Garner's Quotations by Dwight Garner

Author:Dwight Garner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to John Stinson, rare book dealer and cheerful misanthrope, for a thousand lessons in the literature of absurdity, parody, dissent, and disturbance. Thanks to Jonathan Miles, John Williams, Sam Tanenhaus, Max Watman, Charles Taylor, David Orr, Julie Truax, and Charles Truax, who commented on early drafts of this manuscript. Thanks to Daniel Okrent for several choice lines from his own commonplace book. Thanks to Penn Garner LeFavour and Harriet Garner LeFavour, my kids, who pitched in mightily during a fact-checking crunch on this book. (Any remaining errors are my own.) Thanks to the New York Public Library and Joe N’ Throw coffee shop in Fairmont, West Virginia, where a great deal of this material was stitched together. Thanks to David McCormick, my debonair agent. Thanks to Stig Abell and Rozalind Dineen of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), which published an early selection of this material. Thanks also to James Bennet and Brian Zittel of the Sunday Review section of The New York Times, which printed another selection of this material. Thanks to Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, who understood this project from the moment I mentioned it to him. Thanks to Rodrigo Corral for his bold and elegant cover design. Thanks also, at FSG, to Jeff Seroy, Chloe Texier-Rose, Brianna Panzica, Richard Oriolo, and Katharine Liptak.

Thanks finally to Cree LeFavour, for everything.

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