Richard Kostelanetz
- Preambles
- All Along the Edge
- Choice Bits
- Las Vegas Performance
- Book of Kostis
- Contemporary American Literacy
- Modern Polyartistry
- End of Intelligent Writing, reprint
- More On Innovative Music(ian)s
- Autobiogaphies at 50 & 60
- Book-Art & Alternative Publishing
- A Literary Life in America
- Animated Music
- Artists in America
- Arts & Artists in America
- Master Minds, rev. ed.
- The Maturity of American Thought
- Great American Comedians
- Continuing Tradition of the New
- Charles Ives and the American Imagination
- Special Sounds: The Art of Radio in North America
- Great Jewish Cemetery of Berlin
- Sports & Sportsmen
- Elizabeth Streb
- More Crimes of Culture
- The Fall and Rise of the Rockaways
- Home & Away: Travel Essays
- American Composers in Their Own Words
- The Art of Literary Demolition
- Possibilities of Longer Poetry
- Alternative American Autobiographies
- The American Tradition in Poetry
- John Cage's Poetry
- Foster Damon's Uncollected Writings
- Libertarian Tradition: American Anarchist Thought
- E.E. Cummings ReConSidered
- Conceptual Dance: Choreographic Comedies
- An Emma Goldman Reader
- American Composers as Writers
- AnOther Ogden Nash
- Classic Essays on Rock
- New American Radio Plays
- Second Anthology of Merce Criticism
Proposal for An Emma Goldman Anthology: The Great American Person of Radical Letters, edited and introduced by Richard Kostelanetz
The only earlier anthology known to me, Alix Kates Schulman's Red Emma Speaks (Vintage, 1972), suffers from an inept title. Black is the color of anarchism; red belongs to Communism. Emma was an anarchist, a profound anarchist, who, were she alive, surely would have objected to Schulman's title which comes from an epithet foisted upon her by others. My selection would emphasize Goldman’s feminist writings, her pioneering critique from the anarchist left of Soviet Russia, and her literary excellences. It would include healthy chunks from My Disillusionment in Russia (1924), which was last reprinted in 1970; and My Further Disillusionment with Russia (1926). It would include essays never before reprinted, such as "Woman Without a Country." I might completely avoid selecting from Living My Life (1930), her renowned autobiography, which has long been in print.
I regard The Great American Person of Radical Letters as a companion to Gertrude Stein anthologies I have done. Whereas Stein is featured in literature courses, so Goldman belongs in sociology, feminism, and literary criticism courses. As before, I'm prepared to write a strong appreciative preface and to edit to whatever length the publisher determines, as long as my interpretation of Goldman as a black (not red) anarchist-feminist is respected. Publishers wishing to know more should please contact me. Thanks.