Final Fridays

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MOST OF THE pieces here collected have been published separately, in slightly different form. The author gratefully acknowledges the following sources: The New York Times Magazine for “Keats’s Fears, Etc.”; The Wilson Quarterly for “The State of the Art”; Dalkey Archive Press for the forewords to LETTERS and Sabbatical; Anchor Books for “‘In the Beginning’”; U. Michigan Press for “Further Questions?”; Story Press for “Incremental Perturbation”; Context for “‘The Parallels!’”; U. Mississippi Press for “My Faulkner”; U. de León for “¿Cien Años de Qué?”; Journal of Experimental Fiction for “The End of the Word as We’ve Known It?”; Hartford Courant for “The Place of ‘Place’ in Fiction”; Albuquerque Tribune for “Liberal Education: The Tragic View”; Einaudi for “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Writing American”; Poets & Writers Magazine for “‘All Trees Are Oak Trees. .: Introductions to Literature’”; Writers Digest Press for “The Inkstained Thumb”; Tin City for “Future Imperfect”; Sarabande Books for “I.”; The Believer for “‘In the Beginning, Once Upon a Time, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night’”; Signet Classics (Penguin Group USA) for “The Morning After”; The Atlantic for “Do I Repeat Myself?”; Granta for “The End?”; Random House for “Introduction to Not-Knowing”; New York Times Book Review for “The Passion Artist”; U. Delaware Press for “The Accidental Mentor”; Review of Contemporary Fiction for “‘As Sinuous and Tough as Ivy’”; American Scholar for “The Judge’s Jokes.”