Prozac Nation (45 page)

 

 

In memoriam: Richard Whitesell,
25 February 1962–13 June 1994.
Love never dies.

The author gratefully acknowledges permission to quote from the following:

 

“Nothing,” Words and Music by Edie Brickell, Kenneth Withrow, John Houser, May Aly. © 1988 Geffen Music, Edie Brickell Songs, Withrow Publishing and Enlightened Kitty. All rights for Edie Brickell Songs, Withrow Publishing and Enlightened Kitty administered and controlled by Geffen Music, an MCA company.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED. USED BY PERMISSION.

 

“Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues” by Bob Dylan © 1965 Warner Brothers. Renewed 1993 Special Rider Music.

 

“Uneasy Rider” by Diane Wakoski © 1971 by Diane Wakoski. Reprinted from
Motorcycle Betrayal Poems
with permission of Black Sparrow Publishers.

 

“You're a Big Girl Now” by Bob Dylan © 1974 by Ram's Horn Music; renewed 2002 by Ram's Horn Music.

 

“A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun” by Tom Waits © 1978 Fifth Avenue Music.

 

Four lines from “Elm” from
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath copyright © 1963 by Ted Hughes. Copyright renewed. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

E
LIZABETH
W
URTZEL
graduated from Harvard College, where she received the 1986
Rolling Stone
College Journalism award for essay writing. She was the popular-music critic for
The New Yorker
and
New York
magazine. Her articles have also appeared in
Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen
, and
The Oxford American
. She lives in New York City.