Yale University Press
Price: $25.00
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JANET MALCOLM explores Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome acclaimed journalist JANET MALCOLM to discuss Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, her new dual biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, Stein's partner. “In this startling study of [Gertrude] Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, acclaimed journalist Malcolm (The Journalist and the Murderer) puts their relationship in a new light, demonstrating that lives and biographies are not always self-evident. Through careful readings of Stein's writing, Malcolm makes the case, quoting English professor Ulla Dydo, that Stein's lifting words from the lockstep of standard usage was indeed, the work of a (granted, self-described) genius. Malcolm gets into more controversial territory in exploring Stein and Toklas's stormy and complicated relationship—fraught with sadomasochistic emotional undercurrents—and their energetic sex life. But her real discovery is that Stein and Toklas—two elderly Jewish women—survived the German occupation of France because of their close friendship with the wealthy, anti-Semitic Frenchman Bernard Faÿ, a collaborator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Freemasons. ...This is a vital addition to Stein criticism as well as an important work that critiques the political responsibility of the artist (even a genius) to the larger world.” –Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Thursday, October 25th |
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6:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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Tickets for this event are $5 and may be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone with a credit card at 617-661-1515. Please note that your $5 ticket may be redeemed for $5 off a single item at the event or at Harvard Book Store for one month following the event. |
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Janet Malcolm is the author of The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and Reading Chekhov, among other books. She writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and lives in New York City.
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