Michael Martone Reading
Michael Martone read from his recent work Wednesday,
October 4th at 6 p.m. in Bracken Library, room 225, on the Ball State
campus. The reading was followed by a book signing with the author. Both
events were free and open to the public.
Michael Martone is the author of several collections of fiction and nonfiction, including Michael Martone, The Blue Guide to Indiana, Seeing Eye, Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List, and The Flatness and Other Landscapes, which received the 1998 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. He teaches writing at the University of Alabama.
Praise for Michael Martone’s work:
“Among our wealth of excellent new American short-story writers, Michael Martone is one particularly worth reading.” - John Barth
“Michael Martone’s Michael Martone squares the facts about his life with the stories about his life. I found I couldn’t put the book down, and I never wanted it to end.” - Michael Martone
Co-sponsored by Creative Writing in the Department of English and the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry.