February 13, 2006
Michael Martone
Under the influence of cold medicine, I recently reread his Alive and Dead in Indiana, his Blue Guide to Indiana, and his Seeing Eye collection, which includes his Dan Quayle monlogues. Subtle, hilarious stuff all the more powerful because of its big, Hoosier truths.
Sober now, I remain confounded by Martone’s genius for regional surrealism. Or as critics like to call it, regionalism.