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Acknowledgments

I WANT TO BEGIN by expressing my gratitude to my sister, Pamela Lutz, whose tenderness provides a backdrop to all my best work. I owe Maggie Nelson a great debt for being a brilliant and enthusiastic reader of this book and for helping me to understand more about pleasure. Benjamin Friedman has my gratitude for his unwavering attention to the minute and for his special ability to locate clusters. And for his willingness to share rooms, cities, and architecture with me. I am grateful to Kristofer Widholm for those countless hours we spent in that sunny kitchen, sharing the same workspace. Thanks to my mother for her pride in me. Wayne Koestenbaum taught me about pornography and the erotics of collaboration. Jean Mills shows me how to push through and gives me her fire in the woods. Thanks to Elaine Freedgood for her unflagging encouragement and for telling me about materiality. Melissa Dunn demonstrated the value of stepping outside of academia. Talia Schaffer I thank for her many words of support and for telling me about women’s crafts and their collaborative sharing. Conversations about sexuality with Duc Dau and Will Fisher provided me with ideas, early and late. The kindness, wit, and enthusiasm of my colleagues at Long Island University helped me clear space to write; James Bednarz, Rachel Szekely, Tom Fahy, Katherine Hill-Miller, and John Lutz remain especially in my mind. I am grateful to my agent, Renee Zuckerbrot, for her astute professionalism and her cheerful persistence. At W. W. Norton, Amy Cherry enriched this book with her wise and sensitive editing. And thanks to Deborah Rubin, who persuades me to find pleasure, even in what seems most impossible.