"Michael Martone writes with deep affection for the ordinary. In his hands, the quotidian dreams of the American heartland are transformed... " â€”Louise Erdrich
"This is a marvelous book.... What a gift!" â€”Richard Rhodes

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories

Biographies & Memoirs

Martone, Michael

Regional U.S.

Indiana University Press

"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

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition: Indiana Stories

In this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana’s most recognized voices. This book collects work from Martone’s first five books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List (IUP, 1990, 1992), Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, and Seeing Eye. Virtually all of the stories in this "double-wide" collection speak to the Hoosier experience and imagination. Places like Martone’s hometown of Fort Wayne, as well as Peru, Elkhart, and Indianapolis, and narrators such as Colonel Sanders, Alfred Kinsey, and James Dean’s high school English teacher all come to life with the author’s trademark blend of irreverent humor and incisive reality.

Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone

Literature & Fiction

United States

Quarry Books

"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

Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories

Indiana Univ. Pr

"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

In this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana’s most recognized voices. This book collects work from Martone’s first five books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List (IUP, 1990, 1992), Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, and Seeing Eye. Virtually all of the stories in this "double-wide" collection speak to the Hoosier experience and imagination. Places like Martone’s hometown of Fort Wayne, as well as Peru, Elkhart, and Indianapolis, and narrators such as Colonel Sanders, Alfred Kinsey, and James Dean’s high school English teacher all come to life with the author’s trademark blend of irreverent humor and incisive reality.

This anthology surveys the most thought-provoking and noteworthy non-traditional#148 short stories written by American and international writers over the past 100 years. The works collected here represent a rich, while often overlooked, tradition of stories that seem to break the rules of short fiction. These stories, by well-known writers as well as by refreshingly new voices, demonstrate a wide-range of stylistic and narrative diversity. They expand our perceptions of what constitutes a well-written short story and underscore the unlimited techniques writers use to achieve a desired effect.

Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists

Hemley, Robin

History & Criticism

Pearson

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

Literary

KNOPF

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 beginning―his beginning―as a child who "grew up" in his mother's high school English classroom. As the essays unfold, provocative accounts of his experiences lead us on a path toward discovery of the stories that build our own sense of place and color our understanding of the world.
From depicting the details of mechanized cow-milking to relating the similarities between the Greek city of Sparta and Indianapolis, Martone subtly connects different cultures, times, and stories. "Stories We Tell Ourselves" characterizes the fluid, energetic writing that transforms a mundane small town into an intertwined, vibrant world shaped by the perceptions and memories of the people who live there. What begins in one classroom at Central High effortlessly builds into a discussion, by turns playful, serious, and poignant, that touches on myriad subjects. Before our eyes, Martone unites The Odyssey, Iowa farmers, a human genome map, American Gothic, and Dan Quayle into a saga equal to any from Classical mythology, showing us that a house, a farm, a town, a country, or a civilization has energy and dimension only through the stories of its inhabitants. The Flatness and Other Landscapes proves that our lives and the landscapes that surround us are only as flat as we perceive them to be.

The Flatness and Other Landscapes: Essays (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)

Arts & Literature

Univ of Georgia Pr

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 beginning―his beginning―as a child who "grew up" in his mother's high school English classroom. As the essays unfold, provocative accounts of his experiences lead us on a path toward discovery of the stories that build our own sense of place and color our understanding of the world. From depicting the details of mechanized cow-milking to relating the similarities between the Greek city of Sparta and Indianapolis, Martone subtly connects different cultures, times, and stories. "Stories We Tell Ourselves" characterizes the fluid, energetic writing that transforms a mundane small town into an intertwined, vibrant world shaped by the perceptions and memories of the people who live there. What begins in one classroom at Central High effortlessly builds into a discussion, by turns playful, serious, and poignant, that touches on myriad subjects. Before our eyes, Martone unites The Odyssey, Iowa farmers, a human genome map, American Gothic, and Dan Quayle into a saga equal to any from Classical mythology, showing us that a house, a farm, a town, a country, or a civilization has energy and dimension only through the stories of its inhabitants. The Flatness and Other Landscapes proves that our lives and the landscapes that surround us are only as flat as we perceive them to be.

The Flatness and Other Landscapes

Essays & Correspondence

University of Georgia Press

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Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition: Indiana Stories

Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone

Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories

Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories

Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone

Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists

Alive and Dead in Indiana

The Flatness and Other Landscapes: Essays (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)

The Flatness and Other Landscapes