You or Someone Like You (41 page)

Authors: Chandler Burr

Acknowledgments

Much of this novel was written at the New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan branch on Fifth and 40th. Thank you, and thank God for the NYPL.

Debbie and Jim Fallows, Scott Baldauf, Aileen Cheatham, Devon Burr, Stephanie Newsom, Richard Pillard, Anne Lester, Norman Carlin, Alexia Brue, Lars Yockel, Jay Marcus, Brett Thorn, and Chetan Raina read various drafts and provided crucial comments.

Jennifer Lyne and Adam Watstein gave crucial moral support. Robert Attanasio and Lee Stein were the warmest of hosts. Yorick Petri was and is a wonderful friend. Joe Tomkiewicz held the lifeline.

Two people took extraordinary roles. Michael Strong both quite literally saved my life and dedicated himself to guiding the text in the right direction. And I had the rare fortune of a thing I'd never actually conceived of, an editor who takes hands-on charge of the development of an evolving novel. It is difficult to know which is greater, the dedication that Lacy Crawford of narrativemagazine.com gave me or the perceptiveness and precision that she applied.

Eric Simonoff, super agent, superduperagent, transparent enigma, beacon of hope, voice of sanity.

Eadie Klemm, superstructure.

Shannon Ceci, production editor, who made it go.

Laurie McGee, copy editor, who sifted it all.

Beth Silfin, Ecco's dedicated, pointillist, thoroughly professional legal eye.

Allison Saltzman, genius designer.

Greg Mortimer, visionary, architect, and Matt Canale, construction manager.

Dan Halpern, publisher and lover of dark scents.

Abigail Holstein, always there, tireless, without whom? Forget it.

Most important of all, Lee Boudreaux, my editor. The velvet fist in the iron glove. Refiner's fire. True believer.

About the Author

CHANDLER BURR
is the
New York Times
scent critic and author of
The Perfect Scent, The Emperor of Scent,
and
A Separate Creation
. He has written for the
Atlantic
and the
New Yorker
. He lives in New York City.

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The Perfect Scent

The Emperor of Scent

A Separate Creation

Copyright

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint from the following:

“November Songs” by Elaine Feinstein, from
Elaine Feinstein: Collected Poems and Translations,
Carnacet Press Limited, 2002.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations
by David Mamet. Copyright Â© 1974 by David Mamet. Used by permission of Grove/ Atlantic, Inc.

“There Was a Saviour” by Dylan Thomas, from
The Poems of Dylan Thomas,
copyright Â© 1943 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

With permission of the author, ideas and quotations from “Goodbye, 1939” by Nicholas Jenkins, from
The New Yorker
, April 1, 1996. “The Sloth,” copyright Â© 1950 by Theodore Roethke, from
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
by Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU
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Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-188559-4

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