COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following pieces were originally published in slightly different form in the following books and periodicals:

“Federer Both Flesh and Not,” originally published as “Federer as Religious Experience” in the New York Times, 2006.

“Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1988. Some of the ideas and language in this essay appear in “E Unibus Pluram,” A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Little, Brown, 1997.

“The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1990.

“Mr. Cogito” in Spin, 1994.

“Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open” in Tennis, 1996.

“Back in New Fire,” originally published as “Impediments to Passion” in Might Magazine, 1996.

“The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2,” originally published as “F/X Porn” in Waterstone’s Magazine, 1998.

“The Nature of the Fun” in Fiction Writer, 1998.

“Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960” at Salon.com, 1999.

“Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama” in Science.

“The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal, ed. Peter Johnson” in Rain Taxi, 2001.

“Twenty-Four Word Notes,” reprinted from the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus with permission from Oxford University Press. Copyright © 2004, 2008, 2012 by Oxford University Press.

“Borges on the Couch” in the New York Times Book Review, 2004.

“Deciderization 2007—A Special Report,” originally published as the introduction to The Best American Essays 2007, 2007.

“Just Asking” in The Atlantic, 2007.