How Reading Is Written

"How Reading is Written is not about any old Stein. It is about Stein the linguistic innovator, the potential creator of the avant-garde tradition that so defines the last half of the twentieth century. So while this is a single author study, it is no old-fashioned single author study. It is, in short, a good read, a scholarship of homage and complication."—Juliana Spahr, coauthor of Army of Lovers

"Lorange's study of Gertrude Stein brings a strongly contemporary sense of theoretical possibilities and a thoroughly plausible conviction that Stein's work is of enduring importance, both as technical innovation and as a very particularized but persuasive performance of thought. Stein is seen here as 'a writer who makes things happen' for the reader, and as a critic Lorange does that too—she is adept at getting her audience fully engaged."—Peter Nicholls, New York University

"How Reading Is Written is a vastly generative text, in its methodology as in its insights. Lorange situates the multiple creative concepts of Stein's writings in networks of vivacious comprehending. Rich in its perspectives, this book is essential for contemporary engagements with Gertrude Stein."—Lyn Hejinian, University of California, Berkeley