Get the latest tech news
The Once and Future Genius
Sophie Oliver: The Once & Future Genius - Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Allegations that Stein and her partner, Alice B Toklas, managed to see out the war in France (along with their famous art collection) because they collaborated with the Vichy government are carefully sifted but ultimately rejected. But Wade sees that Stein’s writing could not have happened without the stability and love Toklas provided, and that the rhythms of their domestic life – in Paris and at their country house in the south of France – inflect her work. Along with the Yale archivist Donald Gallup and the writer and man about town Carl Van Vechten, she made sure that Stein’s unpublished work, including her first novella, QED, about lesbian relationships, appeared in print.
Or read this on Hacker News