New American Stories

EDITOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many good people championed the writers in these pages and sent terrific stories my way. I am especially grateful to Matt Bell, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Justin Taylor, Rob Spillman, Kate Zambreno, Blake Butler, Thalia Field, Gary Fisketjon, Joshua Cohen, Heidi Julavits, Sam Lipsyte, Deborah Eisenberg, Rebecca Curtis, Martin Riker, Ethan Nosowsky, Brian Evenson, Halimah Marcus, Ann DeWitt, David McLendon, Calvert Morgan, and Max Porter.

Andrew Eisenman was a sharp and relentless scout from the beginning. He built exhaustive lists, chased down stories, and offered intelligent persuasion when I most needed it.

Thanks to Ryan Smernoff, who helped prepare the manuscript.

To Peter Mendelsund, thank you once again for your stunning work.

Denise Shannon, in a twenty-year streak of generous, smart, and deeply supportive acts, helped me navigate the dark, arid land of permissions, which sometimes seemed conceived solely to prevent anthologies like this one from ever coming into being.

Huge thanks to Tim O’Connell, for inspired editorial guidance and the endless, intelligent determination to get this book right.

Thank you to Kathleen Cook, Aja Pollock, Stephanie Moss, and all the other folks at Vintage who helped me get this book from manuscript to beautifully printed page.

And Jordan Pavlin’s fierce belief in the short story as an art form made this book possible in the first place: thank you for everything.