Later this year, we'll discuss Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade, a literary biography of the enigmatic writer and larger-than-life personality.
In the meantime, I thought I'd share a review in The Guardian of a new book that takes a somewhat different approach to distilling Stein's legacy: My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, by Deborah Levy.
To quote the opening of the review: "The book doesn’t exactly have a plot, but there is a situation. Three female friends are in Paris. The narrator (English, single) is writing, or failing to write, an essay about Gertrude Stein. Eva (Spanish-Danish, married to a man in Seattle whom she sees once a week, if that, on FaceTime) is a graphic novelist. Fanny (French, polyamorous with three female lovers) is a financier." Color me intrigued!
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