The following stories have appeared in Harper’s: “A Little Bottle of Tears,” “Living Deluxe,” “Girl with a Pencil,” “A Gray Pottery Head,” “With Red Chair,” “Head of the Big Man.”

These stories first appeared, sometimes in a slightly different form or with a different title, in the American Reader: “Try,” “How Blown Up”; in Granta: “Specialist”; in La Granada: “Gulls,” “Of the True and Final Good”; in The Lifted Brow: “The Mermaid Pose,” “Glimpses of Mrs. Williams,” The Skol”; in London Review of Books: “Lamb Chops, Cod,” “Perform Small Tasks,” “Removal Men”; in PANK: “Lavatory”; in Queen Mob’s Tea House: “There Is Always a Hesitation Before Turning in a Finished Job”; in Salt Hill: “Flying Things”; in Tammy: “Palm Against Palm”; in Tin House: “At a Period of Exceptional Dullness,” “A Mere Flask Poured Out,” “Sigh”; in Unsaid: “Head of a Naked Girl”; in VICE: “Cinch,” “Greed,” “Personal Details,” “The Thickening Wish,” “When I Was Old and Ugly”; in The White Review: “Love, Beauty, and Vanity Itself.”

“A Mere Flask Poured Out” was reprinted in The Best Small Fictions 2015.