Michael Robertson: Worshipping Walt

The Whitman Disciples. USA 2008, 350 pp., hardbound, € 22.20
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The University Press Group
Despite his protests, Anne Gilchrist, distinguished woman of letters, moved her entire household from London to Philadelphia in an effort to marry him. John Addington Symonds, historian and theorist of sexual inversion, sent him avid fan mail for 20 years. And volunteer assistant Horace Traubel kept a record of their daily conversations, producing a 9 volume compilation. Who could inspire ... Weiterlesen

Giancarlo Ambrosino (ed.): David Wojnarowicz - A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

USA 2006, 231 pp., hardback, € 23.90
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In the wake of David Wojnarowicz's death, critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer undertook to track down all of Wojnarowicz's friends and former collaborators. Lotringer wanted to talk not just about David, but about the East Village cultural scene they'd created. Some - like Nan Goldin and Kiki Smith - had become luminaries in the international art world. Others - ... Weiterlesen

Virginia S. Carr: Paul Bowles

A Life. USA 2004, 411 pp., hardback, € 31.30
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Paul Bowles - novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel, and bisexual - grew up in Jamaica, N.Y., a precocious child who could read and was writing stories by an early age. At 18, he embarked on an artistic journey that led him all over the world. Bowles entered the vibrant art and literary world of the late 1920s as a poet and ... Weiterlesen

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

UK 2001 (Reprint), 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
A insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and »it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning«. Picasso was there with »his high whinnying Spanish giggle«, as were Cezanne ... Weiterlesen

Samuel M. Steward: Murder Is Murder Is Murder

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alice Toklas sees the father of their gardener confronting an unpleasant farmer while the latter is plowing. She goes into the house to tell her lover Gertrude Stein of the altercation, but when the two get back to the garden, only the farmer is still in sight, plowing as before. But their gardener's father does not return home that night ... Weiterlesen