Hilton Als talks with Al Filreis about Gertrude Stein
During a one-hour conversation/interview Al Filreis conducted with art critic, memoirist and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, Al asked Hilton about some comments he made in one of his essays about Gertrude Stein. We have now added to ModPoPLUS (week 4—on Stein) this 4-minute clip from that discussion. Below the video player here you will see the updated list, with links, of our general overviews of Stein available in ModPoPLUS.
PART ONE: GERTRUDE STEIN IN GENERAL
1.1 watch discussion on how we assess and value Stein’s writing:LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.2 watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis describe how Stein resists normative reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.3 watch discussion on whether close reading works for Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.4 watch Bob Perelman discuss what the mind must do to read Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.5 watch Bob Perelman on Stein’s version of the idea that a poem is a word machine: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.6 watch discussion on how Stein’s readers participate in discovery: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.7 watch discussion on how Stein disrupts reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.8 watch discussion on Stein & jazz, movement & improvisation: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.9 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “All this an not ordinary”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.10 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “An arrangement in a system to pointing”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.11 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “The difference is spreading”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.12 watch further discussion of Stein’s views of beginning-to-end narrative: LINK TO VIDEO (8 mins.)
1.13 watch discussion of Stein as pedagogy: LINK TO VIDEO (7.5 mins.)
1.14 watch discussion of Stein & the labor of listening: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.15 watch discussion of Stein as a conversationalist: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.16 watch discussion of materiality in Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.17 watch ModPo recommendations for those new to Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.18 watch discussion of Stein & honesty: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
1.19 watch 1-minute video of Jerome Rothenberg talking about “Tender Buttons”: LINK TO VIDEO
1.20 watch Hilton Als talk with Al Filreis about Stein: LINK TO VIDEO (4 mins.)
