FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, APRIL 1999
Copyright © 1998 by Andre Dubus
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Some of the essays in this work were originally published in the following: “Carrying” and “Messages” in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine; “Love in the Morning” in Double Take; “Song of Pity” and “Digging” in Epoch; “Imperiled Men” in Harper’s; “About Kathryn” in Health Magazine; “A Hemingway Story” in The Kenyon Review; “First Books” in Ken Lopez’s Catalogue of First Books; “Giving up the Gun” and “Witness” in The New Yorker; “Sacraments,” “Communion,” and “Girls” in Portland Magazine; “Brothers” in Salon; “Mailer at the Algonquin” in The Sewanee Review; “Legs,” “Grace,” and “Autumn Legs” in The Southern Review; “Bodily Mysteries” in Special Report; “A Country Road Song” and “Liv Ullmann in Spring” in Yankee; “Good-bye to Richard Yates” in Richard Yates, An American Writer: Tributes in Memoriam, published by Seymour Lawrence.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Alfred A. Knopf edition as follows:
Dubus, Andre, [date]
Meditations from a movable chair : essays / by Andre Dubus
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-80192-0
1. Dubus, Andre, [date]—Biography. 2. Novelists, American—20th century—
Biography. I. Title.
PS3554.U265Z47 1998
813′.54—dc21 97-50551 [B]
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