 "The Bridge" won the 2002 SIBA Book Award (Best Book of the Year Fiction) sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA).In 2006, his second novel, "Magic Time", was published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux and received critical praise, including a positive review in "The New York Times Book Review".Marlette served as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2001-2002 academic year and was inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame in 2002.