Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right ...

FINALIST, Big Other Book Awards (2025)With wit and humor, Michael Martone writes his life as one ...

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

'In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arr...

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology br...

Winner of the BOA Short Fiction PrizeFinalist for the the Big Other Award for Fiction

In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the gh...

Places like Martone's hometown of Fort Wayne, as well as Peru, Elkhart, and Indianapolis, and nar...

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in Tarrytown for members of their order before opening to women i...

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Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in Tarrytown for members of their order before opening to women i...

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, consider...

Is it truth or fiction? Memoir or essay? Narrative or associative? To a writer like Michael Marto...

More than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction works...