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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 chaos comprehen...

Recipient of Multiple NEA GrantsRecipient of Multiple Writing Awards including the World's Best Short, Short Story ContestExtensive Teaching and Publishing Career in Fiction, Non-fiction, and EditingPlain Air is, in many ways, a literary homage to Sherwood Anderson's famous collection of stories Winesburg, OhioMichael Martone is an enthusiast of the Postal Service, postcards, trains, the number four, Quonset huts, and the Flyover

Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.

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Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America's Midwest

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in Tarrytown for members of their order before opening to women in 1961, Mercy College has always striven to positively impact the lives of its students and the members of its community. In 1969, the college became coeducational and nonsectarian. The main campus in Dobbs Ferry expanded throughout the New York metropolitan area, operating several branch campuses in New York City and Westchester County. The missio...

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place, the memoir, writing, the essay itself, and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

This collection of essays on the real and metaphorical landscapes of America's heartland received wide acclaim.

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Essays describe life in small towns, farming communities, and suburbs in states from Ohio to North Dakota.

Twenty-five of the Midwest's best poets, fiction writers, and essayists combine their talents in a collection of essays that describe the townships of the region.

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 chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary.

Is it truth or fiction? Memoir or essay? Narrative or associative? To a writer like Michael Martone, questions like these are high praise. Martones studied disregard of form and his unruffled embrace of the prospect that nothingno story, no lifeis ever quite finished have yielded some of todays most splendidly unconventional writing. Add to that an utter weakness for pop Americana and what Louise Erdrich has called a deep affection for the ord...

Unconventions is a quirky and provocative miscellany that reveals Michael Martone's protean interests as a writer and a writing teacher. Martone has, shall we say, a problem with authority. His chief pleasure in knowing the rules of his vocation comes from trying out new ways to bend, blend, or otherwise defy them. The pieces gathered in Unconventions are drawn from a long career spent loosening the creative strictures on writing. Including ar...

Unconventions is a quirky and provocative miscellany that reveals Michael Martone's protean interests as a writer and a writing teacher. Martone has, shall we say, a problem with authority. His chief pleasure in knowing the rules of his vocation comes from trying out new ways to bend, blend, or otherwise defy them. The pieces gathered in Unconventions are drawn from a long career spent loosening the creative strictures on writing. Including ar...

Comprises fifty "contributors notes, " each of which identifies in biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. Michael Martone's self-inventions include the multiple deaths of himself and all his family members, his Kafkaesque rebirth as an insect, and his stints as circus performer, assembly-line worker, photographer, and movie extra.

Michael Martone is Professor of English at the University of Alabama¿Tuscaloosa. He is author of many books including Four for a Quarter: Fictions, Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (IUP, 2007), and editor of Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover (IUP, 2009). Martone was the winner of the 2013 National Indiana Authors Award.Bryan Furuness teaches at Butler University and is author of The Lost Episodes of Revie...

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Collected early fiction of one of Indianas premier writers