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Books by Professor Michael Martone
  | | The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(2nd Edition) 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) by Michael Martone, Lex Williford, Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2007 by Touchstone Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3227-9, ISBN: 1-4165-3227-7 "Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors. Russell Banks - Donald Barthelme - Rick Bass - Richard Bausch - Charles Baxter - Amy Bloom - T. C. Boyle - Kevin Brockmeier - Robert Olen Butler - Sandra Cisneros - Peter Ho Davies - ..." |
 | | Unconventions(Updated) Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art : Writings on Writing by Professor Michael Martone Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2778-5, ISBN: 0-8203-2778-6 "Anna Leahy asked me to write this afterword for an anthology she was putting together called The Authority Project that collected papers on the pedagogy of creative writing. I wrote it last summer, the summer of 2004, beginning on Memorial ..." |
 | | Blue Guide to Indiana(1st Edition) (explanation: This book is not actually part of the "blue guides" series.) by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2001 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-095-2, ISBN: 1-57366-095-7 "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. Passages from this book have been published in Indiana newspapers as feature articles on what to do this weekend or as suggestions for family vacations. Tourists have been directed to visit the Trans-Indiana Mayonnaise Pipeline an ..." |
 | | Four for a Quarter(1st Edition) Fictions by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2011 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-163-8, ISBN: 1-57366-163-5 "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 its originating number, making chao ..." |
 | | Racing in Place Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3039-6, ISBN: 0-8203-3039-6 "Is it truth or fiction? Memoir or essay? Narrative or associative? To a writer like Michael Martone, questions like these are high praise. Martone's studied disregard of form and his unruffled embrace of the prospect that nothing - no story, no life - is ever quite finished have yielded some of today's most splendidly unconventional writing. Add to that an utter weakness for pop Americana and what Louise Erdrich has called a "deep affec ..." |
 | | Winesburg, Indiana, Break Away Book Club Edition A Fork River Anthology (Break Away Books) by Michael Martone, Bryan Mark Furuness, Cj Hribal, Roxane Gay, Robin Black, Andrew Hudgins, Lee Martin, Valerie Sayers, Gregory Schwipps, Barbara Bean, Sherrie Flick, Ethel Rohan, Edward Porter, Valerie Miner, Joyelle Mcsweeney, Erin Mcgraw, George Singleton, Porter Shreve, Shannon Cain, Sean Lovelace, Sam Martone, Brian Buckbee, Jim Walke, Kate Bernheimer, Karen Brennan, Kelcey Ervick Parker, Deb Olin Unferth, Claire Vaye Watkins, B.J. Hollars, Susan S. Neville, Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2015 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01688-1, ISBN: 0-253-01688-6 "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 made and destroyed, of births and unexpecte ..." |
 | | Four for a Quarter by Professor Michael Martone Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-827-9, ISBN: 1-57366-827-3 |
 | | Memoranda by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2015 by Bull City Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-5762-2, ISBN: 1-4951-5762-8 "Fiction. Editors' selection from the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Twenty-five twenty-five word stories from one of America's most faithful reporters. "We know exactly where we are and who we are in Michael Martone's MEMORANDA, and then there's a space, a blank, a hinge, a hole in the floor, a fold in the space/time continuum, a silent fugue, a 'dragon in the crease' as Dickinson says. Then we're no longer sure who and where w ..." |
 | | The Circus of Dr. Lao(2nd Edition) by Charles G. Finney, Michael Martone, John Marco, Professor Michael Martone, Boris Artzybasbeff Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3494-9, ISBN: 0-8032-3494-5 "Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression-that is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real-a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hou ..." |
 | | Brothers and Beasts An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) by Kate Bernheimer, Professor Maria Tatar, Prof. Jack Zipes, Brian Baldi, Alexander Chee, Christopher Barzak, Greg Bills, Steve Almond, Joshua Beckman, Eric Kraft, Gregory Maguire, Norman Lock, Richard Siken, Ilya Kaminsky, Neil Gaiman, Robert Coover, Michael Mejia, Kieran Suckling, Jeff Vandermeer, Johannes Göransson, Jirí Cêch, Timothy Schaffert, Vijay Seshadri, Willy Vlautin, Michael Martone, David J. Schwartz, Professor Michael Martone, Jack Zipes, Maria Tatar, Jack David Zipes Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3267-2, ISBN: 0-8143-3267-6 "Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. ""Brothers and Beasts"" offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories. In their personal essays, the contributors - who include genre, literary, mainstream, and visual media ..." |
