need To Know 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bertie Wooster and the Lizard King 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kerbal Space Program 31 Success Secrets - 31 Most Asked Questions on Kerbal Space Program - What You Need to Know it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoriam: 100 Poems 100 Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The deleterious effect of factory farms on health, workers, the environment, communities that live near them, and, of course, animals are—or at least should be—well known. What isn't perhaps as well known is the impunity with which Big Animal Ag acts ...more
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I came to this collection after reading ALL THE SMALL THINGS, and I was very impressed. She had all the skills and virtues of close attention to character, to lived detail, and atmosphere almost a quarter of a century ago, with ANTARCTICA, as she did ...more
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Martin Rowe rated a book really liked it Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Beautifully observed, sensitively detailed, and an exemplary exercise in humane imagination, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE is the tale of a good Samaritan set in the Republic of Ireland in 1985. Keegan's masterfully paced novella illustrates how invaluable ...more
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I chanced upon this book on my partner's bookshelf and thought, not being familiar with Somerset Maugham's work, that this would be a good entrypoint to his oeuvre. The blurb on the cover calls these "22 Stories of Love and Adventure," which is accur ...more
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Martin Rowe rated a book really liked it Free the Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America (30th Anniversary Edition) by Ingrid Newkirk	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was one of the last books I worked on before I left the company that published it, and it's one I have a great affection for. This edition updates some references, and, most compellingly, provides an afterword by Dr. Emily Trunnell, who examines ...more
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I was the publisher of this book when it first came out in 2002, and worked on this most recent version. I thought I'd say a few words about it—especially given the shootings at Uvalde and Buffalo that happened at the same time as the publication of ...more
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When I was in my first year at university (the year this book was published), metafiction (such as INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino or THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by Milan Kundera) was all the rage—as was this book, which, unaccountably, I d ...more
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“I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void”
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