The complete online text of Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein.

American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a powerful literary force in the period around World War I. Although the ultimate value of her writing was a matter of debate, in its time it profoundly affected the work of a generation of American writers....

Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wideranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal ele...

Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wide-ranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal el...

AN INTELLECTUAL CORRESPONDENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: MY EMAILS-A BOOK ON A CD-ROM By Richard Kostelanetz Archae Editions, not paginated (62,000 words), $50 TENDER BUTTONS The avant-garde has always had a secret desire to be loved. At its core is a tension between...

TODAY IS something of a personal red-letter day. An idea that became a story that became a novel, occupying a central part in my emotional and professional life for three years or so, finally and formally slips away from me and into the market,...

Forget the autumnal equinox. Fall begins on Oct. 1 with the Across the Narrows music festival, or (as I like to call it) Death to the Siren Music Festival. Headlined by Beck, the Pixies, the Killers and Oasis—we all make mistakes—it is four large concerts...

Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go through the whole year without a hyped-to-death debut. It was a time for precocious youngsters to consolidate early gains and for veterans to return to form, return...