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A Marathon Reading
Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans

April 18, 2024 by Jan Herman

My staff of thousands thinks of it as the “Moby-Dick” of modernism.

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Title page of the first edition published in 1925 by Contact Press and limited to 500 copies.

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Jan Herman

When not listening to Bach or Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes, or dancing to salsa, I like to play jazz piano -- but only in the privacy of my own mind.
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