About J.F. Martel
J.F. Martel is a writer on art, culture, religion, and philosophy.
His essays have appeared in online journals such as Daedalus, The North American Review, Metapsychosis, Canadian Notes & Queries, and Reality Sandwich, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher, North Atlantic Books, and Intellect Books. He wrote the Foreword for Michael Olivo's Saints & Sand (Harpy Books, 2024); the essay, "Photography is Haunted," for Shannon Taggart's Séance (Atelier Editions); and the foreword for Jobe Bittman's The Book of Antitheses (Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2021). Published in 2016, J.F.'s long-form essay, “Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things,” is available in e-book format from Untimely Books.
He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published in 2015 by Evolver Editions. Ediciones Atalanta released a Spanish translation of the work in 2017. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, in 2025, Reclaiming Art was published by Basic Books as an audiobook and trade paperback, with an introduction by Donna Tartt.
J.F. co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast, a series of conversations on the intersections of philosophy, the arts, and the weird, with Phil Ford, associate professor of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
His essays have appeared in online journals such as Daedalus, The North American Review, Metapsychosis, Canadian Notes & Queries, and Reality Sandwich, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher, North Atlantic Books, and Intellect Books. He wrote the Foreword for Michael Olivo's Saints & Sand (Harpy Books, 2024); the essay, "Photography is Haunted," for Shannon Taggart's Séance (Atelier Editions); and the foreword for Jobe Bittman's The Book of Antitheses (Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2021). Published in 2016, J.F.'s long-form essay, “Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things,” is available in e-book format from Untimely Books.
He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published in 2015 by Evolver Editions. Ediciones Atalanta released a Spanish translation of the work in 2017. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, in 2025, Reclaiming Art was published by Basic Books as an audiobook and trade paperback, with an introduction by Donna Tartt.
J.F. co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast, a series of conversations on the intersections of philosophy, the arts, and the weird, with Phil Ford, associate professor of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Contact
Professional inquiries should be directed to J.F. Martel’s literary agent, Katherine Fausset of Curtis Brown, Ltd., at [email protected].
For personal correspondence, J.F. can be reached at [email protected].
For personal correspondence, J.F. can be reached at [email protected].