Grand Street, Volume 14, Number 2, Issue 54, 1995

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Burroughs contributes “Ghost of Chance” an excerpt from the book, pp. 10-20. 

This issue also includes an advertisement for the novel Ghost of Chance, just inside the front cover.

Published in New York City by Grand Street in 1995.

Biibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.405
• Schottlaender v4.C635
• Raven 19950000GSTR.14.2, b9

Contents:

• William S. Burroughs: "Ghost of Chance" (prose)
• Sándor Csoóri:
• "So You Won't Be a Witness Today Either" (poetry)
• "May the Water Keep Vigil with Me" (poetry)
• Vito Acconci: "Parks, Streets, and Vehicles" (essay, photographs)
• Charles Simic: "Time Channel" (prose)
• Douglas Cooper: "Delirium" (prose)
• Margaret Morton: "Fragile Dwelling" (photoessay)
• Michael Carlson:
• "Torches Mauve" (poetry)
• "Blueberry Eyes" (poetry)
• Alissa Walser: "His Wedding" (prose)
• Jasper Johns: "Works on Paper" (art)
• Hugh Steinberg: "Coastline" (poetry)
• Robert Venturi: "Mals Mots: Aphorisms – Sweet and Sour – by an Anti-Hero Architect" (aphorisms)
• Ivan Vladislavic: "The Box" (prose)
• Gerald Heard: "UFOs; Who Is Inside the Flying Saucers?" (essay)
• Rodney Jones: "Waking Up" (poetry/prose)
• Jean Stein, Jomo Davis, and Elizabeth Gaynes: "Born in Prison" (interview)
• Moyra Davey: "Newsstands" (photographs)
• Jackie McAllister:
• on Moyra Davey (essay)
• "The Collyer Brothers" (essay, photographs)
• Elias Khoury: "The Memory of the City" (essay)
• W. S. Merwin:
• "After Fires" (poetry)
• "The Cisterns" (poetry)
• Alberto Giacometti: "The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T." (prose)
• Mel Bochner: "All Parallels Converge at Infinity" (art)
• Jaye Kramer and Kip S. Thorne: "Ants on a Balloon" (interview)
• Rachel Blau Duplessis: "Draft 24: Gap" (poetry)
• Steven Pippin: "The Continued Saga of an Amateur Photographer" (photographs, essay)
• Irvine Welsh: "Another Lost Empire" (prose)
• John Ashbery:
• "You Dropped Something" (poetry)
• "The Penitent" (poetry)
• Mark Weiss: "Painted" (poetry)
• Anna Keesey: "Bright Winter" (prose)
• Peter Redgrove:
• "Poems" (poetry)
• "Cornish Hills in the Black Mirror" (prose/poetry)
• "Manuduction" (poetry)
• James Turrell: "Roden Crater" (art, photographs)
• Rebecca Wolff: "Letters, young and old poets" (poetry)
• Vladimir Nabokov: "Beneficence" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Jean Stein
• Managing Editor: Deborah Treisman
• Art Editor: Walter Hopps
• Assistant Editor: Jackie McAllister
• Designer: Jim Hinchee
• Editorial Assistant: Julie A. Tate
• Administrative Assistant: Lisa Brodus
• Contributing Editors: Hilton Als, Dominique Bourgois, Colin de Land, Anne Doran, Morgan Entrekin, Gary Fisketjon, Raymond Foye, Jonathan Galassi, Stephen Graham, Barbara Heizer, Dennis Hopper, Hudson, Andrew Kopkind, David Kornacker, Jane Kramer, Erik Rieselbach, Edward W. Said, Robert Scheer, Elisabeth Sifton, Jeremy Treglown, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Gillian Walker, Drenka Willen
• et al