“Balto” also appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin); and “Admiral” in The Best American Short Stories 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie (Houghton Mifflin).
The author would also like to acknowledge Harlan Lane’s The Wild Boy of Aveyron and Roger Shattuck’s The Forbidden Experiment as sources of certain factual details in “Wild Child.”
A Death in Kitchawank: The Atlantic, “The Silence”; Harper’s, “My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain,” “What Separates Us from the Animals” and “Sic Transit”; The Kenyon Review, “In the Zone” and “Slate Mountain”; McSweeney’s, “Burning Bright”; The New Yorker, “A Death in Kitchawank,” “Los Gigantes,” “Birnam Wood” and “The Night of the Satellite”; Playboy, “Good Home,” “The Way You Look Tonight” and “The Marlbane Manchester Musser Award.”