TJ Martinell is an author, writer, podcaster, and reporter frequently seen roaming the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. He has written seven fiction books and extensive articles about gun rights for the Tenth Amendment Center. A variety of essays and short stories of Martinell’s have been featured at Terror House Magazine and Punch Riot Magazine. You can find out more about him and his diverse work, including the Mountain Pass Podcast, by visiting TJMartinell.com.
Martinell expounds upon secular-puritanism, the frontier spirit, heritage and ancestry, the divergent meanings of nationalism, understated prose, the fiction-writing process, enjoying one’s own books, bringing faith into our political world, the ethical issues innate in living in a dead culture, the importance of rejecting lies, and his newest post-dystopian novella, “The Pilgrim’s Digress.”
Also, if you haven’t checked it out already, be sure to give a listen to Martinell’s interview with yours truly. In it, we talk about “our current political climate, and what it’s like to raise a traditional family amid our modern culture and society.”
Martinell expounds upon secular-puritanism, the frontier spirit, heritage and ancestry, the divergent meanings of nationalism, understated prose, the fiction-writing process, enjoying one’s own books, bringing faith into our political world, the ethical issues innate in living in a dead culture, the importance of rejecting lies, and his newest post-dystopian novella, “The Pilgrim’s Digress.”
Also, if you haven’t checked it out already, be sure to give a listen to Martinell’s interview with yours truly. In it, we talk about “our current political climate, and what it’s like to raise a traditional family amid our modern culture and society.”
Download this podcast, watch our discussion on YouTube, or listen to the episode here 👇.
A few pertinent links pertaining to our chat:
• Martinell’s other books: “The Night No One Slept,” “Men Who Walk Alone,” “The Song of Wulfgar: A Legend of the Enchantments” (including audiobook), and The Stringers Trilogy > “The Redeemers,” “The Informers,” and “The Stringers“
• The classic movies “The Alamo” and “Cromwell,” and Washington State’s The Enchantments
• And my 5-part “Puritans” series > “Coming to America,” “New England Pharisees,” “A progressive unfolding,” “Yankee sanctification,” and “Redeeming the time.”
Lastly, I was remiss in mentioning to Martinell that half of my husband’s paternal ancestry also came to the American Colonies on the Mayflower voyages, settling in Sandwich, Massachusetts, before eventually making their way to the Carolinas via Vermont! Yep, and don’t you know that when we’re having a disagreement, I will not hesitate playing that Yankee card, y’all. 😉 Such are the quirks and intricacies of us heritage Americans.
