Seeing Eye: Stories

by Michael Martone

A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric--but also sympathetic--tales written in the persona of Indiana's famous son, Dan Quayle. IP.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Michael 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.