An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World (37 page)

Mr. S.P. translated the taped Pushtu interviews which I have transcribed here. I wish that I could thank him by name. Mr. Lindsey Grant gave me valuable advice on film and equipment accessories. I am very grateful to Mr. Robert Kvaal for his kind efforts to place the manuscript. The late James R. Withrow, Jr., provided encouragement and support. Professor Alan Paskow taught me my Wittgenstein. I would also like to thank Ms. Erica Bright, Professor Galya Diment, Mr. Paul Foster, Mr. John Glusman, Mr. Garth Pritchard, Ms. Catherine Reynolds, Dr. Janice K. Ryu, Mr. Scott Swanson and Mr. David Traub.

I apologize to anyone whose name I have forgotten. Eleven years is a long enough period of time for even the infallible Young Man to make mistakes.

William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence,
Rising Up and Rising Down
. He is also the author of
Kissing the Mask, Poor People, Riding Toward Everywhere
, and
Imperial
. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN Center USA West Literary Award for fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in
The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin
, and
Granta
. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.