Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of Short Stories for Students (SSfS). Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN SSfS, VOLUME 23, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Critique, v. 24, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Dissent, v. 47, summer, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Dissent Publishing Corporation. Reproduced by permission.—Houston Chronicle, November 14, 2003 for 'Dark Debut Skims Surface of Emotions,' by Harvey Grossinger. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 4, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 20, summer, 1995. Copyright MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Missouri Review, v. 22, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Nation, v. 257, September 6, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Nation Magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New York Times, September 25, 1977 for "White and Black and Everything Else," by Robie Macauley. Copyright © 1977 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission of Pamela Painter, on behalf of Robie Macauley.—Ploughshares, v. 19, fall, 1993 for a review of "The Pugilist at Rest," by Kevin Miller. Reproduced by permission of the author.—PN Review, v. 16, 1989. Copyright © Poetry Nation Review, 1989. Reproduced by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.—Portuguese Studies, v. 15, 1999. Copyright © Modern Humanities Research Association 1999. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Progressive, September, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by The Progressive, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Progressive, 409 East Main Street, Madison, WI 53703, www.progressive.org.—Publishers Weekly, v. 228, September 20, 1991; v. 250, November 3, 2003. Copyright © 1991, 2003 by Reed Publishing USA. All reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 13, fall, 1993. Copyright © 1993 The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 23, summer, 1986; v. 31, summer, 1994. Copyright © 1986, 1994 by Studies in Short Fiction. All reproduced by permission.—Women's Studies, v. 25, November, 1995. © 1995 by OPA (Oversees Publishers Association) Amsterdam B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com, and the author.—World Literature Today, v. 68, spring, 1994; v. 71, winter, 1997; v. 74, spring, 2000. Copyright © 1994, 1997, 2000 by World Literature Today. All reproduced by permission of the publisher.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN SSfS, VOLUME 23, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Saltzman, Arthur M., From Understanding Raymond Carver, University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Copryight © University of South Carolina 1988. Reproduced by permission.