The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato

Author:Catie Disabato [Disabato, Catie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-435-6
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2015-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

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* Thanks to Jade Ashley Zanotti at Bauman Rare Books in New York for helping me track down a copy of the de Poisson biography and to Professor David Whittier of the University of Chicago for an account of the book’s history.

† This birth-order information might’ve been lifted from the biography of Monson’s contemporary (and probable rival-in-absentia) Martin Bohemus. [I’m not sure what Cyrus means here. Is there another lost biography? What does rival-in-absentia mean? —CD]

‡ Quotations from de Poisson’s untitled biography have been adjusted to reflect modern spellings.

§ Christopher Columbus’s Second Voyage to America, In His Words, eds. Olivia Dunn and Jamie R. Havert (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 15.

ǁ Christopher Columbus’s Second Voyage to America, In His Words, 54.

a From a letter Columbus wrote to the Monarchs. The quotation appears in several books about Columbus, including two that Cyrus owns: The Second Voyage and Ferdinand and Christopher, both by C. W. Peters. —CD

b Simon Charles, History’s Most Hated Cartographer: The New Biography of Antoine/Antoinette Monson (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1921).

c Simon never revealed his source for the quotation “history’s most hated cartographer.”

d The idea that Antoinette was barren began as court gossip and, in Charles’s hands, became historical myth. Antoinette actually bore three children. Aimé didn’t father any of them, but raised them as his own; as a private, perverse joke, Aimé and Antoinette named each of the children after their biological fathers, Antoinette’s various extramarital lovers. Any record of the children’s proper names was lost, but Antoinette recorded their pet names: Lo-Lo, Freddie, and Bébé.

e The New Biography of Antoine/Antoinette Monson, 206.

f Thanks to Berliner for letting me examine the diary. [Thanks from me, too. —CD]

g From 2001 to 2007, hip-hop and R&B dominated the Billboard charts and made up the vast majority of the number one singles. In 2008, Black Eyed Peas was poised to dominate the year’s charts with their two huge hits “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.” Their chart domination ended when Molly’s third single “New Vogue Riche” toppled “I Gotta Feeling,” ending a fourteen-week number one streak.

h Roger Popdidian, “Album Review: Molly Metropolis—Cause Apocalyptic,” in Rolling Stone 1097, No. 2 (2010): 68.

i Parts of the story of Taer’s search on this day came to Cyrus secondhand, from Nix. Other parts came from Taer’s notebook and recordings. —CD

j At the time, Nix wasn’t aware that Taer was recording their conversation and saving the mp3s. She was surprised when I played her the audio recording.

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