Why Poets Read Gertrude Stein May 5, 2008
Soul-mate of Picasso, Cubist word-painter, American poet Gertrude Stein is hard to read ... A headline in the New York Times in 1934, when Gertrude Stein was on a speaking tour, read: Miss Stein Speaks to Bewildered 500 ... Gertrude Stein was a genuine trailblazer. (Suite101.com)
Was Yasmina Reza's portrait of Sarkozy prescient? May 2, 2008
"I don't look like that," Gertrude Stein is said to have remarked in reaction to Picasso's 1906 portrait of her (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Place of Interest Apr 20, 2008
Gertrude Stein, in a statue that faces obliquely away from the lawn, seems to be snubbing it now. Mid-November. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Post a comment Apr 18, 2008
Obama is alot like Gertrude Stein s opinion of Oakland. There s no there there. (International Herald Tribune)
POETRY WORTH 1,000 PICTURES Apr 6, 2008
") She read appropriately from the rebel Gertrude Stein. I was very impressed with the first reader, Yusef Komunyakaa, but sitting behind him on the stage, the sound system mangled his Robert Hayden verses. It was a tremendous treat to meet the gracious and charming Jonathan Demme, who read Randall Jarrell's "The Lost Children. " This man directed some of the great films of all time; his films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, and have won 11. I'll just name my favorite - "The Silence... (New York Post -- Gossip)
University Place renews quest to find its 'there' Mar 31, 2008
What Gertrude Stein famously observed about her childhood hometown of Oakland, Calif. might also be said of a city neighboring Tacoma: "There is no there there.". (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Editorial: Debtor nation Mar 27, 2008
" Paranoid psychos think there are others with them, same as you talk like, but Sick-o EDS, in whatever way you can hear this, you "are" be, "all" of the disease, you are alone, isolated, babbling incoherent words in which, (paraphrasing the estimable Gertrude Stein): there ain't no scare, there. As for any cohesion you have with war criminal Bushbutcher, and if your maintenance medication brings you near functional cognizance for some brief spell during a day, get this: Indicting and... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
In pages of Writer's Digest, an ever-changing authors' story Mar 25, 2008
Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and other modernists were breaking up traditional narrative and grammar, but in the early 1920s, the marketplace belonged to the straight and the simple. "A readable, lucid style, is far preferable to what is called a 'literary style' . . . a complicated method of expression which confuses rather than clarifies thought," one columnist advised. (Boston Globe)
Dan Chiasson on 'The Best American Erotic Poems' Mar 15, 2008
Dan Chiasson on 'The Best American Erotic Poems' - International Herald Tribune. Dan Chiasson is a poet and literary critic. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Whither Shakespeare? He's backeth, baby! Mar 6, 2008
Nick, to writer Gertrude Stein: "Thanks, Gert.". How do you thank your hero. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
'Drowsy Chaperone' Feb 24, 2008
The Pittsburgh diaspora has scattered embryonic artists far and wide -- Gertrude Stein to Paris, F. Murray Abraham to Texas. and Lisa Lambert to Toronto. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Ron Paul, American Artifact Feb 18, 2008
Thats the phrase Gertrude Stein used to sum up poor Ezra Pound, the crazed poet and another money crank ... Thats the phrase Gertrude Stein used to sum up poor Ezra Pound, the crazed poet and another money crank. (Townhall.com)
Secret sharer Feb 11, 2008
Nathaniel, whoever he really is, is a lit major who relies on Gertrude Stein to make sense of his world and who volunteers at a neighborhood soup kitchen. That's where he met Jamie, a dancer and sculptor. (Boston Globe)
* [ART JOURNAL]: The real Matisse Jan 24, 2008
That same year, the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein introduced him to Picasso, and Derain bought an African mask he showed to both artists. It survives, a white, wooden oval with piercing eyes from Congo. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The most beautiful modern painting in the world Jan 19, 2008
That same year, the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein introduced him to Picasso, and Derain bought an African mask he showed to both artists. It still survives, a white, wooden oval with piercing eyes from Congo. (Guardian Unlimited)
The promised land? Jan 16, 2008
the touring show on now at Oakville Galleries, takes its name from a famous remark made by Gertrude Stein regarding the subject of suburbia. In a disparaging state of mind, something of a chronic condition for American modernism's dowager queen, she said of her home town Oakland, Calif. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Newsweek: Was Proust a neuroscientist? Jan 9, 2008
In the book, author describes how novelist , as well as chef Auguste Escoffier, composer Igor Stravinsky, and writers Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and built upon the scientific knowledge of their time to make discoveries of their own in the field of neuroscience. Proust's understanding of memory, Lehrer argues, even surpassed that of the scientists of his day. (MSNBC -- Technology)
The 2007 books we liked best: biography Dec 5, 2007
