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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 86

NO PUSSY NO! How many scandals fit on the tip of a needle when the needle is Gertrude Stein? I ask you. To my delight, I discovered the latest one in the latest blog post by my friend Hans Gallas: … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 85

99% Gertrude  Stein Aquarie Stein is having another virtual birthday, Feb. 3rd. She is turning 138. Looking back at the year she just spent, culturally speaking, it was the 99% Gertrude Stein year. The excitement created by her modern art … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 84

OBSCENE CRITIC, OBSCENE ACADEMIC The Stein controversy was picked up by Scene4 Magazine, the international magazine for arts and media, in a special issue on Obscenity: What Is Obscenity and What’s Not? An excellent article by the poet and Stein … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 83

Quirky Genius Turns Literary Kingdom to Mud “They ask me to tell why an author like myself can become popular. It is very easy everybody keeps saying and writing what anybody feels that they are understanding and so they get … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 82

Words, funny words and funny funny pictures and Paris in a new picture book! It begins: “Once there were two amusing American ladies, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. They lived in a mighty marvelous apartment in Paris…, ” and … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 81

Vive la France! “I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free. And so France is and was.” (Paris France) It is true, Stein was politically … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 80

Yes, I am not alone in taking on the war-mongers against Gertrude Stein and her survival in Nazi-occupied France, with their many ignorances, lies and innuendos… For a while, I felt quite lost in a desert, with bullets coming in … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 79

Giant Gertrude Stein Ridiculed By Little Male If you want to see a fresh example of how a great woman author is being diminished by a male critic, with no holds barred, go to the Washington Post and read: Review … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 78

Gertrude Stein a “Collaborator“, a „Nazi“? Questions abound. Suddenly everyone asks about Gertrude Stein’s whereabouts during WW2. How come she stayed in France when France was Nazi-occupied? Why didn’t she leave? Why didn’t she and Alice get the treatment of … Continue reading

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Gertrude Stein’s Opera FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS in San Francisco

The San Francisco Chronicle called it “a little silly and naïve,” and was it? Four Saints was supposed to be a highlight of the two landmark shows on Gertrude Stein – Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories and The Steins Collect: … Continue reading

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