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Everybody who was anybody
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Janet Hobhouse |
Reviews the legendary expatriate American writer, art collector, and saloniste, exploring her public and private endeavors, her relationships with family, friends, and fellow artists, and her impact … |
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Prepare for saints
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Steven Watson |
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their… |
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Two lives
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Janet Malcolm |
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of cours… |
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So famous and so gay
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Jeff Solomon |
"Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perv… |
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Stein, Bishop & Rich
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Margaret Dickie |
In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers--Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich--investigating the ways in w… |
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Poetry in the museums of modernism
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Catherine E. Paul |
"Poetry in the Museums of Modernism explores the relationships among four modernist poets and the museums that helped shape their writing. During the early twentieth century, museums were trying to r… |
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