Thank you to the amazing team at Wednesday Books: Sara Goodman, Eileen Rothschild, Olga Grlic, Lauren Hougen, Soleil Paz, Rivka Holler, Brant Janeway, Zoë Miller, Eric Meyer, Melanie Sanders, Diane Dilluvio, Elishia Merricks, Maria Snelling, and Amber Cortes. Particular thanks is due to the eagle-eyed Vanessa Aguirre. Thank you as well to Andrea Morrison, Hayley Burdett, and Greg Ferguson. Nick Pyenson’s wonderful Spying on Whales should not be judged by the foibles of its fan in these pages. I remain indebted to the work of Mariame Kaba. For more about the Bundy occupation of public lands in the West, start with Leah Sottile’s podcast Bundyville.
Thank you to Maik Lübke—I’ll write the real one soon—and to Bennett Madison, whose fault all of this technically is. And to you, dear Reader, with love.
—Ripley