Results for "Martone, Michael"

A new story collection focused on the Heartland from Michael Martone, one of America's most prolific and important contemporary authors. In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arrhythmic pulse of the Flyover as he conjures Winesburg, Indiana, a ... Read More about Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Bart... Read More about The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writer... Read More about Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.... Read More about The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone

Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury. Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression—that is,... Read More about The Circus of Dr. Lao (Bison Frontiers of Imagination )

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 Wal... Read More about Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet (Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction)