Adam J. Frank is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia. His books include Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol and, coauthored with Elizabeth Wilson, A Silvan Tomkins Handbook. He is the creator and producer of the Radio Free Stein critical sound project, available at radiofreestein.com.

"With dazzling online recordings and scripts, Radio Free Stein takes readers backstage to reveal the inventive workshop process Adam Frank has used in productions of Gertrude Stein’s early voice plays. The 1934 NBC radio interview Stein gave on her US tour resonated with her playwriting “by making audience available as feeling” and Frank brilliantly renders this insight in productions that capture the plays’ strange and arresting illocutionary force."—Linda Voris, American University “Radio Free Stein’s fluent roving across considerations of performance, psychoanalytic theorization of the radio, and philosophical and queer theories of the performative is brilliant and compelling. This is a significant contribution to both Stein studies and modern theater studies, as well as media and modernist studies.”—E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University

• Prologue: The Radio Free Stein projectEssay 1: Gertrude Stein's Radio AudienceInterlude 1: What Happened | Plays - a radio scriptEssay 2: Speech, Acts, Parlor Plays: Stein with AustinInterlude 2: What Happened | Plays - a score (Samuel Vriezen)Essay 3: Composing What Happened (Samuel Vriezen)Appendix: Recording and PerformanceNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments