Reading Janet Malcolm
Aug 30th, 2008 by Anne-Marie
In bed the other night I read Janet Malcolm’s latest book, Two lives, which is about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. A mention of Stein’s literary manuscripts leads Malcolm to note that it is at the Beinecke Library at Yale that most of Stein’s manuscripts “repose”.
Repose? Repose? I was reposing. One of my cats (the placid one, not the one suffering from ADHD) was reposing next to me. But do manuscripts - or any records - “repose” in the archives? Continue Reading »