The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters - Tapa dura

RQKostelanetz does it again, gathering Stein's lively, liberating, and cleansing words (the words, as she says, we hold in our hands) in a fine new anthology that includes 'Many Many Women,' 'Wherein the South Differs from the North,' 'Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters,' and 'How Writing is Written' testimony all to Stein's prescient originality and Kostelanetz's lifelong commitment to it.--Brenda Wineapple There have been many Anthologies, Chrestomathies, and Readers of Gertrude Stein's work, a multiplicity corresponding to the diversity and development of the writings she produced with such astonishing continuity all her life. In his lively selection, Mr. Kostelanetz has successfully represented one aspect of Stein's repertoire and provided a characteristic introduction which surely identifies his particular insight into her work. As Gertrude Stein says in Tender Buttons: 'a line in life, a single line and a stairway.' Congratulations all round!--Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Richard Kostelanetz is right again. Gertrude Stein is the great American pioneer of the avant-garde. Kostelanetz shows us Stein in all her bounty, ingenuity, and originality.--Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, New York University, and Editor of the Library of America's two-volume "Gertrude Stein: Writing Kostelanetz does it again, gathering Stein's lively, liberating, and cleansing words (the words, as she says, we hold in our hands) in a fine new anthology that includes 'Many Many Women, ' 'Wherein the South Differs from the North, ' 'Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, ' and 'How Writing is Written' testimony all to Stein's prescient originality and Kostelanetz's lifelong commitment to it.--Brenda Wineapple, Author of "Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein" Gertrude Stein always did things her own way, with no apologies given. Editor Richard Kostelanetz captures the contradictory aspects of her domineering personality and towering presence. He makes quite clear that Stein was a woman for all seasons and for all times.--June Skinner Sawyers, Editor, "The Greenwich Village Reader"

Collecting 36 poems, stories, plays, and essays by the pioneering modernist Stein, this compilation includes an extensive introduction examining Stein's impact on subsequent writers.