The Gossip Columnist's Daughter, page 22
“You? You’re the one that survives?”
Acknowledgments
The frontispiece photograph is used by permission of the Associated Press. The photograph of Karyn Kupcinet on here is used by permission of the Los Angeles Public Library. All other photos by @apaniaguaphoto. Many thanks to the Chicago History Museum and its kind, supportive staff for providing access to the Irv Kupcinet Papers.
Immense gratitude to the following: Rhoda Pierce (Mom), Eric Orner, Ellen Levine, Josh Kendall, Yvette Benavides (cohost of The Lonely Voice podcast from Texas Public Radio), Maya Guthrie, Ben George, Pat Strachan, Betsy Uhrig, Caitlin Van Dusen, Alberto Rodriguez, Nick Regiacorte, Alex Gordon, Julie Gordon, Matt Goshko, David Krause, Melissa Kirsch, Donal McLaughlin, Stuart Dybek, Marisa Silver, Andre Dubus III, Dominic Pacyga, Dave Eggers, Rob Preskill, Ricardo Siri, Angie Del Campo, Elizabeth Garriga, Darcy Glastonbury, Sarah Jean Grimm, and Kimberly Burns.
And to the Tuckerboxers: Vievee Francis, Sally Brady, John Griesemer, Bill Craig, as well as Robin Weigert, Richard Schiff, and the Sunday group.
To Riccardo Duranti, Italian translator and dear friend.
I’d also like to thank Wendel Cox and Shawn Martin of the Dartmouth College Library for their expertise; the Vermont Studio Center and Sarah Audsley; and the Hawthornden Foundation of Lasswade, Scotland, and Hamish Robinson for the gift of fellowship, time, and space.
In memory of Rudy, 1998–2012.
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About the Author
Born in Chicago, Peter Orner is the author of seven acclaimed books, including Maggie Brown & Others; Love and Shame and Love; Esther Stories, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; Am I Alone Here?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Still No Word from You, finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, The Believer, and The Best American Short Stories and has received four Pushcart Prizes. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Orner is chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He lives with his family in Vermont, where he’s also a volunteer firefighter.
Also by Peter Orner
Fiction
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
Love and Shame and Love
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Esther Stories
Maggie Brown & Others
Nonfiction
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
Am I Alone Here?
As Editor
The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille
Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
Underground America
Peter Orner, The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
