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Authors: Dana Spiotta
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am indebted to
Exploding the Phone
by Phil Lapsley. “The Miranda Obsession” by Bryan Burrough and Miranda Grosevnor inspired elements of the proto-catfishing in this novel. I derived part of Meadow's analysis of the scene from
Barry Lyndon
from Martin Scorsese's take in
A Personal Journey Through American Movies
. I took a line that imaginary Orson says from an appearance Orson Welles made on
The Merv Griffin Show
the night Welles died. The idea of re-creating lost films came from Guy Madison. James Benning's
RR
belongs on Meadow's list of train films, but it was made too late to fit into the chronology of the book. His work also pointed me toward this book's epigraph.
Thank you to Melanie Jackson and Don DeLillo for the support they have given this novel. Thank you to my editor, Nan Graham, for her intelligence and passion. Thank you to Roger Hallas, Laki ÂVazakas, James Rasin, Robert Polito, Tom Luddy, Sam Green, and Bennett Miller for so much help on aspects of the film content. Thank you to Jim Hosney for emailing me answers to my film questions and allowing me to name him in this novel as an homage. Thank you to Cody Carvel for reading and commenting on the phone phreaking sections. Thanks also to Kelley Rourke, Eric Bianchi, Christine Healy, Scott Healy, ÂSterling ÂYoungman, Marie Lorenz, Sarah Harwell, Rachel Kushner, and Judith Clark for comments and conversations that helped my work here. I am grateful to Syracuse University and its Creative Writing Program for giving me the time and support to work. Thank you to Susan Moldow, ÂKatherine Monaghan, and Daniel Loedel and everyone at Scribner for supporting this book. Thank you to my mother, Emy Frasca, for reading this novel and giving me such helpful comments. I cannot thank Jonathan Dee enough for his constant support of my writing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© Jessica Marx
Dana Spiotta
is the author of
Stone Arabia
, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;
Eat the Document
, a finalist for the National Book Award; and
Lightning Field
. Spiotta received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and the Rome Prize for ÂLiterature. Her work has been published by the
New Yorker
, the
New York Times Magazine
,
Vogue
, and the
New York Times Book Review
. She teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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