Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso ... a former art dealer. "She never mentioned her college days to me." ...

reminds me of the oft-repeated story about Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein. When Stein’s friends objected that she didn’t look much like his painting, Picasso replied: “She will.” ...

that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology. Using the objects, she takes listeners inside Stein’s artistic and literary world; her queer life with Alice; and her object-obsessed poetry.

One reason for its popularity was the inclusion of stories of her 39-year relationship with the great modernist writer Gertrude ... in Pablo Picasso’s famous portrait of Stein.