Thanks to all those who contributed in various ways to the pieces in this collection including but not limited to: my wife, Erika Kawalek Yang, Marco Roth, Chad Harbach, Keith Gessen, David Haskell, David Wallace-Wells, David Samuels, Willy Staley, Emily Cooke, Alexander Benaim, Joshua Pashman, Elif Batuman, Philip Fung, Jai-Hoon Yang, K. Hee Yang, Chinnie Ding, Isabel Howe, Matt Weiland, Remy Cawley, and Edward Orloff.