Michael Cunningham - Specimen Days

The assistance and friendship of Meg Giles have been crucial in ways too numerous to mention.

I wrote the third section while staying at the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Tuscany at the invitation of Beatrice von Rezzori, whose generosity toward writers is nothing short of remarkable.

I relied for information on Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, published in 1999 by Oxford University Press; The Historical Atlas of New York City by Eric Homberger, published in 1994 by Henry Holt and Company; Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself by Jerome Loving, published in 1999 by the University of California Press; Walt Whitman’s America by David S. Reynolds, published in 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf; and the edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass published by the Library of America in 1992. Mike Wallace, coauthor of Gotham, was kind enough to e-mail me in response to certain questions regarding life in the nineteenth century. Although the reader will not learn about the underwear those characters are wearing, / know, thanks to Mike Wallace, and that helped me to more fully imagine them.

Finally I must acknowledge Ken Corbett, who not only reads passages as I go along, offers brilliant suggestions, and talks me through my fits of discouragement, but helps to create a domestic environment of discrimination, generosity, humor, scrupulous thought, and belief in the fundamental human obligation to try to do at least a little more than one is technically able to.

В бумажном носителе данное предложение — “ What I want to say” зачеркнуто . (прим. верстальщика).