Praise for Beloved Demons

“To delightful effect, Anthony Martignetti manages to be both unsavory and sweet in Beloved Demons, a fitting follow-up to the excellent Lunatic Heroes, a memoir that kept us reading in the bathtub long after the water went cold. I am a fan.”
—Mark Shanahan, Boston Globe

“Anthony's art is here, in these pages, waiting for you, as fresh, as sharp, as painful a hundred years from now . . . These pages are gifts, from Anthony to you . . . from someone who has walked into the darkness and now stands in the light.”
[From the Introduction to Beloved Demons]
—Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Martignetti's writing is a true gem . . . [Beloved Demons] is, in many ways, even a bit more compelling than its predecessor. . . . It's an unabashed good thing that Martignetti's [voice] has emerged . . . There's something about it that feels like home.”     
—Victor D. Infante, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
"Looking for a New England: C. Anthony Martignetti, Jack McCarthy and a place's voice"

“Anthony Martignetti is a man of story—both a creator, and collector, of stories of the human experience. In his superhero status as professional psychotherapist he is a listener of stories, the better to comfort and assist their narrators. But in his secret identity as a mortal human being (and astonishing writer), he tells emotionally trenchant tales of his own experience, the better to comfort and assist their readers—as well as sometimes shocking, riveting, terrifying, appalling, uplifting, thrilling, and delighting them along the way. Continuing where he left off in Lunatic Heroes, his previous collection drawn primarily from events and experiences of his emotionally challenging and difficult childhood, in his latest collection, Beloved Demons, Martignetti shares stories of his adult life—including his earliest experiences as a developing therapist in which he turns his x-ray-clinical-vision brutally on himself, to a moment of time travel in which he knocks on the door of his childhood home and tries to negotiate his way across the emotional threshold of that treacherous doorway.” 
—Jamy Ian Swiss, author of Shattering Illusions

“[Martignetti] pulls out all the stops, especially on Feast of the Hungry Ghost. That kind of courage and self-acceptance is deeply redemptive for the rest of us who hide ourselves in shameful corners that we don't even know. I feel honored to know him.”
—Christopher Germer, PhD, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

"Beautifully told and harrowing. . . . [Lunatic Heroes and Beloved Demons] grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let me go until I finished both. I inhaled them, they were that good and took me on an emotional roller coaster ride all the way through. Both are brave, hilarious, sad, and profound."
—Deborah Doucette, author of The Forgotten Roses
"Books by Deborah Doucette’s Bed"

“Beloved Demons delves deep into the personal and adult aspects of not merely “an unquiet mind” . . . but a forming mind attempting to find . . . its own sense of centre. . . . It is a dark and grueling process. . . .
He went there into the cold and the darkness, melting the warped and stratified ice of his surface interactions, singing like a rat, and I have to give the Devil his due . . .”
—Matthew Kirshenblatt
"Sing, Oh Heavenly Daimon, Sing: A Review of C. Anthony Martignetti’s Beloved Demons"

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Praise for Lunatic Heroes

“In Lunatic Heroes, C. Anthony Martignetti craftily melds memoir and fiction into thoroughly readable and brutally honest stories about his efforts to get at the real truth about life and family and everything in-between.  I eagerly await his next book!”
—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time

“A powerful piece of writing and of inner observation and, of course, redemption. Thoughtfully described, heartbreakingly honest, Anthony Martignetti tears open his own life to show the birth pangs and blessings of compassion.”
—Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of The Wise Heart

"These stories are really, really fucking good."
[From the Introduction to Lunatic Heroes]
—Amanda Palmer, musician, founder of The Dresden Dolls and Grand Theft Orchestra

“An honest-to-goodness regional treasure . . . A glowering emotional pool, an emotional resonance and vulnerability that makes each pang and heartbreak detailed come alive.”
—Victor D. Infante, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
"'Lunatic' outing a rewarding endeavor"

"Martignetti has captured that air of another time and place with poignancy, energy and humor . . ."
—Ana Hebra Flaster, Colonial Times Magazine
"Into the Light"

“At minimum, a 3-hanky book. The pain, and the fear sensitive children go through is so present, so close to the surface in this book, it's hard not to look away. But it's a gorgeous, messy life, and in that aspect, this book is perfect.”
—Chris Rickert, owner of Rickert & Beagle Books
"Lunatic Heroes by C Anthony Martignetti"

“In a fiercely passionate and witty voice tempered with a nostalgic unsentimentality not unlike that of Will Eisner, Anthony manages to show that these characters from his own life aren’t always monsters, but are very fallible human beings with some moments of relation, levity, and downright comedy: even and especially in some of the worst situations that he depicts.”
—Matthew Kirshenblatt
"Sea Shells, See Shells by the Sea Shore: A Review of C. Anthony Martignetti’s Lunatic Heroes"

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