The Canals of Mars: A Memoir

Acknowledgments

The Ass-End of Everything Shenandoah The Plagues Tampa Review Home Remedies The Cresset The Canals of Mars Shenandoah Look Both Ways International Quarterly The Theory of Dog Shit Sonora Review / Blue Mesa Review God of Our Fathers Under the Sun The Faces of Christ Southern Humanities Review / The Cresset Say It Pleiades The Technology of Paradise North Dakota Quarterly / The Cresset Clemente Stuff Pittsburgh News-Tribune The Handmade Court Ecotone In the Bakery Passages North / Central PA Magazine Union Grades Under the Sun Useful Things Central PA Magazine / The Cresset Going Inside Pennsylvania English / The Cresset Subsidence, Mine Fire, Golf Southern Humanities Review / The Cresset Night Vision Southern Humanities Review Labored Breathing Southern Humanities Review Plummeting Under the Sun My Father Told Me Lake Effect / The Cresset The Piecework of Writing Tampa Review Cemeteries Weber Studies / The Cresset Some of these essays were published individually in very different forms. “The Canals of Mars” was reprinted in The Pushcart Prize, XXV and subsequently reprinted again in The Pushcart Book of Essays: The Best Nonfiction from the First Twenty-Five Years of the Pushcart Prize. The following essays were cited as Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays: “The Ass-End of Everything,” “Night Vision,” “Labored Breathing,” “Subsidence, Mine Fire, Golf,” “God of Our Fathers,” and “The Handmade Court.” Acknowledgments 232 ■ a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s “MyFatherToldMe,”inamarkedlydifferentversion,appearedinForKeepsies, a collection of short stories published in 1994 by Coffee House Press. “Cemeteries” was awarded the 2007 O. Marvin Lewis Prize for nonfiction. ...