Almost No Memory

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications, in which these stories first appeared: “Meat, My Husband” in TriQuarterly © 1993; “Jack in the Country” in Infolio (London) as “E.’s Mistake” © 1986, in Ottotole 1987; “Foucault and Pencil” in City Lights Review © 1987; “The Mice” in Conjunctions © 1995; “The Professor” in Harper’s © 1992; “The Cedar Trees” in Conjunctions © 1992; “The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall” in Conjunctions © 1992; “Wife One in Country” in City Lights Review © 1987; “The Fish Tank” in Hodos © 1990; “The Center of the Story” in Grand Street © 1989; “Love” in Conjunctions © 1992; “Our Kindness” in New American Writing © 1992; “A Natural Disaster” in Conjunctions © 1992; “Odd Behavior” in Conjunctions © 1995; “St. Martin” in Grand Street © 1996; “Agreement” in Indiana Review © 1988; “In the Garment District” in New American Writing © 1992; “Disagreement” in Indiana Review © 1988; “The Actors” in Conjunctions © 1991; “What Was Interesting” in Parnassus © 1989; “In the Everglades” in SUN as “Tourist in the Everglades” © 1983; “The Family” in The World © 1996; “Trying to Learn” in Conjunctions © 1991; “To Reiterate” in Pequod © 1986; “Lord Royston’s Tour” in Conjunctions © 1990; “The Other” in Annandale © 1993; “A Friend of Mine” in Avec as “My Friend” © 1989; “This Condition” in Salt Hill Journal © 1997; “Go Away” in Conjunctions © 1989; “Pastor Elaine’s Newsletter” in Pequod as “Pastor Arlene’s Newsletter” © 1991; “A Second Chance” in New American Writing © 1992; “Fear” in Conjunctions © 1995; “Almost No Memory” in Conjunctions © 1988; “Mr. Knockly” in Living Hand © 1975; “How He Is Often Right” in Conjunctions © 1989; “The Rape of the Tanuk Women” in Conjunctions © 1992; “What I Feel” in Conjunctions © 1991; “Lost Things” in Conjunctions © 1995; “Glenn Gould” in Doubletake © 1997; “From Below, as a Neighbor” in Indiana Review © 1988; “The Great-grandmothers” in New American Writing © 1992; “The House Behind” in Antaeus © 1991; “The Outing” in Conjunctions © 1995; “A Position at the University” in The World © 1996; “Examples of Confusion” in Conjunctions as “Confusions” © 1988; “The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists” in Conjunctions © 1988; “Affinity” in The Quarterly © 1992. “The Thirteenth Woman,” “A Man in Our Town” (under the title “The Dog Man”), “Mr. Knockly,” and “Smoke” previously appeared in the collection The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories, Living Hand Editions, 1976. “In the Everglades” previously appeared in the collection Story and Other Stories, The Figures, 1983. “Lord Royston’s Tour” was adapted from The Remains of Viscount Royston: A Memoir of His Life by the Rev. Henry Pepys, London, 1838.

The author would also like to thank the following for support during the period in which these stories were written: the Fund for Poetry, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.