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The 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. Let Martone guide you through every inch of the amazing state that is home to the Hoosier Infidelity Resort Area, the N...

Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is theresomething not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take a most individual approach tostorytelling. And the result -- to the delight of readers everywhere -- has beenstories that reveal the mystery, joy, and enchantment in the most ordinary andincidental moments of life. These 33 exceptional tales show...

These 11 stories represent something new in American fiction. The author calls them mixtures of fact and fiction, fame and obscurity, their sources the little stories people repeat without thinking and then turn them into myth.