About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (36 page)

Stephen Corey at
The Georgia Review
worked with me on “Replacing Memory.” Mark Jannot at
Men’s Journal
, with John Rasmus, edited “A Passage of the Hands.” Robin Cruise at
Rocky Mountain
magazine helped with “Murder.”

Other essays here benefited from the editorial attention of both Laurie Graham and Robin Desser.

Finally, I would like to thank Peter Matson, my literary agent, who for many years has offered guidance and good counsel in editorial and other matters.

Some of these essays, several under different titles and in a slightly different form, originally appeared in the following publications:

“Searching for Depth in Bonaire,”
The Georgia Review
(autumn 1996); “A Short Passage in Northern Hokkaido,”
The New York Times Magazine, The Sophisticated Traveler
(October 5, 1986); “Orchids on the Volcanoes,”
The North American Review
(June 1989); “Informed by Indifference,”
Harper’s
(May 1988); “Flight,”
Harper’s
(October 1995); “Apologia,”
Witness
(winter 1989); “In a Country of Light, Among Animals,”
Outside
(June/July 1981); “The American Geographies,”
Orion
(autumn 1989); “Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire,”
Harper’s
(January 1998); “The Whaleboat,”
Outside
(May 1998); “Replacing Memory,”
The Georgia Review
(spring 1993); “A Passage of the Hands,”
Men’s Journal
(December 1996/January 1997); “Learning to See,”
DoubleTake
(spring 1998); “Murder,”
Rocky Mountain Magazine
(May/June 1981) and
Oregon Quarterly
(spring 1998).

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