An Interview with Michael Martone by Matt Baker

Description

Depending on whom you ask, Michael Martone is either contemporary literature’s most notorious prankster, innovator, or mutineer. This book contains nine interviews with Michael Martone. Despite originally being published as nonfiction, eight of the interviews are fakes.

Early Praise for An Interview with Michael Martone by some guys named Matt Baker.

“I’d rate this book one star out of five stars but the one star is going supernova.”
—Matt Baker (Plainfield, Vermont)

“Meta as in metasyntactic.”
— Matt Baker (Portland, Oregon)

“Fractal literature.”
— Matt Baker (Miami, Florida)

“Literary prisms.”
— Matt Baker (Austin, Texas)

“99% sure this is the people who started QAnon.”
— Matt Baker (Washington, D.C.)

“You know how sometimes a scientist will name like a star or a lizard or a butterfly or whatever after a book, in honor of the book—well, this is probably destined to be one of those books, except in this case instead of a lizard or a butterfly or something it should be a super trippy strain of weed.”
— Matt Baker (Brooklyn, New York)

“Redundant as a pop song.”
— Matt Baker (Iowa City, Iowa)

“Some cursed eldritch tome.”
— Matt Baker (Peterborough, New Hampshire)

Matt Baker is the author of the story collections Why Visit America and Hybrid Creatures. Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, he is a former editor of Oxford American.