 | | Forms at War(1st Edition) FC2 1999-2009 by Contributor-Mark Axelrod, Contributor-Leslie Scalapino, Contributor-Brian Evenson, Contributor-Susan Steinberg, Contributor-Norman Lock, Contributor-Lucy Corin, Contributor-Kim Addonizio, Contributor-Michael Mejia, Contributor-Christopher Grimes, Contributor-Lynda Schor, Contributor-Michael Joyce, Contributor-Alexandra Chasin, Contributor-Magdalena Zurawski, Contributor-Flournoy Holland, Contributor-Lance Olsen, Contributor-Steve Tomasula, Contributor-Lidia Yuknavitch, Contributor-Michael Martone, Ralph M. Berry, Professor Michael Martone, Dr. Lidia Yuknavitch, Diane Williams, Stephen Graham Jones, Debra Di Blasi, A. B. West, Professor Steve Tomasula, Noy Holland Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-806-4, ISBN: 1-57366-806-0 "Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade. Together they contest the false present of the Bush years, continuing the political and aesthetic struggle that gave birth to modernism s dream of form. These fictions by Kim Addonizio, Diane Williams, Michael Martone, Brian Evenson, and nineteen others, first published by FC2 between 1999 and 2009 all l ..." |
 | | The Flatness and Other Landscapes(1st Edition) Essays (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) by Professor Michael Martone Hardcover, 171 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2160-8, ISBN: 0-8203-2160-5 "Seen from the air, the seemingly endless "flyover" spaces that form America's Midwest appear in rectangular variations of brown, green, and ochre, with what Michael Martone terms "the tended look of a train set." In these essays, the flatness of the region becomes the author's canvas for a richly textured, multidimensional exploration of its culture and history. In the tradition of the Greek myths that inspire him, Martone begins at the ..." |
 | | Pensees(1st Edition) The Thoughts of Dan Quayle by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 1994 by Broad Ripple Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9639885-0-8, ISBN: 0-9639885-0-6 |
 | | Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition Indiana Stories by Professor Michael Martone, Micahel Martone, Michael Martone Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1993 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20851-4, ISBN: 0-253-20851-3 "Indiana Stories Michael Martone. Preface. The first version of this book was called Alive and Dead in Indiana. ... The stories new in that edition were "Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List," "Three Postcards from Indiana," "Schliemann in Indianapolis," and "The ... In this new, Enlarged Edition, at the Press's urging, I have added four more stories, all, like their predecessors, dealing with Indiana. ... Syracuse, 1993 Acknowled ..." |
 | | Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List Indiana Stories (A Midland Book S.) by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 1990 by Indiana U.P. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20555-1, ISBN: 0-253-20555-7 ""Michael Martone writes with deep affection for the ordinary. In his hands, the quotidian dreams of the American heartland are transformed... " -- Louise Erdrich "This is a marvelous book.... What a gift!" -- Richard Rhodes" |
 | | Alive and Dead in Indiana(1st Edition) by Professor Michael Martone Hardcover, 114 Pages, Published 1984 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-53021-5, ISBN: 0-394-53021-7 "Stories focusing on eight famous Americans who have had close connections to Indiana blend fact and fiction to cast new light on the personalities and the settings" |
 | | Alive and Dead in Indiana by Professor Michael Martone Published 1984 ISBN-13: 978-1-936873-50-0, ISBN: 1-936873-50-8 |
 | | Michael Martone(1st Edition) Fictions by Professor Michael Martone Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2005 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-126-3, ISBN: 1-57366-126-0 ""Michael Martone" is its own appendix, comprising fifty "contributors notes," each of which identifies in exorbitant biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. It is full of fanciful anecdotes and preposterous reminiscences. Michael Martone's self-inventions include the multiple deaths of himself and all his family members, his Kafkaesque rebirth as a giant insect, and his stints as circus performer, assembly-line worker, p ..." |
 | | Safety Patrol. Short Stories by Michael Martone (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) Martone, Professor Michael by Professor Michael Martone, Michael Martone Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3602-2, ISBN: 0-8018-3602-6 |
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