Copyright © 2017 by Barry Gifford.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gifford, Barry, 1946author.
Title: The Cuban club / Barry Gifford.
Description: First edition. | New York : Seven Stories Press, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004923 | ISBN 9781609807894 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781609807900 (electronic)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Short Stories (single author). | FICTION / Literary. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
Classification: LCC PS3557.I283 A6 2017 | DDC 813/.54--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004923

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

“Roy and the River Pirates” and “Lost Monkey” originally appeared in Vice magazine (New York). “The King of Vajra Dornei” appeared, in different form, in The Up-Down (New York, 2015). “A Long Day’s Night in the Naked City (Take Two)” originally appeared, in different form, in The 2nd Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (Berkeley). “Mules in the Wilderness” appeared in The Collagist (Ann Arbor). “Dingoes” appeared in Contrapasso (Sydney). “The Colony of the Sun” appeared in the Santa Monica Review (Los Angeles). “The Religious Experience” and “The Cuban Club” appeared in Narrative (San Francisco). Several of these stories also appeared in Confabulario, the cultural supplement of El Universal (Mexico City).

The following stories were published in The Chicagoist (Chicago). “Mona,” “Mud,” “King and Country,” “Dark and Black and Strange,” “Sick,” “The Italian Hat,” “I Also Deal in Fury,” “Creeps,” “Dingoes,” “Chicago, Illinois, 1953,” and “Role Model.”