Each invites its readers to see the world through different eyes and see it anew.

Introduction: In the Middle of the Middle of Middletown
Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake... A Memoir, by Max Apple
Childhood; Detroit; Michigan, by Joel Brouwer
Beginnings, by Robert Coover
Some Notes on the Cold War in Kansas, by Robert Day
The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki Ducornet
Visions of Budhardin, by Stuart Dybek
River Dead of Minneapolis, by Mark Ehling
Fuck With Kayla And You Die, by Louise Erdrich
All You Can Eat, by Robin Hemley
13 Remotely Related to South Bend, by Lily Hoang
Happy Film, by Laird Hunt
Long Walk, by Sandy Huss
Round, by Lily James
Anton's Album, by Janet Kauffman
A History of Indiana, by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Still Life with Insects, by Brian Kitely
Mobile Axis: A Triptych, by Clarence Major
The Digitally Enhanced Image of Cary Grant Appearing in a Cornfield in Indiana, by Michael Martone
Talking to my Old Science Teacher about Drawings in which I Killed Him, by Brian McMullen
A Harvest, by Glenn Meeter
Other Electricities, by Ander Monson
The Mausoleum, by Susan S. Neville
Submarine Warfare on the Upper Mississippi, by Lon Otto
Wednesday Night Reflections, Edited Thursday, by Erin Pringle
The Great War, by Josh Russell
July Snow, by Scott Russell Sanders
The Red Bow, by George Saunders
Medieval Land, by Steve Tomasula
Natural Citizens, by Deb Olin Unferth
Session,, by Kellie Wells
Metaphysics of the Midwest, by Curtis White
Luna Moth, by Michael Wilkerson
Baby; Pornography, by Dianne Williams

Michael Martone is Professor of English at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. He is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Blue Guide to Indiana and Michael Martone; two collections of fiction, The Flatness and Other Landscapes and Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art; and an anthology, Double-wide (IUP, 2007); and editor of six volumes.