Acknowledgments

Chinua Achebe: “Marriage Is a Private Affair,” copyright © 1972, 1973 by Chinua Achebe; from Girls at War: And Other Stories by Chinua Achebe. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All right reserved.

Jorge Luis Borges: “Ulrikke,” from Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, copyright © 1998 by Maria Kodama; translation copyright © 1998 by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Géza Csáth: “Erna” from The Magician’s Garden and Other Stories by Géza Csáth. Copyright © 1980 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Junot Díaz: “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” from This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, copyright © 2012 by Junot Díaz. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Gabriel García Márquez: All pages from “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” from Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez. Copyright © 1971 by Gabriel García Márquez. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Yukio Mishima: “The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love” by Yukio Mishima, translated by Ivan Morris, from Death in Midsummer, copyright © 1966 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Alice Munro: “How I Met My Husband” from Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You by Alice Munro. Copyright © 1974 by Alice Munro.

R. K. Narayan: “The Shelter,” from Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories by R. K. Narayan, copyright © 1985 by R. K. Narayan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Dorothy Parker: “A Telephone Call,” copyright © 1928, renewed © 1956 by Dorothy Parker, from The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker, edited by Marion Meade. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Max Schott: “The Old Flame” from Best American Short Stories of 1978, copyright © 1978 by Max Schott. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Lara Vapnyar: “Love Lessons—Mondays, 9 a.m.” from There Are Jews in My House: Stories by Lara Vapnyar, copyright © 2003 by Lara Vapnyar. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

William Carlos Williams: “The Knife of the Times” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams, copyright © 1932 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.