What Is All This? (60 page)

The following stories in this collection appeared in different form in the following periodicals, to which the author and the publisher extend their thanks:
Ambit
(“Getting Lost”),
Appearances
(“Ends,” “Interest”),
Asylum
(“Nothing New,” “Ass”),
Atlantic Monthly
(The Neighbors”),
Bennington Review
(“The Bussed”),
Big Moon
(“Shoelaces,” “End of a Friend”), Black Ice (“One Thing”),
Boulevard
(“An Accurate Account,” “Who He?”),
Box 749
(“The Killer”),
Brooklyn Sun
(“Night”),
Cake
(The Former World's Greatest Raw Green Pea Eater”),
Caution Horse
(“No Knocks”), Center (“The Talk Show”),
Chouteau Review
(“Sex”),
Confrontation
(“Dream”),
Continental Drift
(“Knock Knock”),
Croton Review
(“Burglars”),
DeKalb Literary Review
(“Mr. Greene” in earlier version: “Mourning Came”),
Departures
(“Next to Nothing”),
Failbetter
(“No Knocks”),
Fantasy & Science Fiction
(“A Home Away from Home”),
Fiction Network
(The Wild Bird Reserve”),
Flyway
(“End of a Friend”),
Genesis
(“An Outing”),
Glimmer Train
(“Contac”),
Idaho Review
(“Wait”),
Iowa Review
(“The Leader,” “The Cleanup Man,” “Question”),
The Hopkins Review
—preview issue (“In Memoriam”),
Kansas Quarterly
(“Getting Lost,” “Long Made Short”),
Little Magazine
(“The Argument”),
Memphis Review
(“Biff”),
Montana Review
(“For a Quiet English Sunday”), Mundus Artium (“Evening”),
New England Review
(“Can't Win”),
Nitty Gritty
(“An Outing”),
North American Review
(“Overtime”),
Ohio Journal
(“Stories,” “She,” “The Baby”),
Other Voices
(“Starting Again”),
Pale Fire Review
(“Yo-Yo”),
Periodical Lunch
(“Jackie”),
Per Se
(“Pale Cheeks of a Butcher's Boy”),
Playboy
(“Produce” in earlier version: “Berry-Smashing Day at the C & L,” “The Young Man who Read Brilliant Books,” “What is All This?”),
Quarry West
(“Getting Lost”),
South Carolina Review
(“The Phone,” “Piers” in earlier version: “Paul”), Southwest Review (“China”),
Stanford Magazine
(“The Good Fellow”), Sun & Moon (“Meet the Natives,” “The Chocolate Sampler”),
Sycamore Review
(“Long Made Short”),
The Fault
(“Leaves”),
Urbanite
(“Mr. Greene”),
Washington Review
(“Reinsertion,” “Storm”) and
Westbere Review
(“Dawn”). “No Knocks” also appeared in Best of the Web 2009, and “The Young Man who Read Brilliant Books” appeared in the
Playboy
anthology
Just My Luck
.

Self portrait of the author,
10.27.05