Join us on May 29th at Books on the Rise, as we chat with Francesca Wade about her new book on Gertrude Stein! About Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife From the celebrated author ofSquare Hauntingcomes a biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells. ‘Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,’ wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding – and contested – writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth. We see her posing for Picasso’s portrait; at the centre of Bohemian Parisian life hosting the likes of Matisse and Hemingway; racing through the French countryside with her enigmatic companion Alice B. Toklas; dazzling American crowds on her sell-out tour for her sensational Autobiography – a veritable celebrity. Yet Stein hoped to be remembered not for her personality but for her work. From her deathbed, she charged her partner with securing her place in literary history. How would her legend shift once it was Toklas’s turn to tell the stories – especially when uncomfortable aspects of their past emerged from the archive? Using astonishing never-before-seen material, Wade uncovers the origins of Stein’s radical writing, and reveals new depths to the storied relationship which made it possible. This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human. About Francesca Wade Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Paris Review, The Guardian, The New Statesmen, Frieze and Prospect. She is the outgoing editor of the White Review and a recipient of a Robert B Silvers Grant for Work in Progress and a 2020-21 Fellowship at the Leon Levy Centre for Biography. Her first book, Square Haunting was a Sunday Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year, a Guardian best book of the year (As chosen by authors) and was longlisted for the Baille Gifford prize. About Gertrude Stein: Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B.Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time such as Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, F Scott Fitzgerald , Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound and Georges Braque. About Feminist Book Fortnight:  Feminist Book Fortnight (FBF) is a bookseller-led offering established in the early 1980s as a promotion of feminist publishing and thought by independent bookshops around the U.K. and Ireland (and even occasionally Italy!). Over the years events have been held with names like Maya Angelou, Carol Ann Duffy, Nawal el Saadawi, Margaret Atwood, Deborah Levy, and many others. We also want to celebrate the explosion in new feminist publishing, work by the likes of Lola Olufemi, Sarah Ahmed, Laura Bates, Mary Beard, and Rebecca Solnit has entered the mainstream and populated bestseller lists. FBF has consistently prioritised a sense of regionalism, grassroots community, class conscious, and increasingly anti-racist, decolonial, and Queer consciousness. It is a space to encourage a plurality of feminisms. It was relaunched in 2018 by a group of radical and independent bookshops around the UK and Ireland. We drew our inspiration from the Feminist Book Fortnights run nationally in the 1980s. Participating bookshops reported lots of full events and a “thirst” for discussion of feminist issues as well as celebration of feminist achievements. We did the same in 2019, expanding the range of venues involved to include some of the feminist libraries as well as independent bookshops. In 2019 Feminist Book Fortnight ran from Saturday 4th May to Saturday 18th May. 50 bookshops took part as well as 3 of the feminist libraries. To find out if your local bookstore is taking part in 2025, click on Participating Bookshops.

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