Steins' of the Times: Reading Tender Buttons circa 1971

The following review and sequence of letters appeared in the Time Literary Supplement. Perhaps less interesting as interpretation or literary criticism, it provides a useful snapshot of the continuing conversation about Stein outside acadmic circles.  How to read Tender Buttons nearly sixty years after its publication? Who is/was the public Gertrude Stein?

 
Virgil Thomson - A Very Difficult Author,

Paul Padgette,

James Lauglin,

Patricia Meyerowitz.