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Listen to Me

Gertrude Stein

Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade

  • Part polemic, part autobiography, part literary theory, Listen to Me compiles the groundbreaking modernist writer’s renowned lectures in one volume for the first time.
  • Essential reading for Stein lovers, and an accessible entry point to Stein’s writing for the uninitiated, the lectures form a stunning and pertinent meditation on art and its relationship to time, and a rousing defence of Stein’s own style and practice.
  • Selected and introduced by Gertrude Stein’s critically acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.
  • Stein’s lectures have been lauded for their importance by writers including Eileen Myles, Fredric Jameson and William Gass.

Comps: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Affinities by Brian Dillon, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, Essays by Lydia Davis, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade

  • Classification : Memoir
  • Pub Date : NOV 5, 2026
  • Imprint : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781804272718
  • Price : INR 1,499
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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Formally groundbreaking works like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914) and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan.

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Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta, Paris Review and other places. She lives in London.

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Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta, Paris Review and other places. She lives in London.

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