White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

Acknowledgements

Parts of this book have been previously published, often in very different form.

WHERE?

WHAT?

New Yorker

‘Space in Time,’ ‘Time in Space,’1, 2, 3, 4

Harper’s

‘Forbidden City’

Granta

‘White Sands’

Observer Magazine

‘Where? What? Where?’

Financial Times

‘Northern Dark,’* 10

London Review of Books

‘Beginning’

New Republic

5

I am grateful to the editors at those magazines, especially Nicholas Trautwein, Chris Cox, Matt Weiland, Christian Lorentzen, and Ben Crair. Thanks to Ethan Nosowsky for reading the entire manuscript, and to David Ulin for help with the Los Angeles chapters. Thanks also to Francis Bickmore and Jamie Byng at Canongate, to everyone at the Wylie Agency, and to Kimberly Burns.

*At about an eighth of its present length.