T.C. Boyle Stories II: Volume II

Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines, in which these stories first appeared:

After the Plague: Esquire, “Peep Hall”; GQ, “Death of the Cool”; Granta, “Rust”; The New Yorker, “She Wasn’t Soft,” “Killing Babies,” “Captured by the Indians,” “Achates McNeil,” “The Love of My Life,” “Friendly Skies,” “My Widow” and “The Underground Gardens”; The Paris Review, “Going Down”; Playboy, “Termination Dust,” “The Black and White Sisters” and “After the Plague.”

“Killing Babies” also appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1997, edited by E. Annie Proulx (Houghton Mifflin); “The Underground Gardens” in Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Larry Dark (Anchor Books); and “The Love of My Life” in Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Larry Dark (Anchor Books).

Tooth and Claw: GQ, “The Kind Assassin”; Harper’s, “Rastrow’s Island” and “Here Comes”; The New Yorker, “When I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone,” “Swept Away,” “Dogology,” “Chicxulub” and “Tooth and Claw”; Playboy, “Jubilation,” “Up Against the Wall” and “The Swift Passage of the Animals”; StoryQuarterly, “All the Wrecks I’ve Crawled Out Of”; Zoetrope, “Almost Shooting an Elephant.”

“Swept Away” also appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2003, edited by Laura Furman (Anchor Books); and “Tooth and Claw” in The Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore (Houghton Mifflin).

The author would also like to cite the following works as sources of certain factual details in “Dogology”: The Wolf Children: Fact or Fantasy, by Charles Maclean; Wolf-Children and Feral Man, by the Reverend J. A. L. Singh and Robert M. Zingg; and The Hidden Lives of Dogs, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

Wild Child: Best Life, “Bulletproof”; Harper’s, “Question 62” and “Admiral”; The Kenyon Review, “Hands On”; McSweeney’s, “Wild Child”; The New Yorker, “La Conchita,” “Sin Dolor,” “The Lie,” “Thirteen Hundred Rats” and “Ash Monday”; The Paris Review, “Balto”; Playboy, “The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado” and “Three Quarters of the Way to Hell”; A Public Space, “Anacapa.”

“Balto” also appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin); and “Admiral” in The Best American Short Stories 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie (Houghton Mifflin).

The author would also like to acknowledge Harlan Lane’s The Wild Boy of Aveyron and Roger Shattuck’s The Forbidden Experiment as sources of certain factual details in “Wild Child.”

A Death in Kitchawank: The Atlantic, “The Silence”; Harper’s, “My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain,” “What Separates Us from the Animals” and “Sic Transit”; The Kenyon Review, “In the Zone” and “Slate Mountain”; McSweeney’s, “Burning Bright”; The New Yorker, “A Death in Kitchawank,” “Los Gigantes,” “Birnam Wood” and “The Night of the Satellite”; Playboy, “Good Home,” “The Way You Look Tonight” and “The Marlbane Manchester Musser Award.”