Michael Martone

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January 01, 1955 in Fort Wayne, Indiana

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Short Stories

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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.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,078 ratings · 398 reviews · 33 distinct works

	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970 by Michael Martone (Editor), Lex Williford (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Michael Martone 4.16 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present 4.27 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Blue Guide to Indiana 3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List, Enlarged Edition: Indiana Stories 3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Flatness and Other Landscapes 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (Quarry Books) 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Seeing Eye 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995	My rating:

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“In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.”
― Michael Martone, The Flatness and Other Landscapes

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“Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.”
― Michael Martone, Michael Martone

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