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After ten years, forty issues, some 175 articles, eighty book reviews or review essays, nearly 100 columns, obituaries, guest prefaces, letters, bibliographies, and other miscellaneous contributions, 5,665 pages, and who knows how many words, this is my final issue as editor of American Imago.
As such, I would like to thank everyone who has made my efforts for the past decade not only possible but immeasurably fulfilling. First and foremost, this includes the authors who have honored American Imago by entrusting me with their work. I am especially grateful to those who have thanked me for the constructive criticisms I have sought to offer even when I had to decline their submissions. To anyone with whom I may have been insufficiently tactful, I sincerely apologize for my insensitivity.
Among my orchestra of published authors, I owe the greatest debt to my three “soloists,” Ellen Handler Spitz, Warren S. Poland, and Brett Kahr, whose performances have astounded me by their unfailing grace and profundity.
To all those who belong to our community of readers, as well as the colleagues who answered my call by serving on the editorial board, thank you. My illustrious coeditors, Franco Borgogno, Vera J. Camden, and Louise J. Kaplan, have counseled and chastened me through the years. The vision of nine guest editors (including one duo) helped annually to shape the direction of the journal. Martin J. Gliserman took a leap of faith in inviting me to be his successor, and his foresight in bringing the journal to The Johns Hopkins University Press has paid incalculable dividends. Behind the scenes in Baltimore, William Breichner has been the most benevolent of overseers, while Mary Muhler shepherded each issue through production