Telegraph Avenue

Acknowledgments

The following creditors, progenitors, enablers, verifiers, sustainers, readers, and supporters of this book are hereby indemnified against blame for its flaws:

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire; Dagmar and Ray Dolby; Steven Barclay and Garth Bixler; Philip Pavel and the staff of the Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California; the Headlands Institute, Sausalito, California; the Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes Station, California;

Zak Borovay (Music); Kent Randolph (Vinyl); Beah Haber and Nancy Bardacke (Midwifery); Adam Savage (Dirigible Liberation);

Ta-Nehisi Coates; Daniel Mendelsohn; Dave Eggers;

Jennifer Barth; Mary Evans; Amy Cray; David and Arla Manson; Jonathan Burnham; Michael McKenzie; Howie Sanders; David Colden; Scott Rudin; Sophie, Zeke (MTO!), Ida-Rose, and Abraham Chabon;

Wax Poetics magazine, Andre Torres, Editor-in-Chief; Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide, Josiah Howard; Women of Blaxploitation, Yvonne D. Sims; Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party, Flores Alexander Forbes; The Death of Rhythm and Blues, Nelson George;

Blaxploitation.com (www.blaxploitation.com); Oakland Geology (http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/); Funky16Corners (http://funky16corners.lunarpages.net/); Birth Stories Diaries (www.birthdiaries.com); and James Rouse, dreamer of the original Brokeland.

This novel was written using Scrivener on Macintosh computers.