[smith] tommy orange, welcome. Orange] thank you for having me. [smith] thank you very much for being here. So, i love the book. I wanna talk all about tt book and talk all abu, but i wanna talk about the title of the book first. So i didnt actually get the reference until after that this is Gertrude Stein. [orange] mmhmm. [smith] right . Like you, an oaklander. Is that the right way to say it . Oaklandit [orange] oaklander. [smith] oaklander. [orange] yeah. [sth] so Gertrude Stein mously said of oakland, theres no there there. And this is esponse, this is your rebuttal of Gertrude Stein. [orange] and its also, i wouldnt put so much of the weight on Gertrude Stein as more on people who have sort of misused that quote. Because she was just talking about her childhood home. [smiry specific. [orange] and it was developed over. So in her everybodys autobiography, somebody asks her, why dont you write about oakland . There is no there there. Shes just talking about r experience. And so peop
[smith] tommy orange, welcome. [tommy orange] thank you for having me. [smith] thank you very much for being here. Wanna talk all about the book and talk all about you, but i wanna talk about the title of the book first. So i didnt actually get the reference until after that this is Gertrude Stein. [orange] mmhmm. [smith] right . Like you, an oaklander. Is that the right way to say it . Oaklandite . [orange] oaklander. [smith] oaklander. [orange] yeah. [smith] so Gertrude Stein famously said of oakland, theresere there. And this is your response, this is your rebuttal of Gertrude Stein. [orange] and its also, i wouldnt put so much of the weight on Gertrude Stein as more on people who have sort of misused that quote. Because she was just talking about her childhood home. [smith] very specifi bec [orange] and itt talking abo was developed over. E. So in her everybodys autobiography, somebody asks her, why dont you write about oakland . There is no there there. Shes just talking about her
I don’t know what Native is. It’s become something so obscure that the more I talk about it the more abstract it becomes. I can’t say it’s about blood, or skin, or pain, or papers. But I know when it’s absent.