A century ago Gertrude Stein announced that "there are no more stories." Since then quite a few have been written. But her point was well taken: plot and its sequence of linked actions deform the shape of life. "The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein" straddles the line between shaping life into plot, and evoking its other structures: fragments, evocative moments, and scenes that coalesce into something like meaning. Some stories in the collection named after one of its stories are avant-garde, based on structures other than plot; some are more traditional. All are about the way we interact with, form, and come to understand our world. Stein would have understood.

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