Emily Midorikawa / Emma Claire Sweeney: A Secret Sisterhood

The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. UK 2018, 336 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Quarto
»A Secret Sisterhood« uncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world's most respected female authors. Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen's bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George ... Weiterlesen

Judy Linn: Patti Smith 1969-1976

D 2011, 144 S., S/W-Fotos, geb., € 25.65
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Knesebeck
1969 - noch bevor Patti Smith die Bühne des Rock 'n' Roll betrat und als sie nicht mehr als eine aufstrebende Poetin war, wurde sie von der Fotografin Judy Linn als Modell entdeckt. Sieben Jahre lang arbeiteten die beiden Frauen immer wieder zusammen. Durch die Zusammenarbeit entstand eine visionäre Freundschaft zwischen den beiden. Die sensiblen, atmosphärisch aufgeladenen Fotos aus diesen ... Weiterlesen

Patti Smith: Just Kids

USA 2010, 291 pp. + b/w photographs, hardbound, € 22.95
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It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed ... 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