Fugue State: stories

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to the editors of the following publications for providing space for the stories collected in this volume: Conjunctions “Younger,” “Desire with Digressions,” and “Girls in Tents” The Ninth Letter “A Pursuit” McSweeney’s “Mudder Tongue” Paraspheres “An Accounting” • Caketrain “Dread” • Mome “Dread” (illustrated version) • American Letters & Commentary “Wander” • New York Tyrant “Ninety Over Ninety” • Black Clock “Invisible Box” • Quarterly West “The Third Factor” • Fourteen Hills “Bauer in the Tyrol” • Bombay Gin “Helpful” • LIT “Life Without Father” • Columbia “Alfons Kuylers” • 3rd bed “Fugue State” • The Brooklyn Rail “Traub in the City” • “An Accounting” was reprinted in Best American Fantasy and in The Apocalypse Reader. “Fugue State” was reprinted in Text: UR. “Invisible Box” was reprinted in Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless and, in French translation, in Inculte. “Bauer in the Tyrol” was reprinted in the New Standards anthology, and “Traub in the City” in The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology. “Mudder Tongue” was chosen for the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 and was read by David Straitharn for Symphony Place’s Selected Shorts series.

I would also like to thank the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Camargo Foundation for providing me invaluable space and time to work, Gary Lutz for his meticulous reading of the manuscript, my editor Chris Fischbach, my agent Matt McGowan. Most of all, thanks to Joanna, Valerie, Sarah, and Ruby for their love and support.