Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone

In this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana's most recognized voices. This book collects work from Martone's first five books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List (IUP, 1990, 1992), Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, and Seeing Eye. Virtually all of the stories in this "double-wide" collection speak to the Hoosier experience and imagination. Places like Martone's hometown of Fort Wayne, as well as Peru, Elkhart, and Indianapolis, and narrators such as Colonel Sanders, Alfred Kinsey, and James Dean's high school English teacher all come to life with the author's trademark blend of irreverent humor and incisive reality.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Preface 1. From Alive and Dead in Indiana Highlights Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That Pieces Alfred Kinsey, Along After and Interview, Dreams of Indiana Whistler's Father Dear John, The Greek Letter in the Bed Schliemann in Indianapolis Biograph 2. From Safety Patrol King of Safety Nein Lost Parting The Third Day of Trials Watch Out An Accident A Short, Short Story Complete on These Two Pages Carbonation March of Dimes X-ray The Safety Patrol 3. From Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List Three Postcards from Indiana 4. From Seeing Eye The Mayor of the Sister City Talks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon Dish Night Lice Meat What I See The Teakwood Deck of the USS Indiana Limited Three Tales of the Sister City Guam The War That Never Ends Chatty Cathy Falls into the Wrong Hands Evaporation Miners The War of Northern Aggression Elkhart, There, at the End of the World Blue Hair It's Time Fidel Seeing Eye Outside Peru Turning the Constellation 5. From Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle On the Highway of Vice Presidents On the State of the Union On the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier On Late-Night TV On Anesthesia On Barbie On Hoosier Hysteria On 911 On Quaylito On The Little Prince On The Planet of the Apes On Snipe Hunting 6.Uncollected Fiction Borges in Indiana Species 7. Two More Things to Do When in Indiana The World Headquarters of World Headquarteres The Thirty-Year Salad Bar War Three Contributor's Notes and a Review of Michael Martone Contributor's Note Contributor's Note Contributor's Note Review

About the Author :
Michael Martone is Professor of English at the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa. He is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Blue Guide to Indiana and Michael Martone, two collections of fiction, The Flatness and Other Landscapes and Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art, and six edited volumes. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Review :
"Michael Martone's short fiction combines remarkable originality with a keen eye, deadpan humor, and an amused, massively knowledgeable obsession with his native Indiana. What a pleasure, to have these sparklers from all over the American 'zine-scene collected in one volume!" John Barth