A few years ago a friend mentioned that the editor of a small press that he knew refused to ever publish anything by or about Gertrude Stein or Alice B. Toklas because he felt that they had “become an industry” and he wanted nothing to do with it.
What had this editor seen over the years that had caused him to come to this conclusion?
For someone who had been drawn to GertrudeandAlice because of their place in popular culture, a place that Gertrude held from very early in her career even though the number of books that she published and sold was quite small, this attack on GertrudeandAlice as an industry was puzzling.
Maybe the editor was set off after seeing the ceramic “Gertrude stein” from the mid 1970’s with a small knome-like figure on the handle which is supposed to be Alice?
Gertrude Stein stein, 1976
