triplecanopy: “I enjoy Stein most as a theorist: her ideas startle me, in whatever form they appear. (I call myself an inexpert.) One of those ideas was that becoming a classic could kill a work of art. … If Stein becomes an endpoint for literary invention — a classic — her work can’t be read in the present tense. Literature can’t rest on its laurels. I figure that if Stein were alive now, she’d be rambunctious differently. And she wouldn’t be writing like Gertrude Stein.”—novelist (and Triple Canopy board member) Lynne Tillman reconsiders the genius of Gertrude Stein, in the NY Times. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

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“I enjoy Stein most as a theorist: her ideas startle me, in whatever form they appear. (I call myself an inexpert.) One of those ideas was that becoming a classic could kill a work of art. … If Stein becomes an endpoint for literary invention — a classic — her work can’t be read in the present tense. Literature can’t rest on its laurels. I figure that if Stein were alive now, she’d be rambunctious differently. And she wouldn’t be writing like Gertrude Stein.”—novelist (and Triple Canopy board member) Lynne Tillman reconsiders the genius of Gertrude Stein, in the NY Times. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

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