But such matters are beyond us. The Lamedh-Vov belong to another realm. We will not question what cannot be known.
—THE EDITORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Mac-Dowell Colony, the MacNamara Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, and the Corporation of Yaddo, as well as Modernism Gallery and the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JONATHON KEATS is an artist, novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is the author of the novel The Pathology of Lies. He is also the art critic for San Francisco magazine, a columnist for Wired magazine and Artweek, a correspondent for Art & Antiques, and a contributor to publications including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Popular Science, Prospect, Forbes Life, Art & Auction, and Salon.com. Keats has been awarded fellowships by Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the MacNamara Foundation, and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, and has chaired the National Book Critics Circle fiction award committee. He lives in San Francisco.
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