Acknowledgments

 

I am so very grateful to Laurie Loewenstein for her faith in this manuscript.

And Kaylie Jones, for seeing to its publication, with nudges toward the light.

Johnny Temple, too, naturally, and everybody at Akashic and KJB whose efforts brought the book out, including Johanna Ingalls, Aaron Petrovich, Ibrahim Ahmad, Susannah Lawrence, Alice Wertheimer, Renette Zimmerly, Lauren Sharkey, Jennifer Jenkins.

Thank you also: Donald Brandoff, Shereen Brandoff, Andrew Schwartz, James Bosley, Paul Kolsby, Joe Kolias, Steve Shainberg, Curtis Bauer, Jennifer Acker, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Gary Clark, Bob McIlwaine, Jimmy Gilroy, Michael Little, Amos Poe, Claudia Summers, Jeanne Dorsey, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Andrea Callard, Tom Foral, Anne McDermott, Andy Sapora, Michele Remsen, Matt Hoverman, Katie Atcheson, Joe Danisi, Stephanie Cannon, Andrea Cirie, Eric Goss, Liz Carlson, Rachel Casparian, Jason Nuzzo, Val Brown, Michael Mastro, Marcia Lesser, Eugene Buica, Marie-Helene Bertino, Chris Genoversa, Holly Myers, Julie Tesser, Lynn Holst, Steve Dansiger, Marilyn Downey, Matt Keating, Emily Spray, Michael Thomas Holmes, Dylan Lorenz, Regan Wood, Kyle Garner, Heather King, Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, Maud Simmons, Terry Carr, Horace Martin, Hannah Logan, Jim Farmer, Susanne Columbia, Ghana Leigh, Donna Vermeer, Melanie Bishop, Luis Salmon, Edith Schwartz, Andy Epstein, Thomas Anderson, Gosia Pospiech, Jennifer Neely, Barbara Rick, Joe Barbaccia, Tony Coniff, Marcy Einhorn, Chris Stack, Doug Summers, Richard Lichte, Shannon McMahon Lichte, Jeff Sheehan, Thomas Libetti, Allen Zadoff, Michelle Casillas, Allison Janney, Dion Flynn, Amy Corrigan Flynn, Emmy Gaye, Firedean Schilling, Lindsey Brown, Sharon Lomofsky, Dana Watkins, Rebecca Irizarry, Julia Murphy, Topper Quinn, David Gross, Ned Van Zandt, Shelley Stenhouse, Jerry Mundis, Larry Tompkins, Quincy Long, Elias Colombotos, Anna Marrian, Bill Curran, Alex Figueroa, Martine Bellen, Bob Silverstein, Jimmie James, Neil Chambers, Ylfa Edelstein, Carter Jackson, Kathryn Davis, Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Maureen Burns Shannon, Pamela Lawton, Allison Mackie, Reuben Radding, Tony DiMurro, Eric Zencey, Daniel Reitz, Matthew Carnahan, John Harrington Bland, Patrick McGrath, Michael Howley, Harvey Huddleston, PJ Sosko, Carol Cannon, Larry Vazeos, Jane Elias, Ian Caskey, John Greer, Tom Luckey, Tavia Kowalchuk, Branwynne Kennedy, Hal Strickland, Ricky Buckley, Ingrid Belqaid, Patrick O'Connor, Margaret McMullan, Lily Zauner, Dennis Gagamiros, Lola Scarpitta, Rick Moore, Tessa Borbridge, Dean Imperial, Elliott Green, Margo Katz, Kate Lardner, Wally Johnson, Candace Martin, Allison Lichter, Eric Svendsen, Greg Joseph, Svetlana Kitto, Jess Hale Lombardi, Doug Rossi, Tom Bozell, Paul DeBoy, Andrea Ramirez.

To these people—placeholders in spirit for the countless others—my deep gratitude.

And I want to express heartfelt appreciation for two sustaining communities: the Vermont Studio Center, where portions of the book were written; and Naked Angels' Tuesdays@9, where much of it was read.