The Fun Parts

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to the editors who first worked with me on these stories, including Willing Davidson, Deborah Treisman, Amy Grace Loyd, Jeff Johnson, Lorin Stein, Rob Spillman, Hunter Kennedy, Jason Fulford, Michelle Orange, Tom Beller, and Joanna Yas. Thanks to Eric Chinski, who helped me make a book out of them. Thanks to the late George Kimball, whose book Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing proved a valuable source in the writing of “The Worm in Philly.” Thanks to Ira Silverberg and Eric Simonoff. Thanks to Ben Marcus. Thanks to the MacDowell Colony, where several of these stories were begun. Thanks to Ceridwen Morris, who encouraged me to finish them.