| I owe thanks to many editors who have honored my work in their book and magazine pages, but above all I need to thank Wendy Lesser: I sent her a story, SASE enclosed, in a plain manila envelope. |
| I am grateful to the following publications, in which these stories originally appeared: The Threepenny Review: "Where the Sun Don't Shine," "Parking Places," "Getting a Job in Dell City," ''The Seora,'' "Ballad," "Look on the Bright Side," "Something Foolish"; Puerto Del Sol: "Down in the West Texas Town," "Recipe," "Photographs Near a Rolls Royce," "The Rat"; Fiction Network Magazine: "Vic Damone's Music," "Hollywood!"; Kingfisher: "The Magic of Blood," "Al, in Phoenix"; American Short Fiction: "The Death Mask of Pancho Villa," "Truck," "Churchgoers"; Short Story Review: "Winners on the Pass Line"; The Blue Mesa Review and Iron: "I Danced with the Prettiest Girl"; Buffalo: "Love in L.A."; Tonantzin: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Was a Democrat"; New Chicana/Chicano Writing: "Romero's Shirt"; High Plains Literary Review: "The Prize," The Sonora Review: "Nancy Flores"; "Down in the West Texas Town," "The Desperado," "Where the Sun Don't Shine," "Love in L.A.," "Photographs Near a Rolls Royce," "Parking Places," "Winners on the Pass Line," and "Recipe" were printed in Winners on the Pass Line (Cinco Puntos Press); "Hollywood!" also appeared in West, North of the Border: The Mexican-American Experience in Short Fiction, and Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction; "Vic Damone's Music" in North of the Border; "Getting a Job in Dell City" in New Growth: Contemporary Short Stories by Texas Writers; "I Danced with the Prettiest Girl" in New Growth 2; "The Seora" and "Ballad" in Best of the West (3 and 4); "The Death Mask of Pancho Villa" in Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers; "Look on the Bright Side" in The Pushcart Prize XVII: Best of the Small Presses (199293); "Truck" aired on National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing" and appeared in The Sound of Writing #2. |
Gilb, Dagoberto, 1950
The magic of blood / Dagoberto Gilb. 1st ed.
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ISBN 0-8263-1436-8 (hard)
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