The Making of Americans
Novel by Gertrude SteinWikipedia
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Oct 9, 2026
David Leo RiceGUEST
You know, I have the list here.
David Leo RiceGUEST
It's, you know, Pale Fire, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, The Public Burning, The Sound and the Fury, um, Beckett's Trilogy, The Making of Americans, Burroughs' Nova Trilogy, and Lolita.
David Leo RiceGUEST
So I was like, "Okay, fair enough." You know, all, all great books, but no one's gonna be blown away to find those- Right ...
David Leo RiceGUEST
on, on a list of classic fiction.
Heiner GoebbelsGUEST
And yes, that changed a little bit my life.
Heiner GoebbelsGUEST
I made several pieces based on her works and about her writings, even from a book which is called The Making of Americans, which has almost 1,000 pages, almost unreadable But once you go through it in certain moments, you have a different idea what art can be in books.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
You wrote Songs of Wars, I have seen in 2007.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
So how and when did it start for you as an idea?
Heiner GoebbelsGUEST
And yes, that changed a little bit my life.
Heiner GoebbelsGUEST
I made several pieces based on her works and about her writings, even from a book which is called The Making of Americans, which has almost 1,000 pages, almost unreadable But once you go through it in certain moments, you have a different idea what art can be in books.
speaker_0HOST
You wrote Songs of Wars, I have seen in 2007.
speaker_0HOST
So how and when did it start for you as an idea?