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1 day ago · The book is Stein’s autobiography written from the perspective of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Stein’s portrait is featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939.
4 days ago · Chapters consider Stein's publications before the mid-1930s, including Stein's often-discussed pieces (including Three Lives [1909], her portraits of figures like Picasso and Matisse, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [1933]) and less frequently discussed texts like Geography and Plays (1922) and Useful Knowledge (1928). She links ...
4 days ago · Some scholars have described it as a cross between The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book and the work of Zora Neale Hurston, another anthropologist who wanted the world to take Black culture...
3 days ago · Through Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds were introduced to Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Robert McAlmon, and others. Scott and Hemingway became close friends, but Zelda and Hemingway disliked each other from their first meeting.
1 day ago · An absolutely stunning turn of phrase–it captures the heartbreak of nostalgia, lost youth, and it is also pretty darn funny. And so obvious! But it took Gertrude Stein to see it and catch it in words. I fantasized about her life with her “roommate ”, Alice B. Toklas, and their art-and-artist-filled apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris.
2 days ago · Lewis wrote an autobiography titled Surprised by Joy, which places special emphasis on his own conversion. He also wrote many essays and public speeches on Christian belief, many of which were collected in God in the Dock and The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.
5 days ago · Directed by Jim Fall, Alice, Formerly of Wonderland runs at the New Vic through June 16. Alice is about growing up and leaving behind the naivety of childhood. Alice (Margie Mays), the inspiration for that Alice (of Wonderland fame), is a young woman living at Oxford where her father is dean.
