These stories appeared previously in the publications listed below.
“Winter, 1965”: BOMB, Fall 2014; Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson, 2016. Winner of the Pushcart Prize 2016 and the O. Henry Prize 2016.
“The Veranda”: In “Shadow Selves,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 54 (Spring 2010). Winner of the Pushcart Prize 2012.
“The Snow on Tompkins Square Park”: In “A Menagerie,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 61 (Fall 2013).
“The Bar at Twilight”: In “Nocturnals,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 72 (Spring 2019).
“The Tower”: In “In Absentia,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 60 (Spring 2013). Winner of the Pushcart Prize 2015.
“In the Borghese Gardens”: The New Review of Literature 1 (October 2003).
“The Café, the Sea, Deauville, 1966”: In “Inside Out: Architectures of Experience,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 68 (Spring 2017).
“Lives of the Artists”: The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García, exhibition catalogue, Acquavella Galleries, New York (New York: Rizzoli, 2018).
“Allegory: A Parable”: Allegory, exhibition catalogue, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, 1997.
“The Phantom Tower”: In The Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent (Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2017).
“Delacroix in Love”: EAST, August 2016.
“Nine Flowers”: Originally appeared as “Nine Flowers in Three Sanctuaries” in “Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 70 (Spring 2018). Reprinted as “Nine Flowers” in artist’s book with screen print by Ross Bleckner, Planthouse Gallery, New York, 2019.
“The Garden Party”: Martin Mull: Endgame, exhibition catalogue, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, February 2015. Reprinted in The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2015.
“The Restaurant. The Concert. The Bar. The Bed. Le Petit Déjeuner”: BOMB, Spring 2022.
“L’Odyssée”: Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, exhibition catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, London (Köhn: Walther König, 2009).
“Some Episodes in the History of My Reading”: In “Speaking Volumes,” ed. Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions 63 (Fall 2014). Notable Mention, The Best American Essays 2015, ed. Ariel Levy.