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The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, published in 1933. She and Toklas were on the road (and in the air, as they took their first aeroplane) for seven months and took in 37 states. “Gertrude Stein has ...
While writing Gertrude Stein ... and dismissed her as a charlatan. Stein shot to fame in 1933 with the publication of her memoir The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, an instant bestseller ...
As for herself, she was satisfied with the love of those who truly knew her: Alice B Toklas, and her beloved dogs. Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Faber) is published on 22nd May ...
In other words, queerness requires context. And in Birdsall’s lyrical account, food has become one of the languages that can ...
Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague,' about the making of Jean-Luc Godard 'Breathless,' is more diverting French New Wave tribute than cinema history.
We arrive just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed.
Alice B Toklas Fudge Brownie, Watermelon Sherbet, Cantaloupe and Sam’s Special Rum Raisin. The Liebermans operated Marianne’s into their 80s before retiring, and hand-picking their successors ...
Sometime in the early 1920s, Gertrude Stein ... all movies made worldwide — that the studio system evolved, as did the producers who would dominate the industry’s golden age: Louis B Mayer ...
Various respected writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein and Cormac McCarthy, have publicly denounced my favourite punctuation mark as “showy”, “unnecessary ...