by Gertrude Stein
If you start thinking too deep about Gertrude Stein's motivation and headspace in writing this book it's easy to lose yourself in a hall of mirrors. Stein — noted, notable, an influencer before #influencers were a thing — wrote this book "largely to amuse herself" [according to the back cover] in th...
I really fell in love with Stein writings with this book. I had read Three lives before and liked it on an intellectual level but didn't love it. The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is more accessible and a wonderful journey and view into the lives, loves and entourage of the Stein-Toklas. How Gert...
This is a must-read for anyone interested in artists and writers in Paris in the early part of the 20th century, because every writer and artist of any note who was in Paris at that time encountered Gertrude Stein at some point. Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Magritte, Apollinaire, Gide, Pound and Hem...
Thanks Gertrude, I didn't know you were a genius until you told me. I now know where Cozzens got his “and then Arthur Miller did this, and then Arthur Miller did that.” Jesus. I understand that the concept is possibly innovative, at least distinct, but the execution is lacking, to say the least. ...
Hate to admit it, but I was never interested in Stein's prose (though after reading this, I am a little), but in her connections with the artistic/literature contemporaries, so choosing memoirs over other works makes sense. When it comes to style, I'm pretty judgemental, though I shouldn't be, she w...
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