Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe
The Living End (3 of them actually in one book), by Stanley Elkin
Chimera (ditto), by John Barth
Badlands, by Cynthia Reeves
Report of Ito Sadohara, by Michael Mejia
Ordinary Love and Good Will, by Jane Smiley
The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, by Nicholson Baker
Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
Blood Child, by Octavia E. Butler
This is Where My Life Went Wrong, by C. Bard Cole
Michael Martone is the author of eight books of fiction including Seeing Eye; The Thoughts of Dan Quayle; Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List; Safety Patrol; Alive and Dead in Indiana; The Blue Guide to Indiana; Michael Martone; and Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone. He’s written many workd on nonfiction including The Flatness and Other Landscapes, a collection of his own essays about the Midwest(AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1998).
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 