Wait Till You See Me Dance
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I’m indebted also to the following publications, in which these stories first appeared, sometimes with a different title or in a slightly different form:
Anthem: “An Opera Season”
The Bennington Review: “The Applicant,” “A Crossroads”
Bomb: “Abandon Normal Instruments”
The Columbia Journal of the Arts: “37 Seconds”
Esquire (napkin fiction): “Dirty Joke (in translation)”
Gigantic (online): “Final Days”
Granta: “To the Ocean,” “Open Water”
The Guardian (online): “Husband”
Harper’s Magazine: “Mr. Simmons Takes a Prisoner,” “Wait Till You See Me Dance”
McSweeney’s: “Stay Where You Are,” “Granted,” “Bride”
NOON: “Interview,” “Flaws,” “Pet,” “Likable,” “The Walk,” “Decorate, Decorate,” “My Daughter Debbie,” “The Mothers”
The Paris Review: “Voltaire Night”
Pear Noir!: “The Last Composer”
PEN America: “How to Dispel Your Illusions”
StoryQuarterly: “The One Fondly Mentioned”
Timber: “Online”
Tin House: “The First Full Thought of Her Life”
Vice: “Mr. Creativity,” “The Magicians,” “Welcome,” “Your Character”
Wigleaf: “Draft”
Zyzzyva: “The Vice President of Pretzels,” “Defects,” “Fear of Trees,” “Boulder”
“Wait Till You See Me Dance” also appeared in New American Stories and Best of the West 2010.
“Stay Where You Are” also appeared in The Best of McSweeney’s.
“Husband” also appeared in Tin House (online).
“Pet,” “Unlikable,” and “Voltaire Night” also appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, volumes XXV, XXVIII, and XLI respectively.
Thank you to the Creative Capital foundation and the MacDowell Colony for vital support during the creation of this book.
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award), the novel Vacation, and the story collection Minor Robberies. Her stories have appeared in Harpers, the Paris Review, Granta, Vice, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. She has received four Pushcart Prizes and a literature grant from the Creative Capital foundation. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also teaches a workshop at the John B. Connally Unit, a penitentiary in southern Texas.
The text of Wait Till You See Me Dance is set in Adobe Caslon Pro. Book design by Rachel Holscher. Composition by Bookmobile Design and Digital Publisher Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Manufactured by Versa Press on acid-free, 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.