These 11 stories represent something new in American fiction. The author calls them mixtures of fact and fiction, fame and obscurity, their sources the little stories people repeat without thinking and then turn them into myth.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List
Three Postcards from Indiana
Santa Claus
French Lick
Muncie
Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That
Pieces
Alfred Kinsey, Alone, after an Interview, Dreams of Indiana
Whistler's Father
Dear John
The Greek Letter in the Bed
Schliemann in Indianapolis
The Teakwood Deck of the U.S.S. Indiana
Biograph

MICHAEL MARTONE is the author and editor of several works of fiction and nonfiction. He and his wife, the poet Theresa Pappas, are publishers of Story County Books.