Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgment is made to the following in which some of the stories in this book originally appeared: Antaeus: “Caviar” and “Rara Avis;; Antioch Review: “Rupert Beersle^y and the Beggar Master of Sivani-Hoota” and “A Bird in Hand”; Atlantic Monthly: “The Overcoat II”; Esquire: “On for the Long Haul”; Iowa Review: “Two Ships”; Oui: “Whales Weep”; Paris Review: “Greasy Lake,” “Ike and Nina,” and “The Hector Quesadilla Story”; TriQuarterly: “Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail” and “The New Moon Party.” “Caviar” also appeared in Pushcart Prize Stories IX.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted material: CBS Songs, a Division of CBS Inc.: Lyrics from “Don’t Be Cruel,” by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley. Copyright © 1956 by Unart Music Corporation. Rights assigned to CBS Catalogue Partnership. All rights controlled and administered by CBS Unart Catalog Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Chappell/Intersong Music Group—USA: Lyrics from “Hound Dog,” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Copyright © 1956 by Elvis Presley Music and Lion Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright renewed, assigned to Gladys Music, Inc., and MCA Music. Administered in the U.S.A. by Chappell & Co., Inc. (Intersong Music, Publisher). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. King of Spades Music: Lyrics from “Stones in My Passway,” “Phonograph Blues,” and “Hellbound on My Trail,” words and music by Robert Johnson. © (1978) 1991 King of Spades Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Paramount Music Corporation: A selection from the song “That’s Amore,” by Jack Brooks and Harry Warren. Copyright © 1953 by Paramount Music Corporation and Four Jays Music. Copyright renewed 1981 by Paramount Music Corporation and Four Jays Music.

Bruce Springsteen/Jon Landau Management, Inc.: Lyrics from “Spirit in the Night,” by Bruce Springsteen. Copyright © 1972 by Bruce Springsteen. All rights reserved. Tree Publishing Co., Inc.: Lyrics from “Heartbreak Hotel,” by Elvis Presley, Mae Boren Axton, and Tommy Durden. Copyright © 1956 by Tree Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright renewed. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Viking Penguin Inc.: Lines from “Whales Weep Not!” from The Complete Poems of D. H. Laurence, collected and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.