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Melissa Gira Grant

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January 22, 1978

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Average rating: 3.74 · 74 ratings · 18 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Coming & Crying by Melissa Gira Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meaghan O'Connell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Elliott (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Take This Book: A History of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Fast Feminism

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Melissa marked as to-read: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To by Rob Sheffield	My rating:
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Melissa liked Courtney's review of Coming & Crying: " Intense and visceral. I almost cried during one story, and I laughed out loud during another. Very powerful, especially when you remember they're all true. "
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Melissa liked Alayna's review of Coming & Crying: " I didn't want it to end! Certainly not every essay was perfect and some were, of course, better than others. I wasn't expecting perfection, but I didn't anticipate the extent to which these essays really moved me, and I'm pleased and somehow gratef... " Read more of this review »
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Melissa marked as to-read: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys	My rating:
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Engaging, clever, with improbable but properly-researched and cited snippets of firsthand wit from the people who made up the underground sex economy at the turn of the last century in Chicago. Surprising but sobering history of the early FBI as the...more
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