Janet Malcolm takes another look at the contradictions and quirks in the lives of Gertrude Stein and her partner, the enigmatic Alice B. Toklas. SCHULZ AND PEANUTS,by David Michaelis (HarperCollins, 655 pp. (Christian Science Monitor)
Books by Jane Rule Nov 29, 2007
Lesbian Images (1975) included essays on Gertrude Stein, Colette, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowan, Radclyffe Hall, May Sarton and Vita-Sackville West. Describing the collection as a common reader, Ms. Rule wrote in the preface that the book was a statement of my own attitudes toward lesbian experience as measured against the images made by other women writers in their work and/or lives. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Vanity Fair photo archive to go on display Nov 20, 2007
There is a Man Ray shot of a matronly Gertrude Stein from 1922; and a gaunt Thomas Hardy in 1913, the year his great outpouring of love poetry came, after the death, the previous year, of his first wife. Nijinsky is here, beturbanned, beringed and bedazzling, photographed by Baron de Meyer and published in the magazine in 1916; and a more soberly dressed Stravinsky, 1927, by the celebrated George Hoyningen-Huene. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
SWANN IN YOUR HEAD Nov 4, 2007
To elucidate his ideas, Lehrer reviews the lives of five writers - Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf - along with painter Paul Cezanne, composer Igor Stravinsky and the great French chef Auguste Escoffier ... When Gertrude Stein attended Johns Hopkins Medical School, one teacher said, "Either I am crazy or Miss Stein is.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
Roundup: Non-fiction, in brief Nov 1, 2007
As detective, Malcolm investigates why and how writer Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas hid their Jewishness while they remained in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. As critic, she gives a sympathetic reading to Stein's seemingly impenetrable novel The Making of Americans. The results are less revelatory than earlier Malcolm works like The Silent Woman, about the Sylvia Plath biography industry. (USA Today -- Life)
Today in History - Oct. 28 Oct 28, 2007
Thought for Today: "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." _ Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946). A service of the Associated Press(AP). (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
This Day in History Oct 28, 2007
Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
Today In History - October 28, 2007 Oct 28, 2007
Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946). ( 2007 The Associated Press. (CBS2.com, CA)
* Flappers lit the way to freedom Oct 25, 2007
As Picasso, Leger or Max Jacob took in the new Afro-jazz beat in their favorite Paris haunt and Gertrude Stein hung out with literary giants Ernest Hemingway or Ezra Pound, equally momentous creative change was afoot in the world of women's wear. The exhibition, which runs until Feb. 29, features 170 models and scores of accessories dished up by ground-breaking, legacy-leaving designers of the time - Paul Poiret, Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin, Perugia, Suzanne Talbot and Madeleine Vionnet. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Wonders seen on the road Oct 16, 2007
Built around the tired old children's whine of "Are we there yet?" the ad eventually gets around to the old Gertrude Stein line that, alas, "There is no there there.". This is because not only are the children completely distracted by a television screen that drops from the roof and shows cartoons and kids shows, but the non-driving adults now sit in the very back seat watching a second dropped screen - this one showing a sports event. (Globe and Mail)
Q&A with Janet Malcolm Oct 15, 2007
MIDWAY THROUGH HER new book, "Two Lives," about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Janet Malcolm admits to an act of literary vandalism ... MALCOLM: I just started a book called "Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire" by Amanda Foreman, who wonderfully writes in her introduction: "Biographers are notorious for falling in love with their subjects. It is the literary equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome, the phenomenon which leads hostages to feel sympathetic toward their captors." When I wrote about... (Boston Globe)
The journalist and the biographer Oct 6, 2007
So in her new book Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Malcolm is understandably exercised by the question of how the charismatic modernist writer Gertrude Stein won enough friends for the Jewish lesbian me{aac}nage to survive in Nazi-occupied France. In her 1945 memoir of wartime life, Wars I Have Seen, the reactionary Stein neglects to mention her or Alice Toklas's Jewishness. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hemingway in Paris: It's what's in Ketchum Sep 19, 2007
And he counted Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Alice B. Toklas, ee cummings, Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald MacLeish, Pablo Picasso and others among his friends ... The following year he came out with he Sun Also Rises, which introduced readers to he lost generation, a phrase coined by Gertrude Stein for young soldiers who had missed the opportunity to become civilized between the ages of 18 and 25 because they'd been off at war. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Unflattering book adds to Katie Couric's image problems Sep 5, 2007
