Bruce Benderson

Stadler isn’t just a brilliant and intriguing novelist but is also the creator of The GOAT PoL (the Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature). He is one of the 2 or 3 in each century whose life choices and experiences are on a moral and intellectual level with his fine writing. Allan Stein deftly manipulates references to an aspect of Gertrude Stein’s biography,