Faculty & Staff : Michael Martone

 

Books authored

The Blue Guide to Indiana. (Travel book.) Tallahassee: FC2, 2001.

The Flatness and Other Landscapes. (nonfiction) Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Seeing Eye. (Fiction) Cambridge: Zoland Books, 1995.

Penseés: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle. (Fiction) Indianapolis: Broad Ripple P, 1994.

Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List. (Fiction) Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1990. Expanded ed. 1993.

Safety Patrol. (Fiction) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P, 1988.

Return to Powers. (Prose) Fort Wayne: Windless Orchard P, 1985.

Alive and Dead in Indiana. (Fiction) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

At a Loss. (Prose) Fort Wayne: Windless Orchard P, 1977.

 

Chapbooks

The Death Tour. Tuscaloosa: Wing & Wheel Press, 2000.

The Sex Life of the Fantastic Four. Tuscaloosa: Strode Cabin Press, 1999.

 

Books edited

Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, with Lex Williford. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Townships: Pieces of the Midwest. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.

A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1988.

 

Short fiction

"Contributor's Note." New Orleans Review 27:2 (2002): 194–196.

"The First Four Deaths in My High School Class." New Orleans Review 27:2 (2002): 28–29.

"The I States." Talking River Review Winter (2002): 35–37.

"The Deaths of Modern Philosophers." Nebraska Review 29:2 (2001): 47–50.

"Four Corners." The Nebraska Review 29:2 (2001): 44–46.

"Earl Butz Farm." The Baffler 14 (2001): 15.

"Practical Information." Bridge 2 (2001): 25–29.

"Diagnostic Drift." Other Voices 34 (2001): 10–11.

"Skirmish Sites, War Memorials." Meridian 6 (2001), 96–101.

"A Parade of Homes." Another Chicago Magazine 37 (2000), 102–107.

"Borges in Indiana." Dancing Star 25 (2000): 32–33.

"Holy Sites." 3rd Bed 3 (2000) 32–40.

"The Cuisine of the Hoosier State." Ascent 24:3 (2000): 87–93.

"On Anesthesia." Red Weather 19 (2000) 120–123.

"Four for a Quarter." 3rd Bed (1999): 24–25.

"Ten Little Italies of Indiana." Italian Americana 17:2 (1999): 172–177.

"Fragments from The Blue Guide to Indiana." Notre Dame Review 5 (1998): 92–97.

"A Village" and "A Resort." The Prose Poem 6 (1997): 49–50.

"A Room" and "A Town." Key Satch(el) 1.3 (1997): 11.

"The Four Sides of a Triangle: Proof." Mid-American Review 18.2 (1998): 34–36.

"The Blue Guide." Bloomington Voice 6.44 (1997): 10–11.

"Six Entries on Death." Crab Orchard Review 2:1 (1996): 73–76.

"Zoom Room." 100 Words 4:3 (1996): 16.

"From: A Blue Guide to Indiana." Breeze 2:5 (1996): 28–29.

"Four Indiana Towns." Cutbank 46 (1996): 84–87.

"An Indiana Travel Guide, III." Breeze 4 (1996): 29.

"An Indiana Travel Guide, II." Breeze 3 (1996): 27.

"Two Stories." Third Coast 2.2 (1996): 31–37.

"An Indiana Travel Guide, I." Breeze 2 (1996): 33.

"The War of Northern Agression." Icon 3.33 (1995): 14.

"Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes." The American Voice 37 (1995): 80–82.

"Blue Hair." Colorado Review 21.2 (1994): 54–57.

"Dan Quayle, Thinking." Story 3.1 (1992): 38–46. Rpt. in Exquisite Corpse 49 (1994): 10–12.

"On Snipe Hunting." Harper's 289.1723 (1994): 33.

"On 911." Iowa Review 24.1 (1994): 86–88.

"On Quayleito." Iowa Review 24.1 (1994): 84–86.

"Guam." Colorado Review 20.2 (1993): 124–27.

"Fidel." The Florida Review 19.1 (1993): 18–25.

"On the Highway of Vice Presidents." 3 2 (1993): 20–21.

"Outside Peru." Epoch 42.3 (1993): 262–75.

"Evaporation." Sycamore Review 5.1 (1993): 70–73.

"The War That Never Ends." High Plains Literary Review 7.3 (1992): 109–12.

"Turning the Constellation." Colorado Review 7.2 (1991): 13–20.

"Seeing Eye." Arts Indiana Literary Supplement 3 (1991): 24–26.

"It's Time." North American Review 276.1 (1991): 43–44.

