Acknowledgments
Thanks to:
The editors of the magazines and anthologies where these stories first appeared: William Pierce, Ben George, Emily Smith, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Hannah Tinti, Speer Morgan, Sy Safransky, Carol Ann Fitzgerald, Bill Henderson, Ted Genoways, Carolyn Kuebler, Merrill Feitell, and Jodee Stanley.
These writers for their support and advice during the time I was writing these stories: Nicola Mason, Leah Stewart, Kevin Moffett, Corinna Vallianatos, Jess Anthony, Jason Ockert, Jeff Parker, Erica Dawson, Pete Coviello, Mike Paterniti, Sara Corbett, Lewis Robinson, Justin Tussing, Rick Russo, and Jennifer Brice.
My friends, colleagues, and students at Cincinnati, Bowdoin, Tampa, and Colgate.
My agent, Elizabeth Sheinkman, and my editor, Chuck Adams.
My family: Lane, Quinn, and Ambrose.
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© 2018 by Brock Clarke.
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This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
The stories in this collection were previously published as follows: “The Price of the Haircut,” AGNI; “The Grand Canyon,” Ecotone; “What Is the Cure for Meanness?,”One Story; “Concerning Lizzie Borden, Her Axe, My Wife,” The Missouri Review; “Good Night,” The Sun; “Our Pointy Boots,” Ecotone (reprinted in the 2010 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology); “The Misunderstandings,”The Virginia Quarterly Review; “That Which We Will Not Give,” New England Review; “Cartoons,” Forklift, Ohio; “Children Who Divorce,” Ninth Letter; “The Pity Palace,” The Virginia Quarterly Review.
eISBN 978-1-61620-824-0
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