And most of all, to David Clewell.
Just in case the lines in “Lubbock Is Not a Place of the Spirit” that were lifted from the 1976 film Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, director; Paul Schrader, writer) do not, to some readers, appear in their proper light of homage, please be assured that homage was the intent.
While this story collection occasionally makes fictional use of characters who share the names and some attributes of people who once lived, any innocent bystanders to the events recorded herein have either had their names changed or are products of the author’s mere imagination.
MURRAY FARISH’S short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Epoch, Roanoke Review, and Black Warrior Review, among other publications. His work has been awarded the William Peden Prize, the Phoebe Fiction Prize, and the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship Prize. Farish lives with his wife and two sons in St. Louis, Missouri, where he teaches writing and literature at Webster University. Inappropriate Behavior is his first book.
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