Michael Martone Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana Paperback Book in White Michael Martone White

A new story collection focused on the Heartland from Michael Martone, one of America's most prolific and important contemporary authors. In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arrhythmic pulse of the Flyover as he conjures Winesburg, Indiana, a fictional town and all of its inhabitants’ lyric philosophies, tales of the mundane, and the sensation of being “lost” in the heart of the heart of the country.But here, in over one-hundred and thirty short fictions, even as there is much sadness, the citizens continue to tinker and create, marvel and wonder in the midst of ruin and rust.These stories may capture lives of quiet desperation, but in so doing, they create a kind of hobbled poetry in the spontaneous sketches of the ordinary made extraordinary, the regular irregularities, the familiar knocked off-balance with a glancing blow.From the overly overworked City Manager, to Margaret Wigg’s obsessively collected collection of library sta