Dissident Mama, episode 35 - TJ Martinell

The Dissident Mama Podcast

TJ Martinell is an author, writer, podcaster, and reporter frequently seen roaming the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. He has written six 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 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.”