Thanks to my editors, in reverse chronological order: Elizabeth Verdick, Wendy Lestina, Adam Moss, Andrey Slivka, John Strausbaugh, Sam Sifton, and Mom.

Thanks to Judy Galbraith for telling me to do this book, and then dealing with me as I did it.

Thanks to everybody who shows up in the essays, even if we’ve since drifted or we no longer speak.