In the interest of concision, I have invented various documents that appear throughout the text, including letters, newspaper articles, oral testimonies, and interviews. The book Dream Plays: A History of Underground Film and the occult treatise referred to as The Sephiroth are also both fictitious.
I would like to thank Bill Clegg, Pat Strachan, Jayne Yaffe Kemp, and Dan Franklin for their help with this book. I am grateful to Edmund White, John Dalton, Marshall Klimasewiski, Eugene Constan, Christopher Quirk, Amy Madden, Carroll Moulton, Ernie Hulsey, and David Winner for their friendship and support through many years of writing. I would also like to thank my family, and especially Sarah.
ZACHARY LAZAR graduated from Brown University in 1990. He has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and has received the James Michener/Copernicus Society Prize from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Lazar grew up in Colorado and now teaches at Hofstra University. Sway is his second novel.
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