Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the editors involved for their willingness to allow (where needed) the reprinting of the pieces in this volume. The pertinent information of their origin is given at the end of each individual article. But, I would like to thank the following by name (somewhatalphabetical):PaulBaumannatCommonweal;RichHeffern atthe National Catholic Reporter; DavidHoppeatNUVO; HenryKisor andSteveHuntleyofthe Chicago Sun-Times;GregMitchellof Editor & Publisher; Steve Tomasula of the Electronic Book Review; Don Wycliff, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marcia Lythcott of the Chicago Tribune; Jaimy Gordon and Rachel Swearingen of Third Coast; the late Rochelle Ratner of the American Book Review; Lou Harry, Indy Men’s Magazine; Clark Munsell, The World & I; Barbara Hanrahan, Rebecca DeBoer, and Harv Humphrey, Notre Dame Press; Gayle Dantzler and Andrew Hughes of the South Bend Tribune; Liz McMillen of the Chronicle of Higher Education; Mary Rohrberger and Farhat Iftekharuddin of SHORT STORY; and Linda Oblack, Nancy Lightfoot, Angela Burton, BertoltSobolik,andRhondaVanderDussenattheIndianaUniversity Press and Cynthia Landeen, indexer extraordinaire. In addition to editors, I want to thank these individuals, some connectedtoNotreDame,somenot.MagdalenaNerio,AgustinFuentes and Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Acknowledgments 331 332 Corinne Demas, Maura Stanton, Valerie Sayers, Christopher Fox, David Black, Ed Zuckerman, Charles DeFanti, Diane Abrams, John Matthias, Craig Nova, Irini Spanidou, Betty Signer, David Matlin, Jay Neugeboren, Kevin Coyne, Alice Elman, Joan Harris, Janey Skeer, Robert Kareka, Zane Kotker, Ilona Kelly, Marsha McCreadie, Harry Mark Petrakis, John Wright Stevens, R.D. Skillings, Dorothy Baker, Susan Blum, Lionel Jensen, Sam Hazo, and R. Jess Lavolette. ...