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Against this view it is urged that we underestimate the automatic powers of the normal subject. We are told that many of the acts which we u...

The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. —Gertrude Stein, "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa ...

It seems that the era of liveblogging is over, at least for me. In fact I barely tweeted, thanks to my janky phone. But I had a blast at MS...

"Popcock!" said Gertrude Stein. With this unusually lucid and brief remark the writer who has grown famous for her "a rose ...

It is understood by this time that everything is the same except composition and time, composition and the time of the composition and the t...

Beddini (reading a telegram): 'Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop you can even bring Alberto stop my husband is stopping at your hote...

Etta Cone offered to typewrite Three Lives and she began. Baltimore is famous for the delicate sensibilities and conscientiousness of its in...

Everyone knows that Teen Talk Barbie never said, "Math is hard; let's go shopping!" It caught on nonetheless; there was somet...

I've started many a blog post in the last few weeks, only to discard it, dissatisfied. I'm in a bit of a strange lull lately, despit...

I was just made aware that there is a movie coming out called How Do You Know ( trailer ). I would dearly love for this to be an adaptation...

In the q&a after Sianne Ngai's recent talk here on zaniness (which was fantastic), I pulled a classic if annoying move and asked abo...

I've come to think that criticism is defined by the cultivation of a particular kind of self, one that has the right feelings and percep...

I've been familiar with this book for a long time, but it wasn't until I bought my own copy that I saw the rather unfortunate dust j...

It seems to me that the popular mistrust of critics, especially when they write using specialized language , is structurally similar to popu...

Here's the journalist Janet Malcolm on Gertrude Stein, chiming in with a long, woman-hating tradition (on which see DeKoven and Stimpson...

It's a little annoying of me to blog something that is no longer on display, but I was busy, so there it is. A little over a week ago I ...

Critical gestures like this are irritating to endure: These tortured writhings are irritating to endure. But they constituted part of what G...

Why do we tend to speak of Gertrude Stein as a poet? She was a poet, of course, but above all she was a fiction writer and an essayist. The ...

It's another glorious morning on the Berkeley-Oakland border. On today's schedule: dissertating and grading. Just like every other d...

Some months after she had left Johns Hopkins but while her supervisor, Lewellys Barker, was still trying to get her research published, Gert...