The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction, and the impermanence of art. Inspired by the real-life pioneer of early aviation who invented the art of skywriting, the brief stories in this collection by “editor” Michael Martone follow the adventures of Art Smith and his authorship in the sky. In the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut and Hayao Miyazaki, The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone recreates the wonder of the early flying machines as it reimagines the unwritten stories we tell about the daredevils who flew them.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Skywriting
Some Early Ephemera
Panama
Hell
The Ampersand
Benday
A Father’s Vision
A Field Guide to the Birds of Indiana
Mom
Further Writing
When
The Tragic Elopement
If
The Unknown
String
WOWO
Scale
Word Cross
Instructions in War Time
Iced Air
Influenza
Still
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
O
Thin
Birth
Nothing
Roses
The Moon
Lucky
The Falling Leaf
Gas City
Rest
The Border
A B C
Metro Day
Terra Haute
Ohio
French Lick
Good Night
Over de auteur
Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he learned at a very early age about Art Smith, “The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, ” and the adventures of this early aviation pioneer. Martone has written or edited over twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and short stories, including The Moon over Wapakoneta (FC2, 2018), Brooding (University of Georgia Press, 2018), Winesburg, Indiana (Indiana University Press, 2015), Four for a Quarter (FC2, 2011), and Michael Martone (FC2, 2005), a memoir in contributor’s notes. His stories and essays have appeared in The Best American Stories, The Best American Essays, Harper’s, Esquire, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Bomb, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.
He attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds an MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Ingram Merril Foundation. Among his numerous awards, he received the Indiana Authors Award in 2013 and the Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contribution to Midwestern Literature in 2016.
Michael Martone is currently a Professor at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1988. He has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He lives in Tuscaloosa, AL.
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