Lamb

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I deeply thank Bryan Hurt, Alexis Landau, Katherine Karlin, Chris Hackman, Mawi Asgedom, Kirsten Bohlman Heine, Jeremy Chignell, and all of my teachers at the University of Southern California, and in Los Angeles, especially John D. Buksbazen, Karin, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Aimee Bender, Percival Everett, Leo Braudy, George Wilson, TC Boyle, Hilary Schor, and Brad Pasanek. Thanks to USC and The Colorado College for commitment to the arts, to Kate Johnson and Barbara Galletly and everyone at Georges Borchardt, and to Judith Gurewich. Perpetual thanks to Ronald Piro, James Langlas, Jim McDonnell, Dale Jamieson, and David Mason, extraordinary teachers of beauty.