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Every Day is To-Day

Essential Writings

Part of Essential Stories

Author Gertrude Stein

Introduction by Francesca Wade

Selected by Francesca Wade

Paperback

$18.00 US

Steerforth Press | Pushkin Collection

4.8"W x 6.49"H x 0.64"D | 7 oz | 48 per carton

On sale Jun 20, 2023 | 224 Pages | 9781782278795

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A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works

Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre.

Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cezanne, Jean Cocteau, and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition.

Confirmed Table of Contents:

Ada
Portrait of Mabel Dodge
Matisse
Picasso
Miss Fur and Miss Skeene
Flirting at the Bon Marche
Susie Asado
Preciosilla
Sacred Emily
One
Ladies Voices
Accents in Alsace
Idem the Same
Cezanne
A Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a Cow
Van or Twenty Years Later
If I Told Him
Juan Gris
Identify a Poem
What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes
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What Happened
Jean Cocteau
A Movie
A Waterfall and Piano
Saint in Seven

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a writer, art-collector, and advocate for the avant-garde. Born in Pennsylvania, she studied psychology at Harvard and attended medical school, dropping out in her fourth year to move to Paris with her brother Leo. Here she played a crucial role in shaping the burgeoning European avant-garde, hosting literary salons that counted Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway among the visitors. She was the author of countless poems, plays and shorter works, as well as books including Three Lives, The Making of the Americans, Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - a memoir written in the voice of her life partner of many decades, Alice.

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About

Ada
Portrait of Mabel Dodge
Matisse
Picasso
Miss Fur and Miss Skeene
Flirting at the Bon Marche
Susie Asado
Preciosilla
Sacred Emily
One
Ladies Voices
Accents in Alsace
Idem the Same
Cezanne
A Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a Cow
Van or Twenty Years Later
If I Told Him
Juan Gris
Identify a Poem
What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes
Advertisments
What Happened
Jean Cocteau
A Movie
A Waterfall and Piano
Saint in Seven

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