Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His most recent work, titled Michael Martone and originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography. A former student of John Barth, Martone's work is critically regarded as powerful and funny. Making use of Whitman's catalogues and Ginsberg's lists, the events, moments and places in Martone's landscapes—fiction or otherwise—often take the same Mobius-like turns of the threads found the works of his mentor, Barth.
Books
Four for a Quarter
Fictions
2011
Michael Martone
2005
Not Normal, Illinois
Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover
2009
Blue Guide to Indiana
2001
Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List
Indiana Stories
1990
Alive and Dead in Indiana
1984
Rules of Thumb
71 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations
2006
Brooding
Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
2018
The Moon over Wapakoneta
Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond
2018
Racing in Place
Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins
2008
A Place Of Sense
Essays In Search Of Midwest
1988
Unconventions
Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art
2005
The Flatness and Other Landscapes
2000
Fakes
An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012
Double-wide
Collected Fiction of Michael Martone
2007
