e’d really like to thank all the independent booksellers, and hell, the big chains, too, but especially those feisty little independents trying to make it in the now-corporatized world of bookselling, who have done so much to help us in promoting The Unknown: An Anthology. We realize that our behavior in your bookstores was sometimes painfully embarrassing to you as owners, managers and bookstore employees, and that we occasionally acted in ways that caused damage to both your and our own reputations as serious literary types, and for that, we are sorry. Words, then, cannot express our deeply-felt gratitude for your decision not only to host our readings, but also, even after those fiery occasions, to continue to hand-sell our books to your customers. When asked, “Read anything interesting lately?” you responded with our favorite rhetorical question, “Have you read The Unknown?” It is impossible to thank you enough. You people are the greatest. Babbitt’s Books in Champaign, Lincoln, and Normal, Illinois The Hungry Mind in Minneapolis, Minnesota Half-Price Books in Madison, Wisconsin and Cincinnati, Ohio Dubois Books in Cincinnati, Ohio The News Stand in Quaker Square, Akron, Ohio Moose Rack in Big Sky, Montana A Capella Books in Atlanta, Georgia Pages for All Ages in Savoy, Illinois Quimby’s in Chicago, Illinois Big Sleep Books in Missouri Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C. Big Sleep Books in St. Louis, Missouri Shaver’s Books in Huntsville, Alabama Gotham Books in New York City, New York Hoboken Books in Hoboken, New Jersey The Strand in New York City, New York Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa The Twig Bookshop in San Antonio, Texas City Lights in San Francisco, California Blackwell’s in Oxford and London, England Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, France Elliot Bay Books in Seattle, Washington Powell’s in Portland, Oregon Myopic Books in Chicago, Illinois Lee Booksellers in Lincoln, Nebraska The Tattered Cover in Denver, Colorado Priceless Books in Urbana, Illinois That Bookstore in Blytheville, Arkansas The Shaman Drum in Ann Arbor, Michigan Books on the Square in Providence, Rhode Island Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, New York Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bluedorn’s in San Diego, California Dauntiful Books in San Diego, California Books and Coffee in Albuquerque, New Mexico Bookman’s in Tuscon, Arizona Paperbacks Plus in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Goering’s Books in Gainesville, Florida Hawaii Children’s Book World Multicultural Resource Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Bookstores, We Apologize Read 10/23/98 at The University of Cincinnati 1:32 175K RealAudio Clip