Thank you, Ellen Levine, Laura Perciasepe, Jynne Dilling Martin, Claire McGinnis; Clare Conville, Geoff Mulligan, Anna-Marie Fitzgerald. To those who read and responded to early drafts of this book: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Meghan O’Rourke. Finally, thank you to my first and best reader, Hari Kunzru.
This book was written with the support of the Lannan Foundation and OMI International Arts Center. I am also grateful to Ian Seiter, Stephanie Skaff, and the Hertog Fellowship Program at Hunter College.