Thanks to Eric Simonoff, Morgan Entrekin, Sara Vitale, Alicia Burns, and Jessica Spitz, and to Cressida Leyshon and the staff of the New Yorker, for championing this work from the start. And to Antoinette Burton, Nancy Castro, and the Humanities Research Institute, and Bob Markley and the English Department of the University of Illinois, for support and community.
And to Beth Clary, Dina Guidubaldi, Steve Davenport, Monica Berlin, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Sylvie Moreau, Luc Bouchard, Scott Greenhaw, Caroline Morris, Jonathan Wei, Molly Martinez, Manuel Luis Martinez, David Zoby, Lorna Owen, Cathy Bryson, Robert Pyeatt, and Michael Larhman—great readers all, and even better friends.