But reading about her rise to broadcasting stardom just doesn't pack the same excitement as, say, Eric Sevareid's, which he documented in his lovely 1946 memoir, "Not So Wild a Dream," describing how a Minnesota farm boy became a CBS superstar -- complete with plane crashes in Burma, the London Blitz, brushes with Gertrude Stein and Churchill, and thoughtful, even lyrical insights on what it means to be an American. Now there was a broadcast journalist's life story. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
William James Sep 1, 2007
James encouraged audiences to take up the practice as a form of self-analysis, and one person who took his advice was a student named Gertrude Stein, who went on to use it as the basis of her writing style. William James said, "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.". (Suite101.com)
E. E. Cummings Jul 23, 2007
At Harvard, Cummings came under the spell of Modernism and the avant-garde, including the ultimate Modernist Gertrude Stein. But ultimately, the only real departure from traditional values was his style, particularly his orthographic alterations. (Suite101.com)
City of Lights and Many Faces Jul 22, 2007
19th century American writers Henry James and put pen to paper regarding the French capital, later followed by 20th century expatriates Gertrude Stein, and Henry Miller, among many others. and Richard Wright turned to Paris to find a more tolerant social climate and for the ability to live their lives more as writers, and less as racial targets. (Suite101.com)
Orangeburgh now thats real class Jul 15, 2007
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THEATER CALENDAR 7/13 Jul 14, 2007
villa america, Nikos Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA. Set on the sun-soaked coast of the French Riviera, this new play commissioned by the Festival and written by Crispin Whittel explores the lives, loves and losses of what Gertrude Stein called "the Lost Generation." (413) 597-3400. boy gets girl, Theater Barn, 654 Route 20, New Lebanon. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
When the heart wants what it wants Jul 8, 2007
Emily's remarks about herself are more interesting than she is; and, as Gertrude Stein observed: "Remarks aren't literature.". Richard Eder writes book reviews for several publications. (Boston Globe)
neighborhood markets, dusty bookstores, and small cafes Jul 8, 2007
It was a popular draw for women such as Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, a pickup center akin to the Castro Street of Paris. In another building nearby, Baxter said, an insecure F. Scott Fitzgerald once asked Hemingway to assess the size of his manhood (but only after Zelda had complained). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
And The Nominees Are... Jun 19, 2007
James was a beloved teacher who taught courage and risk-taking, and served as mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, and many other Harvard outsiders. One of the great figures in mysticism, James coined the phrase "stream of consciousness." Brought richly to life through Richardson's brilliant insights, James is a man "whose leading ideas are still so fresh and challenging that they are not yet fully assimilated by the modern world they helped to bring about.". (WNBC.com, NY)
* Piling on the paint with a trowel in Paris, or Romania Jun 15, 2007
Nor will Gertrude Stein (Miriam Margolyes) as a bossy, bug-eyed Jewish-mother caricature. It's not a good idea to have these people and their friends show up like a robotic cheering section to shout and sing in unison at birthday parties and other festive events. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
A legitimate concern Jun 3, 2007
"I was on the phone talking to my mother when she got a call telling her that my mother was dead. It's a little too like a Gertrude Stein line," writes Homes. If her birth mother was unnerving, then her father, Norman Hecht, seemed bent on humiliating her. (Scotsman)
The end of innocence May 19, 2007
Apart from a few expatriates such as Eliot and Gertrude Stein, American writers rarely contributed to this critical reassessment of European modernity - what brought forth the last great flowering of European literature. Success attended - or appeared to attend - their own modern ventures. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Last letters attract cachet, cash May 13, 2007
In the letter, he told his editor that he had been reluctant to publish the Paris Book because in it he said unkind things about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. But the time had come, he concluded. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Icon hits century mark May 2, 2007
Gertrude Stein, the American expatriate in Paris, and Guillaume Apollinaire would start experimenting with language the way Picasso experimented with image. All these conceptions of art, all these things are being dismantled, said Mary Jo Bang, an American poet and associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Glorious Ones May 1, 2007
In recent years, Flaherty and Ahrens have shown a laudable disregard for commerciality, preferring to musicalize, say, the life of Gertrude Stein, rather than get back into dangerous "Seussical" territory. Likely to appeal to sophisticates and insiders far more than general musical lovers, "The Glorious Ones" continues bravely in that vein. (Variety)
More of this story Apr 29, 2007
