Big thanks to the core of usual suspects, including Bill Thomas and Henry Dunow, Coralie Hunter and Yishai Seidman and Mark Miller, plus additional indebtedness for new help and advisement from Sarah Bynum, Mark Danielewski, Susan Laemmle, and Amy Cutler for her wonderfully evocative painting Tiger Mending.
I’d also like to express my deep appreciation to the various editors at magazines and literary journals and anthologies and radio shows who are true champions of the short story. Including, but of course not just: Kate Bernheimer, John Siciliano, Andy Hunter, Halimah Marcus, Steve Erickson, Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Will Allison, Hannah Tinti, Matthew Fish-bane, Dave Eggers, Jordan Bass, Brock Clarke, Nicola Mason, Katherine Minton, the late Isaiah Sheffer, Lydia Ship, Chloe Plaunt, Jim Shepard, Steven Lee Beeber, Adrian Todd Zuniga, Jeff VanderMeer, Sumanth Prabhaker, Nathaniel Rich, Aaron Hicklin, David Milofsky, Bob Fogarty, Wendy Lesser, and Lee Montgomery.