Clancy Martin

Clancy Martin is a Canadian philosopher, novelist, and essayist.

Martin's debut novel How to Sell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) was a Times Literary Supplement "Best Book of 2009" (chosen by Craig Raine), and a "Best Book of 2009" for The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, The Kansas City Star.

His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, Lapham's Quarterly, Ethics, The Believer, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, GQ, Esquire, Details, Elle, Travel + Leisure, Bookforum, Vice, Men's Journal, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a regular contributor to Diane Williams' esteemed literary annual NOON.

Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and is Professor of Business Ethics at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management (UMKC). He is also Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University. Martin has also won a German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship and the Pushcart Prize. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.

Biography

Clancy Martin was born on May 7, 1967, as the middle child in a family of three boys. His father Bill was a type 1 diabetic, and a successful real estate developer in Toronto and Calgary, Canada. Bill became involved in New Age spirituality, founding a "Church of Living Love" in Palm Beach, Florida in 1976. The church expanded to several locations before foundering. Bill would launch a number of such churches with ephemeral success. He died in 1997 in the psychiatric ward of a hospital for indigent persons.

Clancy earned his B.A. degree at Baylor University. He attended graduate school at University of Texas, Austin, in the philosophy department. He quit in the early 1990s to start a jewelry business with his older brother. He resumed his graduate studies after his father died in 1997. He received his PhD in philosophy from UT Austin in 2003. He then went on to teach at University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he is now a professor of philosophy.

Martin is married to the writer Amie Barrodale.

Bibliography

• The Ethics of Luxury (New York: Columbia University Press. Forthcoming, 2023)
• How Not to Kill Yourself: A Phenomenology of Suicide (New York: Pantheon/Knopf. Forthcoming, March, 2023
• Honest Work. With Joanne Ciulla and Robert C. Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  2/e 2010. 3/e 2014. 4/e 2018. 5/e 2022) ISBN 978-0190497682
• The Philosophy of Love and Sex. Edited With Carol Hay. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Ethics Across the Professions. With Robert C. Solomon and Wayne Vaught (New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. 2/e 2017. 3/e 2022) ISBN 978-0-19-532668-0
• Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015; Picador, 2016. London: Harvill Secker, 2015, Vintage, 2016) ISBN 978-1784700775
• Introducing Philosophy. With Kathleen Higgins and Robert C. Solomon. (New York: Oxford University Press. 9/e 2008, 10/e 2011. 11/e 2016. 12/e 2019) ISBN 978-0190939632
• The German Sisyphus: On the Happy Burden of Responsibility. With Andrew Bergerson, Steve Ostovich, and Scott Baker (New York and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011)
• The Philosophy of Deception. Editor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) ISBN 9783110246360
• Since Socrates. With Robert C. Solomon (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004) ISBN 978-0534633288
• Morality and The Good Life. With Robert C. Solomon (New York: McGraw Hill, 2003) 5/e with Robert C. Solomon and Wayne Vaught. 2009 ISBN 978-0-07-340742-5
• Above The Bottom Line: An Introduction to Business Ethics. With Robert C. Solomon (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2003) ISBN 978-0-15-505950-4

Fiction

• Bad Sex (New York: Tyrant Books, 2015). Also published in English—in a somewhat different form—as Travels in Central America (Milan: The Milan Review. 2012; in Italian as Adulterio in Central America (Rome: Indiana Editore, 2013). And as Love in Central America (London: Harvill Secker, 2016), and various other international publishers. ISBN 978-0991360802
• How to Sell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009; Picador, 2010) Also appeared in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. Optioned by Sony for film in 2011. ISBN 978-0312429645

Reviews

• TOM McCARTHY (May 14, 2009). "Art of the Deal". New York Times.
• Zach Baron Wednesday (May 20, 2009). "Diamonds Are Whatever: Clancy Martin's How to Sell". The Village Voice.
• Catherine Taylor (27 June 2009). "How to Sell". The Guardian.
• Lincoln Michel (Jun 2, 2009). "How to Sell by Clancy Martin". Bookforum.

External links

• "Lite-Brite," by Clancy Martin, in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (25.1)
• Interview with Clancy Martin at Gigantic magazine
• Interview with Clancy Martin at MobyLives
• http://harpers.org/blog/2013/01/can-we-truly-love-our-enemies/
• http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/05/02/an-event-in-the-stairwell/
• http://harpers.org/blog/2014/03/on-hypocrisy/
• http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/04/14/hypocrisy-harpers-humanity
• http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24378-the-philosophy-of-deception/