Indeed, food has even permeated classic literature from Emily Dickinson to Gertrude Stein. As part of a delicious evening roundtable discussion on Tuesday, May 1, exploring the pleasures of great food writing, CalArts will present "Food for Thought: Great American Writing About the Food We Eat." Unfolding in the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, a panel of chefs, food writers and culinary historians will reflect on American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, a new collection... (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Incompetence personified Apr 24, 2007
April 24, 2007 Commentary. By Bruce Fein April 24, 2007. (Washington Times, DC)
Love on the high seas Apr 21, 2007
Her previous books include studies of Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney and Alexander Selkirk, the closest thing we have to a real-life model for Robinson Crusoe. In Coconut Chaos Souhami neatly combines these two interests, producing a book that splices the events surrounding the Mutiny on the Bounty with her own romantic encounter on the high seas with a woman known only as "Lady Myre". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
In WeHo pet contest, beauty IS the beast Apr 15, 2007
Then, her skin piled behind her ears: Gertrude Stein in a chignon bun. Finally, her ears stretched wide: The Joker. (Los Angeles Times)
The passing of the necktie Apr 15, 2007
The most dependable male fashion accessory of the last few centuries, the streamer of silk that's reliably separated the genders Diane Keaton and Gertrude Stein notwithstanding has finally given up the ghost. Let history record that it died quietly, in its sleep. (Los Angeles Times)
At 96, Harry Bernstein finds literary success with his memoir Apr 11, 2007
BRICK, New Jersey: By the time Harry Bernstein was 24, he had published a short story in a magazine beside works by William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein. That was 1934. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Talking Heads, Talking Back Apr 10, 2007
"The kind of theatre that is rather broad and safe doesn't appeal to me. I've always had some good opportunities. Last year I played Gertrude Stein in a one-woman show. How often do you get a chance like that?". Gilbert Theater is located at 116 Green Street, but the entrance is on Bow Street. (Up & Coming Magazine, NC)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
The same year that LeWitt's father died, the Wadsworth hosted America's first major Picasso retrospective and mounted the world premiere of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts.". After graduating from New Britain High School, LeWitt enrolled at Syracuse University, where he studied art. (Los Angeles Times)
Gender-bending and the Bard (Jayne Blanchard) Apr 6, 2007
David Greenspan's tongue-in-cheeky farce "She Stoops to Comedy" is about the creative process of writing and staging a play and also is a riotous pastiche of allusions to Shakespeare's cross-dressing romantic comedies; writers Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein; and the campy drag works of Charles Busch and Charles Ludlam. Literary and theatrical references are tossed out with breakneck velocity, and the actors switch genres and genders at the pace of a film on... (Washington Times, DC)
Book Review: The Lie Detectors Mar 6, 2007
How many stories require William James, Gertrude Stein and Dick Tracy for the telling, not to mention criminals like the Torso Murderer of Cleveland. Stir into the mix a mutually hostile coterie of inventors, scientific visionaries and outright hucksters, and you have the ingredients for a heady brew. (International Herald Tribune)
'Why are you poor?' Mar 5, 2007
Late in this book Vollmann comes up with a truism, almost accidentally, about why he knows he's rich, in a circular, Gertrude Stein -like rumination. "I am sometimes afraid of poor people," he writes. (Boston Globe)
FROM OUR READERS: Tent City was a big success Mar 4, 2007
I am reminded of Gertrude Stein: "A rose is a rose is a rose." Now, perhaps the same can be said of us: A person is a person is a person. Almost 20 years ago, several of the organizers gathered in Tonopah for the first meeting of the statewide coalition to end homelessness. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Opinion)
Theater Minis Feb 22, 2007
A play about three female playwrights Rachel Crothers, Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker who influenced their generation during World War I and Waorld War II by pushing literary boundaries. Opens tomorrow at Gunston Theater II. 703/553-8782. (Washington Times, DC)
Give me a prurient media over watching a stoning any day Feb 16, 2007
There is no "there there" (to paraphrase Gertrude Stein). It's the apotheosis of a new media theme: human train-wreck porn. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Looking Across the Pages Feb 3, 2007
Includes the works of noted authors such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes. Specifically regarding fiction, writers of the early 20th century began to feel that the traditional literary form was condescending to the reader, as well as... (Suite101.com)
It is great today, even better tomorrow Feb 3, 2007
The poet Gertrude Stein wrote, A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. That could very well be. (Fayette County Review, TN)
Humorist Leaves Us, Laughing Jan 19, 2007
"My dream was to follow in the steps of Hemingway, Elliot Paul and Gertrude Stein," he said. Not yet 23, he sailed to Paris on a converted troop ship and enrolled at the Alliance Franaise, also under the G.I. bill. (The Ledger)
In the stars? Jan 16, 2007
Famously successful Aquarians: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Gertrude Stein. Pisces (February 19-March 20). (CNN -- US)
