Acknowledgments are due to the following editors: Peter Stitt, J. D. McClatchy, Bradford Morrow, Bill Buford, Cressida Leyshon, and Deborah Treisman.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publications in which the following stories, in earlier versions, first appeared:
“Air Mail,” The Yale Review, October 1996.
“Baster,” The New Yorker, June 17, 1996.
“Early Music,” The New Yorker, October 10, 2005.
“Timeshare,” Conjunctions 28, Spring 1997.
“Find the Bad Guy,” The New Yorker, November 18, 2013.
“The Oracular Vulva,” The New Yorker, June 21, 1999.
“Capricious Gardens,” The Gettysburg Review, Winter 1989.
“Great Experiment,” The New Yorker, March 31, 2008.