Full Description
Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize
Finalist for the the Big Other Award for Fiction
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.
Contents
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
