Joan Retallack talking on Stein's influence on Cage

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The Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

open the Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed by Charl Van Vechten here

readings

1) My Arrival In Paris [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [pt. 1, 33 minutes]
2) My Arrival In Paris [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [pt. 2, 22 minutes]
3) Descriptions of Literature [from Literary Music] [9 minutes, 40 seconds]
4) Francis Rose [from Reflection on the Atomic Bomb] [3 minutes]
5) Matisse and the origins of Cubism [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [19 minutes, 36 seconds]
6) Paris, 1907-14 [from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas] [22 minutes, 58 seconds]
7) Patriarchal Poetry [Excerpts] [from 'Bee Time Vine' 1927] [1 hr, 4 minutes]
8) Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curonia [from 'A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein'] [16 minutes]
9) Preciosilla [from 'Composition as Explanation' 1926] [3 minutes, 54 seconds]
10) Study Nature [from 'Bee Time Vine' 1914] [1 minute 34 seconds]
11) Susie Asado [from 'Geography and Plays' 1922] [2 minutes 17 seconds]
12) First Example [from 'Syntax and Elucidation' 1923] [5 minutes 45 seconds] a Rose is a Rose is a Rose
13) Are There Arithmetics. [from 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb'] [6 minutes 40 seconds]

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