“In Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2007), Janet Malcolm turned to the murky world of Gertrude Stein scholarship. ... In 1948, two years after Stein’s death, while working in the Yale University Library as a doctoral student exploring her early writings, Katz had come across a brown paper packet containing a tranche of grey-covered notebooks. As he leafed through their pages, Katz became gripped. He realized that these were the notes from which Stein had worked during the years 1902 to 1911, while drafting The Making of Americans, a sprawling 1,000-page epic eventually published in 1925, which broke away from previous forms of narrative writing and sought to tell a complete ‘history of everyone who ever was or is or will be living’. ...”
2007 November: Gertrude Stein, 2011 July: The making of "Tender Buttons", 2012 March: The Steins Collect, 2012 May: Gertrude Stein's War Years: Setting the record straight, 2014 November: Lost Generation, 2015 January: The Making of an American by Edward White, May 2020: Seeing Robert Wilson plain, 2020 December: Tender Buttons (1914)
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