 

Short fiction in anthologies

"A Village" and "A Resort." The Best of the Prose Poem: A Journal. Ed. Peter Johnson. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2000.

"Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes." Chick for a Day. Ed. Fiona Giles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

"Blue Hair." Sudden Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

"Everybody Watching the Time Passing Like That." Mondo James Dean. Ed. Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 8–15.

"It's Time." A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing. Ed. Robert DeMaria and Ellen Hope Meyer. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994. 403.

"Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List." Understanding Literatures. Ed. James Hurt. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

"Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes." Sarajevo. Ed. John Babbitt, Carolyn Feucht and Andie Stabler. Elgin: Elgin Community College P, 1993. 201–04.

"Outside Peru." The Company of Animals. Ed. Michael Rosen. New York: Doubleday, 1993. 229–45.

"Dish Night." Flash Fiction. Ed. James Thomas, Denise Thomas and Tom Hazuka. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. 108–10.

"It's Time." Voices Louder Than Words. Ed. William Shore. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. 171–75.

"Parting." Vital Lines. Ed. Jon Mukand. New York: St. Martin's P, 1991. 316–27.

"Seeing Eye." The Company of Dogs. Ed. Michael J. Rosen. New York: Doubleday, 1990. 37– 48.

"Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That." New Territory. Ed. Michael Wilkerson and Deborah Galyan. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1990. 1–9.

"The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Fall, Oregon." American Short Stories, 5th ed. Ed. Eugene Current-Garcia and Bert Hitchcock. Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1989. 790–91. Rpt. in Writing Fiction, 3rd ed. Ed. Janet Burroway. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 57. Rpt. in Violence to Non-Violence: Individual Perspectives, Communal Voices. Ed. William Kelly. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood, 1994. 66. Rpt. in Micro Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

 

Poems

"A Geography." Key Satch(el) 1.3 (1997): 12–13.

 

Articles and essays

"Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lycamedes." Chick for a Day. Ed. Fiona Giles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

"Notes on a Viral Story." AWP Chronicle 29.6 (1997): 14–15.

"Stories We Tell Ourselves: Creating Myths of Place and Personality." High Plains Literary Review 8.1 (1998): 35–50.

"Stories We Tell Ourselves." Narration as Knowledge: Tales of the Teaching Life. Ed. Joseph F. Trimmer, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. 1–11.

"The Flyover." Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest. Ed. Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. 3–12.

"Correctionville, Iowa." Magazine Feature Writing. Ed. Rick Wilber. New York: St. Martin's P, 1995. 328–37.

"Walking Beans." Iowa: A Celebration of Land, People and Purpose. Ed. Craig Canine. Des Moines: Meredith Publications, 1995. 177–89.

"The Night Shift: On Becoming a Poet in Fort Wayne, Indiana." Flyway 1.2 (1995): 8–14.

"Space Dome." Syracuse University Magazine 11.3 (1995): 62–67.

"Ruining a Story." Southern Indiana Review 1.1 (1994): 95–105.

"The Other Houses in Eldon, Iowa." Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest. Ed. Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. 219–26.

"The War in the Forest: The Prose and Poetry of James B. Hall." Northwest Review 31.1 (1993): 122–27.

"The Grolier Bookshop." Poets & Writers 19.6 (1991): 9–11.

"Correctionville, Iowa." North American Review 276.4 (1991): 4–9.

"Living Downtown." North American Review 275.1 (1990): 70–72.

"The Other Houses in Eldon." Borderline 3 (1989): 24–27.

"Pulling Things Back to Earth." Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals. Ed. Robert Atwain. New York: St. Martin's P, 1989. 418–31.

"Living Downtown." Where We Live Now: Essays about Indiana. E. David Hoppe. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1989. 54–60.

"The Flatness." Iowa Review 18.2 (1988): 46–49.

"And Now a Word from Molly and Ned." The Iowa English Bulletin 35.1 (1987): 7–10.

"Why the Windmill?" North American Review 273.3 (1987): 4–6.

"The Proper Levels of Vacuum." North American Review 271.4 (1986): 55–57.

"Below Below the Fold: A Note on T. Coraghessan Boyle. High Plains Literary Review 1.1 (1986): 62–64.

"Future Tense." North American Review 271.2 (1986): 4–5.

"Selling Stories Short." Mississippi Review 40/41 (1985): 58–61.

"Pulling Things Back to Earth." North American Review 270.2 (1985): 118–25.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

"Townships." American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Neil Shumsky. New York: Garland, 1996.

 

Reviews

In Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Literary Magazine Review, High Plains Literary Review, Erato.