"This survey of thought-provoking and noteworthy 'nonrealistic' and 'nonnarrative' short fiction will expand and enrich the scope of any short story or fiction-writing course ...

"Michael Martone, by Michael Martone, continues the author's exploration of the parts of books nobody ever reads. Michael Martone is its own appendix, comprising forty-two ...

Let Martone guide you through every inch of the amazing state that is home to the Hoosier Infidelity Resort Area, the site of Wendell Willkie's Ascension into Heaven, and the ...

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 ...

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects. Throughout, Martone's words inhabit spaces where the ...