“ON BEING TAKEN BY Tom Victor,” “Absence Makes the Heart,” “The Page Turner,” and “At a Certain Age,” copyright © 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in The Threepenny Review, no. 44 (winter 1991), no. 60 (winter 1995), no. 68 (winter 1997), and no. 77 (spring 1999).
“Being There,” copyright © 1985 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in We Are Talking About Homes: A Great University Against Its Neighbors (Harper &Row, 1985).
“Alone with the Cat” (“Face to Face”) is reprinted from The American Scholar 69, no. 1 (winter 2000), copyright © 1999 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, by permission of the publishers, the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
“The First Dress,” copyright © 1994 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, was originally published as “True Romance” in the New York Times Magazine, October 23, 1994.
“Found in Translation,” copyright © 1994 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared as “Time Off to Translate” in American Literary Review 5, no. 2 (fall 1994).
“Help,” copyright © 1992 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review 31, no. 2 (spring 1992).
“Only Connect?” copyright © 1996 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in Salmagundi, nos. 109-10 (winter-spring 1996).
“The Spoils of War,” copyright © 1980 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in the New York Times, October 16, 1980.
“Listening to Powell,” copyright © 2000 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, originally appeared in Salmagundi, no. 126 (spring 2000).