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1 review

Grand Street, 1999

Nice Cover Girl
Hey that's my sister on the cover, so I have to give it five stars. (I would have anyway.) pj

Edie: An American Biography

2 reviews
Jean Stein

Knopf, 1982

Just Like A Woman :)
"She cries . . . just like a woman . . . but she breaks just like a little girl" (Bob Dylan) - the intoxicating beauty and youthtful enhilaration of a young woman named Edie Sedgwick inspired the american troubador of the 60's Bob Dylan to write, "Just Like A Woman" . . . but even just glancing at the photographs of Edie printed in this biography shows just "why" this young woman could be the ...

Edie: American Girl

34 reviews
Jean Stein

Grove Press, 1994

Candid, emotional, telling read about Edie and the 60s...
Great photos, great commentary from those who knew Edie on the most personal levels. Great and eye opening accounts of what it was like to live in the sixties, the drug use, the sex, the music, the scene. Really great book that I'm thrilled to add to my library.

Grand Street 57: Dirt (Summer 1996)

Grand Street, 1996

American Journey;: The Times of Robert Kennedy

2 reviews
Jean Stein

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970

"the ride of the century"
Since I'm of the age group that actually remembers Mr Kennedy's campaign and assasination by seeing it on television, this was a strange book to read. I remember all too well learning of his assasination - I had been assigned as part of homework to report on his campaign. I woke up to be sure I caught the news before I went to school - and there, another horrible scene was being played out. It ...

Grand Street 61: All American (Summer 1997)
Jean Stein, Deborah Treisman

Grand Street, 1997

Grand Street 56: Dreams (Spring 1996)

1 review
Jean Stein, Deborah Treisman

Grand Street, 1996

Helikopter's of Stockhausen
if you like contemporary music this Issue has an excerpt from LICHT, a massive opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen who passed not long ago, this excerpt is a string quartet, but not sitting on a stage, Stockhausen had a dream of flying musicians also the sound/timbre of airplanes always intrigued him; the piece is where 4 brave musicians(2 Violins, Viola and CEllo) each go inside a Helikopter. The ...

Grand Street 42 (Grand Street)

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992

Grand Street 64: Memory (Spring 1998)

1 review

Grand Street, 1998

Very nice but I didn't find the authors I expected
Instead of Luc Tuymans, Anton Chekhov, Vratislav Effenberger, Milton Hatoum, Andrie Platonov, Victor Pelevin, Rebecca Solnit, I found in this issue of Grand Street (no 64) contributions of David Mamet, Suzan Lori Parks, José Saramago, Tony Smith, Tennesse Williams and Pablo Neruda

Grand Street #72: Detours
Jean Stein

Grand Street, 2003

In Grand Street 's upcoming issue, digressions, detours, and deviations prove more fruitful than the beaten path. Antonio Tabucchi's sets off on imaginary adventures in "Books Never Written, Journeys Never Made"; Shozo Numa fast-forward's to a dystopian 40th-century nation in his postmodern cult novel, Yapoo, the Human Cattle , published here for the first time in English with anime illustrations; traitor Soviet General A. A. Vlasov meets his ...

Grand Street 44 (Winter 1993)

Grand Street, 1993

Grand Street 50: Models (Fall 1994)

Grand Street, 1994

Grand Street 46 (Grand Street)

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993

Grand Street 47 (Grand Street)

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993

An issue of the American literary magazine which brings its readers not only fiction and poetry, but also scientific essays on the state of the planet, dialogues, oral histories and excerpts of musical scores. Each issue features the work of contemporary artists and sculptors.

Grand Street 60: Paranoia (Spring 1997)
Bruce Conner, Alexander Cockburn, ...

Grand Street, 1997

Anthropology, second edition: Study guide and workbook
Jean Stein

Prentice-Hall, 1977

This Study Guide and Workbook has been designed to help you understand and review the material in Anthropology, second edition, by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. (from to the student)

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