The Body of Brooklyn

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I wish to thank and acknowledge the following publications, in which some of these essays first appeared: Southwest Review, “Movies Are a Mother to Me,” “Further Father: Remembering John Waterman” (reprinted inThe Anchor Essay Annual, The Best of ’98), and “White Car”; Chelsea, “Some Images: Toward a Photographic Mishnah”; Quarterly West, “Melon Man”; Seattle Review, “Season of Love”; Houston Chronicle , “Rear Windows”; Culturefront, “My Little Heroes”; Laurel Review, “Grottoes: Memories of Christaphobia”; Gulf Coast, “Distant Voice”; and SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, “Family Snaps.” “White Car” and “Further Father: Remembering John Waterman” were named “Notable Essays of the Year” by Best American Essays in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In addition, I would like to thank the following people for their support of my work: Tom Andrews, Robert Atwan, Cathleen Calbert, Bettie Cartwright, Joan Connor, Ken Daley, George Hartley, Delmore Lorenzo Huber Lazar, Leo Lazar, Marcy Zell Lazar, Roz Lazar, Scott Lazar, Phillip Lopate, Kasia Marciniak, Martin McGovern, Robert Miklitsch, Ann Qualls, Tony Sanders, Devorah Silberstein, Willard Spiegelman, Kamil Turowski, Lois Zamora, and Stephen Zamora. Special thanks to Whitney Huber Lazar for . . . everything. A big thanks, too, to my students for keeping me on my toes in Essayland, just down the block from Roseland. .......................................................... ............... ...