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  • Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana

    by Michael Martone ...
    In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arrhythmic pulse of the Flyover as he conjures Winesburg, Indiana, a fictional town and all of its inhabitants’ lyric philosophies, tales of the mundane, and the sensation of being “lost” in the heart of the heart of the country. But here, in over one-hundred and thirty short fictions, even as there is ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Microfiction 2020

    by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Michael Martone ...
    The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features acclaimed author/editor Michael Martone serving as final judge, three essays on the craft of microfiction, and six interviews with the ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

    by Michael Martone ...
    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Four for a Quarter

    Fictions

    by Michael Martone ...
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Four is the magic number in Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. In subject—four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four—and in structure—the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes—Four for a Quarter returns again and again to ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Winesburg, Indiana

    A Fork River Anthology

    Edited by Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness ...
    In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

    Work from 1970 to the Present

    Edited by Lex Williford, Michael Martone ...
    From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Blue Guide to Indiana

    by Michael Martone ...
    An ersatz travel book for the Hoosier StateThe master of the nearly true is back with The Blue Guide to Indiana, an ersatz travel book for the Hoosier State. Michael Martone, whose trademark is the blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, has created an Indiana that almost is, a landscape marked by Lover's Lane franchises and pharmaceutical drug theme parks. Visit the Trans-Indiana ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Alive and Dead in Indiana

    by Michael Martone ...
    "The stories of this collection occupy the gray borderland where betrayal mixes with trust, violence with affection, humiliation with lust. The effect is quietly haunting."--Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Brooding

    Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet

    by Michael Martone ...
    Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
    This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut. Throughout the essays, Martone’s style expands with the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Moon over Wapakoneta

    Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond

    by Michael Martone ...
    Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s MidwestThe Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Safety Patrol

    by Michael Martone ...
    Using irony, Martone creates a collection of stories around our various ideas of what safety means and notes how we cling to such ideas. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Unconventions

    Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art

    by Michael Martone ...
    Unconventions is a quirky and provocative miscellany that reveals Michael Martone’s protean interests as a writer and a writing teacher. Martone has, shall we say, a problem with authority. His chief pleasure in knowing the rules of his vocation comes from trying out new ways to bend, blend, or otherwise defy them. The pieces gathered in Unconventions are drawn from a long career spent loosening ... Read more

    $27.99 USD