ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book would not have been written if Eliza Skinner hadn’t told me “you should write a novel” one day on the N train. Thanks are also due to my family, Dianne McGunigle, Greg Walter, Phil Cassese, Meggie McFadden and the rest of DERRICK, Daniel Greenberg, Gerry Howard, Tim O’Connell and everyone else at Vintage, Charlie Rubin, Emilie Spiegel, Steve Stout, Amy Eckman, WNBC, the UCB Theater, and anyone who read an early draft and gave me notes and encouragement. Also important were pop-punk music and the state of Arizona.