Thanks to Fiona McCrae and Steve Woodward for their extraordinary and transformative editorial work; to Paul Nadal for his love and support and for his many insights into the history and literature of the Philippines; to Bill Clegg and Marion Duvert for finding beautiful homes for Trump Sky Alpha; and to Kimberly King Parsons and Binnie Kirshenbaum for their early reads. I owe a great debt to my brother, Chris Doten, for his many hours of consultation and brainstorming on online security issues, and I am likewise grateful to Josh Archambault for his ideas and expertise. Thanks to the entire Graywolf team, including Marisa Atkinson, Katie Dublinski, Casey O’Neil, Ethan Nosowsky, Caroline Nitz, Yana Makuwa, and Karen Gu. Thanks to Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte, Dennis Cooper, Stephanie Burt, Rivka Galchen, and Virginia Seewaldt; and to my parents and sister.
Alexander R. Galloway’s Protocol helped set me on the path of Trump Sky Alpha. Other important books include Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate; Under Three Flags by Benedict Anderson; Tubes by Andrew Blum; Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu; The Geopolitical Aesthetic by Fredric Jameson; Ruling the Root by Milton Mueller; Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle; Protocol Politics and The Global War for Internet Governance by Laura DeNardis; and From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner.
“Town” by Oklahoma Scramble appeared on the Birdcrash compilation cassette (K Records, 1988). Oklahoma Scramble were Jennifer Seymore (Jenny Montgomery), Argon Steel, and Marianne Kawaguchi; all lyrics by Jennifer Seymore (Jenny Montgomery).
The screenplay to Vanya on 42nd Street was written by Andre Gregory, based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by David Mamet.