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Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes
160 pages, Paperback
Published March 11, 2025
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Michael Martone
65 books63 followersMichael 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.
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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June 5, 2025
Wit of the most subtle variety. Art in its cleverest, focused form. Michael Martone's 'Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes' is a feast far beyond the table. Through memoir vignettes (some little more than a paragraph) he serves up humanity, one second thought at a time.
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