A hundred writers, online “writers,” artists, gallery owners, has-beens, will-bes, and “people doing literally anything interesting” walk into a “concept space” on the Lower East Side. They are here to read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, the 925-page experimental modernist novel considered to be the author’s magnum opus. For those unfamiliar with Stein, or Americans, here is a representative sample of the text:
He was being living every day. In a way he was needing to be certain he was being living every day he was being living. He was being living every day he was being living. He was being living every day until he was not being living which was the end of the beginning . . .
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