Winesburg, Indiana

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In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of remembered pasts and unexplored presents told to the reader by as interesting a cast of characters as one is likely to find in small town America. Brought to life by a lively group of Indiana writers, Winesburg, Indiana, is a place to discover something of what it means to be alive in our hyperactive century from stories that are deeply human, sometimes melancholy, and often damned funny.

Contributors include:
Michael Martone, Susan Neville, BJ Hollars, CJ Hribal, Barbara Bean, Kate Bernheimer, Lee Martin, Porter Shreve, Robin Black, Karen Brennan, Brian Buckbee, Shannon Cain, Sherrie Flick, Bryan Furuness, Roxane Gay, Andrew Hudgins, Sean Lovelace, Sam Martone, Erin McGraw, Joyelle McSweeney, Valerie Miner, Kelcey Parker, Ed Porter, Ethel Rohan, Valerie Sayers, Greg Schwipps, George Singleton, Deb Olin Unferth, Jim Walk and Claire Vaye Watkins.

Sujets

• General officer
• General
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 02 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253017345
• Langue: English

Extrait

The concept behind Winesburg, Indiana seems almost impossible to pull off: asking an all-star roster of small and major press writers to contribute work to a fabulist linked story collection. The collection makes the argument that Indiana-not to mention the greater Midwest-is more than just flyover country.
SALVATORE PANE , author of Last Call in the City of Bridges
This book is funny as hell, and beneath its humor are contemporary grotesques who deepen our understanding of the human condition, making us look unflinchingly at the darker side of human nature and human loneliness, that universally felt alienation common to isolated, repressed Midwestern towns and therefore to almost any small town anywhere in the world.
LEX WILLIFORD , author of Macauley s Thumb
Virginal reconstructions, alien scat collectors, manchildren, and toenail-eating reverends. Winesburg, Indiana reads like a lung-it expands and holds the big emotions of its many lives; each exhale is an inhabitant, inhabiting. It exists. It will continue to exist, cease and desist demand be damned.
ZACH TYLER VICKERS , author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!
You may be able to fly over Winesburg, Indiana, but more challenged to take it at ground level, where the Fork River cuts like a knife through the flat terrain. You may find that Winesburg, once discovered, is not easy to leave. A host of characters give voice to their wildest dreams, their dreariest defeats, their sweetest triumphs. The voices of forty denizens hold you in their home town, page after page.
JAN MAHER , author of Heaven, Indiana
Winesburg, Indiana may, or may not, speak with a forked tongue, or, at least, a tongue planted firmly in a cheek, but this compelling compendium also accomplishes the necessary task of surprising readers with an alternate Indiana. Here you will find forty of Indiana s most articulate observers and writers full of sass and humor as they take on a host of contemporary stereotypes, spinning them on their heads and leaving any reader dizzy with admiration.
WILLIAM O ROURKE , author of Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer
Michael Martone, Bryan Furness, and their team of cartographers have taken their pens and knives to the town of Winesburg, Indiana to map out the varieties of human experience lived on the Fork River. They have succeeded in drawing a new prime meridian by which we may chart our joys and sorrows in these short fictions-plotting the intersections of trains and post office murals, cats and young lovers, faith healers and former high school football stars-finally discovering our own selves counted among the townspeople.
COLIN RAFFERTY , author of Hallow This Ground
WINESBURG, INDIANA
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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WINESBURG, INDIANA
A FORK RIVER ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness
This book is a publication of
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Office of Scholarly Publishing
Herman B Wells Library 350
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
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2015 by Indiana University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Winesburg, Indiana : Fork River anthology / edited by Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness.
pages cm. - (Break away books)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-01688-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01734-5 (ebook) 1. American literature - Indiana. 2. Indiana - Literary collections. I. Martone, Michael, editor. II. Furuness, Bryan, editor.
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PATTY AND TONY MARTONE
MOTHER AND DAD

