GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made for the original publication of the following essays, some of which appear here with a few changes: “By the Pond,” Glamour; “Thicker than Blood,” Outside; “Harry Crews: Mentor and Friend,” The Southern Quarterly; “Chattanooga Nights,” The Chattahoochee Review; “Billy Ray’s Farm,” The Oxford American; “Fishing with Charlie,” The Oxford American; “So Much Fish, So Close to Home: An Improv,” The Chattahoochee Review; “The Whore in Me,” AOL, The Book Report; and “Goatsongs,” Men’s Journal.