Fathermucker (34 page)
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CHULKIND: THANKS SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME ANOTHER
crack at this. As I've now come to expect, your editorial insights have markedly improved this book. It's a privilege to work with you.
Mollie Glick, my agent of almost ten years: bless you for taking the long view. You rock, as does the rest of the Foundry crew (mercy buckets, Stéphanie Abou).
Robin Antalek, who read this novel in serial form, Dickens-style, before anyone else did: your encouragement and support have been priceless. I can't thank you enough.
Big love and thanks to everyone in the TNB universe, especially Jessica Anya Blau, Susan Henderson, Jonathan Evison, Lenore Zion, Zara Potts, Jeffrey Pillow, Nick Belardes, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Gina Frangello, Tawni Freeland, Gloria Harrison, Quenby Moone, Cynthia Hawkins, Megan DiLullo, Erika Rae, Richard Cox, Simon Smithson, Matt Baldwin, Sean Beaudoin, D. R. Haney, and the great Brad Listi.
Lauren Cerand: you are a genius.
Mad props to: Carrie Kania, Cal Morgan, Teresa Brady, Nicole Reardon, Robin Bilardello, Erica Barmash, Mary Sasso, Maggie Oberrender, Jennifer Hart, Aaron Murray, Lelia Mander, and everyone else at Harper; Christine Preston, Michael Preston, Olivia Abel, Cathy Serpico, Charles Sterne, Caitlin Welles, Liz Eslami, Jeff Bens, and Meghan O'Neill Currier; Jess Walter, Jerry Stahl, Colleen Curran, Jim Othmer, Thelma Adams, Steve Almond, Maria Semple; Molly Jong-Fast, Ruth and Terry Quinn, Liz Pickett and Les Castellanos, Elizabeth and Tim Hunter, Shari Lynn Goldstein, Keith Karchner, Jen Papataros, Erica Chase-Salerno, and the rest of our friends (both grown-ups and kids) in New Paltz.
Kathy, Lorrie, Belkis, Olga, Sandy, Charley, Cindy, Rachael, Marcia, Joan, Christine, Brieann, Toni, Deanna, Danielle, and Inge: if every preschooler had you as teachers, the world would be a much happier place. Your positive influence on our lives is impossible to overstate.
Janice and Greg Olear, Franklin and Lorraine St. John: you are patrons of the arts, whether you know it or not. Love and thanks to you and the rest of the family, especially Jeremy Olear and Lou and Diane St. John (and C. J., my niece, who is such a great artist).
To my children, Dominick and Prudence: you are a daily source of inspiration and joy, even on days when Dad is grumpy. I am blessed to have such wonderful, smart, and dazzling children.
Finally, to my lovely, talented, and no-doubt-about-it faithful wife, Stephanie: only thirteen more years till we can go to Europe for a month! Without you, I don't know where I'd be . . . someplace colder, shallower, less meaningful, less supportive . . . Brooklyn, maybe? But seriously: this book doesn't exist without you. I love you more than you know.
Totally Killer
Greg Olear
is the senior editor of the lit blog
The Nervous Breakdown
and the author of the novel
Totally Killer
. His work has appeared in therumpus.net, Babble.com, themillions.com,
Chronogram
, and
Hudson Valley Magazine
. A professor of creative writing at Manhattanville College, he lives with his family in New Paltz, New York.
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FATHERMUCKER.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Olear, Greg.
     Fathermucker : a novel / Greg Olear. â 1st ed.
       p. cm.
     ISBN 978-0-06-205971-0
     1. Stay-at-home fathersâFiction. 2. ParentingâFiction. 3. MarriageâFiction. 4. Political correctnessâFiction. I. Title.
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EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062059727
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