Martin Cloutier's prose is suffused with intelligence, wit, compassion, and a vision of the world uniquely his own but which also speaks to a potentially wide readership. This writer is on the cusp of an impressive literary career.
—Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog.
“Waiting for Something Else is a
brilliant comedy of manners about erotic confusion, artistic ambition, and the eternal search for connection. It is also extraordinarily funny. Martin Cloutier writes about the world of high cuisine and low behavior with sensual precision and piercing wit. This is a serious novel that never takes itself too seriously, one brave enough to parse the meaning of blowjobs
even as it plumbs the mysteries of the heart.”
—Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World
Waiting for Something Else is about the big things—love and sexuality and faith and food—and it’s written with humor and verve, and with a keen sense of the restaurant world. It held me in its claws from start to finish. It’s a wonderful book.
—Joshua Henkin, author of Morningside Heights.
Unveiling the Journey
Martin Cloutier is the author of Waiting for Something Else, an irreverent sex comedy. His stories have appeared in Harvard Review, Post Road, Tampa Review, Shenandoah, Story Quarterly and elsewhere. A New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow in Fiction, he lives in Brooklyn, NY where he spends most of his time rearranging words and pretending that's a normal way to live.
