Gertrude Stein’s quest for fame
The modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
The modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.
By Margaret DrabbleWhy Philip Larkin’s lover deserved better than to be the butt of abusive caricatures.
By Margaret DrabbleA small patch of London encouraged high thoughts and hard work in the unconventional female writers who made it…
By Margaret DrabbleWhen I was at university I passionately wanted to be an actor, and for some years struggled to find…
By Margaret DrabbleI felt I was entering the adult world.
By Margaret DrabbleErnaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
By Margaret DrabbleJaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
By Margaret DrabbleIt took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I'm glad I did.
By Margaret DrabbleIt is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.
By Margaret Drabble