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Friday essay: Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke

Today, modernist literary icon Gertrude Stein is famous for many reasons. The “autobiography” she wrote of her partner Alice B. Toklas: a gossipy, ironic tour of bohemian Paris, featuring memorable cameos by artist Henri Matisse, poet T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and others. Surviving Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish lesbian, somehow.…

The Conversation

Books of the month: What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography

THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlights

The Independent UK

Cinnamon buns to deli delights: fill your boots at Toklas Bakery’s first Harvest Festival

Toklas Bakery hosts its first Harvest Festival which offers the best of Britain’s producers, hands-on workshops, and new pastry flavours ( on 21 September 2024)

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Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs with the 20th century’s most famous women

An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan

The Guardian - UK

The true story of "the OG edible"

In the early 1960s, Alice B. Toklas published a "Moroccan hashish fudge." American culture did the rest

Salon

The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review – upstaged by wedding guests

This fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them

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