SUE AND DREW FURUNESS
MOM AND DAD
Contents
BIDDLEBAUM COWLEY REEFY SWIFT LLP
CITY MANAGER
AMANDA PATCH
CLEANING LADY TO THE STARS
JACKIE PATCH
JULIE PATCH
DALE RUMSEY
LIMBERLOST
RAYMOND SNOW
KEN OF OTTUMWA
MISS GLADYS
THE PROCESSED CHEESE PRODUCT MAN
BURT COBLE, CATMAN
TARA JENKINS
JACQUES DERRIDA WRITES POSTCARDS TO HIMSELF FROM A DINER IN WINESBURG, INDIANA
PETE, WASTE LAB TECHNICIAN
CONSTANCE H. WOOTIN
DEAR CLASS OF 2011
WALT HELPER VOLTZ
FRANCES PARKER
EMMALENE S BAKERY AND BAIT SHOP
HOWARD GARFIELD, BALLADEER
BEAU MORROW
FOUND IN THE PLACEBO : THE YEARBOOK OF EMILE DURKHEIM HIGH SCHOOL
THE BOTTLE
DEANNE STOVERS
GREGG PITMAN
MARI, WAITING
MANCHILD MORRISON: THE BEST THAT ALMOST WAS
CAROL CLAY
TRIPLE CROWN
GRUDGE WRIGHT
OCCUPY WINESBURG
THE CANTOR QUADRUPLETS
REVEREND DAVE
PROFESSOR HELEN C. ANDERSEN
INSPECTOR 4
DARK STARS
CLYDE
SHE DRINKS TOO MUCH OF IT
RANDY STEEPLE
Acknowledgments by Marny Vanderroost
Credits
List of Contributors
Book Club Guide
WINESBURG, INDIANA
B IDDLEBAUM C OWLEY R EEFY S WIFT LLP W INESBURG, O HIO 44690
CEASE AND DESIST DEMAND
Pursuant to Title 17 of the United States Code
City Manager
13 Spalding Street
Winesburg, Indiana 46712
Dear Sir or Madam:
This law firm represents the Town of Winesburg (Ohio). If you are represented by legal counsel, please direct this letter to your attorney immediately and have your attorney notify us of such representation.
It has been brought to our attention that your town, Winesburg (Indiana), has been using the Winesburg trademark in association with the marketing or sale of your products and services, namely, those of meditative introspection, synthetic emotional effects, general literary malaise, and cathartic artistic performances including but not limited to confessions, covetings, secrets-keeping, and the wholesale packaging and propagation of spent signature tears. It is possible that you were unaware of this conflict, so we believe that it is in our mutual interest to bring this matter to your attention.
Winesburg is a registered trademark of our municipality, Winesburg (Ohio), and is used in conjunction with the distribution of dramatic monologues and third-person narrations to invoke the grotesque and map the psychophysiological and neurotic manifestations of its inhabitants in order to derive empathic and epiphanic pleasure and/or pain in a controlled hermetic setting. Winesburg s federal trademark registration has been in full effect for over ninety (90) years, since shortly after the publication of the book of short stories Winesburg, Ohio , by Mr. Sherwood Anderson. That Winesburg, Ohio, refers to a fictional town of Mr. Anderson s own imagination, modeled on the town of Clyde, Ohio, whose malicious libel litigation with the estate of Mr. Anderson continues to this day. The trademarked village of Winesburg (Ohio) was constructed in 1920 in southwestern Paint Township of Holt County by Austrian Mesmerists fleeing the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, aficionados of the book Winesburg, Ohio , and early practitioners and adherents of applied phrenology and Gestalt therapies. A copy of the federal trademark registration is attached for your reference as Exhibit A.
Our federal registration of this trademark provides us with certain proprietary rights. This includes the right to restrict the use of the trademark, or a confusingly similar trademark, in association with confusingly similar products or services such as the distribution of Sadness, Fear, Longing, and Confusion itself. We have patented Madness. We own Trembling. We extensively market Grief. We facilitate the Recovery of Emotionally Paralyzing Memories and the Reliving of Childhood Trauma. We distribute Dirges and provide for all manner of Despairing Confession and Ecstatic Revelation in this aesthetically framed and fictive community situated on a glacial declivity near the second-largest Amish settlement in the United States. The Lanham Act (the U.S. Trademark Act) also provides numerous remedies for trademark infringement and dilution, including but not limited to preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, money damages, a defendant s profits, provisions for the destruction or confiscation of infringing products and promotional materials, and, where intentional infringement is shown (as would be the case here), attorneys fees and possible treble money damages.
It is urgent that we exercise our right to protect our trademark. It serves as an important and distinctive representation of the origin of our products. State and federal law supports our position that confusingly similar trademarks may cause confusion among customers. This confusion may cause substantial harm to the trademark by facilitating the loss of its effectiveness in establishing a distinct association between it, our products and services, and the town s goodwill.
Due to these concerns, and because unauthorized use of our federally registered trademark amounts to an infringement of our trademark rights, we respectively request that you cease and desist from any furt