books by Michael Martone     books:       Blue Guide to Indiana (explanation: This book is not actually part of the "blue guides" series.)1 review Michael Martone Fiction Collective 2, 2001 Fun romp through mythical Hoosier land I was fortunate to catch Martone at a reading in Florida. It was great fun blending of reality and fiction, and as he said, when you don't have plot or character, you have to have humor. My favorite attractions include the Trans-Indiana Mayonnaise pipeline, the mount Etna active Volcano, and off course Eli Lilly Land ("Its a Prozac world"). The list is however incomplete, and I hope in future ...             The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 197011 reviews Touchstone, 1999 Amazing. It's difficult to review a book with fifthy authors and their short stories. But I can tell you this: I read a lot of anthologies and usualy only a few stories are really good. In this Scribner Anthology however every single story is outstanding and to me that's extraordinary. Let me give you the list of the authors and their stories: Alexie, Sherman: This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, ...             Michael Martone: Fictions6 reviews Michael Martone Fiction Collective 2, 2005 Personality Crisis I read Michael Martone's book knowing him only as the author of the hilarious spoof BLUE GUIDE TO INDIANA. Like my wife, he was a graduate from Indiana University in Bloomington, famous as the place where the cult film BREAKING AWAY was filmed, a fact to which Martone alludes in his imaginative recap of the different paths memory takes us when we are asked for a simple contributor's note. It is ...             The Flatness and Other Landscapes (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)2 reviews Michael Martone University of Georgia Press, 2003 Martone's eye at work Being from the midwest, this collection of meditative, lyric essays is particularly interesting to me. Martone's depth of sight and ability to stick on an image and draw connections here is fantastic. This is an exploration of windmills, farms and farming, mythology, the landscape itself, wire, and a number of other fab images. If you're a midwesterner, or are at all a fan of Martone's work, ...             Short Fiction 31 review Benjamin Percy, Melanie Rae Rhon, ... University of Plymouth Press, 2009 All Fiction All New All Short All Illustrated This volume features work from America to Japan. From the US, Short Fiction has new work from Melanie Rae Thon, Brad Watson, Michael Martone, and Benjamin Percy amongst others. Translations from Japan and Croatia of Naoka Awa and Roman Simic respectively. Illustrations lead into stories and a special supplement of text and image are provided in a 'Science Times' corroboration by Terri Kapsalis ...             The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books)4 reviews Michael Martone Touchstone, 2007 Great short story anthology There are so many anthologies, it's hard to convince people to buy more then one. But this collection really does include some brilliant pieces. If you don't have a stack of anthologies already, this one is worth the money. Almost every story is worth multiple reads. And no great short story writer is missing.             Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present2 reviews Touchstone, 2007 Slow but beautiful The book took a few more days than i expected to arrive, but it was in great shape, I couldn't have chosen a better used book if I had gone to a used book store myself! Thanks             Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover (Quarry Books)1 review Indiana University Press, 2009 Strongly recommended read for any who want a sampling of mid-western philosophy There's just something about being in the middle of it all. "Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover" is a collection of short fiction from many Midwestern writers as they offer their own viewpoints and unique takes on the world through their writing. Thirty three stories bring readers to a very complete and comprehensive set of ideals that is sure to entertain as well as ...             Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists2 reviews Robin Hemley, Michael Martone Longman, 2003 a lovely guide to the underside of contemporary fiction This text has a very nice selection of offerings from some writers that you might not ordinarily encounter. As a primer to a more experimental fiction tradition, it works very nicely. Fits well into a fiction workshop, too, as it's not too pricey and packs a lot of bang in their for yr buck.             Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle1 review Michael Martone Broad Ripple Press, 1994 "Thoughts" of a politician that just seemed made for the job; being the butt of jokes Dan Quayle is one of those people that comedians love, as the jokes so often write themselves. Even though his managers tried to carefully control his appearances, something always seemed to go wrong. He would mangle a line into something completely different or have to read from a card where a word was misspelled. He never seemed to be able to project an image of seriousness, it was so easy to ...             Rules of Thumb: 71 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations5 reviews Michael Martone, Susan Neville Writers Digest Books, 2006 Quality! I love this book, which I happened upon at Barnes & Noble. The feel and aesthetics drew me to it, and the font and layout won me over. Like so many of these types of books for and by writers, I figured there was a likelihood that much of the writing inside would be of dubious quality or real merit, and contributed by the workshop people that give that stereotype its oomph. Instead, 98% of ...             Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition: Indiana Stories2 reviews Michael Martone Indiana University Press, 1993 Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hilters List- what a book Michael Martone did a wonderful job when writing this book. He puts a lot of imaginative details into this writing. As you are reading the story seems to come alive. He adds many detailed and interesting details. This book is composed of many short stories about Indiana. Martone adds some of the most different characters. In the story Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List, Martone talks about ...             Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art1 review Michael Martone University of Georgia Press, 2005 A repetitive book... Best Audience: The best audience for this book is a writer seeking guidance for writing and publishing fiction in unconventional ways, or a teacher of undergraduate, graduate or a community continuing education program looking for unconventional aspects of fiction to present to a class. A teacher of either undergraduate or graduate writing (fiction or nonfiction) courses may find this book ...             Seeing Eye: Stories2 reviews Michael Martone Zoland Books, 1995 Martone's Magnificent Midwestern Memories! "Seeing Eye" is a pleasant and provocative series of snapshot short stories from the perspective of many different people, all sharing the common thread of living among the corn fields and conservative urbanity of Indiana. For Fort Wayne natives, Michael chooses such familiar points of reference as Brateman's, Grand Leader, WOWO Radio, Bob Sievers, and even riding the Broadway Limited through ...              search for books actually, american, anthology, association, attempting, authors, contemporary, creative, edition, enlarged, explanation, extreme, fabulists, fictions, fixations, flatness, flyover, formalists, illinois, indiana, landscapes, nonfiction, peculiar, pensees, programs, scribner, seventh, thoughts, touchstone, unconventions books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: Heath Zenith SL-4150-SC Motion-Activated Four-Sided Coach Light, Pewter we recommend The Shoes Of The Fisherman home  impressum - about us