Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912)
[html]Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems and fictions, often devoid of plot or dialogue,” with the result being that “co*mercial publishers slighted her experimental writings and critics dismissed them as inco*prehensible.” Take, for example, what happened when Stein sent a manuscript to Alfred C. Fifield, […]
Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems and fictions, often devoid of plot or dialogue,” with the result being that “co*mercial publishers slighted her experimental writings and critics dismissed them as inco*prehensible.” Take, for example, what happened when Stein sent a manuscript to Alfred C. Fifield, a London-based publisher, and received a rejection letter mocking her prose in return. According to Letters of Note, the manuscript in question was published many years later as her modernist novel, The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress (1925). You can hear Stein reading a selection from the novel below.
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