Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications, in whose pages these stories first appeared:

Daedalus: “Tape Measure.” Granta: “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black.” The Guardian: “Gregor” and “A Frivolous Woman.” Harper’s Magazine: “History.” New Statesman: “Dreaming of the Dead” and “Mother Tongue.” The New Yorker: “Alternative Endings: The Second Sense,” “A Beneficiary,” and “Safety Procedures.” Playboy: “Alternative Endings: The Third Sense.” Salmagundi: “Allesverloren.” Virginia Quarterly Review: “Alternative Endings: The First Sense.”