by Linda Holmes
Thanks to Glen Weldon, whose enthusiasm for the book meant so very much to me that it got me through several awful convulsions of doubt. (I promise, Glen: I am only hugging you in my mind. And I always will.)
Thank you to Alex Kapelman, whose unwavering belief that I could do anything I wanted to do was—and is—like plugging myself into a supplemental power supply. You are the absolute greatest, my SVP of Hustle, and I wouldn’t trade you for anything.
This book was written to the sounds of the Avett Brothers. High-fives to the FedEx office outside Colonial Williamsburg. Thanks to Spruce Head Island, Rockland, Camden, Spruce Spray, Pooh, Captain Gargan, and the St. Paul Saints. Thanks to the Phillies, Twins, and Nats. Thanks to my distressingly tall nephews and my brother-in-law, all of whom love baseball so much.
I decline to thank my dog, only because he can’t read. Besides, he knows how I feel, because sometimes I feed him peanut butter off my fingers.
Thank you to people who do beautiful things with words that make me want to assemble mine half as well.
Thanks to all my teachers, including but not limited to Nona Smolko, Christine (Powell) Tate, and Kerry Brown.
Thank you to my family—my clever grandmothers, the kind-hearted grandfather I knew and the kind-hearted one I never did, my aunts and uncles and cousins, and especially my fabulous parents and spectacular sister.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LINDA HOLMES is a pop culture correspondent for National Public Radio and the host of the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which has held sold-out live shows in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and elsewhere. She appears regularly on NPR’s radio shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Before NPR, she wrote for New York magazine online and for TV Guide, as well as for the influential website Television Without Pity. She shares her Washington, D.C., apartment with a dog who patiently indulges her desire to take his picture a lot. In her free time, she watches far too many romantic comedies, bakes bread, reads in bed, and recently knitted her first hat.
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Twitter: @lindaholmes
Instagram: @lindaholmes97
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